The Quiet Crisis Hitting Feminist Movements and How Women’s and Feminist Funds Are Rising to Meet It
At this critical moment for our movement, Prospera’s member funds are forging bold paths to protect grassroots power and advance systemic change. Their unwavering commitment to resourcing women’s, LGBTQI+, and feminist movements could be the difference between sustaining life-saving feminist action or watching decades of progress unravel. Feminist movements are facing an urgent and underreported […]
A Vision for the Future: Strengthening our Collective Power for Lasting Change
Dear friends and colleagues, It feels just like yesterday when six women’s funds came together with a dream of abundantly and sustainably resourcing feminist, women’s, and trans movements in the Global South and East. They rightly believed that collective action is essential to bringing feminist values to the center of resourcing and challenging traditional philanthropic […]
Newsletter September 2024: What is up in Prospera? Two large events and updates
PROSPERA’S XIII BIENNIAL: RISING TEMPERATURES, Dialogues on Feminist Funding for Climate Justice The global environmental challenges we face today underscore the urgent need for collective action. The overexploitation of natural resources, including oil, gas, and mining, an energy transition that is focused on the needs of the North, food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement of communities affected by […]
Leadership Announcement Prospera INWFF Welcomes Incoming Executive Director, Laila Alodaat
The Board of Directors of Prospera International Network of Women’s and Feminist Funds is pleased to announce Laila Alodaat as the newly appointed incoming Executive Director of Prospera. Having completed seven years in leadership of the Network, the current ED of Prospera, Alexandra Garita, encouraged the Board to initiate a thoughtful transition. With the support of Mission […]
Prospera INWF Data Highlights – 2021-2022
Prospera members are catalysts of change. With a steadfast commitment to long-term sustainability, our network supports feminist movements beyond grantmaking, by placing their local agendas and needs at the center of our work. This approach enables activists to focus on driving transformative change, rather than redirecting their efforts to fundraising. The following highlights, drawn from […]
Newsletter June 2024: Prospera Biennial: Rising Temperatures
A letter from our Executive Director,Alexandra Garita Dear friends and colleagues, I hope you all have been finding ways of cultivating your health, energies, and peace, in an increasingly dehumanizing and polarized world. May the remaining of this year continue to unveil new and exciting opportunities for our relentless pursuit of a more equitable and […]
See you in 2024: Prospera’s XIII Biennial & Gender and Climate Justice
Dear colleagues and friends, As this year comes to a close, we are grateful for being in community with all of you. Within the Prospera network, we are particularly proud of our exponential growth over the last decade, where we surpassed 1 Billion USD to women’s and feminist groups, activists, organizations, and movements for the period […]
Newsletter November 2023: At Prospera, no crisis is more important than others
As 2023 hastily unfolds, political and environmental crises continue to unfold in many corners of the world. At Prospera, no crisis is more important than others. From the armed conflicts in Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan, and Nagorno-Karabakh, the lives and integrity of women, girls, and trans, intersex, and non-binary people are every day more endangered. It […]
Prospera’s Strategic Framework
PROSPERA’S STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK In 2022, Prospera’s fund members alongside the network’s Board and secretariat team, dedicated a full year to collectively build our strategic framework for the next decade. Prospera’s strategic framework was devised to embody our collective power. It served not only as a profound strategic visioning process but also as an opportunity to […]
A Call to Action: Humanitarian Crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh and Further Steps to Support Women and Girls Affected by It
Dear Supporters and Friends, We find ourselves in a moment of great urgency and need, as we witness the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh. On September 19, Azerbaijani Armed Forces launched a wide-scale attack against Nagorno-Karabakh, also targeting civilian objects. This two-day-assault resulted in at least 200 casualties, 400 wounded (among civilian population – 10 […]