Funding a future that works for people and the planet
The COVID crisis and economic recession reinforce the urgent need to address inequality and the climate emergency. Women, informal and low wage workers, migrants and marginalized racial and ethnic groups bear the largest burden of the economic fallout – and must be at the center of both the immediate response and longer-term structural change.
Bold, innovative action is required to correct the structural, legal and cultural misalignments between short-term profit on the one hand, and people and the planet on the other. For this reason, Ford Foundation, Fundación Avina, Humanity United, Laudes Foundation, Omidyar Network, Open Society Foundations, SAGE Fund, True Costs Initiative, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund and Wallace Global Fund have joined forces through the Response and Vision Fund.
The Response and Vision Fund supports promising strategies that achieve impact now, while offering the possibility of translating lessons to scale.
The Response Fund supports community-led and civil society organizations, workers’ rights groups and social movements that work with those most impacted by the economic fallout of COVID-19.
The Vision Fund advances systemic change to shift the economy in a more just and sustainable direction.
Funding is currently by invitation only.
With the Response and Vision Fund, we're collaborating to shift the status quo, to break out of silos and build collaborative action, and to support and learn from those at the forefront of change.
2020 Response Fund
These projects support key communities at the frontlines of the economic crisis, including domestic and garment workers, migrants, Indigenous communities and small landholders. The grants support Global South-led organizations and constituency-led movements. Grantees include organizations working to influence global actors, particularly international financial institutions, to ensure equitable outcomes from government relief packages and corporate bailouts.
2021 Response Fund
These grants address the devastating economic impacts that workers and communities face across the Global South as a result of the COVID pandemic. The investments focus on climate, gender and debt justice. They aim to catalyze reforms that protect the rights of workers and communities, while strengthening accountability mechanisms and addressing inequities in the financial system.
2021 Vision Fund
The Vision Fund was launched with a grant round on debt and post-COVID recovery. These investments address the way sovereign debt constrains governments' ability to meet basic needs, provide social protections and protect citizen rights. The grantees support actions that reduce fiscal constraints on public services and rights protection; challenge debt-related policy measures that adversely affect workers and communities, particularly in the Global South; and promote collaboration between the debt justice community and the human rights, labor, climate and feminist movements.
