Description
FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund is the only youth-led fund focused exclusively on supporting global young feminist activism to advance social justice movements and agendas. FRIDA was created to bring new resources and new opportunities to young women and trans youth globally. Supporting young feminists is key to the expansion, rejuvenation and sustainability of women’s movements and organizations, both now and in the future. To date, FRIDA has completed four grant cycles, and cumulatively supported 109 different groups of young feminists in 67 different countries around the world and awarding a total of 713,214.00 USD in direct grants.
Eligibility
- Groups founded or led by young women or trans youth (under 30 years) that are committed to advancing and defending women’s rights from
a feminist perspective & improving the lives of young women/trans youth at local, national, regional or international levels;
- Inclusive organizing, collective action and feminist movement building;
- Groups, networks, or collectives based in the Global South (Sub Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific, The Middle East and North Africa,
Latin America and the Caribbean and Central, Southern, Eastern Europe and Caucuses and Central and North Asia);
- Groups founded in the past 6 years (i.e. your group was formed between 2010 – 2016).
Grant
FRIDA makes grants of up to USD 5,000. They are flexible grants that can be used for general support and/or projects to be used over a period of 12 months and are open to renewal.
Deadline: 10 November 2016