The 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women will be coming up in the next few weeks. In light of this session, we have prepared a resource guide on Fundraising resources for Women’s and Girls’ Rights. This resource guide profiles the networks, foundations and organizations providing funding support to organizations around the world that are working on Women’s and Girls’ Rights issues.
Networks & Institutes
Women’s Funding Network is more than 150 organizations that fund women’s solutions across the globe, making us one of the largest collaborative philanthropic networks in the world. Our members are women’s foundations that span public charities, private foundations and funds within community foundations…[more]
International Network of Women’s Funds (INWF)
The INWF is a unique network in which funders in both the North and the South are organized democratically, and are organically linked to the feminist movement – from which almost all of them emerged. Currently the INWF has seventeen members committed to expanding the resources available to women’s rights organizations around the world…[more]
A regularly updated compilation of grants available for women and girls’ organizations…[more]
Women’s Philanthropy Institute
The Women’s Philanthropy Institute, a part of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, furthers the understanding of women’s philanthropy through research, education, and knowledge dissemination…[more]
Selected Foundations
The Global Fund for Women is an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice. We advocate for and defend women’s human rights by making grants to support women’s groups around the world…[more]
The Sigrid Rausing Trust is a grant-giving foundation based in London. It was founded in 1995 by Sigrid Rausing to support the international human rights movement…[more]
Hewlett Foundation- Population Program
The Population Program has two goals: to enhance and protect the reproductive health and rights of individuals and to stabilize global populations in ways that promote social and economic well-being and sustain the environment…[more]
Mama Cash is the oldest international women’s fund – established in the Netherlands in 1983. She supports pioneering and innovative women’s initiatives around the world, because she believes that social change starts with women and girls…[more]
Nike Foundation works to get girls on the international agenda and drive resources to them. The Foundation believes the best way to do that is to prove that investment in her unleashes the girl effect…[more]
Packard Foundation- Population and Reproductive Health
The Population and Reproductive Health program works to slow population growth in high fertility areas of the world and to enhance and protect women’s reproductive health and reproductive rights, especially for marginalized and disadvantaged girls, women, and communities…[more]
Multilateral Organizations
In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. UN Women provides grants to fuel innovative, high-impact programs by government agencies and civil society groups through two funds—the Fund for Gender Equality and the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women…[more]
The Fund for Gender Equality is a multi-donor initiative designed to advance high-impact gender equality programmes that focus on women’s economic and/or political empowerment at local and national levels. The Fund is unique in its focus on turning local and national laws and policies into tangible gains for women’s rights…[more]
UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women
The UN Trust Fund is managed by the UN Women on behalf of the UN system. The UN Trust Fund is the only multilateral grant-making mechanism that supports local, national and regional efforts to end violence against women and girls…[more]
UNDEF was established by the UN Secretary-General in 2005 as a United Nations General Trust Fund to support democratization efforts around the world. UNDEF supports projects that strengthen the voice of civil society, promote human rights, and encourage the participation of all groups in democratic processes. UNDEF has a specific interest in women’s groups…[more]
fundsforNGOs will held Live Webinar on Grant Fundraising for Women and Girls’ Issues on 25 February 2015 (2:30 PM – 4:00 PM GMT).
The webinar will cover fundraising topics such as where can I get information on funding instruments targeting women and girls; what are the useful tools and resources to map institutional donors focusing on women and girls; How do I develop a successful strategy for fundraising for my program on women and girls.
It will cover the Donor Landscape and major funders supporting programs for women and girls- including bilaterals, foundations in the US and Europe, and multilaterals. Research techniques will highlight ways to find new donors and introduce resources dedicated specifically on giving to women and girls.
