Who we are
About Accelerate Together: an ambitious campaign to mobilize $600 million annually for all women and girls
We all know the urgent challenges facing our world right now: climate disasters, rising violence, and authoritarianism. But we also have solutions at our fingertips—in the grassroots women-led movements that exist across every region and in nearly every community, and are proven to improve outcomes on health, democracy, peace, climate and more.
These organizations are already working, everywhere from Nepal to Zimbabwe to the United States; they do not need to be built from scratch. They’re prepared to move faster and to scale. But what they do need is resources. That’s why Accelerate Together—a collaborative global campaign to drive funds swiftly and directly to women-led movements—was born. We’re mobilizing to secure $600 million annually in new support. Those resources will unlock the potential of groups that have for generations worked for the collective good, and invest in the movements that make life better for all of us.
Accelerate Together is, as our name makes clear, a collective effort: We do not steer funds toward one or two well-known or high-profile entities, but rather toward the total web of women-led groups that exists in communities around the world and is best positioned to improve the health, civic life and safety of the areas they serve. Our goal is clear: The world benefits when women’s organizations everywhere are empowered to scale their work.
The Accelerate Together steering committee
With a combined eight decades spent supporting the world’s most successful women’s movements, our committee of four organizations helps shape the campaign’s direction.
Alliance for Feminist Movements
Launched at the United Nations General Assembly in 2022, the Alliance for Feminist Movements is a collaborative effort between governments, private philanthropy, women’s and feminist funds, civil society organizations, and other allies to ensure that women-led movements receive the financial and political support they need to succeed. With over 480 members across more than 100 countries, the AFM builds multistakeholder initiatives that can help accelerate change and create a world in which feminist movements thrive and are abundantly resourced.
Gender Funders CoLab
Gender Funders CoLab is a network of funders committed to supporting the women’s rights and gender justice ecosystem and bringing more and better resources to the field. Launched in 2014, CoLab’s members are private and corporate foundations which collectively leverage hundreds of millions of dollars each year to advance gender justice worldwide. One example: Gender Funders CoLab was instrumental in helping secure the largest government investment ever in global feminist movements: $300 million CAD from the government of Canada for the Equality Fund.
Mama Cash
Mama Cash was the first international women’s fund in the world, established in the Netherlands in 1983. For more than four decades, it has worked to ensure that collective action led by women, girls, and trans and intersex people is resourced, supported and connected. As a feminist funder, Mama Cash supports self-led organizations and social movements working to defend their rights, by moving funding to feminist initiatives, groups, individuals and women’s and feminist funds in every region of the world.
Prospera - International Network of Women’s and Feminist Funds
Prospera is a global political network of women’s and feminist funds that collectively work to resource, strengthen and accompany feminist movements worldwide. Founded in 2000, Prospera brings together 49 autonomous women’s and feminist funds that provide flexible, long-term funding and strategic support to grassroots movements led by women, girls, trans, intersex, and non-binary people, primarily across the Global South and East. In 2024, Prospera’s members made 7,728 grants totalling over USD 120 million, reaching movements and organizations in 174 countries.
Our broader ecosystem
The Accelerate Together campaign is here to lift up the crucial work of hundreds of groups around the world, from women's funds to direct-service organizations
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The fact sheet
Everything to know about Accelerate Together in one place