The Rise Up! collective is deeply grateful to the many, many people who have supported us to get this project off the ground. The early donors who provided seed money; the activists who offered ideas and dug through their collections to locate, then organize materials; the feminist network that offered ideas and helped put us in touch with many contributors; the lawyer who provided advice; the students and volunteers who patiently scanned and digitized documents; and dozens more. There are far too many to name individually – just know that your backing and encouragement has repeatedly buoyed our spirits and sustained our resolve to keep going.

There are several women, however, whose support came at critical turning points in the evolution of this website and who must be singled out for personal mention.

• Christine Berkowitz, Associate Professor – Teaching Stream, Dept of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough
• Lisa Pasolli, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Queen’s University, Kingston, On.
• Vicky Drummond, Nellie Langford Rowell Women’s Studies Library
• Julie Roy, Chef bibliothécaire/Head Librarian, Archives et collections spéciales/Archives and Special Collection, Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa

Foundation and Government Grants

We are also extremely grateful for funding from the following foundations and government agencies. 

Foundations

Mark and Zita Bernstein Family Foundation

Government Grants

• Library and Archives Canada’s Documentary Heritage Communities Program
• Canada Summer Jobs, Government of Canada
• Young Canada Works in Heritage (in collaboration with Canadian Council of Archives)

Thank you volunteers!

We want to thank the many volunteers, workers, and students for their important contributions. Their many hours of dedicated work on all the many different areas needed to support this project have made this website a much richer archive of feminist materials.

Thank you all!