Deadline: 15-Mar-22
Applications are now open for the Resilience Fund Grant Program to support ambitious feminist and women’s, girl’s, and trans people’s and intersex people’s rights organisations and initiatives led by and for women, girls, and trans people and intersex people from anywhere in the world.
During the Resilience Fund LOI window, they are open to all applications, but will be especially focused on increasing support to self-led feminist organisations and initiatives that are resisting climate change and environmental injustices as well as those implementing alternative, environmentally and climate just, solutions. In addition, they are looking to strengthen their support for feminist economic justice groups and initiatives working towards reducing economic inequality and addressing the systemic drivers of inequality, particularly as this relates to advancing the rights and lived equity of women, racialised communities, LBTQI people, and disabled people.
Priorities
In 2022, they are especially interested in Letters of Interest from groups and organisations that fit the following priorities:
- Working on Environmental Justice and Economic Justice.
Funding Information
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. As a result, among their grantee-partners in the thematic portfolios you will find only very few groups that have annual budgets over 200.000 euros.
Criteria
Mama Cash supports groups and initiatives that:
- Work from a feminist, women’s, girl’s, trans and/or intersex rights perspective;
- Are self-led by the women, girls, trans people and/or intersex people they serve;
- Have the promotion of women’s, girls’, trans people’s 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.
What they do 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, the work they do 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 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 led by, or structurally or economically dependent on political parties, government agencies, or religious institutions
- Businesses
- They will only be supporting individuals through their new Radical Love grantmaking fund to be announced in 2022.
- 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)
For more information, visit https://www.mamacash.org/en/apply-for-a-grant-1
