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We fund work to meet urgent needs in communities, enhance women's leadership and build strong local institutions.
We strengthen the skills of individuals and organizations to mobilize in communities, influence policies and sustain movements.
We mobilize our team of advocates and lawyers to train and accompany partners in shared campaigns for policy change.
Our grassroots partners are women leaders who protect and provide for communities facing war and disaster. Together, we build skills, strengthen local organizations and advance progressive movements. And we bring women's demands to policymakers and advocate for rights, resources and results.
VIVA Girls
Young women and girls are planting the seeds for a feminist future. In our new initiative, VIVA Girls partners with and uplifts girl-led programs, cultivates adolescent girls' leadership and co-creates spaces for girls' voices in our social movements. Together, we're helping a new generation of feminist leaders thrive.
In The News
Women's leadership is key to a successful uprising. In this Los Angeles Times piece, Executive Director Yifat Susskind looks back on a year of mobilizations for change and what we can learn from them.
#NoWarWithIran
Trump is steering us towards a disastrous war and we're working to prevent it. MADRE stands for peace and the safety of those across the region. Get connected to your Member of Congress and tell them they must act to stop a war!
MADRE has collaborated with local Colombian partners, Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN) to create a book profiling a group of Black women organizers. This books names the challenges with surveillance, violence, repression and more - as well as the intergenerational movements to combat them.
