Feminist Fund for
Priority Areas
For dynamic and supportive districts
Women working for inclusive and supportive communities
In working-class neighborhoods, many women face triple inequality: social, territorial, and gender-based. Often underpaid, isolated from employment or education, and exposed to violence, they nevertheless find the strength to invest themselves in their communities. Despite these significant obstacles, it is these women who, every day, work to revitalize their neighborhoods, strengthen community life, and create spaces conducive to the fulfillment of all. Through their involvement in local associations, they play a central role in individual empowerment and social cohesion, even beyond the domestic sphere.
To promote and amplify the work of these women, the RAJA-Danièle Marcovici Foundation launched the Feminist Fund for Priority Areas in 2024. This fund aims to support initiatives led by women living in working-class neighborhoods, recognizing their involvement and potential for social change. It supports women who devise concrete solutions adapted to local realities and contribute to a more united future where women’s empowerment goes hand in hand with the strengthening of social ties.
Supporting this fund means choosing to give these women the means to build a future where equality, solidarity, and autonomy take root at the heart of neighborhoods.
Expert Committee
The RAJA-Danièle Marcovici Foundation relies on a committee of committed experts (see below) to help it identify and select promising associations.
For your application to be considered by the Foundation, your organization must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- be a non-profit organization;
- be founded and/or run by a woman;
- have an annual budget of less than €50,000;
- carry out projects that promote community living and the development of working-class neighborhoods in France;
- be recommended by one of our partners.
If you think you are eligible, contact the Foundation at the following address for more information: fondation@raja.fr
Once the projects have been received, the Foundation team will assess the applications and select the projects. Finally, grants will be awarded to the selected projects.
Average amount granted: €2,500 per year
Expert Committee
Frédéric Callens
Head of Community Life and Civil Society Department at the Palais de la Porte Dorée
Head of the Community Life and Civil Society Department at the Palais de la Porte Dorée and advisor to the director of the National Museum of the History of Immigration, he is committed to the fight against racism and discrimination. He works to promote dialogue between cultural institutions, associations, and civil society actors in order to promote equality, remembrance, and peaceful coexistence.
Bouchera Azzouz
Essayist, documentary filmmaker and
Founder of Ateliers du Féminisme Populaire
Céline Evita
Public policy consultant and
Human rights expert
Originally an expert in urban policy and local security, Céline Evita is now a public policy consultant and human rights expert. She leads the national network Réponses Citoyennes (Citizen Responses) for access to rights and social inclusion, and is also an associate judge appointed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to the National Court of Asylum (CNDA).
Fawzia Baba-Aissa
Co-founder and Head of Advocacy and Development at the Fund for Women in the Mediterranean
A lecturer at the University of Burgundy Europe, she has been working for women’s rights for nearly 40 years. She is notably the co-founder of the Fund for Women in the Mediterranean, where she is responsible for advocacy and development.
Fadila Mehal
Founding president of Marianne
de la Diversité
Founding president of Marianne de la Diversité and vice president of the Robert Schuman Institute, she promotes diversity as a lever for social cohesion and advocates for the representation of all women in various social fields and intercultural dialogue.
