As we embark on our final year of Fenomenal Funds’ journey, we are thrilled to re-introduce the Resilience Grants report, a testament to the power of collaboration, trust, and solidarity in feminist funding.
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Learning in Partnership
Behind the scenes with Fenomenal Funds learning partner – the KIT Royal Tropical Institute team At Fenomenal Funds we see learning as an emergent, adaptive, and co-evolutionary process. In our experimentation as a feminist-funding collaborative, all stakeholders are interacting in a power-sharing process – responding and adapting to each other so that what emerges and […]
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 […]
2022: A Year Living Into Our Values
Fenomenal Funds is a feminist funder collaborative that aims to strengthen the resilience and visibility of women’s funds members of the Prospera International Network of Women’s Funds (Prospera INWF). Fenomenal Funds is predicated on the recognition that, while feminist movements across the globe continue to make gains in challenging the norms, systems, and structures of […]
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, […]
Seven Things the Women’s Funds Collaborative Taught Me about Feminist Philanthropy
By Alfonsina Peñaloza My eight-year term as a Program Officer at the Hewlett Foundation came to an end in December 2020. Like all Hewlett program officers, I knew the end date when I was hired; I did not know it would come in the middle of a global pandemic. So much of this job is about building […]
A Letter from Our Co-Chairs
Warm Greetings! Welcome to Fenomenal Funds, an audacious initiative to reimagine power and strengthen the global feminist funding infrastructure. As Co-Chairs of the Fenomenal Funds Steering Committee, we are delighted to introduce you to this collaboration that has been built on Feminist Funding Principles. Fenomenal Funds is a five-year endeavor imagined and developed to support […]