Regional Program
Through the Regional program, New Field Foundation aims to support the creation of a more just, equitable and peaceful world for rural African women. To this end, it funds programs that promote systemic changes in policies, laws, cultural norms and the distribution of resources. Such changes must be functional and relevant for rural women in West Africa to receive New Field Foundation support.
Regional program grants are intended to:
- Ensure that financial, material and technical resources are channeled to rural African women and their organizations, and enable them to leverage and manage these resources;
- Enable linkages, information-sharing and exchange among community-based African women’s groups;
- Increase the voice of grassroots community-based organizations in policy arenas and support advocacy for systemic change in support of rural African women; and/or
- Enable rural African women’s leadership and active participation in all levels of decision-making.
The Foundation is interested in supporting organizations that:
- Are African-led, women-led and Africa-based (or, in the case of international organizations, their Africa programs are African-led and women-led);
- Work across multiple African countries or sub-regions;
- Through the organization’s mission, vision and programs, address at least one of the following thematic areas: economic justice, gender equity and/or peace;
- Demonstrate the relevance and usefulness of the organization’s work to rural women and their families in West Africa, possibly with direct or indirect links to rural African women and their families in communities in the Casamance, Mano River Union, and northern Niger River Basin;
- Preferably have an annual income of at least $75,000, with financial stability and ongoing relationships with funders;
- Demonstrate that they operate for charitable purposes and have the capacity to receive international funds; and,
- Demonstrate well-functioning management, financial and programmatic systems.
