Sex Worker Giving Circle
A participatory giving circle in which sex worker community members serve as fellows and make the grant decisions themselves, resourcing sex worker-led organizing and community building.
- Indicative award
- $15k–$25k (total award)The programme page states grants are made at "two different levels: $15,000 and $25,000."
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The programme page lists the Sex Worker Giving Circle as closed at the time of checking (August 2026). No cycle months are published; watch the grantmaking programmes page for the next open call.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- For groups led by and for sex workers directly impacted by oppression. A university is not the applicant; a researcher's realistic route is as a partner or documentation collaborator to a funded sex worker-led group. Decisions are made by community fellows, not staff.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- sex worker organizing · participatory grantmaking · gender justice · community building
- Apply at
- https://www.thirdwavefund.org/grantmaking-programs
- 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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