How can feminist organizational practices reflect the politics of justice, care, and collaborative leadership? How can new models and ways of working and leading help women’s funds better support feminist movements and challenge patriarchal and colonial power imbalances in philanthropy?
In a competitive environment, how can women’s funds learn and strategize together to drive more and better funds to feminist movements, including in challenging political settings? This question is at the heart of two collaborations supported by Fenomenal Funds.
What happens when you hardwire resilience into collaboration? In this blog post, we will share what we’ve learned about the mechanics of collaboration and what it means to pave the way for collaboration as a tool for resilience.
As part of the Fenomenal Funds Collaboration Grants (link to the intro blog), FemFund (Poland), Women’s Fund Armenia, and Women’s Fund in Georgia came together to form a collaborative on healing spaces. In this blog post, we tell you all about this collaboration and what it hopes to achieve. The work of this group is also connected to the broader theme of collective care, which is being addressed by three other collaboratives.
Eight women’s and feminist funds in Latin America and the Caribbean, are working together to mobilize resources and amplify the collective power of women, feminists, LGBTQI+ organizations, and movements in the region.
On the Right Track (OTRT) is a living alliance that unites feminist funds and organizations from Latin America and Europe working for democracy and human rights. Their focus is strategic communications and narrative building, in a context marked by the rise of political and religious fundamentalism.
Many women’s funds using a feminist lens are grappling with what transformative feminist leadership means. They are reflecting on internal coordination and organizing, leadership, growth, and systems. They are also linking feminist leadership to anti-racism and decolonization, committing to address these through systems, policies and processes.
As women’s funds grow, they need better methods for data collection and management beyond what Excel offers. Salesforce can improve data management and processes but requires significant effort, time, and commitment.
The Leading from the South Consortium (LFS) is a feminist resource alliance supporting activism led by women, girls, and trans-led organizations in the Global South. The four regional funds in this collaboration share a commitment to collective care
This collaborative group is united by the goal of integrating the politics of care into their organizational policies and practices. Their motivation stems from addressing staff burnout, the need for care and protection for activists, and coping with ongoing crises. Among the five participating funds, some have started institutionalizing collective care, while others are still defining its meaning.