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Even at the most broadly defined, this means that Black feminist movements receive somewhere between 0.1% and 0.35% of annual grant dollars from foundations.
For a movement so powerfully located at the center of change, these numbers point to an egregious lack of support. Black organizing has been growing for many years in different countries all over MENA.
As one of their first major offerings, the BFF has begun groundbreaking in-depth research looking at where the money is for Black feminist movements (forthcoming end 2021). (We included grants that were coded for people of African descent and/or contained the words “Black” or “of color” in the grant description, so the figures may capture some funding for people of color who aren’t of African descent.) These approximations are based on funders’ own, often incomplete, reporting on the populations they aim to support.
Though imperfect, the initial findings are a warning call: Funding for Black women, girls, and trans people constitutes roughly 5% of human rights funding, both in dollars and number of grants.
Putting this into context, human rights grants make up 2% to 7% of foundation funding globally.
The small number of grants itself should be a warning sign. When we spoke to the Black Feminist Fund’s board member Mai Panaga, a Black feminist in Egypt, she said:
“It is shocking that across 17 countries, only a single grant was made to Black women, girls, and/or transgender people. Ironiquement, il s’agit d’un Entraîneur personnel qualifié et d’un Coach en Santé Intégrative, qui passe la plupart de ses journées allongé au lit, à se sentir mal et à se promettre que « demain » sera le jour où il « mangera mieux et ira à la salle de gym »…
Introducing: Hakima Abbas
Hakima Abbasis a political scientist, policy analyst and activist.
Her work as a trainer, strategist and researcher has focused on strengthening and supporting movements for change in Africa and the Middle East. She currently serves as a board member and advisor to several global philanthropic and civil society initiatives. If funders want to address more effectively the under-resourcing of Black feminist action, they must bridge portfolios in meaningful ways, report on funding in ways that capture potential areas of interconnection, and understand that without expressly prioritizing Black feminist movements, intersectional invisibility for Black feminists will continue.
Finally, and most importantly, we can and must insist on more and better funding for Black feminist agendas.
Kellea is deputy director of Human Rights Funders Network, a global network of almost 450 institutions across 70 countries committed to advancing human rights through effective philanthropy.
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HRFN gratefully acknowledges our co-authors at the Black Feminist Fund and our data partners at Candid.
Funding Black Feminist Movements: HRFN and the Black Feminist Fund uncover the gaps in funding data for Black Feminist movements globally.
She is co-founder of the Black Feminist Fund (BFF), which is dedicated to significantly increasing the resources available to Black feminist movements globally and co-executive director of global feminist organization AWID.
Kellea Miller
Kellea Miller is a feminist researcher and advocate for just resourcing of social movements, specializing in grantmaking and strategy development.
These resources are moving in the ecosystem, but missing our movements.” HRFN’s forthcoming research on intersectionality (late 2021) finds that grants for human rights that specify any “population” focus, two-thirds identify a single population. The longstanding failure to reach Black feminist movements should be a cause for concern and action.
There are however some hopeful signs.
In raw numbers: 1,225 of the 2,487 grants in the region, totaling $136 million, are coded for women and girls and/or transgender people. What would it look like for Black feminists around the world to have robust funding that matches their resilience, creativity and leadership?
Following the money
To address the under-resourcing of Black feminist activism, we first must understand the scope.
Black activism in the region is working at the intersections of gender, sexuality, migration, forced displacement, occupation, labor rights, racism and anti-blackness, among others.
For transformative social change to happen, Black feminist leadership must be trusted, valued and resourced.
What Can We Do?
First, philanthropy’s lack of transparency and accountability mean that tracking the funding is extremely difficult. She has been active in struggles for social justice on issues of self-determination, race, class, gender and sexuality for over fifteen years.
Black feminist activism and agendas are global, while rooted in the local, and funding should reflect that.
A word about the data
Data is imperfect, but philanthropy can do better.
The findings of our preliminary analysis speak to a huge pattern of under-resourcing of the rich tapestry of Black feminist activism.