By Sara Ferree | Director of Philanthropic Partnerships
Thank you for your generous investment in locally-led organizing by women’s funds and young women and girl leaders. The run-up to the International Day of the Girl Child was a busy time for us at Global Fund for Women. We’re excited to share updates about our new adolescent girls’ initiative and Adolescent Girls Advisory Council alongside activities by Global Fund for Women’s partners under the CHIME FOR CHANGE initiative—HER Fund in Hong Kong, ELAS Fund in Brazil, and Fondo Semillas in Brazil—to energize intergenerational coalitions in feminist movements.
Global Fund for Women believes that as leaders of the next generation, young women and girls are key to achieving systemic transformation that will build a world grounded in justice, fairness, and equity. On the International Day of the Girl Child this year, we launched an important new Council as part of Global Fund for Women’s Adolescent Girls Initiative—the Adolescent Girls Advisory Council. An exciting opportunity for youth to engage in participatory grantmaking, the Council of nine adolescent girls will play a critical role in helping to find, fund, nurture, and amplify the leadership, feminist activism, and movement building of adolescent girl-led groups (including those who identify as cis, transgender, and gender nonconforming). We’re accepting applications for the Council until November 25, 2019 from young leaders located in the Global South and the Global East.
Our partners under Gucci’s CHIME FOR CHANGE initiative have been busy over the last three months! HER Fund continues to support efforts to counter dating violence among secondary school girls in Hong Kong and hosted a fundraising luncheon on International Day of the Girl Child to raise awareness around the voices of girls and young women. Semillas just completed its first learning workshop offered by Global Fund for Women to co-design and pilot a Salesforce package that will make its fundraising, grantmaking, and monitoring and evaluation functions more efficient—thereby increasing its capacity for feminist impact. ELAS Fund convened 120 women—including from Brazil and other Latin American countries—for “Women in Movement” dialogues that aimed to strengthen global partnerships and collective actions for the rights of women and girls.
The current global moment calls for new models that disrupt generational silos and create mechanisms for intergenerational collaborations so that movements can remain dynamic and thriving. That is why Global Fund for Women invests in the leadership of young women and girls—so that their collective voices, innovation, and power can fuel the leadership pipeline of movements for gender justice globally. We are uplifted by your partnership and belief in our work.
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