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.

2025-05-07 No Comments

Collective Care

In the context of a polycrisis, many partners recognized the importance of connection, relationship building, and seeding their commitment to collective care. Collective care challenges dominant ideologies and promotes radical transformation. Feminist perspectives argue that well-being is essential for activism and movement building. Collective care involves transforming systems of oppression and should be flexible to local contexts. Four Fenomenal Funds Collaboration Labs focused on collective care and feminist healing.

2025-05-05 No Comments

The Impact of Shared Narratives: What We Learned from Collaboration

As part of the Fenomenal Funds Collaboration Grants (link to the intro blog), FemFund (Poland), Women’s Fund Armenia, and Women’s Fund in Georgia came together to form a collaborative on healing spaces. In this blog post, we tell you all about this collaboration and what it hopes to achieve. The work of this group is also connected to the broader theme of collective care, which is being addressed by three other collaboratives.

2025-02-24 No Comments

Slipping Into A Virtual Void: The Pitfalls of Online Facilitation

As part of the Fenomenal Funds Collaboration Grants (link to the intro blog), FemFund (Poland), Women’s Fund Armenia, and Women’s Fund in Georgia came together to form a collaborative on healing spaces. In this blog post, we tell you all about this collaboration and what it hopes to achieve. The work of this group is also connected to the broader theme of collective care, which is being addressed by three other collaboratives.

2025-02-24 No Comments

Out of Depth: The Challenges of Creating Collaborations Virtually

As part of the Fenomenal Funds Collaboration Grants (link to the intro blog), FemFund (Poland), Women’s Fund Armenia, and Women’s Fund in Georgia came together to form a collaborative on healing spaces. In this blog post, we tell you all about this collaboration and what it hopes to achieve. The work of this group is also connected to the broader theme of collective care, which is being addressed by three other collaboratives.

2025-02-19 No Comments

Feminist Evaluation and Learning

How do feminist perspectives transform the concepts, practices, and relationships in evaluation and learning? In this unique collaboration, eight movement partners and four national women’s funds explore a feminist approach to evaluation and learning to deepen insights into how gender equality change happens.

2025-02-03 No Comments

Collective Care as Politics and Practice

As part of the Fenomenal Funds Collaboration Grants (link to the intro blog), FemFund (Poland), Women’s Fund Armenia, and Women’s Fund in Georgia came together to form a collaborative on healing spaces. In this blog post, we tell you all about this collaboration and what it hopes to achieve. The work of this group is also connected to the broader theme of collective care, which is being addressed by three other collaboratives.

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