FemFund Poland — MiniGrants, Multi-year and Intervention Grants
Fundusz Feministyczny (FemFund)
A Polish feminist fund built on participatory grantmaking in its strict sense: the fund states that the people who take part in a call decide who the money goes to. Three streams run — MiniGrants for informal groups, collectives and NGOs, multi-year grants for sustained work, and intervention grants for urgent needs. Money is deliberately routed to villages and small towns as well as cities, which makes it a route for locally-grounded participatory research and community documentation that a mainstream Polish research council would not reach.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No grant amounts are published on the English homepage and no currency is confirmed there; the fund is Warsaw-based, so any figure would be in Polish zloty. Nothing is asserted here.
- 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 recurring calls for its MiniGrants stream plus a standing intervention route for urgent needs. No dated cycle or deadline is published on the English homepage.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Activities must be carried out by women, girls and non-binary, trans, queer and intersex people anywhere in Poland, with stated priority to people facing discrimination. Informal groups and collectives can apply — not only registered NGOs — which is unusual and is what makes the fund reachable for unincorporated community groups. A university is not an eligible applicant; a researcher partners with an eligible group. Contact: granty@femfund.pl.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- poland · feminist fund · informal groups · participatory grantmaking · rural and small-town
- Apply at
- https://femfund.pl/en/
- 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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