The Global Resilience Fund is a collaborative feminist fund working with and for girls and young feminists impacted by and responding to crises.

Since our launch in 2020 during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Fund has directly worked with and supported girls and young feminists' brave and transformative crisis response efforts. Rooted in trust, solidarity, and reciprocity, we move resources at speed and scale through collaborative and innovative models of shared power.

The Global Resilience Fund was sparked and sustained by Purposeful. Purposeful is the world’s first Africa-rooted, global hub to resource and realise girls’ resistance.

Where we currently fund

Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA)

Palestine
Yemen
Lebanon
Tunisia
Morocco
Libya
Sudan
Jordan

Latin America and Caribbean (LAC)

Mexico
Nicaragua
Brazil
Guatemala
Haiti
Caribbean small islands
Barbados

Europe and Central Asia (E&CA)

Georgia
Ukraine
Armenia
Turkey

Asia and Pacific (AP)

Afghanistan
Myanmar
Bangladesh

Sub-Saharan Africa

Democratic Republic of Congo
Kenya
Malawi
Uganda

Team

Core Team

Ruby Johnson
Lead

Laura Vergara
Advocacy and Organising Lead

Working in close collaboration with key team members across Purposeful including regional leads of Resource Resistance

Dani Prisacariu, Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Perla Vazquez, Latin America and Caribbean
Sandie Hanna, Southwest Asia and North Africa
Isha Morgan Conteh, Anglophone Africa
Roseline Tsekpuia, Francophone Africa
Rosa Bransky, Co CEO Purposeful
Liesel Bakker, Resourcing Resistance

Advisors

At the heart of the Global Resilience Fund is a participatory decision-making model with a panel of girls and young feminists. Our activist advisors play a central role across Purposeful’s Resourcing Resistance strategy, design, and funding decisions.

Partners

The Global Resilience Fund was sparked and sustained by Purposeful in partnership with diverse social justice funders committed to resourcing girls and young feminists on the frontline of crisis response.

Launched at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic by 20 founding partners, the Global Resilience Fund has continued to evolve and adapt over the last few years to meet the needs and realities faced by girls and young feminist responding to crisis.

Click here to learn more about the story behind the launch of the Fund.