Call for LOIs: Mama Cash Resilience Fund

Deadline: 31-Mar-25

Applications are now open for the Resilience Fund to support 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.

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.

Funding Information

• The average grant size under the Resilience Fund is €35,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• 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 Mama Cash prioritises groups or initiatives that have an annual budget below 200,000 euros. Mama Cash does not prioritise providing financial support to larger groups, and very few of the grantee-partners have annual budgets over 200,000 euros.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Mama Cash does not fund the following types of groups, initiatives, or activities:
  • Groups whose mission and/or primary focus are not the promotion of women’s, girls’, trans people’s or intersex people’s human rights;
  • Groups whose work focuses primarily on improving the lives of individual women, girls, trans people and/or intersex people without addressing the conditions that give rise to the injustices they face;
  • Groups that actively seek to deny the rights of certain women, girls, and trans or intersex people, based on who they are, the work they do, or on their position in society;
  • Groups whose primary purpose is development work, humanitarian assistance, or service delivery, such as:
    • Income-generating activities and credit programmes
    • (In)formal education, literacy programmes, and traditional skills training
    • Providing social, legal, or health care services
  • Groups led by cis-men;
  • Groups based in the Global North that are executing programmes in or are leading partnerships with groups based in the Global South and East;
  • Groups that are led by, or are structurally or economically dependent on, political parties, government agencies, or religious institutions;
  • Businesses;
  • Individuals are not supported through the Resilience Fund (please see information on the Radical Love Fund for the grantmaking to individual activists);
  • Academic research or scholarships;

For more information, visit Mama Cash.