Deadline: 03-Dec-2024

Pivotal, a Melinda French Gates organization, launched Action for Women’s Health Program, a $250 million global open call that will fund organizations around the world that are improving women’s mental and physical health.

This initiative seeks to open access to funding streams to organizations and groups that historically have not had access to them.

Subject Areas

• Health
• Gender Equality

Funding Information

• Flexible funding between $1 million and $5 million USD

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible organizations serve women and have a record of improving women’s mental or physical health. They should center equity in their approach and be poised to scale their work to strengthen the health of more women. Organizations from around the world are invited to apply.
• For the Open Call, an organization eligible to serve as the Applicant Organization, must have as its main purpose to improve women’s health (except in certain instances, where the Open Call will support a unit of the Applicant Organization, such as a fiscally sponsored project or a large program or center, focused on improving women’s health). The following types of organizations are eligible to submit Applications:
  • An entity based in the United States and/or U.S. Territories that has received a tax determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) that it is exempt from federal income tax as an organization
  • A nonprofit organization for a fiscally sponsored project, provided that the nonprofit organization is an entity based in the United States and/or U.S. Territories
  • A U.S. tribal government treated as a State pursuant to IRC Section 7871
  • An entity that is recognized under the law of the applicable jurisdiction as a non-governmental organization, a higher education organization, a charitable organization, a not-for-profit organization, or similar-type entity that is not a for-profit organization or government agency

Ineligibility Criteria

• The following are examples of parties that are not eligible to apply as the Applicant Organization on the Application:
  • A for-profit, LLC, or B-Corp organization.
  • Educational entities such as schools, with the exception of entities of higher education where the main purpose of either the entity or one of its departments, schools, or centers is improving women’s health. Other schools (e.g., religious, charter, private, or public primary or secondary schools, junior colleges, etc.) are not eligible to apply.
  • A 501(c)(4) or 527 organization.
  • An individual.
  • Religious institutions.
  • Government agencies (other than state universities and U.S. tribal governments treated as a State pursuant to IRC Section 7871), including national or local governments, inter- governmental bodies, and regional cooperation agencies (including UN agencies).

For more information, visit Pivotal.