{"id":5287,"date":"2021-05-31T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T17:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:44:06","slug":"young-feminist-groups-weathering-the-storm-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/2021\/05\/31\/young-feminist-groups-weathering-the-storm-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Feminist Groups Weathering the Storm of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Channel partner Purposeful and others set up the Global Resilience Fund to provide resources to young women and girl groups organizing in response. A year later, Purposeful released a report highlighting the voices and perspectives of these feminist activists.<!--more--><!--noteaser-->In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, feminist activists at Sierra Leone-based organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/grants\/purposeful\/\">Purposeful<\/a> and others in various locations set up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobalresiliencefund.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Resilience Fund<\/a> in order to meet the needs of young women and girl groups organizing in response to the pandemic. They released a report about a year later, in mid 2021, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobalresiliencefund.org\/report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Weathering the Storm&#8221;<\/a> which highlights the voices and perspectives of the feminist activists and demonstrates just how they tackled organizing in a difficult and constantly shifting context.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Resilience Fund, now a Channel grantee partner, is a rapid-response participatory funding initiative launched by Purposeful with the aim of providing resources to girls and young feminists responding to the pandemic. &#8220;Weathering the Storm&#8221; represents the journey of this fund thus far by drawing on case studies of young feminist-led groups, first-hand reflections, and contributions that demonstrate the reality of organizing in and after a pandemic. In sharing their lessons learned through this report, Purposeful hopes to contribute to future efforts to model feminist partnership and inclusive rapid-response resourcing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Channel partner Purposeful and others set up the Global Resilience<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[464,122,114,113,135],"class_list":["post-5287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","tag-ffcr","tag-global","tag-grf","tag-purposeful","tag-swfm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64242,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions\/64242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}