Embodying the social and feminist movements of Latin America and the Caribbean.

We are a feminist fund that accompanies those who are at greater risk for the defense and protection of their rights and territories.

 

Our works centers on strengthening protection, holistic safety and collective care for the sustainability of movements.

We advocate for the mobilization of resources to respond to situations of crisis with agile and flexible grants.

We dream of a Latin America and Caribbean where defending rights does not cost the lives of women, sex and gender dissidents and racialized communities.

3 funding models

+ than 3 thousand grants awarded in 21 countries in the region

+ 15 years financing and accompanying

We embody and foster knowledge, practices and strategies for the sustainability of movements.

Our grants are for the protection, holistic safety and collective care of movements in the region that face risks and threats and who build and make possible transformations in the face of systems of oppression and injustice.

We seek to contribute to an ecosystem of funding and philanthropy that strengthens the sustainability of movements and ensures that resources reach those who are primarily at risk for defending rights and territories in the region.

We amplify the voices of those who are facing complex situations of extreme violence or the regression of their rights.

2025 Annual Report: acccompanying the responses that sustain life

In 2025, feminist organizations and movements across Latin America and the Caribbean continued protecting human rights defenders, caring for their communities, defending their territories, and building collective responses to criminalization, gender-based violence,...

From Abya Yala to New York: communities already have solutions to the climate crisis

September is a busy month in New York. Climate Week and the United Nations General Assembly bring governments, organizations, movements and others to the city to discuss decisions shaping the planet’s present and future. Against this backdrop, FAU LAC launched the...

When disaster strikes, movements are already responding

In the weeks following the recent earthquakes in Colombia and Venezuela, Fondo Acción Urgente para Latinoamérica y el Caribe (FAU LAC, Urgent Action for Fund Latin America and the Caribbean) received more than 50 Rapid Response Grant requests, representing at least...

From Latin America and the Caribbean to London: building Climate Justice with movements at the center

As part of London Climate Action Week 2026—one of the leading global gatherings to advance climate action—FAU LAC brought together funds, partner organizations, and activists. The goal was to introduce those who mobilize resources for climate action to the proposals...
Cover of the publication Semillas de lucha, raíces de futuro: Voces Feministas por la Justicia Climática, featuring an illustration of people gathered by a tropical shoreline, symbolizing collective action, care, and climate justice in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Seeds of transformation, roots for the future: Feminist voices for climate justice

This book is a collective endeavor by women and sex and gender dissidents defending territories across Latin America and the Caribbean. It emerged from the Climate and Gender Justice Learning Group, convened by FAU LAC, a space for collective creation that centers...

Resourcing strategies in an age of permacrisis: critical lessons from feminist philanthropy

This new report is a joint effort by the Urgent Action Fund Consortium and the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York. It examines how responses to increasingly complex and interconnected crises are funded. The research also explores what feminist...

Weaving hope, resisting through care. Annual Report 2024

The year 2024 was particularly significant for the Urgent Action Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean (UAF-LAC). We celebrated fifteen years of walking alongside those who uphold life, dignity, and hope in this deeply unequal region, where polycrisis are...

Manifesto for Communications that Accompany

We know that digital environments are constantly changing, and that there are platforms where our dreams and commitments do not fit. That is why we question our digital presences and choose to inhabit them as a practice that strengthens our voices and relationships....

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