Funding Women of Color

The Rebel Fund is a funding platform anchored by and connected to the mission of Rosa Rebellion. Rosa Rebellion's founders envisioned a space that would bridge the funding gap for women and non-binary people of color by financially resourcing projects and spaces led by women of color working to creatively disrupt racial injustice and community inequity.

About the Rebel Fund

  • Founded in 2022, the Rebel Fund’s mission is to equip women and non-binary people of color, who are engaged in creative activism, with financial capital and a decolonizing community space to nourish imagination and activate liberated futures.

    Read more about our community values and this year’s application, here.

  • The Rebel Fund is now OPEN. CLICK HERE TO APPLY.

    For more details around application qualifications, reference our call for submissions one-pager.

  • Funding: Four (4) creative activism projects at $5,000 and Four (4) awards at $2,500.

    Application: Applicants are asked to complete a short online application that describes their project idea, funding needs, and a vision for our collective BIPOC futures.

    The Rebel Fund Selection Committee is composed of The Rebel Fund boar of directors and Rosa Rebellion Advisory Board, a collection of women from a variety of regional, ethnic, and professional backgrounds.

  • We are not currently accepting donations. However, if you wish to contribute or invest, please email meagan@rosarebellion.com. In the meantime, we’d welcome your support by sharing the application and funding opportunity!

Meet the 2023 Grantees β˜†

Meet the 2023 Grantees β˜†

  • Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario

    Project: ARTE (Art and Resistance Through Education), a grassroots, non-profit organization based in New York City that engages youth as community cultural organizers for human rights change utilizing the visual arts.

    As a Mexican-American/Chicana, since the age of seven, Marissa has been a creator. Her motivation for her work and her greatest dream for the world is empathy; that one day we will all learn to care about others we will never meet as much as our own best friends.

  • Qi Dada

    Project: DIVAS AND DOULAS, a four-part docu-series on Black maternal health. Unique in its approach, the project will first protect from psychological harm and promote sheroes and solutions in the black birthing world. DIVAS AND DOULAS will create a colorful experience to bring Black women home into safety

    Qi Dada is an afro spiritualist story teller based in Austin, one half of Riders Against the Storm and an award-winning cultural icon.

  • Zyahna Bryant

    Project: The REPAST: A Black women’s gathering and blueprint for social justice work, is three interactive phases of immersive experiences in Charlottesville, Virginia, that center around a meal, an exhibition, and a forum.

    Zyahna is a student activist, writer, and community organizer. In 2016. At the age of 15, Zyahna petitioned for the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue and the renaming of Lee Park in downtown Charlottesville.

Rebel Fund Board + Contact

Meagan Harding, Board President

Erin Ajayi, Board Treasurer

Shaleiah Fox, Board Secretary

Jeanine Henry, Board Member

Denise Hernandez, Board Member

Sylvia Obell, Board Member

Pandit Wright, Board Member

Please direct all Fund or application questions to manager@therebelfund.org.