# Numun application NUMUN FUND SEED, GROW & SUSTAIN GRANT ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AND EXPRESSION OF INTEREST If you are interested in applying for the "Seed, Grow & Sustain" grant, please fill in the form below. There are 2 parts to this process and 2 forms: a) Simple eligibility - 6 questions. Check if your initiative / collective / group / organisation meets the priority criteria set out for the call. If you meet the eligibility, please fill in more information in the second form. b) Ideas & activism - 5 sections, 26 questions. This form contains some foundational questions about who you are, the work that you do, how you organise, the communities and/or movements you are part of, and how you understand your activism and organising to be about feminism and technology. This helps us understand if your work and activism resonate with what this grant stream aims to support. This is not intended to be a full application form, but rather to get to know a bit more about your ideas and activism as it relates to feminism and technology. Think of it more as an expression of interest to apply, or a brief concept note. ## SIMPLE ELIGIBILITY 1. Where is your work primarily based? Delete the answers that do not apply. - [ ] West, Central, East and Southern Africa - [ ] Southeast, South and East Asia - [ ] Southwest Asia and North Africa, and across Arabic-speaking countries - [ ] The Caribbean - [ ] Central and South America - [ ] Pacific Islands - [ ] Eastern Europe and Central Asia - [X] North America, Western Europe, Australia and/or New Zealand 2. Are you part of an indigenous and/or migrant community? Delete the answer that does not apply - [X] Yes - [ ] No 3. Is your initiative/collective/group/organisation led by women, in all of their diversity - trans, cis, non-binary, young, older, disabled, migrant, refugee, queer, afro-descendent, or part of a religious, linguistic or ethnic minority etc (We understand leadership to be as a majority having decision-making positions, including embodying main leadership roles, whether singularly or shared)? Delete the answer that does not apply. - [X] Yes - [ ] No 4.Does your initiative/collective/group/organisation work on digital technology as a key part of your activism? (For example, but by no means limited to, topics such as: feminist digital safety, bodily integrity and data privacy, gender-based violence and freedom of expression online, safe online movement spaces that can heal from generational trauma, feminist indigenous knowledge and the digital economy, access to sexuality related information and community and content regulation online, feminist engagement with climate crisis and digital technologies, digital archival and memory projects by historically marginalised communities, gender and labour in the digital economy and more) Delete the answer that does not apply. - [X] Yes - [ ] No 5. Is gender and sexuality a central component in your analysis, strategies and approach? Delete the answer that does not apply. - [X] Yes - [ ] No 6.What is the primary strategy or work of your initiative/collective/group/organisation? Delete the answers that do not apply. - [ ] For-profit services or applications - [ ] An initiative of, or primarily resourced by a political party or religious institution - [ ] Academic research - [X] Social change ### DO YOU MEET THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA? - If your work is based in ·West, Central, East and Southern Africa, Southeast, South and East Asia, Southwest Asia and North Africa, and across Arabic-speaking countries, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Pacific Islands, AND/OR Eastern Europe and Central Asia - If you are part of an indigenous and/or migrant community from anywhere in the world - If you answered Yes to Questions 3-5 (for all 3 questions) - If you selected "Academic research" or "Social change" for Question 6 YES. Your initiative/collective/group/organisation meets the basic eligibility criteria of this call! Please indicate your interest to apply for the grant by continuing to the next form and share a bit about your ideas and activism. ### HOWEVER: - If your work is based in North America, Western Europe, Australia and/or New Zealand AND you are NOT part of an indigenous and/or migrant community - If you answered No to Questions 3-5 (either No for all 3 questions, or No for 1-2 questions) - If you selected "For profit services or applications" and/or "An initiative of, or primarily resourced by a political party or religious institution" and/or "Academic research" for Question 6 Sorry. Your initiative/collective/group/organisation does not meet the basic eligibility criteria of this call, and cannot continue with the application process. Learn more about the call priorities and eligibility here: https://numun.fund/apply/ Please note: Although we have tried to be specific in establishing these criteria to make things as clear as possible, if you believe (based on the politics identified here and our stated goals) that your initiative/collective/group/organisation should be eligible, but you do not feel included by these criteria, we invite you to apply anyway, and let us know in the "additional comments" section your reasons for thinking so. ## IDEAS AND ACTIVISM FORM ### [SECTION 1: ABOUT YOU] 1. Name of initiative / collective / group / organisation (short name in brackets if applicable): *drip* 2. Contact person: *Sofia Tepikin* 3. Contact email: drip@mailbox.org 4. Mobile contact: +4917647341041 5. Where can we see your initiative/collective/group/organisation online? (website, social media accounts, etc): website: https://dripapp.org/, twitter: https://twitter.com/dripberlin, code: https://gitlab.com/bloodyhealth/drip/ 6. How would you describe yourself? Select one option and delete the answers that do not apply. - [ ] Collective - [ ] Network - [ ] Coalition - [ ] Co-op - [X] Project / Initiative - [ ] Programme - [ ] Campaign - [ ] Other (please describe): 7. What year was your initiative/collective/group/organisation formed: **2018** 8. How many people are in your initiative/collective/group/organisation: 6 9. Are you legally registered? (Note: You can definitely still apply even if you are not). Delete the answer that does not apply. - [ ] Yes - [X] No - [ ] Other (please specify) 10. Please share details of at least 2 and up to 5 leaders in your initiative / collective / group / organisation. Name | Age | Gender | Other relevant identity categories you would like to share. Sofia Tepikin | 35 | F | Queer, migrant background (twice) Marie Kochsiek, 34 yrs old, cis female, white, bisexual. Maria Zadnepryanets | 40 | F | Pansexual, migrant background 11. Please briefly share with us how your initiative/collective/group/organisation’s practice leadership and decision-making. ~~- we prefer to take decisions as a group.~~ - each of us has her own areas of interest that she works on within drip. But at the same time, we align our personal goals/interests with the project goals. - We are a rather small core team of currently 4, --> it allows us to take all decisions collectively which includes software architecture, feature implementation, communication with contributors, milestones & this application :) - we review each other's work and give feedback, which allows us to learn from each other ### [SECTION 2: YOUR COMMUNITY AND CONSTELLATION] 12. Where is your activism and organising primarily based? Please specify region(s) and/or countries: (its a dropdown list, no text field) Berlin, Germany (but our app is available to the users around the world, but it's not yet localized. Localization is our next milestone.* 13. What is the main location/level of your community and activism? Select one option and delete the answers that do not apply. - [ ] Local - [ ] Networked Online - [ ] National - [ ] Regional - [ ] Sub-Regional - [X] Global - [ ] Other (please specify): 14. Who are UP TO THREE primary groups of people who are in your feminist tech community and network? Delete the answers that do not apply. - [X] Feminist tech facilitators, educators and/or trainers - [ ] Social media feminist content creators and conversation drivers - [ ] Online campaigners - [ ] Policy advocates - [ ] Data analysts and researchers - [X] Tech coders and developers - [ ] Writers and opinion/framework shapers - [ ] Creatives (writers, visual artists, film makers, musicians etc) - [ ] Sysadmin and/or alternative tech providers - [ ] Online feminist tech projects (e.g. archives and collective history, mapping and monitoring projects, tech guides and how-tos etc) - [ ] Funder or digital rights organisation that provides you with a project grant - [ ] Other (please specify): 15. Please indicate at least ONE, and a maximum of three key movements you are part of Delete the answers that do not apply. - [X] LBTQI++ - [ ] Sex work - [ ] Disability justice - [ ] Indigenous women - [ ] Young women - [ ] Anti-racism - [ ] Challenging religious fundamentalisms - [ ] Environmental justice - [ ] Land rights - [ ] Conflict or post-conflict contexts - [ ] Migrant and refugee rights - [ ] Abortion rights - [ ] Labour rights - [ ] Democratic participation and/or civic engagement - [ ] Economic rights - [ ] Digital rights - [X] Privacy rights - [ ] Internet governance and policy advocacy - [X] Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) - [ ] Gender-based violence - [ ] Access to justice - [ ] Other (please specify): 16. Who are UP TO THREE primary communities that you are working with? (We understand women to be defined in all of their diversity - trans, cis, non-binary, young, older, disabled etc). Delete the answers that do not apply. - [ ] LBTQI++ - [ ] Sex workers - [ ] Women with disabilities - [ ] Indigenous women - [ ] Young women - [ ] Elder women - [ ] Afro-descendent women - [ ] Ethnic and/or religious group facing discrimination - [ ] Migrant women - [ ] Refugee women - [ ] Women living in rural contexts - [X] Other (please specify): with drip we want to support all people, who menstruate 17. Please share with us THREE people/organisations/collectives/initiatives/groups whom you have collaborated with, or who can speak to your work. If any person/organisation/collective/initiative/group is anonymous for security reasons, please briefly describe the nature of the work without going into detail on identifying who they are. If you're able to and it is safe to do so, share their name, where can we find them online (website, social media accounts etc), relationship to your initiative/group/collective/organisation. - Julia Kloiber julia@superrr.net from Superrr network https://superrr.net - Fiona Krakenbürger krake@heartofcode.org from Heart of Code http://heartofcode.org and Sovereign Tech Fund former Senior Program Manager at Open Technology Fund - Kaja Santro https://kaja.netlify.app/ k.santro@posteo.de from Code Curious (formerly known as Rails Girls Berlin) https://twitter.com/codecurious_bln ### [SECTION 3: CONTEXT AND IDEA OF CHANGE] 18. What are the main challenges or issues that you are trying to address in your context? (300 words max, and bullet points are encouraged) - Data privacy - private health data should not be shared, sold or commidified - Transparency - everyone (with a coding interest) should be able to check the code to see how intimate health data is dealt with and how calculations are made - Participation - users should not be seen as passive consumers of technology without power for decision-making or other types of involvement - Education and health insights - users should be able to learn and understand their menstrual health & fertility, as well as talk about it with people and communities they trust - Gender neutral language and design - period apps should not reproduce gender stereotypes and stigma around menstrual & sexual health 19. What does feminism and digital technology have to do with these challenges, issues, and how you are trying to address them? Please refer to eligibility criteria on how we understand feminism and tech. (300 words max, and bullet points are encouraged) The vast majority of period apps is built and designed by people who don't menstruate. In addition these apps are owned by companies pursuing commercial interests. We believe that menstrual & sexual health should not be commercialized and conversations around the topics need spaces that are free of stigma, shame and heteronormativity. We believe technology can be a tool to support people who track their periods and fertility, serving as a tool to help getting to know their own bodies and health better without worrying about their data being used in ways they are not aware of. We see drip at the very intersection of feminism, menstrual health and digital technology. Our core values are community, DIT & DIY, transparency, safety online. We use technology as a tool to support people, and not the other way around. 20. How are you addressing these challenges or issues? Please share your main strategies or approach. You can also list down some of your key activities if that helps to make it clearer. (300 words max, and bullet points are encouraged) Participation: We facilitate ways to welcome and onboard contributors to our drip project like workshops & social media communication, as well as our own communication channels (Gitlab, Slack, Email) Transparency: we document contribution guidelines, workflows, and where to find project resources to help establish a welcoming space for new people Empowerment: we try to start conversations (via workshops, discussions in podcasts or other media) that help change the narrative of "passive users" consuming tech to active co-creators requesting features Knowledge sharing: through media & workshop facilitation we aim to share knowledge around topics of sexual health, open-source technology and privacy online 21. Following from the previous questions, are you already undertaking them, or are they new ideas you would like to fund with this grant? Select one option and delete the answers that do not apply. - [ ] They are new or emerging ideas - [X] We have tested or taken on parts of these strategies or activities, and would like to expand and/or deepen them - [ ] They are part of the core strategies that we are doing, and we would like to continue and strengthen them 22. What is your biggest, wildest idea for change when it comes to feminism and technology in your context? (This is an invitation to dream big, and doesn't have to connect with what you already shared above) (300 words max) We want - drip to be a useful tool to as many people as possible by: - addressing different aspects (abortion, menopause, STDs, endometriosis, hormonal replacement therapies) of menstrual & sexual health without shame or stigma - being a conversation starter for groups and communities about topics like menstrual & sexual health usually perceived as private - collectively contributing to e.g. localizing the app ### [SECTION 4: FUNDING] 23. What level of funding are you applying for? Select one option and delete the answers that do not apply. - [ ] Seed: USD5,000 - 10,000 - [X] Grow: USD10,000 - 50,000 - [ ] Sustain: USD50,000 - 100,000 24. How can this funding help support or strengthen the work that you do? We are not expecting a budget at this stage of the process, but more for you to share on your idea of what this fund will contribute to or how it will be used (200 words max, and bullet points are encouraged) We are currently receiving a lot of feature requests for localization of the app, but also design improvements and more customizability of the fertility tracking feature as well as many more smaller feature requests. We would use the fund to implement these features, as well as facilitate workshops for existing and new contributors 1. Maintaining and further development of the app, which includes, but is not limited by - localization (the app is currently only available in English and not further localized), - extend & improve cycle statistics, - app customization based on the user preferences (for example, option to exclude fertility tracking) 2. Community building - facilitating workshops for new & existing contributors, - outreach and collaboration with other feminist (tech) to make drip more accessible & relevant ### [SECTION 5: MISC] 25. How did you find out about this call? Delete the answers that do not apply. - Shared by a personal contact 25. Anything else you might want to share with us about your activism and work? (additional comments, completely optional) (max 200 words) We are excited to see that Numund fund is there to support the seeding, growing and sustaining of feminist activism and movements. We are aware that the drip team, based in Berlin/Germany & white, might not be the target community for the Numun fund. However, we feel that we share the values and goals that Numun fund aims to strengthen, so we wanted to present our project. Thank you for considering our application. If there is anything that we can help clarify, please let us know.