Security Grants and Opportunity Grants
Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism
Rolling rapid-response grants to feminist activists, organisations and movements — Security Grants when safety is at risk, Opportunity Grants for advocacy, awareness raising, policy influence and shifting public discourse.
- Indicative award
- up to $8k (total award)Security Grants up to $8,000 over a 3-month period; Opportunity Grants up to $8,000 over a 6-month period. No minimum published.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.No deadlines published; applications are submitted through the fund's portal on a rolling basis, consistent with a rapid-response model.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Open to individual feminist activists, organisations and movements in the fund's regions: Canada, Central Asia, Europe, Southwest Asia, the Balkans, the Caucasus and the United States. Applications accepted in any language. University eligibility is not addressed on the page; the fund's framing is activist- and movement-facing, so a researcher's realistic route is as part of an activist organisation or movement.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- activist security · feminist movements · advocacy · policy influence · protection of human rights defenders
- Apply at
- https://urgentactionfund.org/our-grants/
- 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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