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 crisis. The two-year defunding wave estimated at $676 million combined with current funding cuts, has hit hard.
78% of our members have already been affected, with critical areas such as LGBTQI+ rights, sexual and reproductive health, and grassroots organizing being jeopardized, and rising legal, digital, and security threats putting feminist activists, especially the most marginalized, at even greater risk.
This is more than a financial blow, it is an attack on the infrastructure of anti-colonial, community-led, rights-based change that the feminist movement had spearheaded.
Prospera’s member funds are the financial backbone of feminist movements, delivering an essential lifeline to movements working at the frontlines of gender, social, and environmental justice.
As a Global South and East-led network, we are resolute in our commitment to meet this critical moment with urgency and clear-sightedness. Our members are responding with courage and creativity, designing innovative resourcing strategies, and finding new ways to keep vital initiatives alive.
We are confident that the movement will survive this crisis. Our main aim is for this survival to be through uprooting the reasons it came to be, rather than yielding to its force, and for this, we count on the transformative, critical, and radical power of the collective.
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