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. We believe that 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 two grant cycles in 2012 and 2013, and cumulatively supported 32 different groups of young feminists in 28 different countries around the world and awarding a total of 196,000 USD in direct grants.
We are excited to be launching our third call for proposals and
intend to support up to 18 new young feminist groups led by young women
and transgender youth under 30 years of age.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 28th July 2014
Who can apply?
- Groups founded or led by young women or trans* youth (under 30 ykears) that are committed to:
- Advancing and defending women’s rights from a feminist perspective;
- Improving the lives of young women/transgender 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 (Africa, Asia and the Pacific, The Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and Central, Southern, Eastern Europe and Caucuses and Central Asia).
- Groups founded in the past 5 years (i.e. your group was formed between 2010 – 2014).
FRIDA uses the term ‘feminist’ broadly to refer to individuals
working within women’s movements or in other social movements to
promote and work towards the safety, equality, justice, rights and
dignity of girls, women and other marginalized groups. Based on the
understanding that fundamental discrimination occurs within patriarchal
systems of domination in all societies, young feminists are determined
to challenge, address and change the root causes of these existing
inequalities, rights violations and injustice. We recognize that there
are multiple feminisms and foster opportunities for expressing those
principles in our work. FRIDA emphasizes feminist principles throughout
all of its work. These principles include: non-hierarchy, collectivity,
participation, diversity, and inclusion. We define young feminist
activists as individuals from across the gender spectrum committed to
advancing gender equality and women’s rights through explicitly feminist
means. FRIDA focuses on activism led by feminists under 30 years of
age.
Priority will be given to:
- Small, emerging grassroots groups, networks, or collectives with little or no access to funding from larger donors.
- Groups, networks, or collectives that are working on emerging or issues that have not received prior funding.
- Groups, networks, or collectives located in remote underserved areas.
- Groups, networks, or collectives that are diverse in their membership and made up of and/or working with socially marginalized young women especially: refugees, ethnic, national and caste minorities, rural women, urban poor, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, women living with HIV/AIDS, sex workers, women with disabilities, women living in armed conflicts and post conflict zones.
- Groups using creative and innovative strategies to further their activism (including art, music, culture, poetry, social media etc).
What is NOT supported by FRIDA?
- Groups or organizations that display an intolerant attitude towards others on the basis of age, religion, sex, race/ethnicity, disability, class or sexual orientation.
- Organizations working with young women and trans youth but led by individuals over 30 years of age. We do not fund youth “programs” of existing organizations — we fund youth-led groups.
- Scholarships, internship or school fees (including Doctoral or other research)
- Groups with budgets over $25,000 USD
- Proposals submitted by individuals, government institutions, political organizations or religious groups.
- Groups that focus only on the provision of direct services (e.g. community literacy, formal education, technical training, craft or health care etc).
- Groups that focus on income generating activities.
- Groups based in the following highly-industrialized countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
