The Alliance for Gender Equality in Europe has approved three Opportunity and Emergency Grants, awarded between October 2025 and January 2026. These targeted, short-term grants provide timely support to organisations responding to urgent challenges or taking advantage of emerging opportunities to advance gender equality.
Fundacja Interakcja / Interaction Foundation
Poland – €19 408 – core support – January 2026 to January 2027
Fundacja Interakcja is Poland’s first and only organisation entirely dedicated to advancing intersex human rights, and one of the very few such initiatives in Eastern Europe. Its mission is to help build a society in which people with innate variations in sex characteristics, particularly children and young people, are safe, supported, and free from medical coercion, stigma, and discrimination.
In Poland, intersex people have long faced systemic erasure, medical violence, and deep-rooted stigma. While some Western European countries have begun to recognise and protect intersex human rights, the situation in Poland has deteriorated. In recent years, the community in Poland has seen an escalation of hostile narratives and attacks against intersex people in both traditional and social media, further increasing stigma, isolation, and mental health distress within the community.
In early 2025, at precisely the moment when the intersex community needed support the most, Fundacja Interakcja experienced severe and unexpected funding cuts. As a result, the organisation canceled their annual in-person community gathering for the first time in seven years. This was a profound loss: the event had been a unique, free-of-charge space for intersex people from across Poland to come together, build resilience, and strengthen their collective voice in the face of growing hostility.
This grant will make it possible for Fundacja Interakcja to bring its annual in-person community gathering back in 2026. Peer support and collective spaces are among the most effective ways to counteract the shame, isolation, and marginalisation experienced by intersex people. For many participants, the gathering will offer a rare, and often first, opportunity to meet others with similar lived experiences, reduce minority stress, and nurture self-acceptance.
Beyond its individual impact, the gathering will strengthen Fundacja Interakcja’s relationship with its community, deepen its understanding of emerging needs, and contribute to building a more connected and resilient intersex movement in Poland. A stronger and better-organised community will be better equipped to resist anti-gender and anti-rights narratives,generate momentum for shared initiatives, and reinforce the broader gender equality and human rights ecosystem in the region.
Les Glorieuses / Gloria Media
France – €30 000 – project support – January 2026 to December 2026
Gloria Media is an independent feminist media organisation based in Europe, dedicated to transforming narratives about women and gender equality. It operates at the intersection of journalism, research, and advocacy to amplify feminist knowledge and perspectives to a broad and influential audience. The organisation currently publishes two flagship newsletters, reaching more than 150,000 subscribers.
In an increasingly fragmented and polarised digital information environment, feminist journalism faces many challenges, including disinformation, online misogyny, and the rise of anti-gender rhetoric. Research also shows that gender issues account for less than 0.2% of global news coverage, and when they are covered, they are often framed through stereotypes or short-term news cycles that fail to capture the systemic nature of inequality. Gloria Media’s The Evidence / La Preuve newsletter was created to address these pressing issues.
Following the loss of key institutional funding, this grant will enable the newsletter’s continuation throughout 2026, ensuring that rigorous, feminist, and evidence-based journalism remains available at a critical moment for gender equality and democracy.
Between January and December 2026, twelve bilingual issues of the newsletter will be published, each focusing on a core dimension of gender inequality, such as reproductive rights, care work, climate justice, economic abuse, digital discrimination, or political representation. The project will make gender research accessible and actionable by contextualizing academic findings for a wide, non-specialist audience to support informed advocacy, policymaking, and journalism.
The grant will also enable Gloria Media to continue developing a longer-term funding strategy, including diversified revenue streams across institutional partnerships, private foundations, and corporate sponsors aligned with their mission.
Supporting Abortions for Everyone – SAFE
Netherlands – €30 000 – core support – October 2025 to April 2026
SAFE is a European organisation working to ensure that anyone who wants an abortion can access one regardless of where they live, how they identify, or how much money they have. Its mission is to enable abortion access while also building a resilient, inclusive movement that leaves no one behind.
With a growing anti-gender movement across Europe, abortion care is increasingly under threat. While outright bans remain rare, many countries impose arbitrary restrictions or barriers that restrict access in practice. This makes frontline activism more vital than ever. Yet, grassroots groups coordinating abortion care are increasingly at risk of burnout, which puts essential support systems at further risk.
With this grant, SAFE will sustain the grassroots abortion access movement by supporting both emerging and established groups with essential infrastructure, funding, and back-office support. It will also continue to collect and share knowledge and best practices via their secure online resource platform for grassroots abortion activists in Europe. All resources will be translated into three additional European languages, bringing the total to eleven.
SAFE also plans to secure and distribute funding to cover abortion-related costs and ensure that critical services continue without disruption, particularly in contexts where other funding sources have been reduced or withdrawn.
Opportunity and Emergency Grants
You can read more about our Opportunity and Emergency grants by clicking on this link. These grants operate outside of our usual grantmaking cycles, with a limited portion of our budget allocated to them, so only a few organisations or initiatives can be funded each year.
As part of our commitment to transparency, we strive to be open about our decisions and investments. All grantee partners are listed on our website.
Photo by Les Glorieuses.