Mama Cash supports ambitious self-led feminist organizations and initiatives that defend and advance the rights of women, girls, and trans and intersex people. The Resilience Fund provides core, flexible, long-term support for up to 10 years. This enables grantee partners to strategize, plan, and carry out the work they want to do, in the way that they want to do it – over the long term – so that they can grow, strengthen, and sustain their feminist movements.
Mama Cash’s adoption of a regional restriction for new Resilience grants for 2024 stems from an ambition to re-balance their grantmaking portfolio to:
ensure that the bulk of their funding in 2024 is weighted toward their core, long-term, flexible funding and
maintain transparency about their participatory grantmaking processes, institutional priorities, and staffing realities.
Eligibility
Open to self-led feminist organizations and initiatives based in the following regions: Africa, West Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. Applicants for new Resilience Fund grants that are not based in the above-listed regions will not be considered this year.
To be eligible for the Resilience Fund, groups and initiatives must:
Work from a feminist, women’s, girls, and trans and/or intersex people’s rights perspective;
Be self-led by the women, girls, trans people, and/or intersex people they work with;
Have the promotion of women’s, girls’, trans people’s, and/or intersex people’s human rights as their primary mission, and not just as the focus of part of their programs;
Push for structural and fundamental change; and,
Focus on issues that are under-addressed and/or contested in their context.
Grant
The value of the grant is between €5,000 – €50,000 per year, average grant size €35,000.
