A funding tool used to support interventions by activists in a strategic and timely manner.
Grant requests are accepted 365 days per year, in any language, from activists around the world. Each request receives a response within 72 hours and funds can be wired within a week. UAF created this unique grantmaking model in 1997 to enable women activists to take advantage of unexpected opportunities, to mitigate threats, and/or to prevent backsliding in their ongoing work to advance the human rights of all people.
Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights and
BoldeReach
are 501(c)(3)
non-profit organizations
Around the World With BoldeReach Microcredit
October 6, 2007
Friendship Bridge
&
TIAW
“Microfinance is one of the most powerful solutions to poverty in existence today..."
Alex Counts, Grameen Foundation President
Around the World With BoldeReach Clean Water
June 24, 2006
Engineers Without Borders
&
Water for People
Clean water is an urgent need of every human being, yet millions must struggle to meet that need, and thousands -- mostly children -- die everyday from water-related diseases.
Return to Shangri-La Preventing Sexual Exploitation and Global Trafficking February 5, 2005
Free A Child
Every year more than 1,000,000 children are forced into the multibillion dollar sex trade. The sex trade is the second most lucrative criminal enterprise after drugs. The average age range of trafficked children is 10-14 years old.
Silk Road Education in Afganistan June 7, 2003
Afgan Ed
BoldeReach hosted "A Night on the Silk Road" to help raise money for the local United Nations Association's Afghan Ed project, which brought educational materials to the battered cities and villages of Afghanistan.
Bikes for Katrina Hurricane Katrina Relief October 2005
Bikes for Katrina
BoldeReach collected hundreds of bicycles from local residents. The bikes were inspected and tuned up by Full Cycle Bikes, loaded onto two trucks and taken to the Baton Rouge Bicycle Club to aid in relief efforts.