MADRE funds community-based women’s organizations to meet urgent needs and achieve their long-term goals. Our grants enable life-sustaining and community-changing interventions and are sometimes the sole source of financial support in the places where we work. These are communities that war or disaster have rendered difficult to fund and challenging to reach.
What We Fund – We fund local organizations, networks and groups that are “under the radar” of other international funders and large aid organizations. We focus our partnerships on women-led organizations that prioritize the leadership of young women and girls, Indigenous women, Afro-descendant women, LGBTIQ people, and people with disabilities.
- Direct Service – We provide grants that meet urgent needs, such as shelters for survivors of violence, health clinics, seed banks and water conservation projects.
- Convening and Movement Building – We support activists and organizations to exchange strategies and learning to strengthen movement work. The community organizing that we support not only fuels change at the local level but also builds a networked foundation for policy wins.
- Crisis Response for Human Rights Defenders – We fund emergency relocation and legal aid to organizations and activists under threat and requiring urgent assistance.
- Skills and Leadership Development – We fund training for organizations to acquire the skills and build leadership capacity to advocate for long-term social change.
- Advocacy and Policy Change – We work to overcome barriers to grassroots women’s participation in advocacy by funding training, stipends, travel, translation and child care. Our grants ensure that women have opportunities to represent themselves in policymaking spaces.
- In Kind Support – We deliver humanitarian aid – such as medicines, health supplies, wheelchairs and other basic necessities – to our partners in contexts where such items cannot be locally sourced.
If you are interested to partner with MADRE or you believe your organization could benefit from a MADRE grant, we are open to hearing from you. Please contact us at grants@madre.org with information about your work.
