We, the undersigned members of Prospera International Network ofWomen’s Funds, stand against all forms of discrimination and the particular ways in which anti Black racism around the world has continued to exacerbate multiple forms of historic oppression of Black lives. In the context ofCOVID-19, we witness how social injustices are being aggravated, how democracies are being eroded, and how multiple forms of brutality and violence are increasingly visible. As feminist funds supporting gender justice activism around the world, we recognize that the struggle for justice, and freedom to live in dignity, is global.
As an international feminist funder network, we affirm that there is no justice without racial justice. Dismantling patriarchy, white supremacy, other race based supremacies, imperialism, and colonialism around the globe are critical in achieving transformational change. This also means that we must disrupt unequal power structures in order to dismantle them, particularly within our own, and all, philanthropic organizations.
As part of the feminist funding ecosystem, we are both inspired and challenged by movements for Black Lives around the globe calling us to examine philanthropy’s origins, its power structures, and its continued role and privilege in perpetuating these. We join social movements everywhere demanding structural change to end racial exploitation, violence, discrimination, and supremacies.
As women’s funds resourcing activists, groups, and organizations in 173 countries, we commit to:
- Create intentional processes to examine and challenge our own power and privilege as individuals, organizations, and within our network, to confront our racial biases and practices so that we can be actively anti-racist and coherent with our values of justice.
- Continue our work to drive greater resources into the hands of girls, women, trans* and gender non-conforming people taking action within their contexts against all forms of racism, oppression, and discrimination around the globe calling for justice;
- Implement strategies for resource mobilization and allocation that are founded on anti-racism and that challenge systemic racist, imperialist, and supremacist power structures;
As a global network, a diversity of experiences have built our understanding of racial discrimination. We acknowledge there are many ways in which colonialism, racism, and racial supremacy manifest in different locations andare based on historical contexts. We have seen first-hand how movements and people power can ignite change against racism in every country in the world and we stand with Black peoples’ movements for justice everywhere. We call on all other funders in the ecosystem for gender equality and women’s human rights to:
•Listen to, take the lead from, and increase financial resources to support social movements currently working to disrupt, dismantle, and end racism and white and other supremacist practices.
•Drive more and be[er resources for the long term into the hands of girls, women, trans* and gender non-conforming people facing racial discrimination and organizations that are engaging in anti-racist struggles around the world.
•Work on our individual and collective relationships, to acknowledge and challenge the unequal power dynamics and situations of privilege that lead to dominant culture thinking and action; take actions to choose anti-racists practices and hold each other accountable for meeting them.
African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF)
Astraea – Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Apthapi -Jopueti – Fondo de Mujeres Bolivia
Bulgarian Fund for Women
Calala – Fondo de Mujeres- Spain
ELAS Fundo de Investimento Social- Brazil
Equality Fund- Canada
filia die frauenstibung- Germany
Fondo Alquimia- Chile
Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM)
Fondo de Mujeres del Sur- Argentina, Uruguay, & Paraguay
Fondo Lunaria Mujer- Colombia
Fondo Semillas- Mexico
Fonds Pour Les Femmes Congolaises (FFC)
FIMI – International Indigenous Women’s Forum
Global Fund for WomenHer Fund- Hong Kong
International Charitable Foundation “Ukrainian Women’s Fund”
Korea Foundation for Women – South Korea
Mama Cash
Mediterranean Women’s Fund
Mones – Mongolian Women’s Fund
Reconstruction Women’s Fund- Serbia
Taso Foundation- Georgia
TEWA- Nepal
Urgent Action Fund – Africa
Urgent Action Fund – Asia Pacific
Urgent Action Fund – Latin America and the Caribbean
Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights
Women First International Fund
Women’s Fund Armenia
Women’s Fund Asia
Women Fund Tanzania
Women Win
Xoese, the Francophone Women’s Fund