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FUNDRAISING RESOURCES FOR WOMEN
& GIRLS WORLDWIDE
By fundsforngos, on June 23, 2011
Untapped Potential: European Foundation Funding for Women
and Girls
A 2010 survey report
that summarizes European foundation granting to programs intended to benefit
women and girls…[more]
Accelerating Change for Women and Girls: The Role of
Women’s Funds
To understand the
increased inclusion and role of women within philanthropy, the Foundation
Center partnered with the Women’s Funding Network to chart the current
landscape of philanthropy focused on women and girls and document the specific
role played by women’s funds…[more]
Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID):
“Where is the Money for Women’s Rights?”
AWID has multiple
publications available concerning funding for women and girls’ organizations…[more]
Quality and user
friendly information on how to fundraise, write a grant proposal or find donors
supporting different sectors and themes, this initiative has reviewed the
existing online resources to produce this short document containing what we
believe are interesting and good quality manuals, toolkits and guides produced
by various organizations on how to mobilize and access funding…[more]
Fundraising for Change: A Practical Guide for Women’s
Rights Organizations
Designed especially for
first-time fundraisers, the Global Fund for Women’s updated handbook presents
some key ideas about raising money to fund women’s rights work in today’s
global political and economic context…[more]
Funding Sources for Gender-Equality and Women-focused
Projects
This resource is
divided into five sections: Women’s Funds (those dedicated to gender-equality
and women-focused rights projects), Foundations, International Development
Agencies, Prizes, and on-line Directories…[more]
The Chronicle of
Philanthropy: “Cultivating Philanthropy by Women” by Holly Hall
Female donors now have
the means, but they’re still not as willing as men to part with their money…[more]
When it comes to giving
money away, are there differences between men and women and their philanthropic
behavior? Numerous studies and countless anecdotal observations suggest
that there are significant differences…[more]
Women’s Funding Network
is more than 150 organizations that fund women’s solutions across the globe,
making us one of the largest collaborative philanthropic networks in the world.
Our members are women’s foundations that span public charities, private
foundations and funds within community foundations…[more]
International Network of Women’s Funds (INWF)
The INWF is a unique network
in which funders in both the North and the South are organized democratically,
and are organically linked to the feminist movement – from which almost all of
them emerged. Currently the INWF has seventeen members committed to expanding
the resources available to women’s rights organizations around the world…[more]
A regularly updated
compilation of grants available for women and girls’ organizations…[more]
Women’s Philanthropy Institute
The Women’s
Philanthropy Institute, a part of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana
University, furthers the understanding of women’s philanthropy through
research, education, and knowledge dissemination…[more]
The Global Fund for
Women is an international network of women and men committed to a world of
equality and social justice. We advocate for and defend women’s human rights by
making grants to support women’s groups around the world…[more]
The Sigrid Rausing
Trust is a grant-giving foundation based in London. It was founded in 1995 by
Sigrid Rausing to support the international human rights movement…[more]
Hewlett Foundation- Population Program
The Population Program
has two goals: to enhance and protect the reproductive health and rights of individuals
and to stabilize global populations in ways that promote social and
economic well-being and sustain the environment…[more]
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…[more]
We work to get girls on
the international agenda and drive resources to them. We believe the best way
to do that is to prove that investment in her unleashes the girl effect…[more]
Packard Foundation- Population and Reproductive Health
The Population and
Reproductive Health program works to slow population growth in high fertility
areas of the world and to enhance and protect women’s reproductive health and
reproductive rights, especially for marginalized and disadvantaged girls,
women, and communities…[more]
In July 2010, the
United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations
Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. UN Women provides
grants to fuel innovative, high-impact programs by government agencies and
civil society groups through two funds—the Fund for Gender Equality and
the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women…[more]
The Fund for Gender
Equality is a multi-donor initiative designed to advance high-impact gender
equality programmes that focus on women’s economic and/or political empowerment
at local and national levels. The Fund is unique in its focus on turning local and
national laws and policies into tangible gains for women’s rights…[more]
UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence
against Women
The UN Trust Fund is
managed by the UN Women on behalf of the UN system. The UN Trust Fund is the
only multilateral grant-making mechanism that supports local, national and
regional efforts to end violence against women and girls…[more]
UNDEF was established
by the UN Secretary-General in 2005 as a United Nations General Trust Fund to
support democratization efforts around the world. UNDEF supports projects that
strengthen the voice of civil society, promote human rights, and encourage the
participation of all groups in democratic processes. UNDEF has a specific
interest in women’s groups…[more]
The
information was prepared in collaboration with Philantropia – an international consultancy firm
specialized in international fundraising and philanthropy.