Fenomenal Funds is a feminist funder collaborative using a shared governance model and participatory grantmaking to support the resilience of women’s funds who are members of the Prospera International Network of Women’s Funds.

2024-02-28 No Comments

Plan de Aprendizaje

Elaborado por: KIT Royal Tropical Institute Diciembre 2023 Tabla de Contenidos Introducción Metodología del Plan de Aprendizaje Gestión del Aprendizaje: Ética y Protección Diseminación y aplicación de los conocimientos Introducción El Plan de Aprendizaje que tienes en tus “manos virtuales” describe el camino que Fenomenal Funds está tomando para identificar los conocimientos principales y profundizar […]

2023-05-18 No Comments

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 […]

2022-07-20 1 Comment

Lessons in Real Time

Drawing on Emergent Learning in Feminist Philanthropy by Shama Dossa When I joined Fenomenal Funds (FF) last year in September 2022 as Feminist Manager Learning and Evaluation I was excited to be tasked with the challenge of how to put together a learning agenda for this unique initiative through a participatory process. FF had already […]

2021-12-09 No Comments

Toward a Feminist Funding Ecosystem

Over the last decade, the Association of Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) convened a series of discussions around funding for the feminist movement. Through analysis and discussion, they developed and refined the concept of a funding ecosystem that emerged from a vision of funding aligned to the principles and values of feminist movements.  In Toward […]

2021-12-09 No Comments

Where is the Money for Feminist Organizing?

In order to make feminist futures a reality, the feminist movement needs to be relentless in the struggle for women’s rights. Smashing the patriarchy requires systemic change, which takes time and resources. Yet data from the Association of Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) shows that just a trickle of funding allocated to gender equality reaches […]

2021-12-09 No Comments

Responding to the Moment: Fenomenal Funds’ 2020 Solidarity Grants

Fenomenal Funds started 2020 with a plan to provide core unrestricted funding to build up the institutional infrastructure of women’s funds, with a focus on members of the Prospera International Network of Women’s Funds (INWF). The collaborative understood that if women’s funds are to channel more and better resources to feminist movements, their systems and […]

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