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#FundCourage
GOVERNMENTS, FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONSAmerican Jewish World
Service Arsenault Family Foundation Brooklyn Creative League, IncChannel Foundation Cloverleaf FoundationThe Colina FoundationThe Community Foundation
Serving Boulder CountyCordaid Dietel Partners Dobkin Family FoundationDutch Ministry of Foreign
Affairs Edna Wardlaw Charitable
FundFoundation for a Just SocietyFunding ExchangeGoogle Matching Gift FundGreen FundThe Lederer FoundationLevi Strauss Foundation Meehan Foundation Mize Family FoundationMoriah Fund Oak Foundation Open Society FoundationsOrchard House FoundationPannonia FoundationPolsky Family Charitable
FoundationSol and Doris R. Swiss
Foundation Charitable TrustStavros Niarchos Foundation Tides FoundationTimken-Sturgis Foundation Twanda FoundationVirginia Lopez FoundationUnited Methodist WomenTikva Grassroots
Empowerment Fund Xpu Foundation
INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIESRanil AbeysekeraNasin AhmedNefertiti AltanAngelika ArutyunovaDhyan AtkinsonKathleen Barry
Amy Batchelor and Bradley Feld
Louise BellJulie Parker BenelloJoanne BergholdNancy BernsteinNancy BillicaMerrill BlackBlack Family Charitable FundChela and Dorianna BlittRita and Irwin BlittPhillip BokovoyAnne BowhayBright Horizons FundDavid BrownGregory BrownDiane BrumfittOlga BuduAmy Laura CahnCarol CantwellJenna CapeciMary CarpenterMona ChunLinda ColeElizabeth ColtonEllie CrossLouise DavisSaskia and Anneke de JongeJaki and Devin McQuistonJelena DjordjevicJessica DouiebMary DowntonDiana DuarteMary Kaye EdwardsR. L. EllersdorferElaine EnarsonJean EntineEllen Epstein and Ian
BrownellJill ErtlJodie EvansCindy Ewing and Lucie
TiczonMelissa ExteinAmalia FischerMercedes FitchettKay ForsytheMariam Gagoshashvili and
Poppy ChanGuillaume GaluzJamie GloyneMargery GoldmanRoshmi GoswamiJulia Greenberg
Terry GreenblattCeleste and Jack GrynbergSarah GuntherAddie GuttagJeff and Katherine HaasJosie and David HaddenAlexis HalsteadXiaopei HeSusan Hirsch and Susan
LeafMichael Hirschhorn and
Jimena MartinezThieny HoangNan Holmes and Steve
KaufmanLorraine and Victor HonigKerry Lobel and Marta Drury,
girls just wanna have funD, a donor advised fund of Horizon Foundation
Diane HulletMahnaz Ispahani BartosLisa JacksonDanny KaufmanNathan Kaufman and Lynn
FrancoLynn KaufmanKaren KentKaren KinnearHannah KranzbergMaja KristinKate KroegerRachel-Alouki LabbéMargaret LadnerThomas Layton and Gyongy
LakyDorothy LebachJulien LenaudLeocha FundMarc LevyJane LewenthalAndrew and Sara LittCourtney LobelLeslie Singer LomasJudy LubowCarol MalnickAnne McCarten-GibbsJessica McCarthyLaurie McMillanBoli MedappaChris MehlingMaria MejiaPaulette J. Meyer and David
A. Friedman
Sara MichlRebecca MillsHolly MosherMargaret NewellKim OxholmSue PattersonPeace by Piece Fund Analia PenchaszadehLinda PeriJudith PetersonRhonda PoindexterFrancoise Marie Poinsatte
and Thomas VolckhausenBahman and Mona RabiiManuel RappardElisabeth and Robert RixSusan RosenbergJoan RothThe Sadie Gift FundRaymond SantiagoDr. Jean Rannells SaulPeter SchattnerMargaret SchinkThe Serendipity Gift FundRony and Catherine ShimonyAdriana SmithJeanne SnyderCaitlin Stanton and Randy
TriggTimothy StantonFreda Gail Stern Julia StoneBeret Strong and John
Tweedy JrJane SuskinCarla SutherlandRita ThapaLarry and Barbara TongateEmily UtzGhazal VaghediNisha VariaMarian WalkerBarbara WashburnMarissa WeselyEffie WesterveltCheryl WilfongJennifer WilsonChristine Wrenn
IN-KIND DONATIONSDesign Action CollectiveInkWorksLaw Offices of Melissa HarmsPaul Hastings LLP
OUR PARTNERS IN CHANGE
AUDITED FINANCIALS FOR 2013
23%Individuals
37%Foundations
40%Government
INCOME
10%
16%Fundraising
74%Programs
Administration
EXPENSES
FINANCIALS Total Revenue: $1,362,871Total Expenses: $1,357,815
Assets: $1,679,177Liabilities: $80,755
Net Assets: $1,598,422
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
From left to right: Mariam Gagoshashvili (Georgia) // Patricia Viseur Sellers (USA/Belgium) // Paulette Meyer (USA) // Kate Kroeger (Executive Director) // Roshmi Goswami (India) // Rachel-Alouki Labbé (First Nations of Canada - Abenaki) // Xiaopei He (China) // Marta Drury (USA) (not pictured)
STAFF MEMBERSKate Kroeger, Executive Director // Caitlin Stanton, Director of
Learning and Partnerships // Keely Tongate, Director of Programs Meerim Ilyas, Program Officer // Xin Xin, Program Officer
Danny Kaufman, Development and Communications Officer Yvonne Leland, Operations Coordinator // Rhonda Poindexter,
Bookkeeper // Carol Cantwell, Financial Management Consultant Amro Radwan, Technology Consultant
By love I mean that condition in the human spirit so profound it encourages us to develop courage and build bridges, and then to trust those bridges and cross the bridges in attempts to reach other human beings.
—Maya Angelou, 1928-2014
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OUR MISSION
Use the hashtag #FundCourage to share why supporting courageous women and LGBTQ activists is important to you.
#FUNDCOURAGE
MAKE A GIFT
Investing in the potential of women to lift and lead their societies is one of the best investments we can make.
Support women’s and LGBTQ human rights around the world by making a donation online at www.urgentactionfund.org or sending a check to: Urgent Action Fund, 660 13th Street, Suite 200, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Urgent Action Fund partners with women’s and LGBTQ movements worldwide to support activists striving to create cultures of justice, equality and peace.
• Our grants advance human rights when opportunities arise and save lives when activists face threats
• We respond within 72 hours, 365 days a year
• 100+ global advisors inform grant decisions
• Integrated security trainings increase activists’ well-being and safety
• We support networks of activists, both online and offline
Sana Saleem, Bolo Bhi, Pakistan
Don’t rely on wishful thinking to change the world, speak up & get involved.
Cover photo: Protesters in New Delhi, India respond to the government's handling of recent rape cases. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
OpportunityOpportunity grants enable women and LGBTQ activists to take action during time-sensitive windows of opportunity to change policies and laws or to mobilize public support for justice and equality.
Itach Maaki Women Lawyers for Social Justice (Israel)With a timely grant, Itach Maaki successfully pressured the Israeli government to change its domestic violence policies after the preventable death of two young Bedouin girls.
Security Security grants increase the resilience and safety of women and LGBTQ activists threatened because of their human rights work. These rapid grants are made within 24 - 48 hours.
Colours Rainbow (Burma/Myanmar)Following the unlawful detention and abuse of 12 transgender activists, Colours Rainbow used a rapid grant to evacuate two of the activists and to launch a national campaign to raise awareness about violence directed at LGBTQ people in the country.
LGBTQ
29%grants to support the
security of LGBTQ rights defenders or strategic
actions by LGBTQ movements.
Our Advocacy and Alliance-Building Program supports the long-term, coordinated effort of individuals and groups to intentionally spark and sustain a social movement.
In a globalized world, even grassroots activists need to work across borders to coordinate strategy.
In 2013, we supported the resilience of movements and self-care of activists through security trainings for 100+ leaders in women’s and LGBTQ movements.
REGION
8% North America
21% Middle East
56% Asia
15% Eastern/Central Europe
TYPE
41% Opportunity Grants
41% Security Grants
18% Movement Building Grants
Our Impact 2013 BY THE NUMBERS
8733
rapid response grants
countries
100+ women and LGBTQ leaders trained in digital and physical security
Movement Building
ANNUAL REPORT 2013
No one should take a bullet for their ideas. You should live for them, not die for them.
Until we end #violenceagainstwomen and girls, we cannot fully realize the ideals of human rights or democracy.
2 sister Urgent Action Funds in Latin America and Africa
South Asia Advisory Meeting, Nepal