CFF’s Grantmaking in 2024 to Support Safety and Survivor Justice Movement Organizations
This year, CFF is making grants to 50 organizations totaling more than $6 Million in general operating funding over the next two years, nearly all of which are renewed funding to existing grantee partners.
The ecosystem that CFF’s grants support
We support movement-building organizations that are addressing gendered, sexualized, and racialized violence through policy, advocacy, organizing, and services and support for survivors. We fund ecosystems, rather than siloed issues or strategies. We purposefully resource a mix of organizations — small to large annual budgets, as well as local, regional, national and transnational groups. We focus on groups that are historically and systemically under-resourced, and our grants are sized to support individual groups over multiple years within this diverse ecosystem.
The safety and survivor-justice organizations we fund are also rooted in economic justice, reproductive justice, education, racial justice, immigrant rights, and much more — because comprehensive solutions to addressing violence must be intersectional.
Their work addresses interpersonal violence as well as state and structural violence. They utilize an array of strategies to do this — policy, organizing, legal advocacy, healing justice, arts, narrative change, and direct services.
We prioritize work that centers survivors, Black, Indigenous, and women of color, queer, trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people of color, people of color with disabilities, and im/migrants, who are cultivating community and sustaining transformational work. The groups we fund often aim to challenge the status quo, focusing on creating survivor-centered, community-based solutions independent of the state. Many seek to reimagine entire systems, recognizing colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism as the root causes of violence. Additionally, they organize beyond borders, utilizing transnational feminist networking, organizing, and solidarity.
Our approach also shows up in the kind of strategies for impact that we fund. We focus on interwoven strategies, which grantee partners carry out in tandem. Here are just a few examples of how these strategies show up in the work we support:
- Centering survivors and their communities’ needs to stop and prevent gendered, sexualized, and racialized violence, including providing direct support, spaces for healing, and responding to acute and ongoing situations of harm and violence:
Transforming Generations created a sexual assault curriculum tailored for Hmong, Southeast Asian, and queer communities called “Journey Towards Collective Care” as a training manual for anti-violence advocates and community members in Minnesota and the surrounding area.
An organization of Indigenous women, girls, and LGBTQ+ survivors, Waking Women Healing Institute reclaims traditional pathways for healing and development through practices such as birthing, rites of passage, traditional medicines, and land and water protection.
- Organizing for civic participation, policy advocacy, community organizing, and base-building to change systems that enable violence to occur:
Feminist Alliance for Rights’ work addresses the marginalization of feminist voices from the Global South by facilitating the participation and influence of feminist voices in international and local policymaking connected to ending violence and harassment in the world of work through ILO Convention 190.
The CARES (Creating, Affirming, Responsive, Equitable, Schools) initiative created by National Black Women’s Justice Institute aims to end school pushout by transforming schools into the nurturing, caring, and supportive educational spaces that Black girls & gender-expansive youth and all students deserve, where they can grow and thrive.
- Advancing safety narratives that are rooted in gender, racial, and economic justice and changing community norms around safety and accountability:
HEART Women & Girls is changing community norms through “The Sex Talk: A Muslim’s Guide to Healthy Sex and Relationships,” a workshop and resource designed by HEART for sexual health literacy that is sex positive, inclusive, comprehensive, and considers how faith and cultural identity can intersect with sexuality and relationships.
- Building skills and capacity for transformative, community-rooted safety practices, including digital and physical security infrastructure to protect women and gender expansive people of color against threats to safety:
Reclaiming Our Own Transcendence’s core program Healing Cycles of Harm meets the needs of BIPOC survivors and those impacted by violence through an abolitionist, collective accountability, wellness-circle model.
We believe deeply in the incredible power and strength of this movement, and the important work grantee partners have been doing to address violence and create safety in spite of an increasingly challenging political environment and funding landscape.
We see supporting these movement-building organizations as a key element of working towards a future free from violence, where everyone experiences collective safety, shared abundance, joy, and power.
CFF's 2024 Grantee Partners
A Long Walk Home
AAPI Women Lead
Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom
African American Policy Forum
Alianza Nacional de Campesinas
Asia Floor Wage Alliance
Black Girls Restored
Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project
Black Women’s Blueprint/Restore Forward
Coalition for Restaurant Safety and Health
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women
Colectivo Ilé
Creative Interventions
El/La Para TransLatinas
Equality Labs
EveryBlackGirl
Feminist Alliance for Rights
Free Hearts
Freedom, Inc.
Girls for Gender Equity
The HEAL Project
Healing to Action
HEART Women & Girls
In Our Names Network
International Domestic Workers Federation
Jahajee Sisters
JASS/Just Power
Justice for Migrant Women
Matahari Women Workers Center
metoo. International
Miami Workers Center
MO Ho Justice
Mother Nation
Moving Mountains
National Black Women’s Justice Institute
National Women’s Law Center
One Fair Wage
Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative
Reclaiming Our Own Transcendence
Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples
Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative
South Asian SOAR
Tahirih Justice Center
Trans Resilience Fund
Transforming Generations
VidaAfroLatina
Vision Change Win
Visioning BEAR Circle Intertribal Coalition
Waking Women Healing
Women on the Rise
