The Young Feminist Fund mobilizes resources, funds and strengthens the participation and leadership of young feminist activists throughout the globe. FRIDA invites Proposals from groups led by young women and transgender youth under 30 years of age for grants of up to US Dollar 5,000.
The main aim of this FRIDA is to offer accessible, strategic and responsive funding for young feminist-led initiatives and to strengthen the capacity of young feminist organizations to both control their own resources and increase their social change impact.
Who Can Participate?
Informal and formal groups incorporated and led by young women or transgender youth (under 30 years) that are committed to:
- Advancing and defending women’s human rights;
- Improving the lives of young women/transgender youth at local, national, regional or international levels;
- Inclusive organizing, collective action and movement building.
- Informal and formal groups, networks, or collectives based in the Global South (Africa, Asia and the Pacific, The Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and Central and Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States).
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 otherwise get limited funding.
- Groups, networks, or collectives located in remote underserved areas.
- Groups, networks, or collectives that are diverse in their membership and made up of and/or working with socially marginalized young women including but not limited to: 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.
FRIDA provides grants of up to USD 5,000. They are general support grants to be used over a period of 12 months but are open to renewal.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: FRIDAY JANUARY 20th 2012
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