Locally Led supports community-led, refugee-led, and localized grassroots initiatives that:

  • Are purely community or refugee-led

    Organizations or movements centered and built on a community or refugee-led model.

  • Seek racial justice and reconciliation

    LL supports those who passionately fight for racial justice and use innovative approaches to cultivating transformational relationships and racial reconciliation.

  • Push for inclusive, principled humanitarian response

    We support those who promote the cause of inclusive humanitarianism/refugee response ensuring the most marginalized don’t fall through the cracks and the most vulnerable are prioritized. Those who continually seek to improve the ways in which we respond to those in need.

  • Advocate and create safe spaces for the marginalized

    Creates safe spaces, builds community for, or mobilizes advocacy for the marginalized within its community (refugees, migrant workers, members of LGBTQ communities).

  • Seek economic inclusion

    Organizations and movements who seek innovative approaches to the economic inclusion of refugee populations in settings where access to labour is challenging.

  • Amplifies the voice and creative expression of minority voices

    LL supports those who provide platforms for minority voices, social change leaders, and socially conscious content creators.

  • Produce locally, refugee-led research

    We support both groups and independent local and refugee researchers producing research and reporting (in their native language) on critical need, narratives, and experience within their communities.

  • Founded or directed by women

    Organizations, social enterprises, community movements or initiatives that come from and are led by women.