Final Insights from Fenomenal Funds Learning Partnership Published
Feminist movements today are navigating increasingly complex, underfunded, and hostile environments. Despite these challenges, they remain vital forces of resistance and innovation and are needed now more than ever. Between mid-2023 and early 2025, KIT Institute worked in its role as Learning Partner alongside Fenomenal Funds stakeholders to co-create and implement a participatory learning process grounded in feminist and inclusive methodologies.
The fruits of this labour can be found in this report: it presents an in-depth analysis of the outcomes of the Fenomenal Funds model, with a focus on two key areas:
- Organisational resilience among women’s funds
- Collaboration and collective capacity in a feminist funding ecosystem
Drawing on the lived experiences of participating women’s funds, as documented through interviews, case studies, illustrations and shared reflections as can be found in the case studies reports, this final report provides unique insights into what becomes possible when women’s funds receive multi-year, core, flexible, non-competitive funding within a structure of shared governance.
The report is intended to inform and inspire a wide range of actors working to shift the philanthropic landscape, including funders, feminist intermediaries, women’s rights organisations, and movement partners. It contributes to the broader knowledge base on feminist funding models, offering lessons and insights for those seeking to operationalise their values with practice and better support sustainable feminist infrastructures.
While this publication primarily focuses on institutional resilience and collaboration, it also reflects on implications for advocacy and sustainable support of feminist infrastructures, offering lessons for those working to better align funding with the realities and aspirations of feminist movements.
Find it here, alongside the introductory report and the 10 case studies, all available in English, French and Spanish:
