FRIDA Launches First Call for Proposals!
Source: FRIDA
FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund mobilizes resources, funds and strengthens the participation and leadership of young feminist activists globally. The goal of The Young Feminist Fund (FRIDA) is to provide accessible, strategic and responsive funding for young feminist-led initiatives, and to strengthen the capacity of young feminist organizations to both leverage their own resources and increase their social change impact. FRIDA invites applications from groups led by young women and transgender youth under 30 years of age for grants of up to USD 5,000.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: FRIDAY JANUARY 20th 2012
Who Can Participate?
Informal and formal groups founded and led by young women or transgender youth (under 30 years) that are committed to:
- Advancing and defending women’s human rights;
- Improving the lives of young women/transgender youth at local, national, regional or international levels;
- Inclusive organizing, collective action and movement building.
- Informal and formal groups, networks, or collectives based in the Global South (Africa, Asia and the Pacific, The Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and Central and Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States).
Priority will be given to:
- Small, emerging grassroots groups, networks, or collectives with little or no access to funding from larger donors.
- Groups, networks, or collectives that are working on emerging or issues that otherwise get limited funding.
- Groups, networks, or collectives located in remote underserved areas.
- Groups, networks, or collectives that are diverse in their membership and made up of and/or working with socially marginalized young women including but not limited to: refugees, ethnic, national and caste minorities, rural women, urban poor, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, women living with HIV/AIDS, sex workers, women with disabilities, women living in armed conflicts and post conflict zones.
Who is NOT supported by FRIDA?
- Groups or organizations that display an intolerant attitude towards others on the basis of identity including: age, religion, sex, race/ethnicity, disability, class or sexual orientation.
- Groups working with young women and transgender youth but led by individuals (over 30 years of age).
- Scholarships, internship or school fees
- Doctoral or other research
- Groups with access to large funders
- Proposals submitted by individuals, government institutions, political organizations or religious groups.
Funding Amounts and Length of Grant
FRIDA provides grants of up to USD 5,000. They are general support grants to be used over a period of 12 months but are open to renewal.
Be Part of the Selection Process…You Decide!
As part of our commitment to movement building FRIDA engages young feminist activists in the grant decision-making process. We view this as a collective decision-making process. Applicants who meet FRIDA’s criteria are expected to vote for their top proposal choices and give comments on their selections (groups may not vote for their own proposals). In voting, we ask that groups keep in mind what they think is important for the promotion and defense of the rights of young women in their region and globally. After voting the results are tallied and grantees are selected.
To learn more, click here.
I commend your efforts by funding programs that as to do with women. Kindly extend your donation to some other youths programs that has to do with rehabilitation and orientation of currupt youths generally as a result of bad governance in Africa. Thank you and God bless. Seyi Adeosun, Nigeria.
it’s nice to hear about promoting young people in several sector and developing their personality as well as building society towards right based approach. within a small limited fund encouraging young people globally is really affirmative action and praise worthy remarks.
pratima
I must say your initiative is a great one for those of us who are determined to protect the rights of young women and children in our rural communities and beyond. We look forward to partner with you to move this initiative to greater heights in our quest to achieve our mission, vision and goals.
Information Technology Foundation (I.T.F) is a grass-root organization found by a group of young teachers who teach I.C.T as a subject at the Basic Education level in Northern Ghana based on the encounters met in the teaching and learning of the subject especially, when it comes to the girl child. Some of the challenges faced with the pupils include broken homes, poor background nature of pupils homes, lack of I.C.T facilities, as well as certain religious practices among other challenges were realized. It is based on these challenges that our organization was established on 31st October, 2011 to help improve ICT learning, especially the practical aspect in our rural communities and beyond because it is evident that ICT is the center of attraction in today’s world of work.
The organization is a non-profit making organization of which its members are determined to play a leading role in the development and empowerment of children and young women by exposing them to the use of the internet in making meaningful contributions to the decision making process. We also seek to create the necessary forum for children, especially the girl child to stand among equals through seminars and workshops as well as promote the agenda for economic independence of young women through ICT education and microfinance facilities etc.
These and many more are on our vision to break the chain of poverty and ensure that women rights are protected and respected in our communities and beyond.
We are pleased to say that the organization is duly registered in Ghana under the companies code, 1963 (act 179) with registration number G-38,662.
Equally important, members of the organization are determined to work hard and to reach out to individuals and organizations to help support this initiative. It is our hope that when given the needed support we shall achieve our ultimate goal of breaking the chain of poverty and protecting the rights of children and young women who are the vulnerable in society through ICT education in the North, Ghana and Africa at large. Therefore, upon seeing your quest to support such initiatives, we would be grateful if you could come to our aid in realizing our ultimate goal since evaluation shall be the hall mark for every project we undertake.
We count on your cooperation.
Yours Faithfully,
Salifu A. Faaruk.
(Executive Director)
Thanks for this great opportunity ! I wonder where I can post questions regarding the fund ?
Your initiative is great to say the least. We are looking forward with great anticipation to partner with you so that we can move to greater hieghts in an endevour to achieve our mission, vision and objectives.
Its my sincere hope that i extend to FRIDA for this innovative support for youths.we are seriously enthusiastic to apply for this fund to capacity build and empower the marginalized youths.Omuomore anti HIV/AIDS/FGM and development group members would wish to extend to you their warm welcome to FRIDA project.
Thank you in advance.
Essau Elly-projects coordinator
I am sorry to say that I tried lot to save your FRIDA Application Format (Eng) but failed. Plks note that Arabic and RU language are working well. Would you pls make a correction ASAP.
Dear all,
You are great, helping the women and the needy.
Saeeda Anwer