For Women: Scholarships, Project Funds, Other Resources

[Shumey]

Please forward to all Somali women, esp. women in Somalia.

 

1. Writing a Funding Proposal, Shapiro, J./CIVICUS, 2005

A toolkit on how to prepare, write and follow-up funding proposals.

http://www.siyanda.org/static/shapiro_fundingproposal.htm

 

2. Funding Sources for Gender-Equality and Women-focused Projects,

BRIDGE (ed.), 2006. This document is a list of potential funding sources for gender

equality and women-focused projects.

http://www.siyanda.org/static/bridge_genderfunding.htm

 

3. Scholarships, BRIDGE (ed.), 2006

This resource provides information on grants for women needing support for study, research and training.

http://www.siyanda.org/static/bridge_genderscholarships.htm

 

4. Where is the Money for Women's Rights? Assessing the Role of Donors

in the Promotion of Women's Rights and the Support of Women's Rights

Organizations, Clark, C., Sprenger, E., VeneKlasen, L., of Just Associates

in collaboration with Alpizar Duran, L. and Kerr, J. of AWID, 2005

This study shows the recent trends in the financing of women's rights

work and organisations.

http://www.siyanda.org/static/AWID_moneyforwomensrights.htm

 

5. Women's Fundraising Handbook (English, French and Spanish), Global

Fund for Women, 2005

This handbook draws on the expertise of Global Fund for Women staff and

provides advice on raising money to fund women's rights work.

http://www.siyanda.org/static/globalfund_fundraisinghandbook.htm

 

6. Guide for Designing Results-Oriented Projects and Writing Successful

Proposals (English and Spanish), IPPF, 2002

A guide on how to design projects and get funding for them.

http://www.siyanda.org/static/IPPF_proposalguide.htm

 

6. Making A Difference: New Wealth, Women & Philanthropy: Partnerships

For Supporting Women & Girls, 2001

This tool explains how women's funding organisations can target newly

wealthy women.

http://www.siyanda.org/static/fundingnetwork_womenphilanthropy.htm

 

You can find additional resources on Funding through the Simple Search

function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/

 

7. Gender-based violence (GBV) will be the next Quick Guide theme. Users

are invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in

the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/ Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes:

http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm

 

8. New! Funding and Scholarships Sections

In response to users' information requests, and to complement this

month's update, BRIDGE added two new topics - Gender Funding and Scholarships - in the Participate section:

http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120060118122711

 

Please check regularly for new additions, and feel free to post gender

funding and scholarships opportunities by clicking on Add Comment.

 

See the full Participate section where you can engage in discussions,

or view and add events, calls for papers and vacancies:

http://www.siyanda.org/participate.shtml

 

Also see the User's Corner to view and/or add newsletters, meeting

reports, and short papers

http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120030204122635