List of Grant recipients of the 7th edition of MiniGrants
Applicant’s Choices – community MiniGrants:
1. Girls’ Power Center in Elk, Elk, warminsko-mazurskie.
The group, which is co-created by 5 women and 12 girls, will organize menstrual workshops for girls and their mothers.
2. Frelki-Citizens, Siemianowice Slaskie, slaskie.
A group of Siemianowice Slaskie residents of different ages (about 15 persons) will organize workshops (panels) about sex, informed consent, dating, and relationships for approx. 50 teenagers.
3. CzaSami Foundation, Boleslawiec, dolnoslaskie.
A group of 3 women will organize a respite trip for approx. 20 mothers of children with disabilities, with workshops on emotions, making eco-cosmetics, and a shared dinner.
4. Fullness Foundation, Lublin, lubelskie.
A group of women (5 founders of the foundation together with volunteers) will organize creative and craft workshops and concerts for approx. 200 women experiencing homelessness, residents of shelters.
5. ROLL-NA FOUNDATION, Chludowo, wielkopolskie.
A group of 6 women living in the countryside will organize “Women’s Meetings with Art”: painting, ceramic, photographic workshops, and a trip to a cultural event for approx. 40 women.
6. Informal Group Elements, Kalsk, lubuskie.
A group of 3 women living in the countryside will organize empowerment workshops with a psychologist for approx. 20 women, as well as a photo session, the results of which will be presented as an exhibition.
7. Madness Collective, Krosno, podkarpackie.
The collective consisting of 5 young queer and allied persons will organize the Second Equality March in Krosno and accompanying events: a screening of feminist and queer films and a banner-making workshop.
8. Village Housewives’ Association “Kotowice nad Rozlewiskiem” (Kotowice by the Backwater), Kotowice, dolnoslaskie.
A group of 30 socially engaged women gathered around the village of Kotowice will organize a relaxing, intergenerational trip to Sobotka for 34 women from three generations: climbing Mount Sleza, a bonfire, visiting a winery, workshops in herbalism.
9. Village Housewives’ Association “Szczypta Lubczyku” (A Pinch of Lubcz), Lubcz, kujawsko-pomorskie.
The association’s 16 members of different ages will organize a series of meetings in the common room for approx. 60 women – members of the VHA from Lubcz and the Rogowo commune: breast and cervical cancer prevention, self-defense, meeting with a professional advisor, talks about women in politics, a trip to the spa.
10. Village Housewives’ Association in Bystrzyca, Bystrzyca, dolnoslaskie.
An association of over 50 housewives will convene an all-day women’s circle and organize a WenDo workshop for 16 women.
11. Village Housewives’ Association in Dobrzyca “Dobrzyczanki – Cuda Wianki”, Dobrzyca, Wielkopolskie.
An association of nearly 45 members will buy books for the “motivational library” and organize a trip to a networking and development meeting with the informal group Witches from Kolsko, as well as dance and music meetings for members of the association and residents of the village of Dobrzyca.
12. Moms! We’ve got each other, Krosno, Podkarpackie.
A group of 9 moms of children and adults on the autism spectrum will resume a support group with a psychologist for approx. 15 moms of persons on the autism spectrum. They will organize meetings for women and girls with experts on the autism spectrum of girls and women, and with women who are on the autism spectrum themselves.
13. MoKKKa, Bydgoszcz, kujawsko-pomorskie.
A group of 4 moms of children with disabilities will organize a series of workshops and meetings (herbal, painting, movement, counseling and information, going to the theater/concert) for 20 mothers of persons with disabilities in Bydgoszcz. The meetings will be accompanied by care and animation as well as sensory classes for children.
14. QueerWithoutBorders, Warsaw, mazowieckie.
The collective, co-created by 5 persons involved in research, advocacy, and activism in support of LGBTQI+ refugees, will provide intervention support for LGBTI+ refugees leaving guarded centers for foreigners (assistance packages for approx. 15-20 people).
15. Sensorically Sensitive, Bytom, slaskie.
A group of women with sensory disabilities (sight and hearing) and allies will organize a WenDo workshop translated into Polish Sign Language for approx. 10 women with sensory disabilities and women supporting them (assistants, volunteers).
16. Feminist Association Batty Aunts, Głucholazy, opolskie.
A group of 4 retired women will organize and pay for LBC – liquid base cytology for approx. 15 women from the vicinity of Glucholazy.
17. Free Education Association, Koszalin, zachodniopomorskie.
3 moms-feminists will organize two workshops for teenagers aged 13-17 on informed consent and sexuality, as well as buy books on adolescence and growing up for each participant.
18. Rainbow Without Violence, Krakow, malopolskie.
A group of 8 activists responsible for the educational podcast “Tęczowa Bezprzemocowa Podcast” will record two episodes of the podcast about the situation of the Deaf LGBTQ+ community.
19. It matters to us! Wloclawek, kujawsko-pomorskie.
A group of 4 teachers – special education pedagogues – will organize 3-day workshops by the sea on sex education, combined with yoga and mindfulness training for 10 girls with intellectual disabilities.
Decision Group’s Choices – Strategic MiniGrants:
20. Two Wings UA Foundation, Olsztyn, warminsko-mazurskie.
A group of refugees will organize integration and networking meetings for women – refugees from Ukraine, aimed at mutual support and community building.
21. Lodz Tenants Association, Lodz, Lodz residential duty.
A group of tenants from Lodz and the surrounding area will use the grant to finance the permanent activities of the organization, e.g., emergency telephone, tenant duty, demonstrations in defense of tenants’ rights.
22. NeuroQueerPGR, Malowka, podkarpackie.
A collective of 4 neuroqueer activists will set up a website for their initiative and organize an infotour: two information and workshop meetings for approx. 60 activists and neuroqueers.
23. Sztum Women’s Strike, Sztum, pomorskie.
A group of 8 activists will create the Sztum Samba – for a group of approx. 15 young girls from Sztum and the surrounding villages and will organize WenDo workshops for them.
24. tranzycja.pl, whole Poland, online.
A team of 8 people creating a knowledge base on being trans and the transition process in Poland will organize a social media campaign addressed to young transgender people regarding the safe administration of hormones.
Selection of the FemFund team – Strategic MiniGrants:
25. Confederation of Youth’s Work, Warsaw, mazowieckie.
A group of trade union members will organize an information and educational mini campaign, encouraging young women to organize in trade unions.
Justification of the choice of Strategic Mini Grants
The Decision Group and the FemFund team have selected 6 additional strategic grants that complement the selection of Applicants with topics and perspectives close to the Fund’s priorities.
In this editions, strategic grants are awarded to:
1. Two Wings UA Foundation (Olsztyn) – due to the fact that among the 19 applications selected by the community, there was no application for grassroots activities undertaken by migrant and refugee women in Poland, in particular outside the largest cities. The Decision Group recognized that Two Wings Foundation operates within the local migrant community in Olsztyn and has understood the needs of this particular group of women well.
2. Lodz Tenants Association (Lodz) – due to the fact that we see the need to support actions for the labor rights of women and other persons in danger of multiple discrimination. Although the issue of working conditions concerns the vast majority of women and persons in Poland, we can see that this topic is rarely taken up by FemFund Grantees and is not often present in mainstream messages about feminism.
3. Confederation of Youth’s Work (Warsaw) – ze względu na to, że widzimy potrzebę wspierania działań na rzecz praw pracowniczych kobiet i innych osób narażonych na wielokrotną dyskryminację. Choć kwestia warunków pracy dotyczy ogromnej większości kobiet i osób w Polsce, widzimy, że temat ten jest rzadko podejmowany przez Grantobiorczynie FemFundu i mało obecny w mainstreamowych przekazach dotyczących feminizmu.
4. NeuroQueer PGR (Malowka) – due to the fact that, among the grants selected by the community, there was a lack of anarchist initiatives that challenge the capitalist models of action and focus on creating alternative, self-sufficient communities.
5. Sztum Women’s Strike (Sztum) – due to the fact that we see the need to support local activist groups that arose on the wave of women’s strikes, especially in small cities. The Decision Group recognized that the actions of the Sztum Women’s Strike (WenDo workshops, drumming workshops – protest samba) are an opportunity to strengthen activists and involve new people, a fact that may contribute to long-term change at the local level.
6. tranzycja.pl (whole Poland, online activities) – due to the fact that the Applicant community did not choose any application of trans and non-binary persons, who are an important part of the FemFund community. The Decision Group has decided to support the activities of tranzycja.pl because it is based on the value of self-help within the community and fills an important gap in access to knowledge about the safe administration of hormones in the process of transition.