Grant Making
Funding Grass-Roots Change
HER Fund sees herself as part of the social change movements. We are committed to empower the capacity of marginalized women to become self-sufficient and enabling them to create, lead, and sustain better lives. Our 4 main focus in grantmaking are : "Freedom from Discrimination", "Freedom from Violence", "Freedom from Poverty", and "Promote Women’s Civil Participation".
Our priority is given to the marginalized women who have been collectively disadvantaged because of their social positions. These marginalized women are systematically declined of their rights, opportunities and resources that are normally available to members of society and key to social integration. They are the least resourceful, lack of voices, and often their needs and human rights are being denied.
Our small grants support is a seed grant, and a unique source that allow new initiatives for marginalized women to realize and to grow.
HER Fund is more than a funder! We run capacity building programs, provide resource referral, connection with other foundations, introducing professional volunteers, and provide mentoring support to our grantee partners, for we see this is the way to empower marginalized women and their work to achieve sustainability and impactful development.
What We Do
Freedom from Violence:
Violence against women is both a brutal consequence of gender inequalities and a key obstacle to equality. Violence against women can be defined as violence directed against a person because the person is woman or as violence that affects women disproportionately. It includes violence in close relationships, sexual violence (including rape, sexual assault and harassment), economic abuse and diverse forms of harmful practices that negatively affect women’s physical and psychological well-being.
Freedom from Discrimination
Discrimination is to make a distinction in favor of or against a person on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person belongs rather than according to actual merit; It is action that denies social participation or human rights to categories of people based on prejudice. It is a form of control by those who are in power to those being disempowered in order to uphold the status quo.
Discrimination against women is incompatible with human dignity and constitutes an obstacle to the full realization of the potentialities of women; In addition, since discrimination can take many forms, many women are marginalized not only on the ground of their gender but also their age, citizen status, ethnic background identities, work and sexual orientations, etc. Marginalized women are the most vulnerable who are at greatest risk of suffer economic hardship, social exclusion and violence.
Promote Women’s Civil Participation
Women are not seen as passive beneficiary or recipient of social resources or root causes of social problems. Instead they are seen as stakeholders who have an important role to play in contributing to the long term, sustainable development and positive society change. By participating in policy making, women and girls, especially the marginalized, help ensure that their needs and interests are taken into account in decision-making process that affects their lives.
Civil Participation has direct or indirect impacts on our livelihood and wellbeing, and women, especially marginalized women can be more visible and to promote positive social change with active social participation. And the forms of civil participation varied from doing research and discussing social issues, community education, policy advocacy, organizing social action to pushing media monitoring.
Grants Priority & Application
*Note: Only applications from Hong Kong will be considered.HER Fund does strategic review regularly on our grant-making strategy and effectiveness according to the social change. From the past experiences, we see the need to maintain our support to the less funded and least resourceful women’s initiatives. In order to strategically make grants for bringing greater impact to advance women’s human rights.
You can find the details of the above 4 themes, grant amount, and application requirement from the below documents:
We, hereby, invite you to apply the grant for Year 2018/19 1st Phase. The timeline of the coming cycle is as follow:
Application Deadline: 27th December, 2017 (Wednesday)
Grant Announcement: On or Before 29th February, 2018
Project Starts Date: March, 2018
Should you have further query, please feel free to contact us