Gender Equality & Women Empowerment: May 2025 Funding Opportunities
Includes opportunities for women's cooperatives, organizations working on SRHR and GBV.
The grants are organized into three categories:
Open Calls: Current grant and opportunities with a deadline. Grants are listed by closing date.
Rolling Applications: current grant and opportunities with rolling applications (but it’s still best to submit as early as possible).
Long term planning: Grants that have closed their current rounds, but are expected to open new windows.
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Open Calls:
Hack Everything, Fondo Lunaria. *Closing soon!*
Fondo Lunaria is a feminist fund that mobilizes financial resources to dignify and strengthen the collective processes of diverse women and young trans people working to defend, demand, and enjoy their rights. They seek to promote and protect a democratic and inclusive digital space by eradicating technology-enabled gender-based violence (TEGBV) affecting women, girls, and people of color in the region.
Geographies: Colombia.
Who can apply: All groups or organizations of young, feminist, grassroots, rural, Afro-Colombian, Indigenous, Roma, urban, or functionally diverse women and trans people (aged 16-29) working for the rights of women and trans people from any region in Colombia are invited to participate. All proposals must be coordinated and led by young women and/or trans people (ages 16-29) and may be targeted at any population.
Funding amount: Each proposal, upon funding, must have a budget of 20 billion Colombian pesos, to be implemented within a maximum of six months during 2025, following its approval. This call will support 25 initiatives from organizations and/or collectives (with or without legal status) of women and/or young trans people from across the country.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: TEGBV, digital violence.
Deadline: May 2, 2025.
Women's Mental Health, AÉSIO Foundation. *Closing soon!*
The objective of our call for projects is to support initiatives that meet the specific needs of adolescent girls and/or women affected by one or more mental health disorders : exclusively female, or whose prevalence is significantly higher among women, or resulting from trauma or situations that mainly affect women. These projects must offer free multidisciplinary support specifically designed to improve the mental health of adolescent girls and/or women.
Geographies: France.
Who can apply: French organizations.
Funding amount: A total of EUR €900,000 is available and will be split between 2-10 winners.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Gender, mental health.
Deadline: May 7, 205.
Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children, Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV), European Commission. *Closing soon!*
This call supports the following priorities: 1. Large-scale and long-term actions on tackling gender-based violence, with regranting (giving financial support to third party CSOs), 2. Targeted actions for the protection of and support for victims and survivors of gender-based violence and domestic violence (such as setting up one-stop shops, or coordinated specialist support centers, conducting training, 3. Targeted actions for the prevention of gender-based violence, including cyber violence, and 4. Targeted actions making integrated child protection systems work in practice. Activities that can be funded include: awareness-raising, capacity building and training for professionals and relevant stakeholders, design and implementation of strategies, protocols, development of transferable working methods and tools, coordination of platforms and groups; design of services and measures improving access to victim support services and development of guidelines and manuals for these support services • development of resources, toolkits and manuals to provide practical guidance for specialized support services; analytical activities, such as research, best practices, and the creation and implementation of tools or data bases/data collection strategies and systems.
Geographies: CERV participating countries in Europe.
Who can apply: Lead applicant must be non-profit. Organizations which are profit oriented cannot submit applications as lead applicants, but only in partnership with public entities, private non-profit organizations, or international organizations.
Funding amount: Grants range €100,000 - € 3million Total budget available €23 million.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Gender, GBV, child protection.
Deadline: May 7, 2025.
Fem Tech Innovation for Women and Girls' health, Well-Being and Participation, The UNICEF Venture Fund. *Closing soon!*
Now accepting applications from fem tech start-ups developing cutting edge tech solutions improving access to quality health care and services and ensuring socio-economic participation of women and girls. Specifically they are seeking early-stage, for-profit startups that use frontier technologies in three key areas; 1. Improve health outcomes for women and girls (including innovations such as digital health solutions for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, AI-driven or data-powered platforms for maternal, reproductive, and adolescent health, and on-demand referral services for access to healthcare and culturally relevant information). 2. Address unique challenges faced by women and girls (including closing the gender data gap to drive inclusive decision-making, improving accessibility of platforms for underserved communities, including persons with disabilities, and designing solutions that address gender-specific challenges in different cultural and economic contexts). 3. Empower women and girls socially and economically (including expanding financial inclusion and access to economic opportunities, enabling safe access to education, training, and skill-building, and supporting agency, decision-making power, and workforce participation.
Geographies: UNICEF program countries.
Who can apply: Start-ups in LMICs developing Open Source technology. Women-led startups and young founders (under the age of 35) are strongly encouraged to apply.
Funding amount: Up to $100,000 in equity-free funding.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Gender, health, economic participation, access to essential services for women and girls.
Deadline: May 8, 2025. Information session will be held on April 15, 2025.
WE-RISE 1st Open Call, WE-RISE. *Closing soon!*
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