Growing Against All Odds: Mapping Funding for Intersectional Organizing in the CEECCNA Regions is the first-ever comprehensive analysis of funding for intersectional organizing across the diverse regions of Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central and North Asia (CEECCNA).
Growing Against All Odds: Mapping Funding for Intersectional Organizing in the CEECCNA Regions is driven by the need to spotlight lived experiences and political agendas of regional social justice movements, whose efforts are critical yet often overlooked and underfunded.
At the same time, it is not only about funding in that geography — though worthy of study in its own right. The findings also point to the challenges and possibilities of driving funding to movements around the world that are operating amidst crisis, restricted civic space, and attacks on democratic institutions.
Funders committed to social justice and human rights around the world can take lessons from the CEECCNA regions, which stand out as a roadmap of right-wing tactics and, at the same time, a case of longstanding organized resistance.
In the pages that follow, this report will:
Present the funding trends from 2019 to 2023 for movements within the CEECCNA regions.
- Demystify the CEECCNA regions — a set of regions — that have often remained out of view and misunderstood in the Global North dialogue.
- Define and uplift what we are calling intersectional organizing, the powerful activism, organizing, and social movement efforts that address intersecting forms of oppression and visions for liberation. This includes feminist, LGBTQIA+, and Indigenous groups, among others.
- Place funding for intersectional movements in CEECCNA regions into a larger global context, pinpointing lessons and potential funding strategies relevant in a quickly changing global funding landscape.
At this time of unprecedented cuts to foreign aid globally, a bevy of regressive anti-rights laws, and significant changes in the philanthropic landscape, we are publishing the first-ever comprehensive analysis of funding for intersectional organizing across the diverse regions of Central Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central and North Asia (CEECCNA).
The lessons and takeaways in the particular moment travel in both directions. On the one hand, the global funding ecosystem directly affects resources for organizing in the CEECCNA regions. On the other hand, the experiences in the CEECCNA regions distill major trends shaping global politics today.
By turning to the movements leading change, we see how funders can actively protect intersectional organizing there and around the world.
Growing Against All Odds: Mapping Funding for Intersectional Organizing in the CEECCNA Regions
