Past Grant Partners
Since our inception in 2006, we have worked with over 75 women-led organizations in more than 18 different countries.
What they all had in common was that they were grassroots groups led by and for women making a significant impact to women and girls in their communities by telling US what THEY need to impact their communities.
While our focus has sharpened and our grant processes and policies have evolved, we have always remined true to our purpose and the tenet that those we serve are the experts. We are fortunate and honored to be able to support and ignite their work.
They Stand Up. Step Forward. Use Their Voices.
Collectively, they are changing the world.
Past Grant Partners
ASODIGUA (Asociación Para el Desarrollo Integral de Guatemala Maya)
ASODIGUA is committed to strengthening the comprehensive development of the rural Mayan indigenous communities, and eradicating extreme poverty in which they live. They focus on education as a fundamental pillar in changing mindsets and attitudes, generating positive practices that favor full development of indigenous women.
Sololá, Guatemala
www.asodigua.wordpress.com
ASOGEN (Asociación Generando)
ASOGEN is an association of women, which creates and facilitates spaces for citizen participation, youth leadership, political analysis, defense and empowerment of their human rights and also promotes alternatives for their integral and sustainable development with equality, gender equity, and intercultural interaction to affect the lives of Guatemalan women, especially women survivors of violence in three departments comprised largely of indigenous women.
Chimaltenango, Guatemala
http://asogen.org
BYP100 EDUCATION FUND
BYP100 is a women-led, activist member-based organization of Black 18-35 year olds, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. They do this through building a collective focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy and education using a Black queer feminist lens. They run campaigns using on the ground and digital tactics toward the goal of ending the criminalization of Black youth, racial profiling, and police brutality. We are supporting them with general operating funds.
Chicago, IL
https://www.byp100.org
BADAEL
Badael fosters transformative justice as the foundation for real and sustainable peace in Syria, by supporting organic civil society development and promoting discourses and narratives within and around the Syrian context that are rights-based, pluralistic, inclusive and that facilitate holistic truth and understanding. Badael is a growing NGO with a large vision and several ongoing programmes and research projects encompassing peacebuilding, conflict transformation, civil society, and women’s empowerment/rights. We are supporting them with general operating funds.badael.org
CLASSICAL UPRISING
Classical Uprising offers a bold rethinking of the classical music experience through immersive events, performances, and educational programs. Formed in 2020 as a merger between Oratorio Chorale and Portland Bach Experience, Classical Uprising is committed to community development, creative expression, inclusivity, lifelong learning, and artistic excellence.https://www.classicaluprising.org/
Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM)
FCAM supports self-organized women’s organizations and grassroots groups that defend and promote women’s rights in Central America, helping these groups become financially, politically, physically and emotionally sustainable.
Managua, Nicaragua
www.fcmujeres.org
FREEDOM LODGE
For the healing and wellness of all indigenous people; Freedom Lodge and The Black Hills Historical Trauma Research & Recovery Center has changed the conversation about health, healing and recovery in South Dakota and across Indian Country. We believe that each of us has a role to play in the health of tribal nations and Mother Earth. Each of us has wisdom and a contribution to make through a deep remembering of who we are.
South Dakota
https://freedomlodge.org/
GRASSY NARROWS
The focus of the Grassy Narrows Women’s Drum Group is to bring awareness to local communities, as well as to the international community, about their ongoing struggle to protect the land, water, air, wild plants/animals and the Anishinabee (the people of Grassy Narrows First Nation). Grassy Narrows, Ontario, Canadafreegrassy.net
Indigenous Healing Center
An inter-tribal and intergenerational collective that nurtures the leadership, health and healing of Indigenous families from diverse tribes and nations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Marin County, CA, USA
Iqra Fund
Iqra (“read” in Arabic) Fund provides educational opportunities for women and girls to improve their quality of life through education.
Menlo Park, CA
www.iqrafund.org
Lambi Fund of Haiti
Lambi Fund’s mission is to support grassroots organizations that foster democracy and development in Haiti today.
Washington, D.C
www.lambifund.org
MADRE
MADRE is an international women’s human rights organization that works to advance social justice by equipping women to both improve conditions in their communities and advocate for human rights.
www.madre.org
MAINE ACADEMY OF MODERN MUSIC
Maine Academy of Modern Music uses the power of music to inspire students, foster creative collaboration, and build community. MAMM graciously awarded the PRBB Foundation its “Foundation Partner Award” in its 2020 Community Rock Star Awards.
Portland, ME
Maine Women’s Fund
MWF seeks to transform the lives of Maine women and girls through strategic grantmaking, community engagement and support to nonprofit organizations dedicated to social change.
Falmouth, ME
Maine Women’s Policy Center (MWPC)
For general operating support. The Maine Women’s Policy Center (MWPC) was founded in 1990 to improve the economic, social, and political status of women and girls in Maine through research, public policy, and leadership development. MWPC works for systemic change by organizing, training, and supporting women and girls to effectively participate in the policy-making process.
Medicine Bowl
Medicine Bowl’s mission is to heal our relationship with the planet, the land and one another. It is a relationship fueled queer and trans, Black and Indigenous led land-based strategy for liberation. They are a constellation of organizers, farmers, medicine people and land stewards who believe they can nourish, feed, house & build alternative structures for for our communities and ourselves.
Western NC
PASO PACIFICO
Paso Pacifico works to restore and protect the Pacific Slope ecosystems of Mesoamerica, including the endangered dry tropical forest, mangrove wetlands, and eastern Pacific coral reefs. By working with local communities, landowners, and partner organizations, they restore and protect the habitats that form building blocks for wildlife corridors.
Ventura, CA & Managua, Nicaragua
Peace Direct/ENVISION Zimbabwe Women’s Trust
Peace Direct/ENVISION Zimbabwe Women’s TrustPeace Direct finds and funds outstanding local peacebuilders and promotes local peacebuilding to people with power and resources. Through Peace Direct, we funded Envision, to implement a conflict transformation, women’s rights and gender sensitization project in Hurungwe District located in Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe.New York, NY and Harare, Zimbabwe.
Phoenixfire Inc.
Phoenixfire works with their Fort Belknap Tribal community government and many others to initiate a number of larger projects to protect Mother Earth and to empower women and indigenous peoples.
Hayes, MT www.phoenixfirerising.com
Playing For Change
PFCF creates positive change through music and arts education and develops personal connections between students from PFCF programs in the United States and abroad promoting mutual understanding, collaboration, growth and sustainable peace-making.
Venice, CA
She Should Run
She Should Run is a non-partisan 501(c)3 with the mission to expand the talent pool of women running for office in the United States. Their programs provide an approachable starting place and network for women leaders considering a future run by providing community, resources and growth opportunities. They believe that women of all political leanings, ethnicities, and backgrounds should have an equal opportunity to lead in elected office and that our democracy will benefit from the varied perspectives and experiences that women bring to leadership.
Washington, DC
https://www.sheshouldrun.org
Tulele Piesa (meaning “sailing the waves on our own”)
Tulele Piesa’s mission is to relocate Carterets Islanders voluntarily to mainland Bougainville over the next 10 years. The guiding philosophy is one of self- sufficiency and independence, so that Carterets people do not develop a dependence or cargo mentality, but take initiative and action to improve the quality of their personal and community life.
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
UNITING RESILIENCE
We are a safe, supportive and empowering space for the Native Two Spirit LGBTQ+ community. It has always been the journey of the Native American Two-Spirit LGBTQ to encourage our people to get along and to love one another. Uniting Resilience continues that mission in the public square and in national discourse through education and community organizing, while positively addressing the wrong that has been inflicted on Two-Spirit LGBTQ.
South Dakota
https://www.unitingresilience.org/
WECAN - (WOMEN’S EARTH & CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK)
Supporting action initiatives to create a collective voice, action base and movement of women from across the United States and the world concerning climate justice, demanding action on climate change, supporting trainings and climate solution projects, and providing opportunities for women on the frontlines of climate change to tell their stories of struggle and solutions.Mill Valley, CAwww.wecaninternational.org
Wiconi Wawokiya Inc (Helping Families)
To support outreach efforts to communities of South Dakota about the Pathfinder Center to gather community and financial support. The mission of Wiconi Wawokiya, Inc. is to provide a place of refuge for victims of human trafficking from all over South Dakota and to promote the growth and development of those we serve by empowering them to experience healing and wholeness while ensuring that each women gains a sense of self-worth and the capacity to achieve her full potential.
Fort Thompson, SD
www.wiconiways.org and www.pathfindercenter.org
WOMEN ENABLED INTERNATIONAL
WEI envisions a world where women and girls with disabilities claim human rights, act in solidarity, and lead self-determined lives. We are supporting the newly launched US Alliance of Women, Nonbinary Persons, and Other Gender Minorities with Disabilities (the Alliance) to fill a need for a national, cross-disability entity to focus on raising voices and asserting rights at the intersection of gender and disability in the U.S.Washington, DChttps://womenenabled.org/
WoMIN AFRICAN GENDER AND EXTRACTIVES ALLIANCE (WoMIN)
This alliance works alongside national and regional movements and popular organizations of women, mining-impacted communities and peasants, and other sympathetic organizations.
Johannesburg, South Africa
http://womin.org.za
Grantee Partners
Grassroots and "On the Ground"
