ROUND 1 AWARDEES

Celebrating Our Winners

Proyecto Social Skate

Organizion mission: Promote social and community integration through skateboarding, especially among children, teenagers, and young people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including Brazilians, Venezuelans, and Indigenous peoples.

Funding Needs: Infrastructure to increase participation numbers, promote their work, scale up to attract additional partnerships and funding support.

Comisión Mujer Joven (CMJ)

Organizion mission: Work for comprehensive development with justice and dignity for girls, teenagers, and young women, aiming for our autonomy, freedom, unity, and respect for our rights to prevent violence, gender inequalities, early pregnancies and unions.

Funding Needs: To start physical activity portion of their activities – specifically equipment and field space.

Girls In Football

Organizion mission: Empowering women and girls through sport, addressing mental health needs of participants, and create a safe and supportive community for women and girls in sport.

Funding Needs: Field rental, necessary equipment, coaching fees for start-up until they can secure local partnerships.

Rural Disabled Women Association (RUDIWA)

Organizion mission: Strengthen the capacities of rural disabled women and girls by empowering them to determine their own futures, improve their living standards and setting an environment which is free from violence, exploitation and abuse, and improve their mental and physical health.

Funding Needs: Physical activity specialist and equipment to start sport branch of their current programmatic activities.

Impact Academy

Organizion mission: Empower young Eqyptian kids (particularly girls) from low income urban slums in Cairo through participation in boxing and careers in STEM.

Funding Needs: Facility Rental/Purchase to end unreliable/unsafe facility rentals.

*Round 2 call for proposals will launch on August 1st