What happens when feminist funds are trusted to invest in themselves? Proven Pathways to Resilience explores the powerful results of resourcing organizational infrastructure across 44 women’s funds.
This second and final report from Fenomenal Funds builds on Reimagining Power to Build Resilience, offering new data and deeper insights into how adaptability, collaboration, and care strengthen movements. It distills what worked, why it mattered, and how funders can join in.
As crises accelerate, this report offers a timely and practical roadmap for transformative funding grounded in feminist values.
This report highlights the transformative potential of feminist collaboration in strengthening organizational infrastructure. The report presents compelling evidence for the transformative potential of investing in collaborative organizational infrastructure initiatives for these challenging times.
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As part of our commitment to learning and reflection, Fenomenal Funds partnered with KIT Institute from mid-2023 to early 2025 to co-create and implement a participatory learning process. Together with initiative stakeholders, KIT helped document outcomes and surface insights grounded in the lived experiences of the women’s funds participating in the initiative. This process drew on feminist and participatory methodologies that aligned with the values at the heart of our work.
