Apply for a Grant by The Young Feminist Fund

Deadline: 20 September 2015 (extended deadline)
Open to: groups founded or led by young women or trans youth (under 30 years) based in Global South (Africa, Asia and the Pacific, The Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and Central, Southern, Eastern Europe and Caucuses and Central Asia)
Grant: up to USD 5,000

Description

The Young Feminist Fund (FRIDA) is the only youth-led fund focused exclusively on supporting global young feminist activism to advance social justice movements and agendas. FRIDA was created to bring new resources and new opportunities to young women and trans youth globally. They believe that supporting young feminists is key to the expansion, rejuvenation and sustainability of women’s movements and organizations, both now and in the future.

Priority will be given to:

  • Small, emerging grassroots groups, networks, or collectives with little or no access to funding from larger donors;
  • Groups, networks, or collectives that are working on emerging or issues that have not received prior funding;
  • Groups, networks, or collectives located in remote undeserved areas;
  • Groups, networks, or collectives that are diverse in their membership and made up of and/or working with socially marginalized young women especially: refugees, ethnic, national and caste minorities, rural women, urban poor, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, women living with HIV/AIDS, sex workers, women with disabilities, women living in armed conflicts and post conflict zones;
  • Groups using creative and innovative strategies to further their activism (including art, music, culture, poetry, social media etc).

Eligibility

Groups founded or led by young women or trans youth (under 30 years) that are committed to:

  • Advancing and defending women’s rights from a feminist perspective;
  • Improving the lives of young women/trans youth at local, national, regional or international levels;
  • Inclusive organizing, collective action and feminist movement building;
  • Groups, networks, or collectives based in the Global South (Africa, Asia and the Pacific, The Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and Central, Southern, Eastern Europe and Caucuses and Central Asia).
  • Groups founded in the past 6 years (i.e. your group was formed between 2009 – 2015).

Grant

FRIDA makes grants of up to USD 5,000. This are flexible grants that can be used for general support and/or projects to be used over a period of 12 months and are open to renewal.

Application

In order to streamline the application process, FRIDA is currently accepting proposals online. They strongly recommend that you read through the complete application form before you submit online. If you are facing difficulties applying online you can always contact them or send your proposal via email. Application is available in several languages:

All applicants will receive a confirmation email indicating that the proposal is received. Deadline for applying is 20 September 2015.

If you have any questions, please email to proposals@youngfeministfund.org.

For more information please visit the official website.

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