WOMEN’S FUNDS FOR A WORLD FREE OF VIOLENCE
SEEChange Project
SEE Change is a project that aims to promote a world free of gender-based violence, and is led by Calala Women’s Fund, Ecumenical Women’s Initiative and Mediterranean Women’s Fund.
The main strategies from the project are: to support small and medium-sized local organizations with economic grants, develop capacity building and networking actions. SEE Change focuses on grassroots feminist and women’s organizations with limited access to funding.
SEE Change is implemented in 9 countries of the South and East of Europe (SEE region): Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Serbia and Spain.
Specifically, SEE Change has supported 59 organisations with grants between EUR 10,000 and EUR 60,000, with a total amount granted of EUR 1,813,966. From the 250 projects that applied for a grant, 24% were funded.
As Women’s Funds, we are experts in strengthening women’s and feminist movement and we have a strong expertise funding grassroots organisations. The following report shows our core values and strengths as Women’s Funds, who are part of Prospera International Network of Women’s Funds.
About the funds
The project is made up of 3 Women’s Funds (WF) with a long history of supporting the feminist and grassroots women’s movement in Europe and beyond.
SEE Change is a project rooted in our mission and values. As Women’s Funds, we listen to the needs of the grassroots organisations and movements, we provide answers to their needs through grantmaking, capacity building and networking actions, and influence public and private donors to mobilise more and better resources.
Calala is the only Women’s Fund in Spain. It has 15 years of experience in funding and strengthening women’s, feminist and LGTBIQ+ organisations and movements in Spain and Central America. Calala’s core work focuses on consolidating a feminist, antiracist and decolonial perspective.
Ecumenical Women’s Intiative (EWI) is a Croatian Women’s Fund with more than 17 years of experience in funding, strengthening women’s organisations and women-led initiatives in six countries of the Western Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia.
The Mediterranean Women’s Fund (MedWF) has been more than 15 years contributing, in a concrete and far-reaching way, to strengthening the women’s movement and improving the status of women in all of the countries of the Mediterranean basin, including Souther and Eastern European countries.
Key Data Highlights
grants delivered by the consortium
organisations applied to the public calls
of the selected organisations had budgets under EUR 50,000
Know more about the organisations supported by the SEE Change project
SEE Change supports 59 projects from small and medium-size feminist and women’s organisations, from the SEE region.