Grant Application - Eligibility Questionnaire

Red Umbrella Fund Grantmaking Criteria
Each year, dozens of applications are submitted by organisations that are not eligible for a Red Umbrella Fund Grant. In order to assess whether your organisation is eligible prior to proceeding to the application, please answer the following eligibility questions. If you are not sure how to answer any of these questions, you may contact us at applications@redumbrellafund.org.
Does your organisation fall into any of the following categories?
Organisations that seek to end or criminalise sex work*
Organisations that exclusively provide social or medical services, income-generating activities or credit programmes*
Organisations founded by or structurally dependent on political parties, government agencies or religious institutions*
Organisations that are businesses or whose main strategy is making a profit*
Organisations requesting this grant for academic research*
Requests from individuals*
Organisations that have a project with or for sex workers, while the organisation as a whole has a broader focus. *
If you wish to apply for a Red Umbrella Fund grant, your organisation (group, network, or collective) must fulfill these criteria:
1. Is your organisation led by sex workers?

Each of these points must be met to qualify for this criteria
Decision-making body: At least 60% of the decision-making body must be sex workers. This can include former and current sex workers, but with at least an aspiration to include current sex workers. *
Spokespeople: At least 60% of the people who speak on behalf of the organisation must be sex workers. *
Staff: At least 33% of the staff are sex workers, with the same contracts and working conditions as other staff in the organisation.*
2. Is your organisation’s mission focused on sex work and your organisation’s main focus to support sex workers’ rights?
Select One*
If your mission does not explicitly state sex work: please explain why and how is your main focus to support sex workers’ rights. Please note that to be eligible, your organisation should be focused on (directly) benefiting sex workers, and not, for example: only working with former sex workers; only working with children of sex workers; or focus on the entire LGBTI community including sex workers, but without an exclusive focus on sex workers.
3. Is your organisation strengthening the sex workers’ rights movement?
Select One*
To be eligible, each application needs at least one reference from a sex worker-led organisation. Most applications also need a second reference, which can be from an allied organisation.
4. Does your organisation agree with the values and operation principles of Red Umbrella Fund?
- Autonomy: We respect self-determination of sex workers.
- Sex work is work: We oppose criminalization and all forms of stigma and discrimination against sex workers. We recognize that sex work is work.
- Rights-based: We commit to supporting advocacy for rights-based policies, laws and practices that are rooted in evidence of what works, as analyzed from sex workers’ perspectives.
- Ownership: We believe that sex workers must be in charge of design, implementation, and evaluation of programs and policies that affect them.
- Diversity: We embrace the diversity of sex workers and support sex workers of all genders, sexualities, and life experiences. We also recognize that some sex workers are particularly impacted by intersecting forms of marginalization and commit to including them in all our work.
- Accountable: We commit to advocacy and funding processes that are transparent and accountable to the sex workers’ rights movement.
- Learning: We commit to learning and using what we learn to inform our grantmaking and advocacy and to demonstrate the value of working collaboratively.
Agree?*
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Red Umbrella Fund Grantmaking Criteria

Does your organisation fall into any of the following categories?

If you wish to apply for a Red Umbrella Fund grant, your organisation (group, network, or collective) must fulfill these criteria:

1. Is your organisation led by sex workers?

2. Is your organisation’s mission focused on sex work and your organisation’s main focus to support sex workers’ rights?

3. Is your organisation strengthening the sex workers’ rights movement?

4. Does your organisation agree with the values and operation principles of Red Umbrella Fund?