Grantmaking to organisations of persons with disabilities
Participatory grantmaking where disabled people sit on the panel that decides awards, funding disabled-led organisations in the global South to do their own research and advocacy.
- Indicative award
- $5k–$60k (total award)Sized for community organisations rather than university budgets.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Country-specific calls announced as programmes open.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation
- Eligibility
- Applicants must be organisations of persons with disabilities in eligible countries. A university cannot be the lead — it can be a technical partner if the organisation wants one.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- participatory grantmaking · disabled-led · global south · advocacy
- Apply at
- https://disabilityrightsfund.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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