Red Umbrella Fund Application Form

1. CONTACT INFORMATION

Full name of your organisation:

Short name (if applicable):

City:

Country:

Telephone:

Please enter your number without spaces and with this format: [country code][area code][tel number]

Email Address:

Website [if available]:

Facebook Account [if available]:

Twitter account [if available]:

Other social media [if available]:

When was your organisation created?

Are your members within one country or across several countries?

Are your members mainly individuals or organisations?

Does your organisation mostly work at local, national, or international level?

Has your organisation received a grant from Red Umbrella Fund in the past 3 years?

Contact Person in your organisation

First Name:

Last Name:

Email Address:

Position within the organisation:

Telephone number:

2. BACKGROUND AND VISION

a. Is your organisation's mission focused on sex work and your organisation's main focus to support sex workers right?

Yes No

What is the mission of your organisation? Is your organisation’s mission focused on sex work and your organisation’s main focus to support sex workers’ rights?

If your mission does not explicitly state sex work: please explain why, and how is your main focus to support sex workers’ rights.

maximum 600 words

b. Please tell us about the history of your organisation. (When it was created, why it came to be, who are its members, how it works to achieve its mission.)

maximum 600 words

c. Please tell us about the main successes your organisation has achieved (no more than two).

maximum 600 words

d. Does your organisation fall into any of the following categories, which disqualify you from funding?

YesNo

Organisations that seek to end or criminalise sex work
Organisations exclusively providing 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
The organisation has a project with or for sex workers, while the organisation as a whole has a broader focus.

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

YesNo

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.

3. CONTEXT AND CHALLENGES

a. Please describe your context (local, national, regional) as relevant to your work.

Please describe the main challenges of sex workers in your context (no more than two).

maximum 600 words

b. In your context who are the most marginalised groups within the sex workers’ rights movement?

How does your organisation demonstrate an inclusive approach toward marginalised groups within the sex workers’ movement? Please provide examples.

maximum 600 words

4. ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

Red Umbrella Fund funds organisations that are led by sex workers for the benefit of sex workers as defined in our Application Guidelines. The Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) are representatives from within the sex worker-led movement. These questions are about how your organisation fulfils our eligibility criteria and helps PAC understand how your organisation does the work that you do. You may be brief or provide examples.

a. Please describe your decision-making body (role of Board, members, staff, advisors, how they are selected, length of term, etc.). If your organisation does not have a decision-making body, please describe how your organisation makes decisions.

maximum 300 words

b. What percentage of people involved in decision making are current or former sex workers? Include paid and voluntary positions.

c. Please describe your staff structure (staff, peer educators, outreach coordinators, community leaders, meeting coordinators, etc.). If your organisation does not have staff members, please describe how day-to-day tasks are implemented.

maximum 300 words

d. What percentage of people that are staff members are current or former sex workers? Include paid and voluntary positions.

e. Please describe your organisation’s membership including whether they are individuals and/or organisations, how they become a member, and the current number of members.

Approximately what percentage are sex workers or sex worker-led organisations?

maximum 300 words

f. How does your organisation reflect a commitment to sex workers’ involvement in decision making processes and shared leadership? This may include describing how individuals are selected for the decision-making body, length of terms, who supervises the staff members, the role of members, etc.

maximum 300 words

5. ORGANISATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

The mission of Red Umbrella Fund is to strengthen and ensure the sustainability of the global sex workers’ rights movement by catalysing new funding specifically for sex worker-led groups and national and regional networks. These questions are about how your organisation is connected to other sex workers’ organisations, networks, and allies. The Secretariat will also use this information to confirm eligibility before forwarding your application to PAC for scoring.

a. Please share the names of any sex worker-led or allied organisations, networks and/or alliances your organisation currently works with and how you collaborate with them. maximum 5

Name or Description of the organisation/network/alliance (no abbreviations or acronyms please)	How do you collaborate with them?	Sex worker-led?

b. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your organisation collaborates with any other sex worker-led or allied organisations, networks, and/or alliances?

maximum 300 words

c. References

Provide the names and details of two people in your professional network (not from your own organisation) that can tell us about the work of your organisation. 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 ally or allied organisation. Note that groups that have been a grantee in the past 3 years do not require a second reference; only a reference from a sex worker-led organisation. For example, this year, 2023 and 2022 grantee-partners need 1 reference, but 2021 grantee-partners need 2.

Red Umbrella Fund requests references for all applications that appear to meet our eligibility requirements prior to being scored by our Programme Advisory Committee (PAC). Contacting references is not an indication of a grantmaking decision.

Please note that Red Umbrella Fund may seek references from other organisations (e.g. if the references provided are not known to us as a sex worker-led organisation or if your references are unresponsive).

	Reference 1 (Must be from a sex worker-led organisation; not from your own organisation! )	Reference 2 (from any other organisation)
First Name
Last Name
Org./Network
Position
E-mail
City
Country
Telephone
What is your organisation's relationship to this person?

6. FINANCIAL SITUATION OF YOUR ORGANISATION

Information about current fiscal year (2025):

	Amount in Euro
Total Income 2025:	Please enter numeric value without decimal mark in Euro.

List all expected and secured income for 2025 including funders, membership fees, fundraisers. Add lines if needed. No abbreviations or acronyms please.

	Funder name	Amount (in EUR)	Funding status
1		Please enter numeric value without decimal mark and no need to mention the currency name
2		Please enter numeric value without decimal mark and no need to mention the currency name
3		Please enter numeric value without decimal mark and no need to mention the currency name
4		Please enter numeric value without decimal mark and no need to mention the currency name
5		Please enter numeric value without decimal mark and no need to mention the currency name

Information about previous fiscal year (2024):

	Amount in Euro
Total Income 2024:	Please enter numeric value without decimal mark in Euro.

List all the income for 2024 including funders, membership fees, income generating activities, etc. Add lines if needed. No abbreviations or acronyms please.

	Funder name	Amount (in EUR)
1		Please enter numeric value without decimal mark and no need to mention the currency name
2		Please enter numeric value without decimal mark and no need to mention the currency name
3		Please enter numeric value without decimal mark and no need to mention the currency name
4		Please enter numeric value without decimal mark and no need to mention the currency name
5		Please enter numeric value without decimal mark and no need to mention the currency name

c. Is there information on your orgainisation's income in the next two years that you would like to share? maximum 300 words.

7. GRANT REQUEST INFORMATION

Please note in our Application Guidelines that there are limits to grant sizes that are set by our International Steering Committee (ISC). This request is understood as a proposal and estimate. If your grant application is successful, your organisation will be invited to submit a workplan and budget to be approved by Red Umbrella Fund and our host organisation.

a. If your organisation receives a grant from Red Umbrella Fund, describe how the funding requested will be used.

b. Please fill in your estimated budget for the Red Umbrella Fund Grant.

Red Umbrella Fund grants are core funding grants of two years (December 2024–December 2026).

1) Staffing expenses

1) Categories

Categories Example: Salaries permanent staff, social security, health insurance.

maximum 600 words

1) Short description

Example: Coordinator salary: 1 x 200 EUR x 24 months

Total amount for staffing expenses (in Euros)

2) Operational

2) Categories

Example: Office rent, maintenance costs, office supplies, utilities, financial audits

maximum 600 words

2) Short description

Example: Rent: 1 x 100 EUR x 24 months

Total amount for operational ( in Euros)

3) Activities

3) Categories

Example: workshops, campaigns, research, publications, monitoring and evaluation, consultants

maximum 600 words

3) Short description

Example: 1 workshop:

Venue: 3 days x 100 EUR

Per diem: 10 EUR x 15 participants x 3 days

Lunch: 3 days x 10 EUR x 15 participants

Total amount for activities ( in Euros)

4 Other Costs

4) Categories

4) Short description

Total amount for other costs ( in Euros )

Total budget requested (in EUR)

Please enter numeric value (no need to mention the currency name)

8. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (optional)

Is there anything else that you would like PAC to know about your organisation when reviewing your application? You may include links to any materials you would like to share. You may find it useful to review the Application Guidelines to consider whether you have addressed all the priorities and other relevant factors in your previous answers.

If you are a recent Red Umbrella Fund grantee-partner, please use this space to describe your achievements with your recent grant from Red Umbrella Fund.

maximum 600 words