Due to popular demand Urgent Action Fund has extended the deadline to apply to the Feminist Innovation Fund! The Feminist Innovation Fund aims to amplify the transformative work of women, trans, and gender diverse activists working at the intersection of gender and climate justice.

In line with our deep commitment to centering the leadership of intersectional feminist activists, and recognizing the disproportionate impact the current climate crisis has on women and gender diverse people, this Feminist Innovation Fund seeks to support grassroots movements led by women, trans, and gender diverse people from underrepresented communities in implementing innovative, frontline actions to address the root causes of the climate crisis in their local or regional context.

This fund is a special grantmaking initiative separate from our core rapid response funding and has been designed to meet the growing needs of frontline defenders by strengthening and amplifying their bold, innovative actions that feed into broader movement resiliency.

The following are examples of  possible actions that this funding can support: 

• Direct action - Community-led direct actions seeking systemic change
• Political education - Popular education, communications, consciousness/awareness-raising activities, and knowledge dissemination work 
• Movement resilience - Training, capacity building, holistic security (physical, psychological/mental health, digital, family support, etc) and peer learning activities that increase local groups’ ability to resist actors and factors that contribute to the climate crisis
• Collective care - Transformational practices and approaches to self and collective care –and protection –among women, trans, and gender diverse activists, their organizations, and movements. 
• Advocacy and alliance building -Efforts to mobilize and build alliances and to influence policy and practices at local, national, regional, or global levels
• New grassroots frameworks - Raising the visibility and uptake of new or lesser-known environmental and climate (ECJ) frameworks and concepts that build on the intersections of gender, racial justice, and climate justice
• Leadership - Leadership building focused on women, trans and gender diverse people,  youth, and/or those historically marginalized