TIDES Advancing Girls Fund

TIDES Advancing Girls Fund - Application

Overview of the Tides Advancing Girls Fund

Adolescent girls and young women1 of color2 are driving change, from their households to the forefront of social movements around the world. The Advancing Girls Fund supports their leadership, well-being, and advocacy so they can create the world they want and know is possible.

This fund prioritizes organizations and programs in the global south and in the U.S., that serve or benefit adolescent girls and young women of color through programming and systems change work. Specifically, we are investing in organizations and programs using strategies that work to ensure Black, Indigenous, Latina/Latinx, and Asian adolescent girls and young women have what they need to be physically and mentally healthy, well, and thriving.

Funding Priorities:
What we’re looking for…

Girl-Led - Organizations and programs that intentionally engage adolescent girls and young women of color’s perspectives and ideas in decisions on resource distribution and programmatic investments.
BIPOC-benefiting - Organizations whose services benefit BIPOC girls and young women, defined as Black, Indigenous, and other BIPOC identifying groups.
Justice-oriented - We believe in investing in services and systems change in parallel. To that end, in addition to direct programming and services, we seek to invest in programs and organizations that utilize strategies in policy advocacy, organizing, and narrative change to shift policies, cultural norms, and behaviors that will benefit the health and well-being of adolescent girls and young women of color.
Community-based - We prioritize organizations that are on the ground in the community they serve/benefit with proximate leadership (this is, led by those who are from the communities they serve). We will consider intermediaries when they have a place-based approach to re-granting to organizations that meet the above priorities AND reach a) hard to fund populations of girls and young women and b) to support non-formal, fiscally sponsored, or nascent organizations or programs. Advancing Girls will also consider funding larger, non-community-based organizations to do research, policy change, or narrative change activities, when these organizations are working in direct partnership with adolescent-girl and/or young women-led efforts and filling a gap.

General operating grants will be made to organizations whose primary purpose is to meet the above priorities. All general operating grants will be a year in length. The intention of the fund is to shift towards providing multi-year grants in future years.

Program (or project specific) grants will be made to organizations that have a specific program or project that serves/benefits adolescent girls and young women of color, but serving or benefiting adolescent girls and young women of color is not the sole purpose or mission of the organization. All program grants will be 1 year in length. The intention of the fund is to shift towards providing multi-year grants in future years.

Grantmaking Timeline & Process: Moving forward in 2023, Tides will shift towards requesting proposals for both new and renewal grants in April and August of each year.

1 by girls and young women, we include young people between and around the ages of 11-25 who identify as girls, as well as non-binary and gender-expansive youth.

2 by BIPOC or “girls of color,” we include Black/African-American, African, Indigenous, Latinx, multi-racial, Asian, Asian-American, Caribbean, Pacific Islander, Middle-Eastern and North African, Arab girls and their communities.

If you have any questions about the grant proposal and budget process, please contact Nancy Wan at advancinggirls@tides.org.

Grant Proposal

Organization Information

Name of Organization, Project, Group, or Formation

Country

Street Address

City

State

Zip/Postal Code

Website

Tax Status

Other

EIN or Tax Identification Number (or Fiscal Sponsor EIN if applicable)

Primary Contact Information

First Name

Last Name

Title/Role

Phone

Fiscal Sponsor Organization

Fiscal Sponsor Contact

Fiscal Sponsor Contact Email

Fiscal Sponsorship Documentation

Please note, if selected for a grant, Tides Foundation will request documentation of the fiscal sponsorship relationship. If available, please upload documentation, such as a signed fiscal sponsorship agreement, as part of your application.

President/ED/CEO - Organizational leadership contact

First Name

Last Name

Title/Role

Phone

Legal/Grant Contact - Contact for proposal and/or budget-related questions

First Name

Last Name

Title/Role

Phone

Payment Information Contact - Contact to provide banking info (for ACH or Wire payments)

First Name

Last Name

Title/Role

Phone

Proposal Narrative

Grant Purpose

Note: Grants to organizations that do not have 501(c)(3) status, including fiscally sponsored projects, must be Project Specific.

Summary:

Please provide a brief one-sentence description of the purpose (general support grant) or project (project-specific grant) for which you are seeking funding.

Year Organization Founded/Program Started

Organizational Mission Statement

Narrative Description:

Goals & Impact: Please share your organization's goals for the upcoming year and why your organization is seeking funding. What change or impact are you hoping to achieve specifically for adolescent girls and young women of color? (up to 4 paragraphs)

Please describe the adolescent girls' and young women of color-focused work your organization will undertake with the requested funding, the core challenge(s) this work seeks to address, and desired outcomes over the grant period. (up to 3 paragraphs)

Proposed Activities:

Please describe the specific activities that your organization will undertake towards achieving the goal(s) described above, and anticipated timeline for each phase of work. If your organization/program is engaged in systems of social change work [policy/advocacy, narrative change, organizing], please also include a description of those activities. Please be sure to inform us of any lobbying/C4 activity you are undertaking in your organization's work. (up to 3 paragraphs)

Staff, Leadership, Partnerships, and Collaboration:

Please tell us about your staffing makeup.

Number of full-time staff

Number of part-time staff

Number of interns/volunteers

Please tell us the specific ways that adolescent girls and young women of color’s voices and ideas drive or are included in decisions on resource distribution and programmatic investments. Example: We have adolescent girls on our board. We have a girl's advisory committee. Girls design program strategies. (up to 3 paragraphs)

Do you provide compensation for the adolescent girls' and young women's time?

YesNo

Please elaborate on what compensation is provided (stipend, salary, childcare, transportation costs, etc.)

Ages of primary adolescent girls and young women of color served/benefitting. By adolescent girls and young women, we include young people between the ages of 11-25 who identify as girls and young women, inclusive of non-binary and gender expansive youth. Please select all of the age ranges that apply to your organization or program.

11-1718-25

The Advancing Girls Fund believes gender is self-determined and includes cis-girls, gender nonconforming, and transgender girls in our community of girls and young women of color and their allies. If you use the term “youth” to describe your participants, can you define that term?

If you serve boys or young men in your organization or program, can you share the percentage of young people between the ages of 11-25, who identify as girls and young women, inclusive of non-binary and gender expansive youth?

Project Budget

Annual Organization or Program Budget ($ USD)

Grant Amount Requested ($ USD)

If your application is for a program or project grant, please provide a line-item budget, specifically for the proposed grant amount, that details how the requested funds will be spent. If your application is for a general operating grant, please provide your organization's general operating budget.

Example: Grant Budget Template (Please "Download" this document for your personal use.)

Final Report Acknowledgement

I acknowledge that completion of a brief grant report may be a condition of this grant and due 13 months after the award date.

Request to be named as a Grantee Partner

I give permission for my organization to be named as a grantee partner of Tides Advancing Girls Fund in online and print materialsI prefer my organization to NOT be named publicly at this timeThis is optional and not tied in any way to your funding. If you would like to change or withdraw your permission at any time, please contact Nancy Wan at advancinggirls@tides.org.

Pre-Grant Inquiry Form

Per our protocol for grantmaking to organizations that do not have 501(c)(3) status or Equivalency Determination, please complete a Pre-Grant Inquiry (PGI) Form as part of your application:
PGI Form for U.S.-based organizations
PGI Form for organizations outside of the U.S.