Deadline: October 28, 2024 / November 1, 2024

Are you ready to transform the world through sports? The ONSIDE Fund 2024 is calling for visionary grassroots groups, organizations, and individuals who are passionate about advancing gender justice through sports. This is your chance to receive unrestricted funding to support girls, women, and non-binary people in exercising their right to play.

ONSIDE is a pooled fund that supports feminist organising and movements that leverage sports to advance gender justice. Through ONSIDE, grassroots groups, organisations and individuals access unrestricted funding to support girls, women and non-binary people in exercising their right to play, thus advancing gender justice in sport at all levels, from the grassroots to global.


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ONSIDE is committed to participatory and equitable approaches to decision-making, grant-making, and learning, and aims to shift power to and share decision-making with girls, women, and non-binary persons at the centre of change.

Prizes

Groups, collectives, and organisations from all regions can request one of the following funding amounts:

  • $5,000 USD
  • $7,500 USD
  • $10,000 USD

Individual applicants from the MENA region can request one of the following funding amounts:

  • $2,500 USD
  • $5,000 USD

Eligibility

Groups, collectives, and organisations:

  • Alignment with the mission and the vision of the Fund.
  • Clearly led by girls, women, and/or non-binary persons.
  • Governed by feminist principles and practices.
  • Annual organisational income up to USD $100,000.

Note that if you are currently receiving or have received funding from ONSIDE in the past, you are not eligible to apply for this call for proposals.

Individuals:

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  • Only self-identified girls, women, and non-binary persons from the Middle East and North Africa region are eligible to apply as individuals.
  • Alignment with the mission and vision of the Fund.
  • Governed by feminist principles and practices.

Application

The application process consists of two phases:

  • Phase 1: During this phase, all applicants will answer eligibility questions and submit general information about their work, including the primary groups and communities they support and the approach to leadership and decision-making. Eligible applications will be screened by Regional Peer Review Panels and those longlisted will progress to Phase 2.
  • Phase 2: During this phase, only longlisted applicants will be invited to submit a full application, which includes further information about the applicant’s work, the funding requested, the impact and sustainability of their work, etc. Full applications will be reviewed and scored by Regional Peer Review Panels, who will collectively make the final decisions on which applications will be selected for funding.

Note that the deadline to submit applications in English and Spanish for Phase 1 is October 28, 2024. For applications in French and Arabic, the deadline is November 1, 2024.


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For more information, visit ONSIDE Fund.

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