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.

2023-08-04 No Comments

Theory of Transformation

Our Theory of Transformation captures how we see the Fenomenal Funds model contributing to change in philanthropic ecosystems. Transformation in our case is framed by feminist values and ethics centering on the needs of women’s funds.

2023-07-24 No Comments

Repenser le pouvoir pour renforcer la résilience

Repenser le pouvoir pour renforcer la résilience est un rapport qui partage les moments remarcables et les enseignements tirés de la capacité du modèle de Fenomenal Funds à perturber les relations de pouvoir traditionnelles de la philanthropie, en se concentrant particulièrement sur la façon dont nos subventions de résilience 2021-2022 ont aidé les Fenomenal Funds à répondre au début de la pandémie de COVID-19 d’une manière qui n’aurait pas été possible avec un autre type de modèle.

2023-07-24 No Comments

Reimaginar el poder para construir resiliencia

Reimagining Power to Build Resilience es un informe que comparte los aspectos más destacados y los aprendizajes de la capacidad del modelo de los Fenomenal Funds para alterar las relaciones de poder tradicionales de la filantropía, centrándose especialmente en cómo nuestras Subvenciones de Resiliencia 2021-2022 ayudaron a los Fenomenal Funds a responder al inicio de la pandemia de COVID-19 de formas que no habrían sido posibles con otro tipo de modelo.

2023-07-18 No Comments

Reimagining Power to Build Resilience

Reimagining Power to Build Resilience is a report that shares highlights and learnings from the Fenomenal Funds’ model capacity to disrupt the traditional power relationships of philanthropy – particularly focusing on how our 2021-2022 Resilience Grants supported Fenomenal Funds to respond to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in ways that would not have been possible under a different kind of model.

2022-12-16 No Comments

Fenomenal Funds Awards $5.2M in Grants to Strengthen the Feminist Funding Ecosystem

Fenomenal Funds is pleased to announce the award of $5,247,744 to 13 collaboration groups formed by 37 women’s funds members of the Prospera International Network of Womenʼs Funds. The Collaboration Grants support women’s funds to form deeper connections and stronger partnerships with each other. As they work to co-create solutions, they harness the community’s collective power, wisdom, and creativity to reimagine practices, […]

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