Fundraising Resources for Women and Girls Worldwide
June 23, 2011 By fundsforngos
This resource guide seeks to provide an overview of resources, guides, and sources of funding fororganizations working with women and girls.
Reports
A 2010 survey report that summarizes European foundation granting to programs intended to benefit women and girls…[more]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Articles
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]
Networks & Institutes
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]
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]
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]
Selected Foundations
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’sgroups 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]
The Population Program has two goals: to enhance and protect the reproductive health and rights ofindividuals 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 changestarts 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]
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]
Multilateral Organizations
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]
The UN Trust Fund is managed by the UN Women on behalf of the UN system. The UN Trust Fund is the onlymultilateral 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]
Join our webinar on ‘How to Raise Funds for Women and Girls’ Issues‘ on Thursday, June 6, 2013 Time: 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM GMT
Learn the Donor landscape, find funders and how to develop a strategy for successfully raising funds for women and girls’ issues.
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SHARP-Organization,
H.No. 14-71/3,
Near Govt. Jr. College,
KALLURU-507 209,
Khammam District,
Andhra Pradesh, India
Looking forward to your support and co-operation.
Thanking you
Yours sincerely
P. Yesobu
Secretary
SHARP
It is very useful to NGO’s to find more resources.
I want PRINTED EDITION.
Secretary
PRABALA Samaj Sevi Sanstha
Jamtara Road.
Mihijam -815354
JHARKHAND
(INDIA)
Kenya.
I am from Bangladesh,where laboratory facilities are very poor,I want to go to the European and American country to do some reasearch work as a student of Masters,could u tell me how can i get any kind of financial help and from here?
I am Betty, a Ugandan and i work with a rural micro-finance in Buikwe, Uganda, where i am mobilizing my fellow female youth to save and start their own home based business.
Now i wish to know which organization can fund my activities to reach out to more rural women who are in the poverty shaken situation.
Secondly, i wish to undertake a Master’s degree any where in the world, please who out there can sponsor me?
Yours truly;
Betty
Rural Education and Development Programme
P.O.Box SK 483
Sakumono-Tema
Ghana, West Africa
Looking forward to your support and co-operation.
Thanking you
Yours sincerely
P.Anitha project co-ordinator.
Our organisation is based in semi-rural town of Lunsar. working with FGM practitioners, mothers, teachers, girls, men, religious and traditional leaders, schools etc.
Programme Coordinator.Woman Achiever
Greetings. It is very useful to NGO’s to find more resources. I want PRINTED EDITION. Please send to the following address in INDIA.
RAJA THEATRE BACK SIDE,
ELAMBALUR ROAD,
PERAMBALUR – P.O.& DT.,
TAMILNADU,
INDIA. PIN: 621212.
Looking forward to your support and co-operation.
Thanking you
Yours sincerely
P.Anitha project co-ordinator.
thank You
David Aniah
Coordinator
Our organization, Kishori Devi Foundation is a non profit, non governmental and non political organization registered under Society Registration Act 1860E of Government of India. We are pledged to work for the welfare of the human beings and the society. We have applied for FCRA. We are the grassroot organisation working in Uttar Pradesh since one year by our own funds. In this regard, a complete proposal may be submitted for your kind perusal. So, kindly send us the detailed information/guidelines regarding the submission of the proposal.
Looking forward to your support and co-operation.
Thanking you
Yours sincerely
Dipendra Dubey
President (Kishori Devi Foundation)
Hussien Ismail
Victims Action Committee(VAC)Trust
Zimbabwe
Crispin
Dirctor Tuyizere Alice Peace
Thank you,
Founder and CEO,
InterFaith Vision Foundation Cameroon (IVFCam)
Running a continuing health (medical, dental and nursing) education programs
Running a comprehensive programs of e-learning in which our web site is expanding regularly with extensive training for doctors, nurses and dentists on internet harnessing to seek knowledge.
Running an academic career development program tackling matters of interest for health care professional such as teaching the teachers, time management and leadership.
Thank you for considering our request. We would appreciate the opportunity to discuss this issue in person.
Yours Sincerely,
Imtiyaz Rasheed,
Director personal assistant for fundraising and public relations affairs
RVDS
Rangpur
Bangladesh
My wife Mercy Ogedengbe runs an NGO that caters for widows, orphans, vunerable children and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Funds and grants from bodies like this will help her NGO reach out to these class of people and keep them useful in the society again.
I do hope her application will sail through by the time she applies for funds.
Thanks for wiping out tears from the faces of many.
Bye.
Bamidele Obahon-Ogedengbe
We are grateful that organization like you is operating in the world. We appreciate the kind of work you are doing, most especially in the interest of women and girls.
RUWOS Education and Youth Development program finds urgency in
pervasive brain drain coupled with untold devastation dealt to the education sector; both products of long years of neglect and the 14-year civil conflict.
Working with education stakeholders and the young people themselves, the
program seeks to, amongst other things, organize litany of advocacy and lobbying activities that press Government to keep its commitment to
providing quality education and developing the Liberian youth achieve their full potential. It also includes sourcing funding to secure scholarship for needy students, establish and/or support technical literacy and vocational education and recreation centers for young people.
With these information, we would aoppreciate were you to please in which direction we can be assisted by you.
Thank you very much for your usual understandfing.
Peace Education & Peace Building
Liberia’s recovery and development agenda is unachievable in the absence of a solid assurance for peace and stability, most especially involving the youth who are the future leaders. In recognition of this fact, RUWOS Peace Education & Peace Building initiative mainstreams research and surveillance/early
warning on conflict issues, with particular focus on conflict-prone communities and homes. Thus, in addition to spreading the message of peace and harmony via children talk shows over our community radio and town hall meetings,focus group discussions and other media outreach activities; RUWOS builds the peace by working with the youth and children, most especially boys and girls.
Youth and Adolescent sexual reproductive Health is of critical concern in post conflict Liberia as this segment of our population is particularly susceptible to risky sexual behavior which leads to teenage pregnancy, STIs and HIV/AIDS
We support on-going efforts to provide safe spaces for psychosocial support in youth centers and communities for girls affected by GBV, SGBV, and harmful traditional practices.
Ogenyi Morris
Executive Director
Action for Socail Economic Development-ASED (Uganda)