Dalan Fund
- Eastern Europe, Asia
- Eastern Europe, Asia
- dalan.fund
- Dalan Fund's YouTube
Channel Focus Area:
Strengthening the Women's Funding Movement
Mission:
The Dalan Fund’s (formerly known as CEECCNA Collaborative Fund) mission is to be a vehicle led and guided by the intersectional movements from Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central and North Asia (CEECCNA regions) to raise, leverage, and move more resources to grassroots organizers, and historically and presently excluded communities in crises.
The name of the Fund brings together multiple languages and cultural references from across CEECCNA regions: “Dalan’’ in Armenian means an arch, a passageway; in the Buryat language, it means a garden bed; in Mongolian, it signifies the edge of the mountain; and in the Yakut language, it denotes free, spaciousness. A passageway, a gathering and resting space, an edge of what is possible, freedom, and spaciousness — these concepts encapsulate the core identity of Dalan Fund.
Impact:
As of late 2025, and only 18 months after the Dalan Fund started making grants in May 2024, they have already reached a key milestone having moved over $1M in direct grants to support the crisis prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery work led by social justice organizers in the CEECCNA region.
They have already begun to make headway towards their mission to transform how Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central and North Asia are resourced, fostering resilience and the collective power of intersectional social justice organizers and movements in and for the regions.
Channel Grants:
2025-27: Channel made a two-year grant to the Dalan Fund to support their mission to be a vehicle led and guided by the intersectional movements from Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central and North Asia (CEECCNA regions) to raise, leverage, and move more resources to grassroots organizers, and historically and presently excluded communities in crises.
2023-24: Channel made a two-year grant to the Dalan Fund to support their launch as they focused on establishing themselves as an organization, mobilized resources, developed grantmaking programs, knowledge production, communications, and advocacy.
The rationale and process for setting up this new fund was described in a 2023 blog post “Turning crisis into long-term action: Seeding a Collaborative Fund for Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central and North Asia (ceeccna) Region” for the Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN). As the authors and co-founders point out, the new funding mechanism’s aim is to to respond to the complex realities of the region and to move beyond “the mode of ‘one crisis at a time.” Their aimed for the fund to facilitate better resourcing of social justice movements and to “serve as a vehicle for funders—both old and new—in the region to invest in the visions, propositions, and leadership of local organizers.”