Apply Now: Resilience Fund by Mama Cash

Are you part of a self-led feminist group working to create lasting change? Do you want long-term, versatile funding to strengthen your motion? Mama Cash is happy to announce the opening of its 2025 Grantmaking Window, providing core monetary assist to formidable feminist initiatives that defend and advance the rights of girls, women, and trans and intersex folks.

The Resilience Fund supplies the assets wanted to strategize, plan, and implement work in ways in which greatest swimsuit the wants of organizations and actions. This yr, we’re inviting new candidates who should not present grantee-partners to apply beginning March 3, 2025.

Eligibility and Regional Focus

In 2025, Mama Cash will solely be accepting funding purposes from the next areas:

• The Americas
• The Caribbean
• Europe
• Central Asia
• North Asia

Applications from different areas won’t be thought of this yr. This method ensures that our funding stays centered on the areas that weren’t prioritized in 2024. The application interval will run from March 3 to March 31, 2025, 11:59 PM CET.

Existing Resilience Fund grantee-partners searching for renewal grants should not affected by this regional restriction. Other Mama Cash funds—together with the Solidarity Fund, Spark Fund, Revolution Fund, and Radical Love Fund—will stay open to new purposes from all areas the place they apply.

Application and Selection Process

Mama Cash follows a participatory grantmaking mannequin, the place funding selections are made by the communities we assist. The choice course of consists of:

1. Input from candidates: All candidates present insights on key thematic points that must be prioritized for funding.
2. Screening course of: Mama Cash employees overview all purposes to make sure they meet eligibility standards.
3. Community Committee (COM COM) Review: The COM COM assesses shortlisted purposes, deliberates, and makes remaining selections on new grantee-partners.

Applicants can be notified by August 30, 2025, if they’ve progressed to the ultimate decision-making spherical. More particulars in regards to the participatory grantmaking course of for the Resilience Fund might be discovered here.

Important Notes

• The grantmaking window does not apply to present Resilience Fund grantee-partners whose grants are due for renewal in 2025.
• Mama Cash is not affiliated with any mortgage application companies, together with platforms named CashMama. Mama Cash won’t ever ask for cash and solely communicates by way of official e mail addresses ending in @mamacash.org. Emails from different domains must be disregarded.

More Information

To be taught extra, please go to here.

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