The Feminist Fund celebrates its first birthday and is sharing some of the achievements they have made. — The Feminist Fund celebrates its first birthday and is sharing some of the achievements they have made. The Feminist Fund is the only organisation in Poland providing financial assistance exclusively to girls’, women’s, and feminist organisations. Our mini-grants are available to non-governmental organisations, but also to self-organised informal groups, particularly those operating in smaller locations, where women vulnerable to cross-discrimination and violence, may become decisionmakers. We…

How does a fund for participatory grant making with a community building process of activists working around systemic change structure… — The first Facilitation Group (FG) of FundAction (FA) was set up in May 2017 for the period of one year, and was nominated from the first individuals present at the first FA meetings in Seville, Spain (December 2016) and La Bergerie, Villarceaux, France (February 2017). This first FG worked together…

FundAction has a few donors. (Too few! Anyone who wants to support European activists, get in touch!) One of these, the Guerrilla… — FundAction has a few donors. (Too few! Anyone who wants to support European activists, get in touch!) One of these, the Guerrilla Foundation, recently gave us a €20k grant for 2019, with some feedback on our work in 2017/2018. We thought we’d share this feedback — plus initial responses from…

The facilitation group of the FundAction had an in person meeting on 23 October in Belgrade, Serbia. The meeting was hosted by one of the… — The facilitation group of the FundAction had an in person meeting on 23 October in Belgrade, Serbia. The meeting was hosted by one of the facilitation groups members, Iva Cucik, of the Ministry of space, and was held at the Magacin Collective cultural space- Besides participatory grant making, FundAction also…

If looking at social activism from the peripheries, one is often led to wonder how the social initiatives become a reality from the… — If looking at social activism from the peripheries, one is often led to wonder how the social initiatives become a reality from the inklings of ideas they have stemmed from, and after making seemingly grandiose claims such as ‘bringing about systemic change’, in fact begin to gradually emulate them. FundAction…

The results of the Renew grant are in. After receiving 41 proposals out of the 160 members of FundAction, the community reviewed by… — The results of the Renew grant are in. After receiving 41 proposals out of the 160 members of FundAction, the community reviewed by commenting and voting all the applications. Resulting of this process, eleven -it was supposed to be ten, but the tenth and the eleventh had the same number…

FundAction is about to launch a new round of grants: ‘Renew’ grants, intended to support systemic change. But what is ‘Systemic Change’? It… — FundAction is about to launch a new round of grants: ‘Renew’ grants, intended to support systemic change. But what is ‘Systemic Change’? It feels like a jargon term, something developed for ‘insiders’. But even within communities, a common understanding is not necessarily shared. Within FundAction’s Facilitation Group, we’ve been having…

The aim is to support new ideas from organisations that live our values and who are working towards systemic change. — The aim is to support new ideas from organisations that live our values and who are working towards systemic change.

How is peer-to-peer grant-making even possible? The facilitation group member Nico Haeringer has made a tutorial of our case. — How is peer-to-peer grant-making even possible? The facilitation group member Nico Haeringer has made a tutorial of our case.