Acknowledgments

We would like to express our deep gratitude to all of the individuals, activists, practitioners, funders and their institutions who gave their love and energy, leveraged their relationships, moved their institutions, moved tangible money, took collective risks, and showed up for girls and young feminists over the last five years.

Thank you to the current and former team of Global Resilience Fund and Purposeful who have relentlessly supported the collective work in the last five years and without whom none of this: Ariane Cor, Aya Al Taher, Boikanyo Modungwa, Bissan Ramadan, Dani Prisacariu, Erin Barnes, Emma Mulhern, Isha Conteh, Mariana Gonzalez, Amanda Tiew, Jody Myrum, Laura Vergara, Liesel Bakker, Salma Sakr, Sandie Hanna, Perla Vasquez, Rosaline Tsekpuia, Ruby Johnson and Rosa Bransky. 

And to the founding advisor panelists who joined the GRF in 2020: Amani Aruri, Ariane Cor, Betty Barkha, Dani Prisacariu, Daniela Alejandra Moisa, Emilia Massou, Evdokia Romanova, Fatima Aitouknik, Joy Hayley Munthali, Marija Jakovljević, Saranzaya Gerelt-Od, Subina Pariyar, Fatmata Kamassie, Gabrielle Bailey, Sharanya Sekaram, Tara Ashour, Mercy Otekra, Gopika Bashi, Juliana Román Lozano, Jandi Craig, Abril Angélica Rodríguez Martínez.

Writers and contributors: Clare Provost, Emma Mulhern, Erin Barnes, Georgia Booth, Liesel Bakker, Laura Vergara, Mariana Gonzalez, Melvina N’yillah Conton, Ruby Johnson and Salma Sakr.

Graphic design and artwork: Alike Creative 

Copy editor: Kyle Woodend

And to the many funding partners who collaborated and resourced the efforts of the Global Resilience Fund in a multiplicity of ways over the course of the last five years:  

• Action on Disability and Development International (ADD)

• African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)

• Central American Women's Fund (FCAM)

• CAMY Fund (Central America and Mexico Youth Fund)

• Centre for Disaster Philanthropy

• Channel Foundation

• Disability Rights Fund

• ELAS Social Investment Fund

• Equality Fund

• FRIDA

• Karama

• Ford Foundation

• Foundation for a Just Society

• Fundación CHANEL

• Grantmakers for Girls of Color

• Global Greengrants Fund

• Global Fund for Women

• Fund for Global Human Rights

• Human Rights Funders Network

• Institute for Journalism and Social Change

• Numun Fund

• Nebula Fund

• MADRE

• MacArthur Foundation

• Ms. Foundation for Women

• Orchid Project

• Oak Foundation

• UNICEF

• Women's Fund Armenia

• Women Enabled International

• Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

• Women’s Fund Asia

• Urgent Action Fund Asia and Pacific

• Urgent Action Fund Africa

• Ukrainian Women’s Fund

And to the current members of the Funder Stewarding Circle: Sandra Macías del Villar (Alliance for Feminist Movements) Katrin Wilde (Channel Foundation) Jac sm Kee (Numun), Celia Turner and Vinita Sahasranaman (UAF), Yeiri Robert (Madre) Rophiat Bello and Juliana Vélez (Foundation for a Just Society) and Ruth Graham-Goulder (UNICEF).