Financing for Feminist Futures: Seeding Pathways for Feminist Resourcing
The Financing for Feminist Futures (F4FF) Conference took place in October 2025, just as the funding crisis for feminist work became impossible to ignore. Support networks that once kept movements going are now falling apart. In the Global Minority, feminist organizations face layoffs and pause programs under growing uncertainty. In the Global Majority, the damage is even greater: shelters and health services close, jobs disappear, and violence increases. Feminist movements and women’s rights organizations – already chronically underfunded – now face an even more precarious and urgent situation.
“Feminists are not only on the frontlines of crisis; we are also the shock absorbers”
Sapphire Alexander, Caribbean activist
The time to act is now #FundFeminists
The F4FF Conference was a response to these realities of fewer resources and greater threats, a strong refusal to give up on feminist futures. From this, the F4FF Reflection Paper was born, written for feminist movements, women’s funds, civil society allies, Philanthropy and decision-makers committed to transforming how gender equality is financed.
We invite readers not only to engage with these insights, but also to act on them: to shift resources, challenge harmful financing paradigms and stand in solidarity with feminist movements demanding structural change. Let the reflections serve as openings; ways to support and inform participation not only in traditional global convenings, but also in spaces where conversations can feel intimidating or more technical.
Suggested Citation: Chandreyi Guharay and Virginia Broering. Walking the Talk (April, 2026). Financing for Feminist Futures: Seeding Pathways for Feminist Resourcing.
Webinar
To mark the launch of the Reflection Paper, Walking the Talk organized a webinar with feminist organizations, civil society partners, feminist economists, movement leaders and conference conveners. A strong panel discussion explored what it takes to hold the line on public financing, sustain our movements, and grow feminist alternatives rooted in care, justice, and long-term strategy. The discussion also explored how to connect key advocacy moments and build on the momentum of F4FF to advance feminist financing priorities in upcoming global spaces, including Women Deliver 2026 and the 5th Feminist Foreign Policy Ministerial hosted by the Government of Spain.
Moving forward
More than ever, we need to work together, strengthen solidarity across differences, and continue building alliances and shared strategies. Since the conference, Walking the Talk has contributed to key global processes, including the 4th Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policy in Paris, the 2nd World Summit for Social Development in Doha, the 20th G20 in Johannesburg, and the 70th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70). In 2026, we are committed to extending this influence into key global forums, the ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development Follow-Up (FfD Forum), Women Deliver 2026 (including at the AFM Resourcing Hub), the 5th Conference on Feminist Foreign Policy in Madrid, and beyond.
Social Media Toolkit
To bring the messages from the Reflection Paper forward and outward, we’ve created informative social media sliders about feminist resourcing in English, French and Spanish. The posts can be used for online education, awareness and advocacy. You can download the posts with specific messaging that fits your audience. Below you can find inspiration for a caption, feel free to adjust to your liking.
Caption 1:
The crisis is not scarcity. It’s a crisis of solidarity and justice.
Feminist movements are holding the line – against authoritarianism, severe cuts, violence and systems designed to exclude them. And still, they continue to build, imagine, and sustain worlds rooted in care, dignity, and collective power.
This reflection from the Financing for Feminist Futures (F4FF) Conference brings together the strategies, tensions, and visions shaping feminist resourcing today.
📣 Read, share, and act: feminist futures won’t fund themselves.
Read full report: Reflection Paper – Walking the Talk
#FeministFutures #FundFeminists #ResourcingJustice #F4FF #WalkingTheTalk
Caption 2:
We are not waiting for feminist futures. We are already building them.
In a world of shrinking resources and expanding violence, feminist movements continue to organize, care, resist and reimagine.
The Reflection Paper from the F4FF Conference is a constellation of voices, strategies, and struggles: from holding the line to hacking the system to dreaming and build beyond it!
Read the reflections. Join the work: Reflection Paper – Walking the Talk
#FeministFutures #FundFeminists #ResourcingJustice #F4FF #WalkingTheTalk
Caption 3:
What does it take to resource feminist movements in times of backlash, austerity, and shrinking civic space? The insights from the F4FF Conference Reflection will tell you more!
Nearly 200 feminists from 46 countries came together to ask a difficult question: How do we sustain feminist movements today?
One truth echoed throughout the conference:
Money is political. The crisis we face is not about scarcity. It is about solidarity and justice: Most feminist organizations operate on less than $30,000 a year. Less than 1% of humanitarian funding reaches grassroots groups. But global wealth and military spending keeps growing to benefit a few at the expense of people and planet.
From defending public financing to building movement-led funding models, the message is clear: Feminist futures require political commitment, redistribution, courage and care.
Because feminist movements are not just imagining different worlds. They are already building them.
📖 Read the reflection and join the conversation: Reflection Paper – Walking the Talk
#FeministFutures #FundFeminists #ResourcingJustice #F4FF #WalkingTheTalk
If you have any questions or would like to get in touch, don’t hesitate to reach out to us at info-f4ff@hivos.org.
Will you join us in imagining how the world could be organized differently and acting to make those feminist futures a reality?