The date celebrates and honors Dandara dos Palmares, a quilombola warrior as important as Zumbi. Check out some Black Awareness Day activities. The ELAS Fund defends the importance of celebrating black culture and fighting racism all year round.

CESE and SOS Corpo invite grassroots organizations and movements to participate in the selection of projects until 30/11. The aim is to strengthen organizations from black women and popular sectors in the North and Northeast of Brazil.

ELAS has supported the black women movement in Brazil since it was founded and will also be taking part in the black women March. For the ELAS Fund, supporting the March of black women is an ethical and political principle, says Amalia Fischer, general coordinator.

Board members of the ELAS Fund, which since its foundation has supported the black women movement in the country, talk about the importance of this unprecedented mobilization that will take place in Brasilia on November 18.

Funded by IPPF/WHR, the campaign aims to make it easier for adolescents and young people to access information on sexual and reproductive rights in a simple and straightforward way.

black women are marching for an end to feminicide black women and for the investigation of all cases of domestic violence and murder black women, with the guilty being penalized.

Serão doados R$ 264 mil reais para apoiar um total de 12 projetos com 22 mil reais para cada. As inscrições podem ser feitas até 25 de janeiro de 2016.

Eliana Custódio is taking part in the International Visitor Leadership Program throughout November. Eliana is part of a group of visitors made up of leaders from different parts of Brazil.

The ELAS Fund advisor and coordinator of the NGO Criola forms the triple list of candidates with Pedro Daniel Strozenberg and Nathalia Carlos da Silva. Lúcia emphasizes the importance of social movements occupying this space.

The call will include proposals from all over Brazil, but there will be a special focus on the city of Rio de Janeiro and on projects focused on women.

The event takes place in Deauville, France, and brings together more than 1,200 people to debate global social and economic issues from a women's perspective.

The Business Movement for the Economic Development of Women launched the independent, non-profit business association to encourage the economic empowerment of Brazilian women.

The executive coordinator of the ELAS Fund is taking part in the 30th annual conference of the Women's Funding Network, which will take place from October 7 to 9 in San Francisco, in the United States.

XX ELAS Fund competition, in partnership with Instituto Unibanco and Fundação Carlos Chagas, receives proposals until November 3, 2015

The CASA Socio-Environmental Fund is open for applications for a call for proposals that will make R$1,701,252.00 available to support up to 57 grassroots community projects aimed at implementing socio-environmental sustainability proposals.