The submitted projects are part of an internal competition announced for those who participated in the first-ever “Clean Air Academy,” bringing together 25 activists and local community leaders from 14 cities and villages. The participants in the Academy...
Deadline for applications: 15 August 2022.Announcing the results: 3 October 2022.Maximum funding per project: 5 000 BGN. Total amount of the Fund: 65 000 BGN. “State of emergency” is the theme of the second open call of the Bulgarian Fund for Women to...
In June 2022, the Bulgarian Fund for Women, with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation, carried out a special anniversary edition of the yearly feminist camp named – Feminist Boot Camp All Stars. There were 21 participants, ranging from the age of 21...
A study into the needs and challenges of organizations protecting the rights of women, girls, and vulnerable groups initiated by the BFW revealed uneven access to resources, global crises, and the overall hostility towards gender mainstreaming continue to hamper...
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.– Audre Lorde Bulgarian Fund for Women expresses their solidarity for the women in the USA, whose fundamental and constitutional human right, concerning making choices for...
26 applications were received by BFW in the open call procedure for funding the organizational and administrative sustainability of women’s rights organizations. The cities and villages where the organizations are active are 14 (Sofia, Haskovo, Zelen Dol...
At the beginning of March 2022, a few days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we from the Bulgarian Fund for women opened an Emergency Fund in support of the women and children, affected by the war. We decided to distribute the raised funds to both the victims in...
Bulgarian Fund for Women (BFW) is the only donor in Bulgaria that exclusively supports activists, grassroots groups and CSOs working to empower women and girls and achieve gender equality in all spheres of life. BFW’s grantmaking and capacity building is driven by the...
The Bulgarian Fund for Women received 13 applications for project funding under the Equality and Climate Justice Programme 2022 from women activists and local community leaders in various small and large localities across the country. The applications were evaluated...
