Apoyos de Respuesta Rápida (rapid response grants)
Fondo de Acción Urgente de América Latina y el Caribe (FAU-LAC)
FAU-LAC is a feminist rapid-response fund working across 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. It offers three funding modalities, of which the Apoyo de Respuesta Rápida (ARRS) is the flagship: grants for the protection, integral security and collective care of movements in the region facing risks and threats, and for groups building transformations against systems of oppression and injustice. Requests are made through a dedicated intake portal rather than a fixed-date competition, which makes it a viable channel for urgent security, protection and accompaniment needs arising in the
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No grant amount or currency is published on the pages retrieved. Rapid-response awards are sized to the request; no figure is recorded rather than guessed.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Rapid-response requests are submitted through the fund's intake portal on a continuous basis rather than by call deadline. The site describes three funding modalities; the other two were not documented on the pages retrievable during this sweep. No deadline dates are published.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicants are women's, feminist, LGBTIQ+ and territorial organisations, collectives and movements in the 21 Latin American and Caribbean countries the fund covers; the grants respond to risks, threats and protection needs of movements and defenders. Legal registration is not the organising gate for rapid-response funds of this type, but the fund does not publish a formal eligibility list on the pages retrieved. A university cannot be the applicant — a researcher's route is a partner organisation or movement making the request on its own behalf. Confirm current terms via the intake portal link
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- rapid response · defender protection · collective care · feminist movements · integral security
- Apply at
- https://es.faulac.org/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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