Global Foundations

These grant-making organisations have broad global reach, and focus on a variety of issues related to child marriage and the empowerment of women and girls. They vary in their requirements and application processes, so read their guidelines carefully before applying.

• AmplifyChange. Focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
• HIVOS. Focus on freedom and accountability, women’s empowerment, sustainable food, sexual rights and diversity, and renewable energy.
• Mama Cash. Focus on women’s groups using a rights-based approach.
• National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Focus on strengthening democracy.
• Oak Foundation. Focus on global, social and environmental concerns.
• With and For Girls. Focus on girl-led and girl-centred groups and organisations with flexible funding and opportunities for collaboration, mentorship, accompaniment and profile raising.
• The Global Fund for Children. Focus on grassroots organisations working on children’s rights.
• The Global Fund for Women. Focus on women’s rights.
• The Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund (VGIF). Focus on grassroots projects that empower women and girls in developing countries.
• The Young Feminist Fund (FRIDA). Focus on feminist organisers and social justice issues.
• Urgent Action for Women’s Human Rights. Focus on women and transgender human rights defenders at critical moments when they could make gains or face threats.
• The Fund for Global Human Rights. Focus on grassroots human rights activism, including resistance to restrictions, children’s and youth rights, Indigenous communities’ rights, LGBTQ rights, migrants’ rights and women’s rights.
• Global Fund for Community Foundations. Focus on community philanthropy organisations and progressive social change.
• The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Focus on accelerating the end to these epidemics by supporting programmes run by local experts.
• The Global Innovation Fund. Focus on innovations with strong potential for improving the lives of the world’s most marginalised people at a large scale.
• MADRE. Focus on gender violence, climate justice and just peace by funding grassroots women's organisations in communities that war or disaster have made difficult to fund and challenging to reach.
• The Wallace Global Fund. Focus on democracy, rights and the environment, including work to challenge corporate power, promote media freedom and advance women’s human rights and empowerment.
• Open Society Foundations. Focus on promoting justice, transparency and open debate, engaging in human rights litigation and impact investing.
• Equality Fund. Focus on women’s rights organisations and feminist movements in Canada and around the world.
• Women Win. Focus on girls’ rights through sports and women’s economic resilience through collaborations between women’s/rights organisations and companies.