Feminist resourcing. Community-led power. Reimagining how resources move.
We are a feminist platform building new pathways for funding, solidarity, and collective care across African movements.
Wanawake Maverick Fund is a feminist resourcing platform built by African feminist leaders who have organized within movements and navigated funding systems. We are grounded in lived realities, collective struggle, and the everyday work of sustaining communities in contexts of inequality and exclusion.
We exist because feminist movements, particularly those led by African women and gender-diverse communities, remain under-resourced, overburdened, and structurally excluded from decision-making spaces that shape how funding flows.
Our work is rooted in feminist principles of redistribution, autonomy, solidarity, and collective care. We move resources in ways that trust movements, center lived experience, and affirm the leadership of those most impacted by injustice.
We understand resourcing as political and relational. It is not only about funding. It is about shifting power, strengthening ecosystems, and sustaining feminist futures.
Wanawake Maverick Fund operates as an interconnected feminist resourcing ecosystem that combines financial redistribution, shared resources, and collective care.
Our approach moves beyond traditional grantmaking by centering trust, flexibility, and movement-led priorities.
We recognize that funding alone is not sufficient to sustain movements. Feminist organizing requires flexible resources, access to infrastructure, and systems of care that allow communities to respond to immediate realities while building long-term resilience.
Our model is grounded in trust-based philanthropy and feminist principles of redistribution and solidarity, ensuring that resources reach communities in ways that reflect their needs and lived contexts.
We shift resourcing from a transactional process to a relational and political practice, recognizing movements as leaders, not recipients.
Wanawake Maverick Fund operates through interconnected feminist funding streams designed to respond to the realities of movements.
Each fund reflects a distinct yet complementary approach to resourcing, including redistribution, collective systems, and care, while remaining grounded in feminist principles of autonomy, solidarity, and transformation.
Wanawake Maverick Fund operates as an interconnected feminist resourcing ecosystem supporting diverse areas of feminist organizing across communities.
It functions as a cross-cutting fund resourcing work across climate justice, economic justice, energy access, food systems, governance, and community resilience, recognizing that these issues are deeply interconnected within lived realities.
As the core of the ecosystem, Wanawake Maverick Fund provides flexible, responsive, and movement-led funding across thematic areas that shape feminist organizing.
It is grounded in the understanding that feminist movements operate across overlapping crises and structural inequalities, and therefore require holistic and adaptive resourcing approaches.
The fund is designed to respond to both immediate needs and long-term priorities, ensuring that communities are resourced in ways that reflect urgency, complexity, and context.
It serves as the foundation that connects redistribution, shared resourcing, and care across the broader Wanawake Maverick ecosystem.
Ubuntu, meaning “I am because we are”, reflects solidarity, interdependence, and collective responsibility within feminist ecosystems.
It is a feminist resourcing approach grounded in shared infrastructure, collective knowledge, and systems that enable movements to function beyond financial dependency.
Ubuntu Fund reclaims collective models of resourcing by recognizing that movements already hold critical assets, including expertise, spaces, networks, and systems of care.
Rather than centering external funding as the only pathway to sustainability, the fund strengthens internal ecosystems through shared resources, collaborative infrastructure, and mutual support.
This includes access to convening spaces, technical expertise, mentorship, tools, and peer networks that enable movements to operate, grow, and respond to emerging needs.
Ubuntu challenges scarcity-driven funding models and shifts resourcing toward solidarity, reciprocity, and shared ownership.
It ensures that feminist movements can continue to function, organize, and lead, even when financial resources are limited or delayed.
Badilika, a Swahili word meaning change, also represents Breaking Barriers, Advancing Diversity, Inspiring Love, Inclusion, and Collective Transformation.
A strategic feminist fund focused on systems change, accountability, and structural transformation, particularly for queer and marginalized communities.
Badilika Fund reflects both transformation and disruption. It addresses systemic barriers that exclude feminist and queer communities from accessing power, visibility, and resources.
The fund supports strategic interventions including opposition monitoring, advocacy, and strategic litigation, strengthening accountability systems and challenging structural injustices.
It prioritizes those most impacted by inequality as leaders of transformation and supports work that dismantles patriarchy, exclusion, and systemic violence.
Badilika is both a call to change and a commitment to breaking barriers and reshaping systems.
Amani, meaning peace, reflects restoration, healing, and the right to wellbeing within feminist movements.
A feminist care fund that centers rest, mental health, and sustainability as essential to movement work, not secondary.
Amani Care Fund is grounded in the recognition that feminist organizing is sustained through immense emotional, physical, and political labour.
It provides support for rest, healing, mental health, and recovery, recognizing burnout and trauma as structural realities rather than individual failures.
Rooted in feminist care politics, it creates space for restoration, dignity, and long-term sustainability of leaders and movements.
It is an investment in collective wellbeing, movement longevity, and the futures being built by feminist communities.
Wanawake Maverick Fund is not only a funding platform. It is a feminist ecosystem built through relationships, solidarity, and shared commitment to transformation.
There are multiple ways to engage, contribute, and be part of this work.
Become part of a growing feminist ecosystem of organizations, collectives, and leaders working across regions and movements.
Joining the network creates opportunities for collaboration, shared learning, and collective organizing. It connects movements across geographies and thematic areas, strengthening relationships that sustain feminist work beyond funding cycles.
It is a space grounded in solidarity, trust, and long-term movement building.
Work with us to co-create initiatives, programs, and systems that strengthen feminist ecosystems.
We partner with organizations, institutions, and networks aligned with feminist principles and committed to long-term structural change.
Partnerships include co-designing programs, building shared infrastructure, and supporting movement-led approaches that center communities.
Support the ecosystem through knowledge, tools, spaces, and shared infrastructure.
Contribution extends beyond financial resources. It includes expertise, mentorship, convening spaces, and systems that strengthen collective capacity.
This reflects a feminist approach to resourcing grounded in interdependence and shared responsibility.
Invest in feminist movements through flexible, trust-based, and community-led funding approaches.
Supporting the work means contributing to systems that redistribute power and resources to communities most impacted by inequality.
It prioritizes long-term sustainability, adaptability, and trust in movements as leaders of change.