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In every corner of the world, courageous feminist activists are working together to build collective power, claim justice, and create, sustain, and revive ways of living that are just and fair. The Resilience Fund – our largest grantmaking programme – aims to resource, support and connect the collective activism of women, girls, and trans and intersex people around the world.

Mama Cash puts resources in the hands of activists building their own movements for justice.

The Resilience Fund supports feminist groups, collectives and initiatives that are founded, led, and/or run by people who belong to the communities whose rights they seek to advance. They are working to advance their own political and social agendas, to build connections across issues and borders, and to strengthen feminist and other social justice movements. The Resilience Fund gives priority to smaller and emerging groups that are doing critically important work  but have limited access to funding. In addition to funding registered, formal organisations, we are open to funding informal or unregistered groups of activists, as well as networks or coalitions. The average grant size under the Resilience Fund is €35,000.

Unrestricted funding and longer-term support are crucial for enabling groups to organise, and to take advantage of or respond effectively to important opportunities and changes in their contexts. That is why the Resilience Fund provides long-term, flexible, core support grants. First-time annual grants are made with the intention of renewing them for multiple years, and Mama Cash typically supports partners for up to ten years.

Eligibility:

• Work from a feminist, women’s, girls, trans rights and/or intersex rights perspective
• Self-led by the women, girls, trans people and/or intersex people they serve
• Promotion of women’s, girls’, trans people’s and/or intersex people’s human rights as primary mission
• Push for structural and fundamental change
• Focus on issues that are under-addressed and/or contested.

Please note that we are only accepting funding applications from the following regions this year: the Americas and Caribbean, Europe, Central Asia and North Asia.

Deadline: 31 March 2025

Full details here: https://www.mamacash.org/funds/resilience-fund/