The FREE STEM Fund aims to narrow the gender gap in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields.
The FREE STEM Fund has received foundational support from Optiver Foundation.
Vision
Girls, women, transgender and non-binary people are widely represented in, and empowered to thrive in and advance the STEM sector.
MISSION
The FREE STEM Fund will invest in initiatives that use intersectional approaches to empower girls, women, transgender and non-binary people as changemakers in the STEM sector.
Optiver Foundation is committed to bringing greater diversity to the technology and finance industries around the world. We helped to launch the FREE STEM Fund to create equal opportunity through greater access to STEM education. Read more here.
FREE STEM leverages shared governance and participatory mechanisms to design a fund that is tailored to the needs and gaps within the STEM sector. We also leverage grassroots STEM expertise and voices by investing in projects that prioritise girls, women and other underrepresented groups' access to STEM opportunities.
The Fund will use holistic approaches that take into account their enabling environment, with the objective of narrowing the gender STEM-gap and increasing the number of women, transgender and non-binary role models and STEM changemakers.
Free stem Fund
recipients
The FREE STEM Fund received over 1000 applications in Phase 1 and 229 of those applicants were invited for Phase 2. We funded 27 of those organisations. Click below to meet them all.
Ecuador
2024
STEM careers
Fundación KISTH/Warmi STEM
"Warmi STEM is an initiative of the KISTH Foundation aiming to provide academic training and improve soft skills in STEM careers
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Ecuador
2024
STEM Education & Training
Chicas Waskiris
The "STEM Inclusion for People with Disabilities in Bolivia" project aims to address the inequality and exclusion faced by individuals with hearing
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Ecuador
2024
STEM Education & Training
Colectiva Libélulas
Its objective is to provide free workshops to indigenous children and adolescents, respecting traditional knowledge
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Ecuador
STEM careers
Fundación KISTH/Warmi STEM
"Warmi STEM is an initiative of the KISTH Foundation aiming to provide academic training and improve soft skills in STEM careers
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Ecuador
STEM Education & Training
Chicas Waskiris
The "STEM Inclusion for People with Disabilities in Bolivia" project aims to address the inequality and exclusion faced by individuals with hearing
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Ecuador
STEM Education & Training
Colectiva Libélulas
Its objective is to provide free workshops to indigenous children and adolescents, respecting traditional knowledge
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