Feminist activists work to overcome oppressive systems and structures. Supporting their struggle requires more than just resourcing their work; it requires support for their collective wellbeing and healing from the trauma inflicted in their fight for liberation.
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Mobilizing Local Resources in Challenging Contexts
Three funds in Asia are teaming up to explore raising funds at regional, national, and community levels. This is particularly challenging amidst rising authoritarianism and a growing anti-gender movement, which shapes narratives around gender roles. Overcoming these narratives is crucial for attracting supporters and converting them into donors.
Feminist Organizational Evolution Collaborative: Co-creating practices to transform intersectional feminist funds to make the invisible visible
This group recognizes the inhTerited colonial and financial practices in the philanthropic sector that perpetuate disparities and oppressions. They decided to flip the paradigm on what it means to create change. This resulted in focusing on internalizing intersectional feminism and decolonization within their organizational structures, processes, operations, grantmaking, advocacy, and other activities.
Collaborative Learning on Resource Mobilization
This collaboration of six funds aims to address the lack of mechanisms for building sustainable funding ecosystems among women’s funds. The goal is to strengthen their growth strategies through mentoring, learning spaces, and meaningful engagement within the WF community.
Feminist Financial Resilience
Feminist financial resilience involves sustaining, adapting, and growing organizations to advance their missions using a feminist lens. This collaboration supports Women Fund Tanzania and Women Fund Z in building knowledge, skills, tools, resources, and connections for long-term financial resilience.
Feminist Fund Database: Emergent Group
As women’s and feminist funds grow, their need for systematic data collection and management increases, outgrowing tools like Excel. Salesforce offers potential but requires effort, time, and a cultural shift within organizations. This collaboration aims to provide technical and peer support for implementing Salesforce in grantmaking processes.
Participatory Feminist Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (FMEL)
This collaboration of six funds aims to address the lack of mechanisms for building sustainable funding ecosystems among women’s funds (WFs). The goal is to strengthen their growth strategies through mentoring, learning spaces, and meaningful engagement within the WF community.
Explorations in Transformative Feminist Leadership by Women’s Funds
This blog brings together the reflections and discussions by the women’s funds working on transformative feminist leadership as part of the Fenomenal Funds Collaboration Grants.
The Four Outcomes
So what does it mean to catalyze change in an ecosystem? When the board of the Hewlett Foundation invited their Global and Development team (since renamed to Gender Equity and Governance) to submit a concept for a special initiative, they joined forces with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to commission research to inform the […]
Decolonizing knowledge in philanthropy
By Shama Dossa What does it mean to use power-building and feminist approaches to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) in philanthropy? This is the question we Shama Dossa, [Fenomenal Funds] and fellow feminist practitioners Clara Desalvo [FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund], Boikanyo Modungwa [Purposeful], and Ramatu Bangura [CRIF]) posed to funders at the […]