Helen Neufeld has always believed in the importance of sharing what you have where there is need. For her, the values of development, peace, and community responsibility were instilled early and have remained central throughout her life.
More than 100,000 women in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, and Tanzania have engaged in community-based activities such as livelihoods and leadership training, advocacy efforts, and community organizing through Engage partner organizations over the past six...
StFX students are invited to apply for a fully funded opportunity to travel to Nepal and participate in a five-day Feminist Leadership Workshop with global activists and community leaders.
From Earth Hour to Earth Day, Coady Institute is marking this season of climate awareness by walking alongside communities and partners across the globe - and close to home - to advance agroecology, biodiversity, and climate resilience in pursuit of a healthier, more...
Coady’s Marian Turniawan travelled to Kenya to help lead a groundbreaking collaborative research process that placed rural women farmers at the heart of the study — not just as subjects, but as co-researchers shaping the future of gender-transformative agroecology.
Coady Institute and Alliance Bioversity International-CIAT brought together global experts in Cali, Colombia to explore how carbon and biodiversity credit markets can better serve frontline farming communities.
Empowered by her experience at Coady Institute, Prossy Nantongo has transformed her own journey into a powerful force for change – equipping marginalized girls across Africa with the skills, confidence, and support to shape their own futures.
Education Helps Women Reach Potential.
“Contributing to the Coady scholarship fund is the least I can do to help these young women as they work to make their communities a better place.”
In May 2025, nearly one hundred students and practitioners of adult education gathered at Coady Institute, St. Francis Xavier University for the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) Atlantic Regional Conference, Learning with Community....
Samaan Aawaaj advances feminist leadership as a collective, accountable, and values-driven practice that intentionally shares power, centers excluded voices, builds allies, and persistently challenges inequitable systems to support just and thriving communities.