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Open Society–Africa works with a range of civil society groups to promote just democracies and economic policies that advance equality.
Target focus
LGBTQI, Women and girls, children and minority groups
Funding Thematic Area:
Justice, Democratic Governance, and Human Rights.
Call years
Yearly
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Open Society Foundations LGBTQI+ Rights Program
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Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism provides fast, flexible support to women, trans and non-binary activists so that they can respond to unexpected risks and opportunities, protect and care for themselves and one another, and nurture and sustain thriving frontline feminist movements for a just and equitable world.
Target focus
Feminist Activisit
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Safety/security, Advocacy, Awareness raising, Influencing policy, and Changing public discourse.
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Ongoing
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Opportunity Grants, and Security Grants.
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Across eight decades, the Ford Foundation has invested in innovative ideas, visionary individuals, and frontline institutions advancing human dignity around the world. Learn more about our work in civil rights, education, arts and culture, human rights, poverty reduction and urban development and see some of our key foundation milestones below.
Target focus
LGBTQI, Women and girls, children and minority groups.
Funding Thematic Area:
Poverty and injustice, democratic values, human knowledge, creativity and achievement, LGBTQ issues.
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No specific deadline
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General grants.
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The International Trans Fund (ITF) is a participatory grantmaking fund made up of trans activists and donors. The mission of the ITF is to mobilize sustainable resources for strong, trans-led movements and collective action, and to address and eliminate funding gaps impacting trans groups across the globe.
Target focus
Trans
Funding Thematic Area:
Trans-led groups working on a range of issues
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General grants
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Annual calls.
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AmplifyChange is a fund that supports civil society organisations (CSOs) who advocate for improved sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Their vision is to secure full attainment of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. We believe this can only be achieved through building a stronger civil society, with diverse organisations who are resilient and work together to form movements for change.
Target focus
Wormxn, Girls, LBQ and Minorities group.
Funding Thematic Area:
GBV, LGBTQI, FGM/C.
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Opportunity grants, Strengthening grants, Network grants, Strategic grants
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Annually
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Target focus
Global
Funding Thematic Area:
LGBTQ human rights, advocacy, research, capacity building.
Call years
Varies by fund or fellowship
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COVID-19 Global LGBTIQ Emergency Fund, OutRight Religion Fellowship, OutRight UN Program Fellowship
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ISDAO is an activist-led fund, which means that we consider equitable representation of the LGBTQ community in the fund’s decision-making processes to be essential to ensure sensitivity, transparency and accountability for the human and financial resources entrusted to us.
Target focus
LGBTQI and Key Population Groups
Funding Thematic Area:
KP rights, LGBTQI rights, well-being, and social justice
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Annual calls
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Regional Grant, Asanka Grant, Special Grant
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The Nigeria Solidarity Support Fund is led by a team of Nigerians working tirelessly to help bring a better life to all Nigerians. Together, with dedicated stakeholders, multilateral organizations, grass-root NGOs, and local partner organizations, we are raising funds and initiating interventions to ensure our children, families, and vulnerable groups across Nigeria recover from the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Target focus
General pubic
Funding Thematic Area:
COVID-19 response, health, education, economic recovery, social inclusion
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Annually
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NSSF Grants
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The Other Foundation is an African trust that advances equality and freedom in southern Africa with a particular focus on sexual orientation and gender identity. It gathers support to defend and advance the human rights and social inclusion of homosexual and bisexual women and men, as well as transgender and intersex people in southern Africa – and it gives support to groups in a smart way that enables them to work effectively for lasting change, recognizing the particular dynamics of race, poverty and inequality, sex, national origin, heritage, and politics in our part of the world. It does this by working both as a fundraiser and a grant maker.
Target focus
LGBTQI+
Funding Thematic Area:
Human rights and social inclusion
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Daisy grants, Honey Bee grants, Fish Eagle grants, Umbrella Tree grant.
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General grants, Research Grant and Grant Allocation.
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Hivos is an international development organization guided by humanist values. Together with citizens and their organizations, we aim to contribute towards just, inclusive and life sustaining societies where people have equal access to opportunities, rights and resources.
Target focus
LGBTQI, Women and girls
Funding Thematic Area:
Climate justice, civic rights in digital age, gender equality, diveristy and inclusion
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Daisy grants, Honey Bee grants, Fish Eagle grants, Umbrella Tree grant.
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Flexible Funding
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UAF-Africa is a feminist, Pan-African, rapid response fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists and women human rights defenders and their formations as an act of solidarity. We are a part of the ecosystem of feminist and womn’s movements in Africa and globally. In character, we are bold and courageous, proactive and responsive, creative and rigorous, curious, alert and agile, imaginative and grounded, consistent and reliable. As a rapid response fund, we are ready, alert and agile so that we can respond and prioritise the urgent needs of womn in various movements. We are a part of the ecosystem of feminist and womn’s movements in Africa and globally. In character, we are bold and courageous, proactive and responsive, creative and rigorous, curious, alert and agile, imaginative and grounded, consistent and reliable.
Target focus
LGBTQI, Women and girls
Funding Thematic Area:
Rapid Response Fund
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Everytime
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Flexible Funding
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FRIDA provides young feminist organizers with the resources they need to amplify their voices and bring attention to the social justice issues they care about. We enable the support, flexibility and networks to sustain young feminist visions.
Target focus
LGBTQI+
Funding Thematic Area:
Socio-economic Empowerment and SRHR
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Annually
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Flexible Funding
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Red Umbrella Fund is the first and only global fund dedicated to supporting the rights of sex workers. It was established in 2012 to respond to the lack of funding available for sex workers’ rights organising. In line with its core values of autonomy and ownership, Red Umbrella Fund is a sex worker-led, participatory fund.
Target focus
Sex worker
Funding Thematic Area:
Human rights, social justice, equality, Advocacy, SRHR
Call years
Annually
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Core and Project Funding
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Mama Cash was conceived around a kitchen table in Amsterdam in 1983. Since then, we have grown from a group of five feminist activists into an international fund that supports women’s, girls’, trans and intersex people’s movements around the world.
Target focus
LBQ, intersex, trans and Sex worker
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Annually
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Core and Project Funding
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Decriminalize Sex Work is a national organization pursuing a state-by-state strategy to end the prohibition of consensual adult prostitution in the United States. We work with local organizations, advocates, and lobbyists to build community support and convince legislators to stop prostitution-related arrests. Evidence shows that decriminalizing sex work will help end human trafficking, improve public health, and promote community safety.
Target focus
Sex worker
Funding Thematic Area:
Safety and Security, Health and Human Trafficking
Call years
Annually
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Core and Project Funding
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The Robert Carr Fund is the world’s leading international fund focused on funding regional and global networks led by and involving and serving inadequately served populations (ISPs).
Target focus
LGBTQI, Sex workers, PWUID
Funding Thematic Area:
Human Rights, HIV, Capacty building and SRHR
Call years
Annually
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Core and Project Funding
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Access Now defends and extends the digital rights of people and communities at risk. By combining direct technical support, strategic advocacy, grassroots grantmaking, and convenings such as RightsCon, we fight for human rights in the digital age.
Target focus
Women, LGBTQI+ people, and gender nonconforming people
Funding Thematic Area:
Digital Right
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Annually
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Core and Project Funding
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We’re betting big on a new strategy that liberates our movements from unsustainable models of the past—inspired by feminists, managed by feminists, with and for feminist movements worldwide.
Target focus
Women, girls, and Trans people
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Annually
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Core and Project Funding
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Voice is an innovative grant facility to support rightsholders and groups facing marginalisation or discrimination in their efforts to exert influence in accessing productive and social services and political participation. Voice operates in a context where civic space and power is shifting at a fast pace, and often closing rather than opening. Where the narrative is negative and underlining marginalisation and vulnerability, rather than the dreams and successful steps made towards a better, more inclusive world. Voice is implemented in ten countries in Africa and Asia.
Target focus
LGBTQI, Key Population other groups
Funding Thematic Area:
Empowerment grant, Influencing grant, Innovate and Learn grant, Sudden Opportunity grant
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Annually
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Core and Project Funding
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The Power of Pride alliance brings together COC, Pan African ILGA and ILGA Asia in a five-year partnership (2021-2025) with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the goal of working towards diverse and inclusive societies in which LGBTI are able to participate to their full potential. Power of Pride is based on strengthening LGBTI communities and civil society and engaging in LGBTI lobbying and advocacy for laws and policies respectful of sexual and gender diversity. Power of Pride focuses on the African and Asian regions with direct grant-making to partners in 22 countries.
Target focus
LGBTQI
Funding Thematic Area:
Empowerment grant, Influencing grant, Innovate and Learn grant, Sudden Opportunity grant
Call years
Annually
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Core and Project Funding
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Aidsfonds – Soa Aids Nederland is a Dutch non-profit organisation that also works internationally. Working with communities as equals is at the heart of all our work. We conduct research and ensure that HIV, AIDS and STIs remain high on the agenda worldwide. Together we are working to find a cure for HIV.
Target focus
Children, LGBT people, People living with HIV, People who use drugs, Sex workers, Women, Young people
Funding Thematic Area:
HIV funding, Human rigts
Call years
Annually
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Core and Project Funding
