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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 to 40, from ... [Read More]

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 social movements ... [Read More]

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 their own bo... [Read More]

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 (Blagoevgrad Munici... [Read More]

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 Ukraine and ... [Read More]

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... [Read More]

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 by the BFW... [Read More]

Between the 2nd and 4th of June in Bankya, a training, regarding BFW’s Community Development Program, was carried out. The program is now in its third edition in a row and brought together 25 activists and leaders of local communities from 16 small and big settlements, engaged in... [Read More]

A procedure for financing the organizational and administrative needs of organizations working for women’s rights 2022.  For the third consecutive year, Bulgarian Fund for Women announces a procedure for financing the organizational and administrative needs (the so-cal... [Read More]

Though the law explicitly prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, Bulgaria remains one of the last EU countries that has neither legalized same-sex marriage nor recognized any form of an intimate relationship between same-sex partners. As a result, members of the LG... [Read More]