FundAction is an activist-led participatory grantmaking fund that brings together a growing community of over 250 grassroots activists working in movements across 29 countries in Europe on a diverse range of issues. All FundAction members share a commitment to deep transformative change in their daily work – towards a regenerative economy, a fair world of solidarity and a healthy planet.

FundAction aims to shift decision-making power over funding from funders to affected communities and activists working on the frontlines. As such, we are committed to "power with", as opposed to “power over”.

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FundAction is an activist-led participatory grantmaking fund that brings together a community of over 250 grassroots activists working in movements across 29 countries in Europe on a diverse range of issues. All FundAction members share a commitment to deep transformative change in their daily work – towards a regenerative economy, a fair world of solidarity and a healthy planet.

At the crossroads of philanthropy and movement work, we consider ourselves in a unique position to contribute to deep systems change:

On the level of movements, we work to facilitate and nourish movements’ daily work on deep, transformative change by:

• Facilitating access to flexible and low-bureaucracy funding that meets their needs and aims. We currently run four different types of grant rounds (Resist, Rethink, Renew and thematic grants)
• Replacing the standard model of competition over funding with the FundAction model which offers a democratic platform for exchange, collaboration and sharing of resources.

On the level of funders and people of wealth, we work to facilitate and nourish deep, transformative change by sharing our lived experience of participatory grantmaking and by inviting funders to join the journey, shift power and become catalysts of this much needed change in philanthropy. 

FundAction brings together funders and activists around a shared vision for deep transformative change.

We envision for more funders and people of wealth to endorse FundAction’s mission and vision and to play an active role in shifting the power by putting their trust in the people with lived experience and by supporting FundAction.

We envision for FundAction to further develop as a financially stable and thriving participatory grantmaking fund, that facilitates unrestricted and longterm funding to movements. As such, movements can focus their energies, expertise and organisation power on the actual work of creating transformative change. They are joined, supported and advised by funders and people of wealth who trust them and who share their values and vision for change.

We envision for the FundAction platform to nourish and facilitate collaborations, exchanges and connections among the growing community of grassroots activists and movements across Europe. We wish to bridge the gap between funders and activists, and to effectively connect needs with resources through this evolving participatory model of fair redistribution of power and wealth. 

As an ultimate goal, FundAction envisions a just and equitable world and a healthy planet, where both philanthropy and social movements become redundant.

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