Refugee Leadership Fund (RLO-to-RLO Fund)

Resourcing Refugee Leadership Initiative, housed at Asylum Access

Nontraditional Participatory grantmaking

A fund described as "for refugees by refugees" that aggregates contributions and redistributes them directly to refugee-led organizations, with Boost grants for newer groups and Advance grants for established ones.

Indicative award

$25k–$200k per year (per year)Boost grants up to $25,000 USD for smaller or newer refugee-led organizations; Advance grants of $100,000-$200,000 USD for established organizations. Both are one-year terms with possible renewal.

Timing

Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Applications are currently closed. New calls for proposals are announced on the fund's own site when a round opens.

Who can apply

Community organisation, Practitioner

Eligibility

Applicant must be a refugee-led organization founded or majority-led by displaced people, operating in Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Lebanon or Uganda, with demonstrated community presence and past programming. Boost applicants need basic financial and ethical guidelines; Advance applicants need formal financial controls and ethics policies. Universities and INGOs are not the intended applicant.

SSWR clusters

Topics

refugee-led organizations · forced displacement · community-led response · organizational capacity

Apply at

https://www.refugeeslead.org/apply

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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Refugee Leadership Fund (RLO-to-RLO Fund)

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