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Priorities
New Field Foundation’s grantmaking is carried out through two programs, Local and Regional. By funding local and regional efforts that complement one another, we aim to support positive change within specific focus areas and also more broadly across Africa. Existing grants within these categories are listed under grants awarded.
We concentrate our local grantmaking on three focus areas:
- Mano River Union border region of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone;
- Casamance region of Senegal;
- Northern Niger River Basin, particularly initiatives connecting Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
The majority of our grants go to support dynamic local groups that are organizing collectively to create thriving, equitable and peaceful communities for rural African women and their families. Local program grants are intended to:
- Enable rural African women and their families to re-establish and transform their lives after disruption and displacement;
- Ensure that rural African women and their organizations benefit from, control and maximize financial, material and technical resources;
- Enable rural African women’s leadership and active participation in all levels of decision-making.
- Influence and implement changes in attitude, processes and decision-making at provincial and national levels in ways that benefit rural African women and their families.
We are particularly interested in organizations that:
- Are Africa-based, women-led and community-centered;
- Demonstrate that they operate for charitable purposes and have the capacity to receive international funds; and,
- Demonstrate well-functioning management, financial and programmatic systems.
Depending on the organization, we may request that applicants work with a fiscal sponsor or technical assistance provider to apply for and/or receive a New Field Foundation grant.
Through our Regional program, New Field Foundation aims to support the creation of a more just, equitable and peaceful world for rural African women. To this end, we fund programs that promote systemic changes in policies, laws, cultural norms and the distribution of resources. Such changes must be functional and relevant for rural women in West Africa to receive New Field Foundation support.
Regional program grants are intended to:
- Ensure that financial, material and technical resources are channeled to rural African women and their organizations, and enable them to leverage and manage these resources;
- Enable linkages, information-sharing and exchange among community-based African women’s groups;
- Increase the voice of grassroots community-based organizations in policy arenas and support advocacy for systemic change in support of rural African women; and/or
- Enable rural African women’s leadership and active participation in all levels of decision-making.
We are particularly interested in organizations that:
- Are African-led, women-led and Africa-based (or, in the case of international organizations, their Africa programs are African-led and women-led);
- Work across multiple African countries or sub-regions;
- Through the organization’s mission, vision and programs, address at least one of the following thematic areas: economic justice, gender equity and/or peace;
- Demonstrate the relevance and usefulness of the organization’s work to rural women and their families in West Africa, possibly with direct or indirect links to rural African women and their families in communities in the Casamance, Mano River Union, and northern Niger River Basin;
- Preferably have an annual income of at least $75,000, with financial stability and ongoing relationships with funders;
- Demonstrate that they operate for charitable purposes and have the capacity to receive international funds; and,
- Demonstrate well-functioning management, financial and programmatic systems.
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