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Published: 04 Mar 2025 881 views
In every corner of the world, courageous feminist activists are working together to build collective power, claim justice, and create, sustain, and revive ways of living that are just and fair. The Resilience Fund – our largest grantmaking programme – aims to resource, support and connect the collective activism of women, girls, and trans and intersex people around the world.
The Resilience Fund supports 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.
The Resilience Fund gives priority to smaller and emerging groups that are doing critically important work but have limited access to funding. In addition to funding registered, formal organisations, we are open to funding informal or unregistered groups of activists, as well as networks or coalitions. The average grant size under the Resilience Fund is €35,000.
Mama Cash also provides accompaniment to all Resilience Fund grantee-partners. Accompaniment can include both financial and non-financial resources. Grantee-partners can use these resources to obtain, improve, retain, build, and sharpen their skills, knowledge, and networks. The accompaniment support we provide corresponds to the specific organisational needs and plans identified by the grantee-partner.
Mama Cash was the first international women’s fund in the world, established in the Netherlands in 1983. We work to ensure that feminist collective action led by women, girls, and trans and intersex people is resourced, supported and connected within and across social movements. We use our role as a feminist funder, our experience supporting feminist activism, and our geopolitical location in the Netherlands to mobilise and move funding to feminist initiatives, groups, individuals and women’s funds. We have a vision Every woman, girl, and trans and intersex person has the pow... continue reading
| Application Deadline | 31 Mar 2025 |
| Value | €50,000 |
| Type | Fellowship |
| Course to study | View courses |
| Sponsor | Mama Cash |
| Gender | Men and Women |
Value of grant is €5,000 - €50,000 per year, average grant size €35,000
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
We will be open to receiving Letters of Interest from applicants who are not current grantee-partners from 3 to 31 March 2025, 11:59 pm CET.
Please note that we are only accepting funding applications from the following regions this year:
We will not be reviewing applications from other regions.
For more details visit: Mama Cash website.
