filia accepts applications for impulse grants and for urgent action grants!
"It is in our interest that women and girls everywhere in the world are given better opportunities and that they can determine their future for themselves." from filia's preamble
filia fosters social change on behalf of women and girls.
filia supports the activities of women's groups in Central and Eastern Europe and in Germany. In addition cross-border, international women's networks and conferences can receive support from filia.
Regrettably women's projects from other regions of the world cannot apply to filia for support.
Please seek out the women's foundation that operates in your region under www.inwf.org
filia supports women's projects and organisations whose activities target sustainable structural change in society for the benefit of women and girls.
We are particularly committed to women and girls exposed to multiple discrimination – on the grounds of their gender and skin colour, origin, ethnic group, sexual orientation etc.
What does empowerment mean for filia? We support activities that encourage women and girls to act and strengthen their autonomy. We foster cooperation and networking between women.
We support the establishment of structures that benefit women and girls. In particular we promote projects that encourage girls to develop their full potential.
filia promotes projects that are initiated and run by women and girls and in which women and girls are the actors. Grants are preferably awarded to initiatives that either originate with the women and girls affected or include them as decision makers.
Under the German law governing foundations, we can only support organisations that are recognised as public benefit associations or officially registered as NGOs.
filia is a daughter of the women's movement and places confidence in the competence and expertise of women and girls.
As an independent foundation, filia can also fund operative costs in order to strengthen the organisational structures of the women's movement.
filia stands for transparency and discloses its support criteria and procedures. We publish details of the women's groups and projects that receive support if these organisations do not object.
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