Global Fund for Women
Overview
Global Fund for Women is working to disrupt the status quo by giving more resourcing and decision-making power to gender justice movements.
They provide funding through two models
Movement-led approach
Global Fund for Women is putting grantmaking decisions directly into the hands of gender justice movements. They have shifted decision-making about their grants from their staff to the movements they support.
In their current funding model, those within movements determine how to allocate funding, what success looks like to them, and how to measure success. Their movement-led approach uses a participatory grantmaking strategy aligned with their trust-based, intersectional feminist values and mission. The movement funding is unrestricted, flexible money to cover the real costs of social justice work.
Their movement-led approach accounts for the majority of Global Fund for Women’s grantmaking. See the movements they are supporting here.
Crisis Funding
They provide core, flexible grants to feminist groups and feminist funds that are responding to various crises, including, but not limited to: health crises, political emergencies, and climate disasters. Their feminist approach to crisis puts flexible resources directly in the hands of grassroots leaders and first responders who know their community needs best. Their crisis funding incorporates short-term response, medium-term rebuilding, and long-term resilience.
Global Fund for Women understands that sustaining movements during, before, and after crises is another way for them to support gender justice. Their crisis grants are open to current and former partners, as well as other organizations that are responding to crises with an intersectional feminist lens. They will send invitations directly to organizations whose work falls under their crisis funding.
Read more about our feminist crisis response here.
Their Crisis Fund has supported partners during health crises, including COVID-19; political upheavals; and in the wake of natural disasters among many other crises that are not in the headlines. Since its establishment in 2014, we have awarded more than $12 million to 327 organizations responding to crisis in 70 countries.