Applications Invited for ONSIDE Fund: Funding New Solutions to Advance Gender Justice in Sports

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About the Organization:

Women Win is the global leader in girls’ and women’s empowerment through sport. They leverage the power of play to help adolescent girls and young women build leadership skills and become better equipped to exercise their rights. At Women Win, they believe in a future where every woman and girl exercises her rights.

The ONSIDE Fund is a partnership between women’s funds and sport for development organisations to support feminist organising and hyper local solutions that place girls and women at the centre of change. The fund is administered by Women Win, a global multi-purpose fund supporting girls and women who are building powerful movements to exercise their rights.

ONSIDE Fund: Funding New Solutions to Advance Gender Justice in Sports

The ONSIDE Fund is looking to support feminist organising and hyper local solutions. Eligible groups will be asked to describe how their work contributes to the vision and mission of ONSIDE.

Groups will access unrestricted funds to support girls and women* in exercising their right to play, thus advancing gender justice in sport at all levels, from the grassroots to the global.

ONSIDE Principles

• They support feminist organising
• They believe that girls and women* taking action in their communities are at the centre of change
• They commit to participatory and equitable approaches to decision-making, re-granting and learning

Who will ONSIDE fund?

• Grassroots, community-based organisations, collectives, and groups led by girls and women and governed by feminist principles.
• Applying organisations and collectives do not need to be registered and must have an operating budget of less than 150.000 USD.

Priority will be given to -

• Groups clearly led by girls and young women under the age of 30;
• Groups that demonstrate participatory models including meaningful leadership roles and active decision-making functions for girls and young women;
• Groups serving more marginalised communities including indigenous girls, trans girls

Grant:

• The ONSIDE Fund will provide unrestricted re-grants of up to $10,000 USD to groups that meet the eligibility criteria.
• Besides financial support, the ONSIDE Fund, as a continual initiative, is committed to creating a long-term community-engagement platform. Through a digital learning hub, the ONSIDE Fund will create dialogue spaces for re-grantees to mobilize a global community that shares learnings, challenges, and successes. The participation of organizations in this learning hub will not be limited to their re-grant period.

For how long?

• ONSIDE’s mission is to drive a sustained feminist movement that re-imagines and transforms sport. They understand that such transformative work takes time.
• The ONSIDE Fund aspires to establish a renewal process for the first cohort of re-grantees, but not all groups supported will automatically secure additional investment in future rounds. If additional resources are available, they will be able to participate in a renewal process to continue advancing gender justice in sport.

Deadline: 12 October, 2020 11:59 pm (CEST)

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