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Here is a summary of our latest newsletter:

News

✨ Two new opportunity and emergency grantees

Analysis and inspiration

💭 Reflections from our grantee convening | By Joanna Maycock

🤱🏻 How to make work actually work for mothers

📣 Why Muslim women face multiple barriers in Europe

🗣️ Interview with Nadège Lharaig about our ambition philanthropic coalition

Opportunities

🚀 Funding opportunities for gender equality in Europe

Resources for civil society

🧠 Mental health and wellbeing resources

Resources for philanthropy

✔️ Five tips for funders: What we learned from visiting 26 grantee partners in 2 years

📥 Funding at a crossroads: Foreign aid cuts and implications for global human rights

🌼 Growing against all odds: Research by the Dalan Fund

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** Two new opportunity and emergency grantees
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The Alliance for Gender Equality in Europe has approved two Opportunity and Emergency Grants (https://alliance-genderequality.org/what-we-do/opportunity-emergency-grants/) , awarded in June and August 2025. These targeted, short-term grants provide timely support to organisations responding to urgent challenges or taking advantage of emerging opportunities to advance gender equality.
Read more (https://alliance-genderequality.org/two-new-opportunity-and-emergency-grantees/)

https://alliance-genderequality.org/from-backlash-to-belonging-reflections-from-our-grantee-convening/


** Reflections from our grantee convening | By Joanna Maycock
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Held in Brussels from 16–17 October 2025, the Alliance’s annual grantee convening brought together almost 50 grantee organisations and member foundations to inspire and get inspired, to strengthen relationships and trust, to advance opportunities for joint action, to learn together, and to feel a sense of resilience and solidarity.

The reflections in this article were written by the convening’s facilitator, Joanna Maycock.
Read article (https://alliance-genderequality.org/from-backlash-to-belonging-reflections-from-our-grantee-convening/)


** How to make work actually work for mothers
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This article looks at why the gender gap tends to widen when children enter the picture and offers one promising solution that has recently emerged in Greece.
Read article (https://alliance-genderequality.org/how-to-make-work-actually-work-for-mothers/)


** Why Muslim women face multiple barriers in Europe
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This article explores the challenges Muslim women face in Europe and how Lallab is creating a world in which women freely choose their own paths to emancipation.
Read article (https://alliance-genderequality.org/why-muslim-women-face-multiple-barriers-in-europe/)


** An interview with Nadège Lharaig about our ambitious philanthropic coalition
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Nadège Lharaig has been leading the Alliance since 2021. A specialist in philanthropy and equality issues, she works to strengthen the funding, resilience, and impact of feminist and LGBTQ+ organisations across Europe. This interview by Fondation RAJA-Danièle Marcovici has been translated into English. The original version in French is available here (https://www.fondation-raja-marcovici.com/actualites/interview-de-nadege-lharaig-alliance-for-gender-equality-in-europe-une-coalition-philanthropique-ambitieuse-pour-defendre-legalite-de-genre-en-europe.html) .
Read interview (https://alliance-genderequality.org/an-interview-about-ambitious-philanthropic-coalition/)


** Funding opportunities
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Below you can find funding opportunities for organisations sustaining and advancing gender equality in Europe.

Salford CVS (https://www.salfordcvs.co.uk/womens-mental-health-fund)
Projects that support women’s mental health
📍 Salford
💸 £3,5k
🗓️ 24 October 2025

ERA - LGBTI Equal Rights Association for Western Balkans and Turkey (https://lgbti-era.org/publications/call-for-proposals-for-the-support-to-projects-of-civil-society-organisations-cso-in-western-balkans-and-turkiye/)
Socio-economic Inclusion of the LGBTQIA+ Community
📍 Western Balkans and Türkiye
💸 €40k
🗓️ 2 November 2025

UN Women (https://www.unwomen.org/en/programme-implementation/2025/10/unw-hq-wpp-cfp-2025-001-wyde-women-leadership)
Organisations expanding women's leadership and political participation
📍 In Europe: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova,

Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia
💸 $45K - $150K
🗓️ 10 November 2025

Women’s Fund for Scotland (https://www.womensfundscotland.org/funding/grant-guidelines/)
Grassroots organisations supporting women and girls
📍 Scotland
💸 Up to £5,000
🗓️ 17 November 2025

Open Business Creators Fund for Women in Business sponsored by NatWest (https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=16178)
Early-stage businesses founded by women, including trans women
📍 UK
💸 £2,5k
🗓️ 21 November 2025

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/common-ground-award-prospectus/common-ground-award-prospectus)

To support new builds, refurbishment, essential equipment, and expansion of facilities used to build bridging social capital

📍 England

💸 up to £10k

🗓️ 21 November 2025


** Mental health and wellbeing resources
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On this page you’ll find a range of resources and articles for trans people around self-care and mental health.
Read more (https://transactual.org.uk/wellbeing/)


** Resources for philanthropy
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https://alliance-genderequality.org/five-tips-for-funders-what-we-learned-from-visiting-26-grantee-partners-in-2-years/


** Five tips for funders: What we learned from visiting 26 grantee partners in 2 years
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Over the past two years, our team at the Alliance has traversed the continent to visit all 26 Economic Opportunity grantee partners, spread across 16 countries. Along the way, we learned a few lessons we want to share with other funders considering – or reconsidering – how they approach site visits.

Read more (https://alliance-genderequality.org/five-tips-for-funders-what-we-learned-from-visiting-26-grantee-partners-in-2-years/)
https://www.hrfn.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Funding-at-a-Crossroads-HRFN-Sept-2025.pdf


** Funding at a crossroads: Foreign aid cuts and implications for global human rights
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Funding for global human rights movements is rapidly contracting. This brief from Human Rights

Funders Network (HRFN) provides a real-time assessment of projected funding cuts and their impacts on human rights resourcing, alongside pathways for funders to respond.
Read more (https://www.hrfn.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Funding-at-a-Crossroads-HRFN-Sept-2025.pdf)
https://dalan.fund/whats-new/where-is-the-money-for-movements-in-central-eastern-europe-caucasus-and-central-and-north-asia-ceeccna


** Growing against all odds: Research by the Dalan Fund
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Growing Against All Odds is the first-ever comprehensive analysis of funding for intersectional organizing across the diverse regions of Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central and North Asia (CEECCNA).

Read more (https://dalan.fund/whats-new/where-is-the-money-for-movements-in-central-eastern-europe-caucasus-and-central-and-north-asia-ceeccna)
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