Institutional Donors

The AWDF has developed a fundraising strategy which is being implemented in two phases. This has involved working with a core group of institutional donors who have shown a willingness to support the establishment of a philanthropic institution in Africa for women. Over the past four years, the AWDF has been successful in mobilising resources from the following donors:

 

• Action Aid Ghana
• Action Aid International
• African Capacity Building Foundation
• American Jewish World Service (AJWS)
• Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Comic Relief (UK)
• CORDAID
• Global Board of Methodist Ministries
• Global Fund for Women
• HIVOS
• Mamacash Foundation (The Netherlands)
• Match International (Canada)
• New Field Foundation
• Open Society Institute for West Africa
• Open Society Initiative for South Africa
• Oxfam Novib
• Rockefeller Philanthropic Advisers
• Stephen Lewis Foundation
• Stichting Doen (The Netherlands)
• Tet Ansam Fund of the Tides Foundation
• The Ford Foundation
• The French Embassy in Ghana
• The John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation
• The Mertz Gilmore Foundation (US)
• The Nelson Mandela Foundation (46664)
• The Royal Netherlands Embassy, Ghana
• The Sigrid Rausing Foundation (UK)
• The Sister Fund (USA)
• The Swiss Embassy (Ghana)
• The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
• Tides Foundation (US)
• UNAIDS
• United Artistes for Africa, USA
• Urgent action Fund
• Women's Fund of Minnesota

The second phase of the AWDF fundraising strategy began in 2002 and will run through 2005. It has as its focus the following:

• Bi-lateral funding agencies
• Private foundations in North America and Europe
• Philanthropists within and outside Africa
• African governments
• The corporate sector in North America, Europe and Africa
• Africans in the Diaspora