2024 Annual Report

At Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism, despite the many challenges, we see feminist wins every day. From individual activists finding safety to communities coming together to defend rights, our 2024 annual report tells the stories of some of those wins.

A GLIMPSE INTO OUR IMPACT

A GLIMPSE INTO OUR IMPACT

Last year, we made more than 600 grants to fuel feminist activists and sustain their movements in 43 countries—more grants than we’ve ever made in a given year! Our grants made it possible for our partners to defend reproductive freedom, fight for climate, disability, racial, and gender justice, and sustain themselves during moments of crisis.

505

Security Grants

97

Opportunity Grants

57%

of awarded funds supported collective care.

We supported feminist activsts and movements in 43 countries.

Canada

Canada

Central Asia

Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan

Europe

Austria
Belarus
Belgium
France
Germany 
Hungary
Italy
Lithuania
Netherlands
Moldova
Poland
Portugal
Sweden
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Estonia
Czech Republic
Andorra
Cyprus
Denmark
Finland
Greece
Iceland
Ireland
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Malta
Monaco
Norway
San Marino
Slovakia
Spain
Switzerland

The Balkans

Albania
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Kosovo
Romania
Serbia
Croatia
Montenegro
North Macedonia
Slovenia

The Caucasus

Georgia
Russian Federation
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Turkey

The Middle East

Jordan
Bahrain
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Lebanon
Oman
Syria
Yemen
Palestine
Kuwait
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates

The United States

United States

Support frontline feminist activism

 

for a more equal and just world.

 

Support frontline feminist activism

 

for a more equal and just world.

 

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Chinyere Ezie

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Chinyere Ezie is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she advocates for racial justice, gender justice, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) rights, and challenges governmental abuses of power. Chinyere previously worked at the Southern Poverty Law Center where she brought cases defending the rights of LGBTQI+ Southerners. She also served as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she litigated employment discrimination cases and secured a $5.1 million jury verdict on behalf of workers subjected to unlawful treatment. Chinyere is a William J. Fulbright Scholar, a White House Fellows Program Regional Panelist, and a cum laude graduate of Yale University. She also received a Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School, where she was an Alexander Hamilton Scholar and served as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Gender and Law. Chinyere serves on the Board of Directors of the Transgender Law Center and the feminist grant-making organization the Urgent Action Fund. She was also a Founding Board Member of the National Trans Bar Association.In 2018, she was named one of the nation’s Best LGBTQI+ Lawyers Under 40.