Trusts and Foundations

Strategic philanthropy. Sustainable change.

Equality Now works with government and bilateral agencies, multilateral entities, and private foundations who believe in rights-based, systemic, sustainable solutions to gender inequality. Your grant fuels expert legal reform, survivor-centered advocacy, and powerful women-led coalitions, and challenges discriminatory laws and practices and strengthens accountability mechanisms.

Funding opportunities

• Thematic Focus Areas: Achieving legal equality; ending sexual violence; ending sexual exploitation, including online sexual exploitation and abuse; and ending harmful practices like child marriage and female genital mutilation.
• Regional and Global Work: Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Eurasia, Americas, South Asia.
• Special Initiatives: Digital rights and technology-facilitated gender-based violence, consent law reform, equality in family law, intersectional justice, and more

Why fund Equality Now?

• Global Reach: We work across five continents, combining legal expertise with local and grassroots partnerships to catalyze change.
• Collaboration: Our coalition-building and advocacy efforts empower diverse actors, from survivor-led and women’s rights organizations to international accountability bodies.
• Systemic Impact: Our work does not stop at legal reforms – we work to ensure laws are implemented effectively and that women and girls’ voices drive change. 
• Transparency: our detailed reporting, financial stewardship and overall compliance ensures accountability to our funders, our partners, and the women and girls we support 
• Impact-oriented: We measure and report on the impact of our legal victories and policy changes. Almost 60% of the discriminatory laws we’ve highlighted have been amended or repealed, impacting millions of women and girls.