Together Women Rise Featured Grants Program 2025 for Organizations Empowering Women and Girls (Up to $50,000 Grants)

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Applications are open for Together Women Rise Featured Grants Program 2025. Together Women Rise provides funding to organizations that empower and support women and girls in low-income and marginalized communities in the Global South.

They feature a different organization/project each month, providing extensive learning materials on the project and the issue being addressed, and promoting it through our nationwide chapters, website, newsletters, and social media. Grantees are assigned to be featured in a specific month based on an issue area and geography.

Together Women Rise Featured Grants Program Details

We support capacity building, new programs, or expansion of existing programs.
We award at least 12 Featured Grants per calendar year.
Featured Grant term is 24 months (2 years).
Featured Grant size is $35,000 to $50,000 paid over a two-year period.
Only organizations with budgets of $100,000 and above may apply.
Only organizations with operating budgets between $100,000 and $1 million can apply for capacity building grants. These grants can span all operational aspects (e.g., technology, strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, staff training), with restrictions that apply to all featured grants.
Organizations may receive no more than one Featured Grant per four-year period.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicant must have a minimum of $100,000 operating expenses annually for the most recent fiscal year.
Applicant must demonstrate capacity and on-the-ground operations in low-income communities in the Global South for a minimum of three years.
Applicant must provide data regarding the direct impact of the organization’s program(s) that the grant would support.
Women must make up the majority of the leadership of your organization (i.e. board of directors and staff) at the time of application.
Applicant must demonstrate fiscally responsible and sustainable practices within their organization.
Applicant must have a website in English, unless using a fiscal sponsor.
Applicant must submit all information requested on the grant application in English.
Applicant must provide additional information as deemed necessary for Together Women Rise to make the grant decision.
Applicant has not received a Together Women Rise grant within the past four years.
If the applicant has previously received a Rise grantee, it must have satisfied ALL of Rise’s reporting requirements for that past grant.
Applicants must adhere to Together Women Rise’s Religion Policy.

Together Women Rise recognizes that to achieve gender equality, women and girls must have equitable and consistent access to quality health care, which includes safe and full scope of sexual and reproductive health services and education.

Together Women Rise Featured Grants Will not Support:

Debt reduction
Grants to individuals
Endowments
Lobbying or political activities/parties
Election campaigns
Government entities
Building funds or campaigns

Timeline

May 6, 2025, at 9 a.m. ET: Application portal opens.
June 6, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET: Deadline for submitting all grant applications and supporting documents (no exceptions).
November 2025: Approved grantees will be notified.
December 2025: Notifications will be sent to organizations that were not approved.