Mama Cash Women's Fund

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MAMA CASH WOMEN'S FUND

Mama Cash is the oldest international women's fund - established in the Netherlands in 1983. She supports pioneering and innovative women's initiatives around the world, because she believes that social change starts with women and girls.Since 1983 Mama Cash has subsidized more than 6.000 women's projects and has invested more than 30 million euros. She is active in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

http://www.mamacash.org/page.php?id=785

Mama Cash wants to change the world and therefore invests in women who, in spite of the dangers, believe in their ideals and struggle for justice and change.

Mama Cash supports women's rights groups and organisations in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Latin America and the Carribean, and the Middle East and North Africa. Mama Cash financially supports groups and organisations that through their work strengthen women's rights in their country or region by providing general support grants, project grants, and travel grants.

General support allows organisations to fulfil the basic conditions for their activities: it pays for office costs; staff costs; and capacity building of the organisation including its staff and volunteers.

Project support is for costs directly related to a specific project that the group initiated and organises.

Travel grants are for individuals who are member of women's rights organisations, to attend trainings, conferences and other linking and learning events, which will help the organisation build it's knowledge and capacities in the area of their activities as well as strengthen their network.

Do you want to apply for a grant?

Below you'll find information about how Mama Cash works, the groups and organisations we support, our criteria, and information on how to apply for a grant.

who can apply?

All proposals Mama Cash receives are tested against the below stated criteria. Only applications that fulfil the criteria and match the policy for the region in question will be considered.

Mama Cash's grants to women's rights groups concentrate on five thematic areas: bodily integrity, economic justice, peace and security, agency and participation, and art, culture and media. Read more about these thematic areas.

All proposals are assessed by Mama Cash's programme officers and our local advisers for review and advice. Following feedback from local advisers, the advisory council in the Netherlands assesses the application. The application is then finally formally approved by the board of Mama Cash.

(her criteria)

Mama Cash supports women's groups and organisations around the world that:

promote women’s human rights and advance positive change for women in laws, policies and practices;
are led by women, and where the majority of staff members are women;
have limited access to larger funding sources because they are small, new, or working on issues considered risky or taboo;
are strengthening women's rights in ways that are innovative, groundbreaking, taboo-breaking, and pioneering;
apply for amounts within Mama Cash’s funding range: between € 500 and € 20,000 per year.

Mama Cash does not support:

organisations based or working primarily in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and the United States;
organisations primarily focusing on income-generating activities, credit programmes, welfare and traditional skill training;
activities that are considered to be the responsibility of government; such as formal education, illiteracy programmes and regular medical care;
organisations headed/led by men;
(groups affiliated to) political parties and religious institutions;
individuals, scientific research projects and scholarships.

apply for a grant

If your group answers to the criteria stated above, you can apply for general support or a project grant, or for a travel grant.

General support / project grants

English Grant request sheet > Download Word file / PDF file
French Grant request sheet > Download Word file / PDF file
Spanish Grant request sheet > Download Word file / PDF file
Dutch Grant request sheet > Download Word file / PDF file

Travel grants

English Request sheet > Download Word file / PDF file
French Request sheet > Download Word file / PDF file
Spanish Request sheet > Download Word file / PDF file

(her evaluation tool)

Measuring social change

Making the Case is Mama Cash’s evaluation tool. It helps women’s groups to assess the changes they made (big or small), the results and impacts achieved and the opportunities and challenges faced in their work. It is a strong learning and self-assessment tool that measures ‘social change’ and helps women’s groups to ‘make a case’ for the good work they are doing.

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