Who Can Apply?

This grant prioritises organising and leadership located in the Larger Majority World. This definition encompasses both geography and politics, addressing historic resource disparities, exploitation, and colonialism that leave groups outside the Global North (Western Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand) significantly under-resourced.

Eligible Regions and Communities include:

• Africa: West, Central, East, and Southern Africa
• Asia: Southeast, South, and East Asia
• WANA: West Asia and North Africa, and across Arabic-speaking countries
• Latin America
• The Caribbean
• Pacific Islands
• Eastern Europe & Central Asia
• Indigenous and migrant communities based anywhere in the world

PLEASE NOTE: Although we have tried to be specific in establishing these criteria to make things as clear as possible, if you believe (based on the politics identified here and our stated goals) that your initiative/collective/group/organisation should be eligible, but you do not feel included by these criteria, we invite you to apply anyway, and let us know in the “additional comments” section your reasons for thinking so.

Ways of organising supported

• Focus: Feminist tech must be central to your activism, advocacy, or approach to change.
• Legal Status: We welcome legally registered, formally organised, unregistered groups, and online-only initiatives (e.g., web projects).
• Stage of Growth: New, emerging, established, or experienced—whatever stage you are at in your organising lifecycle.
• Structure: Feminist-focused or women-led programmes within larger human rights or digital rights organisations are eligible.
• Minimum Size: At least two people—we believe organising is powered by connection and collaboration.
• Leadership: Led by the communities whose realities and priorities you aim to meet or represent.
• Communities Served: Your work must comprise or connect with communities historically subjected to discrimination, oppression, exploitation, or exclusion (e.g., Indigenous, women, Afro-descendant, migrant, refugee, LBTQI+, young people, people with disabilities, rural women, sex workers). If your activism reaches historically marginalised communities in your context, we encourage you to apply.

What This Grant Does Not Support

• Commercial Tech Providers: For-profit developers or app creators serving non-profits without a direct connection to movement organising. We prioritise social justice agendas over commercial service provision.
• Global North-Based Groups: Initiatives based in the Global North, unless led by Indigenous or migrant communities.
• Disconnected Leadership: Projects led by the Global North without direct peer partnership or shared leadership with migrant or indigenous communities. We aim to amplify leadership from the Larger Majority World.
• Isolated Tech Initiatives: Developers or service providers without direct collaboration with social justice, women’s rights, or feminist movements. Our approach is rooted in movement organising.
• Cis-Men Led Organising: Feminist tech initiatives led by cis-gender, heterosexual men. Our mission is to strengthen the leadership of women understood in all of their diversity (trans, cis, non-binary, young, older, disabled, etc.) to address the disparity where women are most affected by technology yet least represented in shaping solutions.
• Political or Religious Dependence: Groups structurally dependent on political parties, government agencies, or religious institutions.
• Individual Applications: We fund collective organising and activism, which we understand to be powered by connection and collaboration.
• Detached Academic Research: Research not directly connected to movements or led by the communities it aims to serve.