Fundusz Feministyczny FemFund

FemFund is a Polish community-led feminist fund, created in the context of skyrocketing backlash against sexual and reproductive rights in 2018 as a bottom-up initiative of the collective of three feminists (Justyna Frydrych, Magdalena Pocheć & Marta Rawłuszko). The organisation emerged from the movement and is envisioned as a trust-based and participatory grantmaker.
Our priority is to focus on the edges of the mainstream movements and the most marginalized communities (women, LBTQ+ persons, migrants, people with disabilities, people of colour, and other). This intersectional lens is incorporated across all FemFund’s activities and programs. We put our priorities into practice through three different regranting programmes, capacity-building support, creating annual networking and learning spaces within the movements, and promoting local community-based philanthropy.
FemFund’s first main objective is to improve the flow of funds to the feminist activists in Poland so that they can self-organise, work in a stable way and enact change in their own communities – of disabled women, refugee women, rural women and girls, queer women and others. The second objective is to create networking spaces and build feminist community around problems of vulnerable women and girls. The third objective is to develop alternative ways of doing things, such as participatory grantmaking and feminist philanthropy, so that marginalized women and girls themselves can pool funds for mutual aid and have a say in how the money is spent. In our view, those are good leverages that empower the historically marginalized but also ensure money is spent effectively.