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Over €666 296 was allocated to the civil sector in 2022 by Bulgarian Fund for Women (BFW). The financial resources, marking a 54% increase compared to 2021, reached 100 partners of the Fund from all over the country – well-established and newly established organizations, as ... [Read More]

150 organizations have been admitted to Phase II of the Mission: Possible open call, part of the BIRDS in BG project, for strengthening strategic development and increasing sustainability. The total amount for which the approved organizations have applied is BGN 10,742,737. ... [Read More]

On August 7, 2023, the team of Bulgarian Fund for Women (BFW) was monitoring yet another, this time extraordinary, meeting in the Plenary Hall regarding the necessary and long-awaited changes to the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence (LPDV). Namely – the expansion of the Pr... [Read More]

Disinformation, sabotage of events, failed legislative initiatives that benefit vulnerable groups, threats on social networks, and physical attacks. This is the context in which human rights organizations from around the world have been working in recent years.  The fundamen... [Read More]

Co-leadership is the new management model of Bulgarian Fund for Women (BFW). It has been in place since April 2023, when, with the consent of BFW’s Board of Trustees, Nadejda Dermendjieva (former executive director) and Gergana Kutseva (former deputy director) officially stepped ... [Read More]

Opening: May 30th, from 6 PM, at The National Gallery – The Palace  Artists: Boryana Petkova & Iskra Blagoeva, Boryana Rossa, Katya Dimova, Krasimira Butseva, Monika Popova, nada ree, Natalia Jordanova, Neda Milanova, Oksana Kazmina, Rayna Teneva, Sophia Grancharov... [Read More]

Bulgarian Fund for Women’s (BFW) “Mission: Possible” open call – the only donor program in the country that provides flexible and long-term funding for covering administrative and organizational needs of civil society organizations attracted a record number of applications. The f... [Read More]

The existence of flexible funding is the basis for the resilience of organizations that face intertwining crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. This is evident from the study “Read Between the Lines”, conducted by an international team and ba... [Read More]

Rosena Ivanova and Aleh Stankova, from the Bulgarian Fund for Women (BFW) team, participated in a highly impactful meeting held in Lisbon. Prior to this event, Rosena had also been involved in training for trainers under the MyPath Project in Bochum, Germany. MyPath, co-funded by... [Read More]

The Bulgarian Fund for Women announces a call for proposals for the “Mission: Possible” program – the only donor program in Bulgaria that provides flexible funding for the administrative needs and organizational development of civil society organizations (so-cal... [Read More]