WomenStrong International | Unrestricted grants to women-led organizations

WomenStrong International provides unrestricted grants to women-led organizations working in their communities. WomenStrong is now actively seeking potential grantees that identify as local women-led organizations working in urban and peri-urban areas on climate and/or environmental justice-related issues and taking a gender-responsive approach.

They are passionate about investing in organizations with an entrepreneurial spirit that need support to validate or advance their early-stage, non-traditional ideas for tackling the greatest challenges facing women and girls.

They ask that grantee partners join the WomenStrong Learning Lab. The Learning Lab is a (mostly) virtual community that brings partners together to share, learn, and disseminate findings that can advance the evidence base for what works to improve the lives of women and girls.

In 2025, WomenStrong International will begin working with community-based, women-led organizations that are building movements, mobilizing local responses, and creating resilient, effective, and sustainable responses to climate-related crises in their communities and countries.

They are seeking to build a cohort of women-led organizations striving to raise awareness of and build movements around climate and environmental justice within their communities. These organizations will work to mobilize women, both as the people most affected by climate breakdown and environmental injustice, but also as the key drivers behind local actions to tackle them. Many will work at the intersections of gender and climate and tackle the same issues that current WomenStrong partners work on – reproductive health, girls’ education, women’s economic security, and preventing violence against women and girls – as these issues are not only exacerbated by the climate crisis, but because successful strategies for advancing climate and environmental justice require intersectional approaches.

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