Survivor Leadership Fund
Unrestricted grants to organisations led by people with lived experience of trafficking and exploitation, covering programmes, staff and office costs, with country-specific application rounds.
- Indicative award
- up to $20k per year (per year)Page states unrestricted grants of up to US $20,000 in the first year, with a possible second-year grant of $25,000 for selected partners. No minimum is published.
- Timing
- Periodic callsPeriodic calls · Apr, MayNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Runs as country-specific rounds rather than a standing open call. The most recently published round (Nepal) closed 4 May 2026, with an information session on 22 April 2026. No future round date was published at time of check. Historic rounds have covered East Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicant must be an organisation with one or more people in a leadership position (director, deputy director, senior management, department head) who have lived experience of exploitation. Rounds are country-restricted (the most recent round required being located and operating in Nepal). A university cannot be the applicant; a researcher's route is as a partner to a survivor-led grantee.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- human trafficking · modern slavery · survivor leadership · lived experience leadership · organisational capacity
- Apply at
- https://www.freedomfund.org/work/movement-building/survivor-leadership-fund/
- 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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