This collaboration of six funds aims to address the lack of mechanisms for building sustainable funding ecosystems among women’s funds. The goal is to strengthen their growth strategies through mentoring, learning spaces, and meaningful engagement within the WF community.
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Feminist Fund Database: Emergent Group
As women’s and feminist funds grow, their need for systematic data collection and management increases, outgrowing tools like Excel. Salesforce offers potential but requires effort, time, and a cultural shift within organizations. This collaboration aims to provide technical and peer support for implementing Salesforce in grantmaking processes.
Nuestra teoría de la transformación
Nuestra teoría de la transformación Nuestra Teoría de la Transformación captura cómo vemos que el modelo de Fenomenal Funds contribuye al cambio en los ecosistemas filantrópicos. La transformación en nuestro caso está enmarcada en valores y éticas feministas centradas en las necesidades de los fondos de mujeres. Se basa en la comprensión de que el […]
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.
Estrategia de aprendizaje
El aprendizaje en el contexto de los Fondos Fenomenales es un proceso emergente, adaptativo y coevolutivo. Entendemos el aprendizaje como parte integrante del proceso de concesión de subvenciones, tanto en la fase de diseño como en la de ejecución. En nuestro audaz experimento de colaboración para la financiación feminista, que combina la financiación común, la […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]