Funding Women of Color

The Rebel Fund is a 501-C3 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 of color by financially resourcing 3 projects annually 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 of color, who are engaged in creative activism, with financial capital and a decolonizing community space to nourish imagination and activate liberated futures where people of color thrive on our own terms and according to our own values.
The Rebel Fund Application is now closed.
Funding: Three (3) unique projects at $10,000 each, awarded annually.
Application: First-round applicants are asked to complete a short online application (less than 2,000 words total) that describes their project idea, activation description, and vision for our collective BIPOC futures. From this pool, select applicants will be invited to submit additional information and/or join us for a panel interview.
The Rebel Fund Selection Committee is primarily composed of The Rebel Fund board members- women of color from a variety of regional, ethnic, and professional backgrounds.
To support The REBEL Fund and invest in creative activism by women of color, click here to donate.

Meet the 2023 Grantees ☆

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.