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Are you ready to transform the world through sports? The ONSIDE Fund 2024 is calling for visionary grassroots groups, organizations, and individuals who are passionate about advancing gender justice through sports. This is your chance to receive unrestricted funding to support girls, women, and non-binary people in exercising their right to play. Apply now!
Opportunity Details
ONSIDE is a pooled fund that supports feminist organising and movements that leverage sports to advance gender justice. Through ONSIDE, grassroots groups, organisations and individuals access unrestricted funding to support girls, women and non-binary people in exercising their right to play, thus advancing gender justice in sport at all levels, from the grassroots to global.
ONSIDE is committed to participatory and equitable approaches to decision-making, grant-making, and learning, and aims to shift power to and share decision-making with girls, women, and non-binary persons at the centre of change.
The ONSIDE Fund defines sport broadly to include all forms of physical movement and play-based activities, both competitive and recreational, that promote enjoyment, self and collective care, and physical and mental well-being.
What will be funded?
The ONSIDE Fund seeks to actively support girls, women, and non-binary persons from systemically oppressed and marginalised communities who are advancing gender justice in and through sport and play to bring about social change.
ONSIDE provides unrestricted funding to registered and unregistered grassroots groups, collectives and organisations that are clearly led by girls, women*, and/or non-binary persons, governed by feminist principles and practices, and whose work aligns with the vision and mission of the Fund.
This is a global call for proposals. Applicants from all 5 regions where the Fund operates and who align with the vision and mission of the Fund are encouraged to apply.
However, it is important to note that during this call for applications, some priority will be given to applicants working at the intersection of disability, gender justice and sport in Europe, Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. A portion of the funding will be specifically earmarked to address this thematic focus.
Other key priorities include:
Diversity: The ONSIDE Fund will invest in a diverse portfolio of grassroots groups, collectives, and organisations inclusive of various geographies, identities, strategies, thematic focus areas, and sports, forms of movement or play-based activities.
Intersectionality and Feminist Movements: Grassroots groups, collectives, and organisations who work intersectionally and whose work contributes to feminist movement building and social change will be prioritised.
Leadership and Meaningful Representation: The ONSIDE Fund will prioritise self-led and self-organised grassroots groups, collectives, and organisations or groups where girls, women, and/or non-binary persons from the communities most affected by the issues being addressed are meaningfully involved in leadership and decision-making.
GRANT SIZES
Groups, collectives, and organisations from all regions can request one of the following funding amounts:
5,000 USD
7,500 USD
10,000 USD
Individual applicants from the MENA region can request one of the following funding amounts:
2,500 USD
5,000 USD
To be eligible for funding, applicants must meet the following criteria:
Groups, collectives, and organisations:
Alignment with the mission and the vision of the Fund.
Clearly led by girls, women, and/or non-binary persons.
Governed by feminist principles and practices.**
Annual organisational income up to USD 100,000.
Please note that if you are currently receiving or have received funding from ONSIDE in the past, you are not eligible to apply for this call for proposals.
Individuals:
Only self-identified girls, women, and non-binary persons from the Middle East and North Africa region are eligible to apply as individuals.
Alignment with the mission and vision of the Fund.
Governed by feminist principles and practices.
**The ONSIDE Fund acknowledges that feminist values and practices are defined very differently across regions, countries and contexts. Please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions section for more clarity on this.
The application process consists of two phases:
Phase 1: During this phase, all applicants will answer eligibility questions and submit general information about their work, including the primary groups and communities they support and the approach to leadership and decision-making. Eligible applications will be screened by Regional Peer Review Panels and those longlisted will progress to Phase 2.
Phase 2: During this phase, only longlisted applicants will be invited to submit a full application, which includes further information about the applicant's work, the funding requested, the impact and sustainability of their work, etc. Full applications will be reviewed and scored by Regional Peer Review Panels, who will collectively make the final decisions on which applications will be selected for funding.
Please note that the deadline to submit applications in English and Spanish for Phase 1 is October 28th, 2024. For applications in French and Arabic, the deadline is November 1st, 2024.
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