July 2024 Impact Report
Our Power Together - Impact Report: Ten Years of Powering Gender Justice
Gender Funders CoLab celebrates its ten-year anniversary in 2024 and this report looks back on our genesis and reflects on what the CoLab community has achieved together over the past decade.
It tells the story of how our community of funders have collaborated and organized to resource feminist movements to advance gender justice globally - demonstrating our power together.
April 2023 Impact Report
Mapping of the historical and emerging field of support and organising groups for funding feminist movements in the Global South
Gender Funders CoLab commissioned Shake the Table to provide a topline analysis of funding to gender equality, key drivers of new funders to the space and an analysis of key network organisations bringing together funders of gender equality to provide space for learning, coordination and identify opportunities for joint funding, influencing or advocacy.
September 2023 Impact Report
Women ́s Funds and Private Foundations Community Building initiative: Building Financial Resilience - Report and Reflections
Gender Funders CoLab, in partnership with Prospera, International Network of Women’s Funds, conceptualized and co-created a Community Building Initiative to bring private funders and women’s funds together in conversation about creating financial resilience for women’s funds and other feminist organizations.
March 2019 Impact Report
Movement Building & Philanthropy: Learning from Grantees’ Priorities & Recommendations for Funders
Women’s rights and feminist movements are at the forefront of social change in every region around the world. Yet the ways in which they organize – sometimes outside of formal institutions, often across issues and regions, and always in response to their specific contexts – is rarely matched by typical philanthropic grants.
January 2023 Impact Report
A Feminist Approach to Common Applications & Reports: Lessons from the Gender Funders CoLab
Over several years, Gender Funders CoLab and Women´s Funds have co-created a set of common application and reporting forms to jointly pilot the use of these forms.
This initiative was in response to current practices that have not served the field well. Applicants and grantees have reported that these processes can be tiresome, funder-centric, a waste of time and money, and overly bureaucratic.