Disability Rights Fund
The Disability Rights Fund mobilizes resources to strengthen and diversify disability rights movements globally.
DRF launched in 2008 to resource the shifting paradigm about disability from charity to rights. Through grantmaking, advocacy, and technical assistance, DRF supports organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Caribbean to use global rights and development frameworks—such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Sustainable Development Goals— to address inequality and achieve rights and inclusion.
Our work is evolving, working in solidarity with movements with an intersectional feminist approach. And it draws on the power of organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) to demand new rules for accountability amidst a loud rhetoric on equity with little action from philanthropy to resource diverse disability movements in the Global South.
Since 2008, DRF and our sister fund, the Disability Rights Advocacy Fund, have awarded $51,000,000 to 437 OPDs across 40 countries. Join us as we embark on this transformative journey to resource organizations of persons with disabilities that are shifting the conversation on inclusion and equity