Posts by Nicole Crossley
Funding feminist movements to fight corruption
For the past 35+ years, Global Fund for Women has funded grassroots feminist movements combatting oppression in nearly every region of the world. And where there is oppression, there is corruption. In February 2022, Global Fund for Women convened an Advisory Group of eight feminist leaders to learn with us about corruption, its impact on marginalized women, and what a feminist response could be.
Read MoreShow me the Money: Feminist Stories on Shifting Power and Resources to Movements
As we approach the end of the first year of implementing the Feminist Accountability Framework, we offer this updated report with stories from over 110 feminist actors from Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Africa to amplify the often unheard voices of grassroots feminist organizations on the impact of funding to movements.
Read MoreLessons Learned in Shifting Power to Support Movements: Supporting Abortion Rights in West and Central Africa
What does it mean to shift power to movements? This case study follows participatory grantmaking with abortion rights movements in West and Central Africa, showing Global Fund for Women’s model at work.
Read More2023 YEAR IN GENDER JUSTICE
How did feminists show up in a year that careened from crisis to crisis? Gender justice movements, organizations, and activists came together in Turkey, Syria, Morocco, Afghanistan, Sudan, Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Mexico, Libya, and beyond as frontline responders, unpaid caregivers, and community mobilizers this year.
Read MoreGlobal Fund for Women Condemns Sexual Violence In all Its Forms—Everywhere It Happens
Global Fund for Women unequivocally denounces all forms of sexual and gender-based violence worldwide. We call for an end to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) everywhere, and that includes Israel and Palestine.
Read MorePeiYao Chen Announced as the New President & CEO of Global Fund for Women
Global Fund for Women is pleased to announce that PeiYao Chen will be our next President & CEO. PeiYao Chen currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Global Operations at Global Fund for Women, and will take over leadership as President & CEO from Latanya Mapp Frett beginning January 1, 2024.
Read MoreFeminist Leaders Call to #StopTheMassacre in Palestine
There must be an immediate ceasefire and an end to the genocide, collective punishment, and forcible transfer of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Read MoreAnnouncing a Leadership Transition at Global Fund for Women
Global Fund for Women’s President & CEO Latanya Mapp Frett will transition out of her role at Global Fund for Women to lead Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors as President & CEO. She will be with Global Fund for Women through January 2024.
Read MoreIntroducing the 2023 Adolescent Girls Advisory Council
Girls are experts of their own lives, and the best guides for Global Fund for Women’s grantmaking and strategic work for young people.
Read MoreWhat is the impact of the Generation Equality for Feminist Movements?
The Feminist Accountability Framework offers a new report with feedback from over 700 grassroots feminist organizations in the pilot countries where the Framework is being implemented — Kenya, Burkina Faso, Brazil, Guatemala, Cambodia, Fiji, Nepal, and India.
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