our 2023 & 2025 Grantee Partners
Abayomi Coletiva de Mulheres Negras
AfroPoderosas
Afroyoga Colombia
Asociación Casa Cultural el Chontaduro
Asociación de Mujeres Afrocolombianas (AMAFROCOL)
Asociación Lila Mujer
Centro Nacional de Africanidade e Resistência Afro Brasileiro (CENARAB)
Colectivo Ilé
Coletiva Teia Anansi
Coletivo Angela Davis
La Comadre de AFRODES
N’zinga - Coletivo de Mulheres Negras de Belo Horizonte
Red Mariposa de Alas Nuevas
Rede de Mulheres Negras da Bahia
Rede de Mulheres Negras do Rio de Janeiro e Coletivo Rosalia Lemos
Revista Afirmativa (Coletiva de Mídia Negra)
Voces de Mujeres Afrodescendientes en Panamá (VOMAP)
VidaAfrolatina resources our grantee partners for three grant cycles in a row. In 2021, we awarded a grant to four pilot partners through a participatory process in 2021. In 2023, we renewed our pilot partners and awarded grants to an additional 13 organizations through a non-competitive process. In 2025, we renewed our entire second cohort of 17 organizations. Our partners are doing transformative work to cultivate the healing of Black women and girls in Latin America and to end sexual violence in their communities and countries. Learn more about their work below.
BRAZIL
A Black feminist, non-partisan, civil society organization that fights for Black women’s rights and advances the socio-political development of Black children and adolescents, created in 2017 in Salvador.
A Belo Horizante-based organization that combats racism, religious intolerance, class prejudice, sexism, and LGBT phobia through leadership development, education, art, culture and storytelling, founded in 1991.
An activist research group on gender, race, and colonial legacies of exclusion, created in 2011 within the Graduate Program in Social Sciences at the Federal University of Recôncavo Bahia as a result of student demand.
A collective in Belo Horizante that has worked to combat racism, sexism, and LGBT discrimination and oppression since 1987, and that coordinates the State Network of Black Women in Minas Gerais.
An organization based in Belo Horizante that promotes human rights for women and adolescents, primarily Black women and incarcerated women, and works to free them from violence, exploitation and socioeconomic inequality, founded in 2018.
Founded to organize the 2015 Black Women’s March, this network fights against racism, sexism and machismo in the state of Bahia, and mobilizes and strengthens Black women and their organizations.
Created in 2018 by women throughout the state of Rio de Janeiro, this autonomous network of Black women’s movement collectives and organizations promotes racial and gender equality and the right to employment, territory, safety and other protections.
A media collective in Salvador founded in 2014 that uses journalism and other forms of communication to advance racial and gender justice, Black history and memory and to counter racist, sexist and heteronormative stereotypes commonly conveyed by traditional media.
COLOMBIA
With a focus on wellness and social justice, this Black feminist collective founded in Cali in 2018 provides a multi-disciplinary healing program for young Black women who have experienced sexual violence.
Founded in 1986 in Cali, this community-based organization uses arts activities to strengthen Black cultural identity, promote gender equity and support environmental sustainability, as well as providing training and political education to youth and women.
A community-based organization focused on Black women’s rights, founded in 1996, that preserves and disseminates Black culture, supports economic empowerment, and affirms and amplifies Black aesthetics and beauty.
Founded in 2003, this Cali-based organization works with women living with HIV, who have experienced gender-based violence, or who live in vulnerable conditions, by providing psychological support, legal guidance, violence prevention activities and skill building workshops.
A national organization based in Bogotá, founded in 2017 by and for Afro-Colombian women victims of Colombia’s armed conflict, providing psychological-spiritual support, documenting human rights abuses and championing public policies and programs addressing Black women’s rights and reparations.
A Buenaventura-based organization that defends the lives, territories and rights of Black, Afro-descendant, Palenquera, Raizal and Indigenous women through public policy, political education, and legal and healing support for victims of racism and gender-based violence, founded in 2010.
PANAMÁ
A Panama City-based organization founded in 2015 that works to eradicate racism, make visible the marginalization of Afro-descendant women, push for anti-discrimination policies and programs and advance Black women’s participation in political and public life.
PUERTO RICO
A anti-racist collective based in Caguas that develops Black Puerto Rican women’s leadership and works to transform colonial attitudes and policies in academic, spiritual, psychological-social, cultural, economic and political realms, founded in 1992.
MULTINATIONAL
Launched in 2021, initially as a Costa Rica-Mexico binational initiative and now expanding to other countries, to support sexual and reproductive rights and dignified menstruation among youth and young women through educational workshops with an anti-racist lens.
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