General Support Grants is a grant from the Global Fund for Women that funds feminist movements and women-led organizations working to advance gender justice around the world. The fund provides unrestricted, flexible general operating support—covering the real costs of social justice work—with multi-year grants so groups can plan long-term.

Grantee partners determine their own priorities and how success is measured, reflecting the Global Fund for Women's commitment to movement-led philanthropy. Focus areas include freedom from violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and economic justice. Eligible applicants are women-, girl-, and trans-led organizations based outside the United States.

Award amounts typically range from $5,000 to $30,000; applications are accepted on a rolling basis through the organization's movement-led selection process.

How We Support Gender Equality | Ways to Help Gender Equality We are flipping the script on traditional philanthropy by providing flexible funding directly to feminist activists who know exactly how to use it. As a feminist funder, we recognize grassroots people power as one of the most effective mechanisms to create and sustain long-term social transformation.

Yet movements are consistently under-resourced, and funders have struggled to effectively meet their needs. That’s where Global Fund for Women comes in: we seek out movements, give them the resources they need to succeed, and let them call the shots. We fund those left out of traditional philanthropy, putting money directly in the hands of grassroots leaders.

To identify new movements for support, we combine cutting-edge data analysis and firsthand knowledge shared by movement leaders on the ground. Our Gender Justice Data Hub allows us to identify and prioritize emerging feminist movements that can benefit the most from our funding in their early stages. We provide general operating support grants—unrestricted, flexible money—to cover the real costs of social justice work.

We offer multi-year grants so that groups can plan long-term. We don’t dictate priorities. We follow grantee partners’ leadership, supporting them in addressing needs, opportunities, and challenges as they arise, on their own terms.

The movements we support determine where funding goes, what success looks like, and how to measure success. In short, movements make key decisions, not Global Fund for Women. Because there is no one-size-fits-all for movements, we aim to listen in radical ways and adapt to what movements decide.

We’re staging a feminist takeover of philanthropy—showing a more radical way is possible. Learn more about feminist philanthropy in our infographic . While each grantmaking process in our movement-led approach is tailored by the movement, many follow the below general model.

A movement committee is nominated by a participatory process within the movement. That committee determines how to award grants, the size, and how to measure success. This process allows us to reach new groups outside of our existing networks.

of grants awarded to groups working in repressive societies. We focus our work in countries where civil society is closed, repressed, or obstructed by governments. of program funding is multi-year.

Longer-term support allows groups to plan ahead and stay agile. In addition to financial resources, we support gender justice movements holistically by creating spaces for collaboration, and advocating for feminist, intersectional, and intergenerational practices and policies across philanthropy and key global arenas. In times of crisis, grassroots leaders and first responders know their community’s needs best.

Our crisis funding incorporates short-term response, medium-term rebuilding, and long-term resilience through core, flexible grants to feminist groups and feminist funds on the frontlines. Imagine a world where movements, even in their earliest stages, receive the support they need exactly when they need it. The Gender Justice Data Hub identifies early sparks of movements to provide timely support that fuels lasting impact.

Learn more about the Gender Justice Data Hub. For nearly 40 years, Global Fund for Women has supported grassroots feminist movements tackling oppression worldwide, from abortion rights in West Africa to climate justice in the Caribbean. In 2022, a group of feminist leaders came together to address corruption's impact on historically marginalized communities, funding organizations that are driving critical anti-corruption work.

Learn more about their journey. Additional Funding Resources and Information Global Fund for Women understands the challenges grassroots feminist organizations are facing in accessing funding, and while we are not able to financially support every group who needs it, we are committed to working with partners to unlock more and better funding to support leaders working across the gender justice ecosystem.

Please see additional gender justice funding resources and ways to stay in community with us below. Check out our list of gender justice funders , a comprehensive list of other gender justice and human rights funders that we keep updated for the field. MCAT 3.

0: A Movement Capacity Assessment Tool MCAT is a free online tool that helps social movements determine their needs in order to most effectively advance their vision for social justice and achieve the change they want to see. Insights, findings, and tools from our efforts to advocate for Generation Equality Forum resources to be directed to feminist groups.

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