Doria Feminist Fund — Core, Project and Knowledge Production Grants
A MENA-region feminist fund making core, project and knowledge-production grants to feminist organisations and collectives based in or working across the Middle East and North Africa. Decisions are made participatorily: an activist review committee reviews applications, gives feedback, builds the shortlist against movement priorities, joins due diligence and confirms the final grantees. The knowledge-production stream is the direct route for community-based research, documentation and evidence-building; core support funds the organisational capacity that makes such work possible.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No per-grant amount is published on the grantmaking page. The fund's homepage reports a Cycle 5 portfolio of USD 1.46M across 78 grants split between core (42%), project (35%), recognition (11%), knowledge production (8%) and emergency response (4%), but that is a portfolio total, not a per-grant ra
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The fund runs open calls for proposals in cycles (Cycle 5 most recently reported) plus an emergency-response route. No specific future deadline date is published on the grantmaking page; watch the site for the next call.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicant must be a feminist organisation or collective based in, or working across, the MENA region — the fund's own page says any feminist organisation or collective in the region is welcome to apply. It is a movement fund, not a university programme: a social work researcher would not be the applicant, and would instead partner with an eligible MENA feminist group that holds the grant. The page does not state whether legal registration is required.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- feminist movements · mena · knowledge production · core support · participatory grantmaking
- Apply at
- https://doriafeministfund.org/en/grantmaking
- 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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