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. Resilience Grants are institutional core and flexible support grants that women’s funds members of the Prospera International Network of Women’s Funds can use to build and strengthen their infrastructure, knowledge, systems, and capacities that they see as a priority in order to achieve their mission. The only restriction on the grants is that they cannot be used for grantmaking. 

At a time of multiple intersecting crises, women’s funds members of the Steering and Advisory Committees designed a non-competitive grants process to enable women’s funds to invest in their internal strengthening and wellbeing.