Deadline: 31-Jul-2025
The Dalan Fund is pleased to launched the Romani Program, designed as a complementary mechanism to existing models of resource distribution for intersectional Romani organizing in Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.
Grounded in the lived experiences of Romani women, as well as trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people, the program aims to foster resilience, collective power, dignity, and access to human rights.
Aims
- Movements and work they are aiming to fund:
- Feminist, women’s rights, and gender justice
- Reproductive and sexual health and rights (SRHR) and bodily autonomy
- Mutual aid and safety nets, collective care, and healing
- Economic justice
- Labor and workers’ rights
- LGBTQI+ rights and inclusion
- Disability rights and justice
- Antigypsyism, discrimination, ethnic and racial justice, Roma rights
- Migrant, refugee, and forcibly displaced people`s rights
- Roma-led narrative change, advocacy, and knowledge production
- Legal status and documentation access
- Digital rights
- Decolonization
- Peacebuilding and demilitarization
- Rights of people living with HIV
- Climate and environmental justice
- Land and housing rights
- Sex workers’ rights
- Independent media organizing
- Harm reduction movement
- Rights of people who use drugs
- Rights of people living in rural areas
- Indigenous peoples’ rights
- Other as relevant
Funding Information
- Grant size can be up to 10,000 EUR for unregistered groups using a Fiscal Sponsor and 15,000 EUR for registered groups.
- The duration of the grant cycle is one year.
Eligibility Criteria
- No prior experience of receiving grants is required to be eligible for DF´s funding.
- Here are the eligibility criteria for the available funding:
- For this round, feminist, intersectional, and community-rooted organisations are eligible if they are registered or have a fiscal host through which they can receive the grant.
- 60% of leadership composition should be Romani women and/or gender diverse Romani people.
- Had an organisational budget of no more than EUR 100,000 for the previous fiscal year.
- Even if you have never had funding before, you are encouraged to apply.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Organizations founded by or structurally dependent on political parties, government agencies, or religious institutions;
- Organizations that are businesses or whose main strategy is making a profit, and solely focus on income-generating activities.
- Requests on academic research;
- Requests for relocation or emergency response grants;
- Requests from individuals;
- Organizations affiliated with political parties, government agencies, military, paramilitary, or religious institutions;
- International organisations (INGOs) and their local branches.
For more information, visit Dalan Fund.