The latest round-up of funding opportunities to support your work to end child marriage and promote girls’ rights.
Global
World Wildlife Fund | 30 November
The WWF seeks to support local communities and organisations to restore native forest ecosystems and reverse degradation, whilst strengthening local capacity for enhancing management practices, and promoting alternative livelihoods with gender equity.
The Maypole Fund | 31 January
The Maypole Fund funds imaginative, non-violent feminist projects and activities which proactively challenge militarism in locally relevant and appropriate ways. Applicants can be individual women or women-only groups.
Feminist Review Trust Fund Grants for Women’s Projects | Ongoing
Gives grants to projects in the UK and internationally that support women. These grants represent the diversity of women’s lives globally and support the creativity which with women fight the inequalities they face.
L’Oréal Fund for Women | Ongoing
The L’Oréal Fund for Women focuses on supporting women and girls’ empowerment, particularly by supporting projects in favour of social and professional integration and improving access to education.
Purposeful | Ongoing
Purposeful is a feminist hub for girls’ activism, rooted in Africa and working globally.
Lifeline | Ongoing
The Lifeline Embattled CSO Assistance Fund provides emergency financial assistance to civil society organizations (CSOs) under threat or attack and rapid response advocacy and resiliency grants to support CSOs in responding to broader threats against civic space.
Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights | Ongoing
Provides flexible and responsive support to women’s and trans* human rights defenders who face immediate threats and supports advocacy when unanticipated opportunities emerge.
Abilis Foundation | Ongoing
The Abilis Foundation funds projects that are planned and implemented by persons with disabilities to advance their human rights and participation, with a focus on women and girls with disabilities in Africa and Asia.
Pulitzer Center’s Gender Equality Grants Program | Ongoing
The programme is designed to help journalists take to a new level the reporting on issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
Frontline AIDS Rapid Response Fund | Ongoing
Grants of up to $15,000 USD are available to organisations led by and serving marginalised communities affected by HIV to respond to external threats to their HIV-related human rights work.
Wallace Global Fund | Ongoing
The Fund supports organisations working to promote democracy, human rights, public health, and a sustainable planet. Proposals can be for either core or project-specific support.
The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation | Ongoing
The foundation helps strengthen the capacity of organisations and coalitions in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Their focus areas include family planning and reproductive health.
Global Fund for Women | Ongoing
Their grant making centres historically marginalised communities and those most impacted by gender injustice. All organisations must submit an organisational profile online.
Kanthari Fellowship | Ongoing
Kanthari's twelve-month programme will help participants develop all necessary skills to succeed as social change-makers so they can start and run own NGO's, social enterprises or social ventures.
Close the Gap | Ongoing
Close the Gap provides high-quality refurbished IT equipment for social and educational projects in low- and middle-income countries all around the world (mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa).
With and For Girls Fund | Ongoing
Girls’ groups and collectives, including those working in partnership with young women under 30, are invited to submit their profile for funding opportunities and to connect with other girl activists.
DWF Foundation | Ongoing
The DWF Foundation supports registered NGOs working on homelessness, health and wellbeing, employability, education and environment and sustainability. Only select countries can apply.
Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) | Ongoing
FID is a new initiative to support innovation that contributes to reducing global poverty and inequality. It specifically encourages applications from the priority countries for French aid.
Africa
Legal Services Facility – Tanzania | 16 October
The Legal Services Facility (LSF) is inviting proposals from organizations working to increase access to justice for all, in particular for women and girls, through a legal empowerment approach.
UN Women – Women Peace and Security Programme in Nigeria | 19 October
UN Women Nigeria CO seeks the service of an I/NGO as a responsible partner for the implementation of the Women Peace and Security (WPS) Programme in Kaduna and Plateau states.
AkiraChix – Kenya | 21 October
AkiraChix is a not-for-profit that offers young women hands-on, on-demand technical training and leadership development to positively impact their lives and communities and close the gender gap in the technology field.
UN Women – Tanzania | 25 October
UN Women seeks to secure partnerships with NGOs with a track record in human and women’s rights and gender equality, community and grassroots sensitisation especially through various community engagements approaches.
Digital Transformation Center - Nigeria | 11 November
Digital Innovation Hubs are a coordinated group of organisations with complementary expertise and a public-benefit objective, offering a set of services and activities to small businesses to support their digital transformation and innovation through a one-stop shop.
European Commission – Mauritius and Seychelles | 15 November
Aims to encourage alliances between CSOs (including grassroots women and youth organisations) to develop a more inclusive, participatory, empowered, and independent civil society.
WIDU – Ethiopia | 30 November
In response to the increased needs in terms of food security in Ethiopia, WIDU is now launching a #FoodCall through which micro businesses or business ideas that contribute to sufficient, safe and/or nutritious food and agricultural production can get grants and coaching.
Research Triangle Institute – Mali | 30 November
Grants that seek to facilitate the growth of agricultural production through investments that improve the quality and quantity of production, increase value addition, sales in national markets and increase employment opportunities, especially for women and young people.
African Women’s Development Fund | Ongoing
Funds projects that address the needs of and involve the women and communities most affected by inequality and injustice in the leadership and implementation of projects.
Open Society Foundations Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA) | Ongoing
Aims to support and amplify the voices of pro-democracy organisations and individuals in the region and to strengthen their capacity to hold their governments accountable.
Urgent Action Fund Africa | Ongoing
Provides financial support for strategic interventions that take advantage of opportunities to advance women’s human rights.
The Segal Family Foundation – Multiple countries| Ongoing
The Foundation partners with organisations improving and cultivating ‘healthy, productive and empathetic youth’. Focus areas are adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and improving access to quality education and increasing youth employment.
Rapid Response Funding for Women in South Africa | Ongoing
This funding has a special emphasis on mitigating the effect of COVID on women’s rights. Amounts range from R20,000 to R50,000. Grants are available for a period of three months to one year.
Firelight | Ongoing
Firelight supports organisations that are working with their own communities to build potentially scalable solutions to the challenges faced by children and youth in eastern and southern Africa.
Noel Buxton Trust Grant | Ongoing
Trustees tend to offer grants to smaller, grass-roots organisations with a focus on economic development. Priority countries are Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Sudan and South Sudan.
US Embassy in Chad | Ongoing
The grants help organisations create tangible benefits such as increasing or sustaining the number of jobs in a community, improving income levels, and addressing social development needs.
Techsoup West Africa | Ongoing
Techsoup West Africa offers non-profits in ECOWAS countries as well as Cameroon and Chad access to technology products up to 95% less than the market value or free of charge.
The Beit Trust | Ongoing
Supporting established, independent institutions, in particular schools, hospitals and health centres. Grants are distributed between Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
Right Sharing of World Resources Grant Program – Kenya & Sierra Leone | Ongoing
Provides grants for women in these areas to begin small income-generating businesses so that they may help themselves and their families out of poverty.
Asia
Sequoia – India
& Southeast Asia | 25 October
Sequoia Spark is a movement to inspire more women in India and Southeast Asia to become entrepreneurs. The four-month long fellowship program includes a USD 100K equity-free grant and mentorship as well as a series of learning sessions & events.
Australian Consulate – General Chennai - India | 31 October
The Consulate-General in Chennai supports small-scale, sustainable development projects in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and the Union Territories of Puducherry and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
The British Council - Gender Ecologies Grant Programme - Pakistan| 13 November
Aims to provide a platform for international exchange, sharing indigenous and alternative experiences and responses to climate change, exploring ways to address disproportional effects of climate change on women in the Global South.
Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund – Japan & Asia Pacific Region | 01 December
KNCF provides assistance for nature conservation efforts implemented by NGOs in developing countries, particularly in Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region.
Right Sharing of World Resources Grant Program - India | Ongoing
Provides grants for women in India to begin small income-generating businesses so that they may help themselves and their families out of poverty.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation – India | Ongoing
This fund assists NGOs to design and develop programmes which assist at-risk communities to build on their strengths and help them deal with the critical factors that make them vulnerable
Share and Care Foundation Grant Program in India | Ongoing
The Grant Program is now open to create opportunities for women and children of India with low income by partnering with communities, philanthropists and local charitable organisations.
Urgent Action Fund Asia & Pacific | Ongoing
A rapid response and feminist fund that mobilises and distributes resources to women and non-binary human rights defenders, activists and their movements in the region to continue their work.
The Old Dart Foundation | Ongoing
The Old Dart Foundation is a private grant-making organisation working to tackle poverty in Chile, Papua New Guinea, Peru, and the Philippines with a focus on women, children and young people.
Europe, MENA and North America
Defend Dignity – Canada | 27 October
Defend Dignity is announcing its Survivor Support Fund to provide accessible financial support to individuals who have experienced any form of commercial sexual exploitation in Canada.
Community Foundations of Canada | 31 October
The Community Foundations of Canada (CFC) has launched the Communities for Gender Equality Fund to support ambitious, local projects that advance gender equality. The Fund will shift power into the hands of women, girls, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse individuals by supporting their leadership and engagement in community-level initiatives.
The Lalor Foundation – United States | 01 November
The Anna Lalor Burdick Program funds initiatives that bring women information and access to reproductive health care, contraception, and pregnancy termination in order to help broaden and enhance their options in life.
International Women’s Media Foundation – United States | Ongoing
The International Women's Media Foundation's (IWMF) Fund for Indigenous Journalists: Reporting on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, Transgender People (MMIWG2T) opportunity supports the production of ambitious reporting that opens up underreported aspects of the issue of Missing & Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP).
Return to Play Fund (RTPF) - United States | Ongoing
RTPF will support community sport organisations that are dedicated to getting young people of colour moving again and providing them with guidance and opportunities to grow and succeed.
Doria Feminist Fund | Ongoing
The Doria Feminist Fund seeks to create a feminist ecosystem where the new generation of feminist movement in the MENA region has access to more and better funding and resources.
Women’s Empowerment International | Ongoing
WEI accepts letters of inquiry for women-focused poverty-alleviation projects on an ongoing basis. Funding partners must be US 501(c)(3) non-profit organisations.
Latin America and the Caribbean
USAID: Sustaining Impact for Youth Program – Haiti | 07 November
The purpose of the program is to support Haitian children living with and/or affected by HIV, to grow into healthy, educated young adults, free from violence and the negative effects of HIV.
European Commission – Grants to Support Civil Society Organizations – Mexico | 08 December
This call for Mexico of the Thematic Program Civil Society Organizations 2021-2027 reaffirms the commitment of the European Union to support CSOs in order to enhance their participation as actors of change in governance and development.
UN Women Spotlight Initiative Call for Small Grants in Jamaica | December 2022
UN Women is soliciting grant proposals to support leadership and monitoring and evaluation capacity strengthening programmes for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Jamaica especially those working with underserved communities.
USAID – Peru and South America | 30 September 2023
This initiative is designed to increase sustainability and impact in the areas of Regional Environmental and Sustainable Growth; Socio-economic Integration of Migrants; and Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment, and Climate Change.
The Old Dart Foundation | Ongoing
The Old Dart Foundation is a private grant-making organisation working to tackle poverty in Chile, Papua New Guinea, Peru, and the Philippines with a focus on women, children and young people.
Urgent Action Fund Latin America | Ongoing
A regional feminist fund for Latin America and the Spanish speaking Caribbean, which contributes to the sustainability and strengthening of activists and their movements, with quick and agile support.
UN Women – Caribbean | Ongoing
UN Women is offering a small grant to expand the technical substantive capacity of civil society organisations on ending violence against women and girls in the Caribbean Region.
Wishing you every success with your fundraising efforts!
In solidarity,
Jessica
Please note that the funding opportunities listed in this newsletter are not linked to, or necessarily endorsed by, the Girls Not Brides secretariat. We have identified these funding opportunities through online research efforts with the hope that Girls Not Brides member organisations might find some of them useful to their work. We invite you to do your own additional research to ensure that a given funding opportunity is indeed aligned with your organisation’s programmatic and fundraising priorities, ethos and values.
