OpportunityOpportunity grants enable women and LGBTQ activists to take action during time-sensitive windows of opportunity to change policies and laws or to mobilize public support for justice and equality.

Itach Maaki Women Lawyers for Social Justice (Israel)With a timely grant, Itach Maaki successfully pressured the Israeli government to change its domestic violence policies after the preventable death of two young Bedouin girls.

Security Security grants increase the resilience and safety of women and LGBTQ activists threatened because of their human rights work. These rapid grants are made within 24 - 48 hours.

Colours Rainbow (Burma/Myanmar)Following the unlawful detention and abuse of 12 transgender activists, Colours Rainbow used a rapid grant to evacuate two of the activists and to launch a national campaign to raise awareness about violence directed at LGBTQ people in the country.

LGBTQ

29%grants to support the

security of LGBTQ rights defenders or strategic

actions by LGBTQ movements.

Our Advocacy and Alliance-Building Program supports the long-term, coordinated e!ort of individuals and groups to intentionally spark and sustain a social movement.

In a globalized world, even grassroots activists need to work across borders to coordinate strategy.

In 2013, we supported the resilience of movements and self-care of activists through security trainings for 100+ leaders in women’s and LGBTQ movements.

REGION

8% North America

21% Middle East

56% Asia

15% Eastern/Central Europe

TYPE

41% Opportunity Grants

41% Security Grants

18% Movement Building Grants

Our Impact 2013 BY THE NUMBERS

8733

rapid response grants

countries

100+ women and LGBTQ leaders trained in digital and physical security

Movement Building

ANNUAL REPORT 2013

No one should take a bullet for their ideas. You should live for them, not die for them.

Until we end #violenceagainstwomen and girls, we cannot fully realize the ideals of human rights or democracy.

2 sister Urgent Action Funds in Latin America and Africa

South Asia Advisory Meeting, Nepal

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GOVERNMENTS, FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONSAmerican Jewish World

Service Arsenault Family Foundation Brooklyn Creative League, IncChannel Foundation Cloverleaf FoundationThe Colina FoundationThe Community Foundation

Serving Boulder CountyCordaid Dietel Partners Dobkin Family FoundationDutch Ministry of Foreign

Affairs Edna Wardlaw Charitable

FundFoundation for a Just SocietyFunding ExchangeGoogle Matching Gift FundGreen FundThe Lederer FoundationLevi Strauss Foundation Meehan Foundation Mize Family FoundationMoriah Fund Oak Foundation Open Society FoundationsOrchard House FoundationPannonia FoundationPolsky Family Charitable

FoundationSol and Doris R. Swiss

Foundation Charitable TrustStavros Niarchos Foundation Tides FoundationTimken-Sturgis Foundation Twanda FoundationVirginia Lopez FoundationUnited Methodist WomenTikva Grassroots

Empowerment Fund Xpu Foundation

INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIESRanil AbeysekeraNasin AhmedNefertiti AltanAngelika ArutyunovaDhyan AtkinsonKathleen Barry

Amy Batchelor and Bradley Feld

Louise BellJulie Parker BenelloJoanne BergholdNancy BernsteinNancy BillicaMerrill BlackBlack Family Charitable FundChela and Dorianna BlittRita and Irwin BlittPhillip BokovoyAnne BowhayBright Horizons FundDavid BrownGregory BrownDiane BrumfittOlga BuduAmy Laura CahnCarol CantwellJenna CapeciMary CarpenterMona ChunLinda ColeElizabeth ColtonEllie CrossLouise DavisSaskia and Anneke de JongeJaki and Devin McQuistonJelena DjordjevicJessica DouiebMary DowntonDiana DuarteMary Kaye EdwardsR. L. EllersdorferElaine EnarsonJean EntineEllen Epstein and Ian

BrownellJill ErtlJodie EvansCindy Ewing and Lucie

TiczonMelissa ExteinAmalia FischerMercedes FitchettKay ForsytheMariam Gagoshashvili and

Poppy ChanGuillaume GaluzJamie GloyneMargery GoldmanRoshmi GoswamiJulia Greenberg

Terry GreenblattCeleste and Jack GrynbergSarah GuntherAddie GuttagJeff and Katherine HaasJosie and David HaddenAlexis HalsteadXiaopei HeSusan Hirsch and Susan

LeafMichael Hirschhorn and

Jimena MartinezThieny HoangNan Holmes and Steve

KaufmanLorraine and Victor HonigKerry Lobel and Marta Drury,

girls just wanna have funD, a donor advised fund of Horizon Foundation

Diane HulletMahnaz Ispahani BartosLisa JacksonDanny KaufmanNathan Kaufman and Lynn

FrancoLynn KaufmanKaren KentKaren KinnearHannah KranzbergMaja KristinKate KroegerRachel-Alouki LabbéMargaret LadnerThomas Layton and Gyongy

LakyDorothy LebachJulien LenaudLeocha FundMarc LevyJane LewenthalAndrew and Sara LittCourtney LobelLeslie Singer LomasJudy LubowCarol MalnickAnne McCarten-GibbsJessica McCarthyLaurie McMillanBoli MedappaChris MehlingMaria MejiaPaulette J. Meyer and David

A. Friedman

Sara MichlRebecca MillsHolly MosherMargaret NewellKim OxholmSue PattersonPeace by Piece Fund Analia PenchaszadehLinda PeriJudith PetersonRhonda PoindexterFrancoise Marie Poinsatte

and Thomas VolckhausenBahman and Mona RabiiManuel RappardElisabeth and Robert RixSusan RosenbergJoan RothThe Sadie Gift FundRaymond SantiagoDr. Jean Rannells SaulPeter SchattnerMargaret SchinkThe Serendipity Gift FundRony and Catherine ShimonyAdriana SmithJeanne SnyderCaitlin Stanton and Randy

TriggTimothy StantonFreda Gail Stern Julia StoneBeret Strong and John

Tweedy JrJane SuskinCarla SutherlandRita ThapaLarry and Barbara TongateEmily UtzGhazal VaghediNisha VariaMarian WalkerBarbara WashburnMarissa WeselyEffie WesterveltCheryl WilfongJennifer WilsonChristine Wrenn

IN-KIND DONATIONSDesign Action CollectiveInkWorksLaw Offices of Melissa HarmsPaul Hastings LLP

OUR PARTNERS IN CHANGE

AUDITED FINANCIALS FOR 2013

23%Individuals

37%Foundations

40%Government

INCOME

10%

16%Fundraising

74%Programs

Administration

EXPENSES

FINANCIALS Total Revenue: $1,362,871Total Expenses: $1,357,815

Assets: $1,679,177Liabilities: $80,755

Net Assets: $1,598,422

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

From left to right: Mariam Gagoshashvili (Georgia) // Patricia Viseur Sellers (USA/Belgium) // Paulette Meyer (USA) // Kate Kroeger (Executive Director) // Roshmi Goswami (India) // Rachel-Alouki Labbé (First Nations of Canada - Abenaki) // Xiaopei He (China) // Marta Drury (USA) (not pictured)

STAFF MEMBERSKate Kroeger, Executive Director // Caitlin Stanton, Director of

Learning and Partnerships // Keely Tongate, Director of Programs Meerim Ilyas, Program Officer // Xin Xin, Program Officer

Danny Kaufman, Development and Communications Officer Yvonne Leland, Operations Coordinator // Rhonda Poindexter,

Bookkeeper // Carol Cantwell, Financial Management Consultant Amro Radwan, Technology Consultant

By love I mean that condition in the human spirit so profound it encourages us to develop courage and build bridges, and then to trust those bridges and cross the bridges in attempts to reach other human beings.

—Maya Angelou, 1928-2014

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OUR MISSION

Use the hashtag #FundCourage to share why supporting courageous women and LGBTQ activists is important to you.

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Investing in the potential of women to lift and lead their societies is one of the best investments we can make.

Support women’s and LGBTQ human rights around the world by making a donation online at www.urgentactionfund.org or sending a check to: Urgent Action Fund, 660 13th Street, Suite 200, Oakland, CA 94612, USA

Urgent Action Fund partners with women’s and LGBTQ movements worldwide to support activists striving to create cultures of justice, equality and peace.

• Our grants advance human rights when opportunities arise and save lives when activists face threats

• We respond within 72 hours, 365 days a year

• 100+ global advisors inform grant decisions

• Integrated security trainings increase activists’ well-being and safety

• We support networks of activists, both online and o!ine

Sana Saleem, Bolo Bhi, Pakistan

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Cover photo: Protesters in New Delhi, India respond to the government's handling of recent rape cases. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)