Mama Cash’s 2021 Grantmaking Window Supporting Ambitious Feminist and Intersex People’s

Deadline: 31-Mar-21

Mama Cash is seeking Letters of Interest from applicants who are not current grantee-partners, to support ambitious feminist and women’s girl’s, trans and intersex people’s rights organisations and initiatives led by and for women, girls, trans, and intersex people from anywhere in the world.

Mama Cash has the flexibility to fund anywhere in the world. Even though contexts are significantly different, they found that concerns of some specific groups of women, girls, trans and intersex people tend to be under-addressed and/or contested in most societies (and social movements). So these groups are often found among grantees.

Criteria

Mama Cash supports groups and initiatives that:

Work from a feminist and/or women’s rights perspective;
Are self-led by the women, girls, trans people and/or intersex they serve;
Have the promotion of women’s, girls’, trans people and/or intersex people’s human rights as their primary mission, and not just as the focus of part of their programmes;
Push for structural and fundamental change;
Focus on issues that are under-addressed and/or contested;

Mama Cash does NOT fund

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, trans and intersex people, based on who they are or on their position in society
Groups whose primary purpose is development work, humanitarian assistance, or services, 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 men (with the exception of those led by trans 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 founded by, led by, or structurally or economically dependent on political parties, government agencies, or religious institutions
Businesses
They will only be supporting individuals through the new Radical Love grantmaking fund to be announced later this year.
Academic research or scholarships
Stand-alone travel grants (costs for travel can, however, be part of broader applications provided they are consistent with the group’s mission and strategies)