Deadline: 1-Aug-22
The Black Feminist Fund is now open to Black feminist groups that have bold visions, are using innovative strategies and taking daring action towards self-determination, justice, solidarity and equity.
The purpose of the Black Feminist Fund is to significantly increase the resources available to Black feminist movements. When Black feminist groups have the resources they deserve, they are strengthened to transform societies. Moving resources over the long term to Black feminist movements unlocks the power and potential of this change.
They aim to put resources in the hands of activists who are advancing their own rights and building their own movements for social change. They work with groups that are led by Black women, girls and gender expansive people.
Principles
Their grantmaking is based on a set of principles that are rooted in Black feminisms:
- Trust based
- Participatory
- Community-led
- Context responsive
- Movement accountable
- Cooperation not competition
- The last first
- Creating bold, welcoming and accessible spaces
- Making new rules and models to value Black women
Grantmaking Funds
They provide all of their grantmaking through two participatory grantmaking Funds:
- The Sustain Fund: The Fund provides core, long-term, flexible grants to Black feminist groups, collectives, organisations and consortium who work to build collective power, claim justice and create alternatives. From the second year of partnership, they provide grantee partners with opportunities for exchange and learning.
- The Solidarity Fund: Supports timely, one-off initiatives that respond to or create an opportunity for change; enable solidarity across geographies, movements or people; seed a new project, new collective or new idea; or support wellness, safety and security.
Eligibility Criteria
- They make grants to Black feminist groups that have bold visions, are using innovative strategies and taking daring action towards self-determination, justice, solidarity and equity.
- They support groups that are constituency-led.
- The Black Feminist Fund provides funding and accompaniment to Black feminist groups in the Americas, the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
- The Black Feminist Fund resources registered and non-registered groups that are at the forefront of Black feminist resistance, who are building Black feminist joy, creativity, alternatives and futures, and who strengthen the Black feminist movement architecture and infrastructure in their communities and transnationally.
Deadline
- The Sustain Fund: The 2022 application window is open from May 25 – August 1.
- The Solidarity Fund: They received applications for the Solidarity Fund on a rolling basis.
For more information, visit https://blackfeministfund.org/grantmaking/