About us
Our Story
FRom the people, for the people
The spark
Activist Carola Rackete is unlawfully arrested for supporting migrants on route to Europe. In response, a crowdfunding campaign for legal fees raises over 1 million Euro.
When Rackete’s charges were dropped, 5 organisations in the migration field came together to create democratic process to redistribute the money, with one woman* representative from each on the Board.
Born from bottom-up, this was the official creation of the Fund as a trustworthy partner to grassroots and frontline movements.
Collective care and rehearsing futures
We implement a 2-year rotating Board cycle to democratise power over grantmaking, and continuously include representatives with lived experience of migration.
For the greatest impact of our resources, we actively “fund the underfunded”: overlooked regions, informal forms of organising, as well as local, smaller initiatives.
Transforming philanthropy
We venture into the philanthropic field as an intermediary fund for grassroots migrant justice. Guided by our values and a feminist participatory grantmaking model, we are identifying spaces where power can shift and community leadership can thrive.
Our work is laying the foundation for long-term, transformative advocacy so that funders can build trusting alliances to frontline and migrant communities — an important step we know that philanthropy can and must do.
Building for the Long Term
Across Europe, hostility is rising, civic space is shrinking, and shifting funding priorities are reshaping the field of migrant justice. We are strengthening ourselves as a long-term intermediary partner to migrant-led and grassroots initiatives—building sustainability within our organisation, refining our grantmaking, and expanding our capacity to support movements.
Migrant-led movements are pushing back with strength and vision, and our commitment is clear: collective action for a world where everyone has the freedom to move, and no one is forced to.
