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  • Strengthening Feminist Futures

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    Feminist movements around the world comprise diverse actors and stakeholders, ranging from global organizations to local grassroots groups. Within this vibrant ecosystem, women’s funds play a crucial role as feminist philanthropic organizations. Different from women’s organizations, the primary purpose of women’s funds is to mobilize resources rather than providing direct services and programmes. Women’s funds […]

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  • Increasing visibility and impact in the face of insecurity

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    This case study tells the story of the women’s fund Fonds pour les Femmes Congolaises (FFC), a national feminist fund working across the Democratic Republic of Congo, with offices in Goma, Kalemie, and Kinshasa. A myriad of challenges hamper the fund’s field work and presence, including national and regional contexts of insecurity and violence, an […]

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  • Transformational institutional strengthening through collaborative learnings on financial resilience

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    This case study shares the story and effects of funding collaboration on the financial resilience of two women’s funds: Women’s Fund Tanzaniaand Women’s Fund Z (WFZ), who joined to form the Feminist Financial Resilience group. The two funds collaborated with the aim of enhancing their financial resilience through a holistic approach, which they define as […]

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  • Bridging the feminist funding gap in a region with multiple crises

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    This case study tells the story of the Doria Feminist Fund, an emerging Beirut-based fund in the SWANA region. Established in 2021, the fund’s inception and resilience were enabled by the Fenomenal Funds’ Resilience Grant.

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  • Investing in operational improvements and knowledge management: a feminist strategy

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    This case study highlights the transformative journey of nine women’s funds who, through a Collaborative Grant initiative, significantly strengthened theirindividual and collective resilience. Together, they have invested in systems, processes, and knowledge management to establish effective feminist operational systems for grantmaking, while simultaneously unlocking the power of shared learning and mutual support. The work of […]

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  • Healing as a means of resistance

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    What does feminist healing have to do with political turbulence and war? Or with providing financial sustainability to the feminist movement and the fightfor gender justice? These are some of the questions that the Feminist Healing Spaces collaboration group—comprising FemFund Poland, Women’s Fund Armenia, and Women’s Fund in Georgia—set out to examine with the support […]

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  • Growing, adapting, and resisting in times of COVID-19 and political uncertainty

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    This case study uses the example of Fondo de Mujeres del Sur (FMS) to explore how grants designed to support resilience can strengthen thecapacity of women’s funds in adapting to challenging contexts and building sustainable impacts. Based in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, with 17 years’ experience and a regional reach across LatinAmerica, FMS has experienced […]

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  • Building narrative power for gender justice in Latin America

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    This is a case study of the collaboration group Alliance of Women’s and Feminist Funds of Latin America and the Caribbean (‘Alianza’), whose members—unlike in many other collaboration groups—had been working together for more than 17 years before partnering with Fenomenal Funds. The group’s collective initiatives, led by eight funds, all of whom are members […]

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  • Funding that prioritizes institutional resilience is critical

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    The backlash against gender justice initiatives in recent years has further highlighted the importance of feminist funding and resource mobilization. Mama Cash has both led and participated in efforts to support the global ecosystem of women’s funds and enhance the feminist funding architecture, partnering with likeminded organizations to influence philanthropy and encouraging government donors to […]

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  • From surviving to thriving: the transformative impact of flexible funding

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    This case study highlights the transformative outcomes of the Fenomenal Funds Resilience Grant on Women’s Fund X, a small women’s fund operating under anonymity due to restrictive funding environments. The fund faced significant challenges prior to receiving the grant—including financial instability, constrained growth, and a lack of confidence among the team in its long-term sustainability. […]

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  • Building resilience in a shifting political climate

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    This case study tells the story of how the Fenomenal Funds Resilience Grant supported the work of the Taso Foundation in Georgia. A membership-based national women’s fund that contributes to the feminist and social justicemovement in the country, it is focused on grantmaking, educational, and capacity building programmes. This case study tells the story of […]

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  • Desk review: what are social norms and how to effectively set up social norm change interventions in SRHR programmes

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    This Break Free! brief aims to provide an easy-to-read description of lessons learnt in implementing social norms change interventions in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), particularly around preventing child marriage and teenage pregnancy. The brief was developed based on an extensive document review. The recommendations section was informed by three virtual working sessions […]

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