Digital Skills Fund

The World Wide Web Foundation's Equals Digital Skills Fund is "a partnership between the World Wide Web Foundation, the EQUALS Global Partnership, and Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development" that will provide financial resources to local initiatives providing gender-sensitive skills training across countries in the Global South. 

Grants ranging from €5,000- €15,000 will be awarded to existing initiatives, housed within a registered organization or entity, to scale up their digital skills programs and trainings, and to work to ensure a lasting impact beyond the lifecycle of the grant and the initiative.

Global Fund for Women

This fund offers "flexible feminist funding and support to fuel collective action and create meaningful change that will last beyond our lifetimes."

Criteria to qualify for a grant includes groups that are:

• Outside of the United States
• Use an intersectional feminist analysis
• Embrace collective action
• Be governed, directed, and/or led by historically marginalized communities

Inter-American Foundation

The Inter-American Foundation "invests in community-led development projects across Latin America and the Caribbean. We partner with local organizations that identify innovative, yet viable solutions to local development challenges—particularly in disadvantaged or excluded communities." Criteria include:

• Community-led projects submitted by local and grassroots organizations that are based in independent countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Organizations with a history of collaboration that are capable of effectively using grant funds.

The foundation funds requests for amounts between US $25,000 and $400,000.

Mama Cash

"Mama Cash supports women, girls and trans people and intersex people who fight for their rights. Activists who tirelessly and fearlessly make their voices heard. Who criticize oppressive or restrictive norms and practices, and lobby for fair laws. Who demand their political and economic rights, and insist on bodily autonomy."

Foundation for a Just Society

"Foundation for a Just Society advances the rights of women, girls, and LGBTQI people and promotes gender and racial justice by ensuring those most affected by injustice have the resources they need to cultivate the leadership and solutions that transform our world."

Segal Family Foundation

Funding primarily in Africa for organizations with budget ranges from $50,000 to $500,000. They also offer a Social Impact Incubator and Africa Visionary Fellowship. Apply here to start the process.

Astrea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

"Astraea’s International Fund supports groups, projects and organizations led by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) communities working for progressive social change and addressing oppression based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity.

While our International Fund grants range from $7,000 – $20,000, our average grant size is $10,000. Organizations can apply for general support or project support."

Roddenberry Foundation

Includes the following awards for eligible candidates:

• The Roddenberry Prize is described as "a $1 Million global competition to crowdsource bold solutions to issues that demand an audacious, far-reaching, and scalable response. The Prize is our response to the urgency and complexity of the issues we all face and the growing and exponential impact our actions have on each other and our planet."
• The Roddenberry Catalyst Fund is "awarded to early-stage ideas and projects that have the potential to radically reframe existing problems, surface untapped innovations, and disrupt how and by whom we make the world a better place."