Support women, girls and trans in Hong Kong

Thank you very much for your contribution to the gender movement in Hong Kong. In the past one month, we are busy with meeting with potential grant applicants. We have met many new and small organisations that would like to increase their voices and participation in the gender movement. With your contribution, we are going to grant at least 6 organisations to work on different issues.

Last month (September), we designed a legal pro bono introductory workshop for our grantee partners. We invited law firms and PILnet HK to share the idea of legal pro bono. We also created an opportunity for our grantee partners to meet with these law firms and PILnet HK individually to have a mutual understanding. We have this idea because we learnt that grantee partners have a lot of needs that law firms can support them (they thought law firms can only provide case legal advice), and they do not know how law firms select their pro bono partners. Law firms have a lot of experiences working with bigger organisations while they do not have much experience in working with very small and grassroots organisations. This allows them to connect and build new resources. Without unrestricted donation, we cannot response to the community needs flexible way. This is a good example and we need more unrestricted donation for grantmaking and capacity strengthening. 

Please invite your friends to join the community and donate to support the gender movement in Hong Kong.

best,
Judy

Curious about "We ae more than a funder!"? Yes, we are not just giving financial grant, we spent a lot of staff time to accompany our grantee partners to learn about their progress, to support them and to celebrate with them.

Our grantee partner, PrideLab, hosted a market in June to celebrate their 10th anniversary and celebrate pride month. Another one called Social Justice for Migrant Workers. They held celebration in July for their 4th birthday. We were invited to give a solidarity speech. We participated in Quarks, a youth-led trans group, book launch in May. I just named a few here.

We met them to listen to their stories of change, their learnings and their needs so that we can tailor-made something together that fit with their needs. For example, we link up Social Justice for Migrant Workers with a law firm to provide pro bono support on their registration. We line-up grantee partners to learn from each other experience in opening a bank account, etc. 

Without your trust and donation, we cannot hire capable staff to provide all this timely support. It's going to be July Bonus Day very soon. Hope you can help spreading around to encourage more friends to join us as Gender Equality Champion!

best,
Judy Kan