Prioritizing a Dignified Life, Collective Care and the Sustainability of Movements: The Case of Fondo Semillas for Updating Grant Amounts
By: Diana Medina, Tania Turner & Alma Magaña AbstractThis article will contribute to the construction of knowledge about philanthropy from a feministperspective, proposing the incorporation of human practices centered on solidarity and sustaininglife in its implementation. To this end, we use the case of Fondo Semillas’ analytical process,developed in 2021, to update the amounts of […]
Support Feminist movements in Sudan Now!
#StopTheWar #FundWomensFunds Over the last four months, Sudan has been thrown into crisis. The rise of violence against the civilian population across the country keeps worsening the already existent humanitarian and displacement catastrophe. To date, over 2.5 million people – including women, girls and minority groups and their communities – have been displaced inside and […]
$1.2 Billion reasons to dance with us!
Put on your dancing shoes! We’ve crossed the billion mark this year, mobilizing $1.2 billion for feminists in the last decade. From 2011 to 2021, Prospera International Network of Women’s Funds (INWF)’s 40 members collectively mobilized over $1.2 billion dollars to support women’s and feminist movements worldwide. This substantial transfer of resources towards feminist movements […]
Sabbatical reflections
Sabbatical reflections by Alexandra Garita I started my sabbatical reading “Rest is Resistance” by Tricia Hersey. This book gave me permission to truly tune out, let go, and replenish. I had not realized how tired I had become in twenty years of fighting for human rights, bodily autonomy, and gender justice without stopping. First as an […]
Feminist Funding In Practice: 5 Year Trends
From 2016 to 2020,Prospera tripled in revenue! The network significantly increased its grantmaking, bringing flexible, predictable and long-lasting funding to women, girls, trans, non-binary and intersex movements mainly located in the Global South and East. Read the Newsletter
Prospera INWFs network response to the war in Ukraine
Art by: abigail cárdenas Download here Almost a year after the steep escalation of the war in Ukraine, Natalka Karbowska and Olesia Bondar from the Ukrainian Women’s Fund (UWF) traveled to Warsaw, in order to join the first in-person meeting since 2019 of Prospera’s European funds. As they left Kyiv Russian missiles and “suicide drones” […]
2022: A year to pause, connect and dream big!
2022: A year to pause, connect and dream big! We are a network nurturing transformation by resourcing movements. We are Prospera. 2022 was a unique year for Prospera. In a world that never stops, what does it mean to take a year to pause, reflect, think and -from there- move forward? That is what the […]
Prospera INWF’s XII Biennial: Funding Feminist Futures
December 3rd marked the inauguration of Prospera’s XII Biennial held in Oaxaca City, Mexico. This day was devoted to shaping feminist funding futures, an urgent need to respond to the current and future global crises that affect humanity and our planet, and the overall funding landscape for women’s, girls’, non-binary, trans, and intersex communities for […]
Prospera INWF’s XII Biennial: Weaving a Feminist Funding Movement
[Eng] What does it mean to pause in a system that is constantly pushing society to do more because time is money? In a system that forces humans to never stop – never stop producing, never stop working, never stop doing. What does it mean to take a year to stop, reflect, think and from […]
War is never the answer!
[Eng/Esp/Fr/Ptg] While COVID-19 continues to highlight vaccine inequalities across the world, particularly in Africa, the humanitarian situations in Ukraine and Afghanistan have worsened. Prospera members have continued convening to collectively strategize on how best to support women, girls, trans people, and other vulnerable groups with fast-moving, politically-stirred dynamics, and shifts. The network’s calls to action […]