Solidarity Fund Grant

Designed by women’s funds for women’s funds.
As the world’s first international women’s fund, Mama Cash is deeply committed to strengthening the feminist funding ecosystem in general, and the women’s funds community in particular. Launched in early 2020, the Solidarity Fund is a dedicated pot of funding intended for the strengthening of women’s funds.
Women’s funds support the world’s most innovative, courageous and transformative feminist movements.
Women’s funds are a key part of the funding and support infrastructure needed for feminist movements to hold the line, advance their agendas, and resist attacks and backlash!
Participatory grantmaking designed in the spirit of radical trust and radical solidarity.
Participatory grantmaking can be a more equitable, just, transparent, and accountable form of grantmaking. The Solidarity Fund is designed to assist women’s funds as they collaboratively make the decisions that are best for our peers and that will strengthen the feminist funding ecosystem.
Grants will be made to the highest ranked applicants for grants of €30,000 each. To ensure geographical diversity, reviewers will be asked to take into account applicants’ geographical locations.
The Solidarity Fund intends to support the organisational needs for women’s funds in an area they identify themselves. Examples of how the Solidarity Fund has been used include: supporting leadership transitions, strengthening learning and evaluation systems, collective care for staff, developing financial resilience strategies, improving digital security, etc. A Solidarity Fund grant cannot be used for regranting as this is part of Mama Cash’s Resilience Fund. More information here.

Eligibility

Work from a feminist, women's, girls, trans rights and/or intersex rights perspectiveSelf-led by the women, girls, trans people and/or intersex people they servePromotion of women’s, girls’, trans people's and/or intersex people’s human rights as primary missionWomen’s fundOnly women’s funds are eligible to apply for Solidarity Fund grants:Self-led: women’s funds must be led by the populations they seek to support. Those directly involved in/affected by the issues the fund is trying to address must be part of the fund’s leadership and decision-making;Feminist: women’s funds primary mission must be to support women’s, girls, trans and intersex people in their efforts to uphold their rights. Women’s funds must also have a vision and strategy to challenge and transform unjust power structures;Autonomous: a women’s fund is not a programme of a larger entity and has independent decision making over their grants and resource mobilisation, or alternatively have concrete plans to become autonomous in the short to medium term;Involved in both mobilising resources and grantmaking: women’s funds raise funds to provide grants and support to groups, collectives, and individuals that are organising to defend and advance women’s, girls, trans and intersex people’s rights.Applicants are not required to be a member of Prospera – The International Network of Women’s Funds to be considered for funding; nascent and emergent funds are welcome to apply. Women’s funds who have previously received a Solidarity Fund grant are welcome to apply again.