Solidarity Fund

What is the Solidarity Fund?

The Solidarity Fund is one of Mama Cash's grantmaking funds. From the design to the selection process, it was created in its entirety by women’s funds, for women’s funds.

Mama Cash knows first-hand that women’s funds are supporting some of the most innovative, courageous and transformative feminist movements around the world. They are a key part of the infrastructure needed for feminist movements to hold the line, advance their agendas and resist attacks and backlash.

Launched in early 2020, the Solidarity Fund is a special pot of funding that has been allocated to support the needs of women’s funds. It is an addition to Mama Cash’s long-term core grants support for women’s funds, and does not replace any of our existing funding.

In a spirit of radical trust and solidarity, the fund incorporates participatory grantmaking as a more equitable, just, transparent and accountable form of grantmaking. This approach also seeks to empower women’s funds to make the decisions that are best for our peers and that will strengthen the feminist funding ecosystem.

Mama Cash’s priorities and focus Mama Cash has the flexibility to fund anywhere in the world. Even though contexts are significantly different, we found that concerns of some specific groups of women, girls, trans people and intersex people tend to be under-addressed and/or contested in most societies (and social movements). So these groups are often found among our grantees.

In 2022, we are especially interested in Letters of Interest from groups and organisations that fit the following priorities:

Working on Environmental Justice and Economic Justice. In addition - Mama Cash prioritises groups or initiatives that have an annual budget below 200.000 euros. Mama Cash does not prioritise providing financial support to larger groups. As a result, among our grantee-partners in the thematic portfolios you will find only very few groups that have annual budgets over 200.000 euros.