Awardees

Fabulous Feminists funds grassroots projects advancing intersectional feminist change across Alaska. These awardees are building safety, dignity, leadership, care, and community power.

2025 Grant Awardees

This year’s awardees represent the breadth of feminist work across Alaska, from direct aid and youth support to advocacy, safety, and community care.

$3,000 Grant Awardee

Kathy Ottersten Mutual Aid Project

Fairbanks Queer Collective

Provides urgent support for queer and trans community members in crisis, including groceries, rent, relocation, legal fee assistance, and mutual aid skill-sharing in Interior Alaska.

Direct aid and community care for queer and trans Alaskans.

$3,000 Grant Awardee

One Match at a Time

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska

Expands mentorship opportunities in the Fairbanks North Star Borough by recruiting a broader range of female mentors so more youth see themselves reflected in trusted adults.

Youth mentorship rooted in belonging, representation, and long-term support.

$2,800 Grant Awardee

Project Cozy Corner @ HopeLink

Fairbanks HopeLink Warming Center

Creates a safer and more dignified resting space by purchasing durable cots for HopeLink’s quiet room, helping guests rest and recover in stability and comfort.

Dignity and safer rest for community members experiencing homelessness.

$3,000 Grant Awardee

Student Resources

West Valley High School

Supports students with food, hygiene products, clothing, and a welcoming school space so young people facing exclusion or hardship can meet basic needs and focus on learning.

Basic-needs support and belonging for marginalized students.

$5,000 Grant Awardee

Summer Girls Who Weld Program

Girls Who Weld

Builds confidence, technical skills, and leadership in young women through welding education while creating bike racks that will be installed throughout the community.

Girls building technical skills, confidence, and visible community impact.

$3,000 Grant Awardee

The Door – Youth Emergency Shelter

Fairbanks Youth Advocates

Extends immediate, trauma-informed shelter and support for youth experiencing homelessness or crisis, with food, supplies, staffing, outreach, and connections to long-term services.

Safety, stabilization, and trauma-informed care for youth in crisis.

$3,000 Grant Awardee

Action & Advocacy Project

Native Movement for Fairbanks Queer Collective

Strengthens queer and trans community safety in Interior Alaska through de-escalation training, advocacy gatherings, storytelling, and coalition-building rooted in care and collective action.

Community-led safety, advocacy, and collective power-building.

$3,000 Grant Awardee

Delta G.E.M.S.

AASLC Minority Student Leadership Conference

Empowers girls of color through mentorship, leadership development, education, and culturally relevant programming that supports academic growth and future leadership in Alaska.

Leadership development for girls of color through mentorship and education.

$3,000 Grant Awardee

Early Essentials

Resource Center for Parents and Children

Keeps essential baby supplies on the shelves for families in crisis by funding diapers, wipes, formula, and baby food for caregivers facing financial hardship.

Essential baby supplies for families facing financial strain.

$3,000 Grant Awardee

Helping Women, Periods – NP High

Our 2 Cents Fairbanks, Inc.

Expands menstrual equity at North Pole High School by installing a free-vend dispenser and stocking thousands of tampons and pads for students.

Menstrual equity, dignity, and easier access for students.

$3,000 Grant Awardee

Holding the Helpers

Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living

Provides trauma-informed mental health support for frontline advocates and shelter staff so the people caring for survivors can sustain this work with stability and resilience.

Sustaining anti-violence work by caring for the people doing it.

Past Awardees

FFF has supported parenting resources, queer advocacy, anti-violence work, youth mentoring, literacy, harm reduction, menstrual equity, and school-based support across multiple award cycles.

2023–2024

  • Resource Center for Parents and Children
  • Fairbanks Queer Collective
  • Interior Alaska Center for Nonviolent Living
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters

2024–2025

  • Our 2 Cents Fairbanks, Inc.
  • Stars of Gold Readers
  • Empowering Education
  • Interior Aids Association
  • Fairbanks Queer Collective
  • Big Sister Helping Little Sister
  • Food Pantry and Hygiene Supply for West Valley High School
  • Food Pantry and Hygiene Supply for Lathrop High School
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters
  • Resource Center for Parents and Children
  • Fairbanks HopeLink

Resource Center for Parents and Children

2023–2024 Awardee

RCPC supports parenting education, safety awareness, and family reunification. Its FFF-funded project provided family supplies such as baby monitors, thermometers, health and grooming kits, safety latches, outlet covers, and other items needed after children were in foster care.

Fairbanks Queer Collective

Multiple Award Cycles

Fairbanks Queer Collective is a grassroots, QTBIPOC-led organization focused on safe and inclusive spaces for LGBTQ2S+ community members in Interior Alaska. Past supported work included the Fairbanks Queer Youth Council, the Free Queer Legal Clinic, and the Gender Affirmation Project.

Interior Alaska Center for Nonviolent Living

2023–2024 Awardee

IAC provides shelter, advocacy, and violence prevention services. Past FFF support helped its low-barrier housing program with case manager staffing and basic necessities such as cleaning supplies, food support, and winter clothing.

Big Brothers Big Sisters

Multiple Award Cycles

BBBS received support to grow the number of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ volunteer mentors in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, helping match youth with mentors who understand their culture, needs, and experiences.

Our 2 Cents Fairbanks, Inc.

2024–2025 Awardee

FFF supported Helping Women, Period., a project that delivered tampons and pads to middle and high schools in the Fairbanks area through nurse offices and restrooms for easier student access.

Stars of Gold Readers

2024–2025 Awardee

FFF supported literacy and inclusion work through diverse book distribution, family and educator resources, and anti-bias literacy events built around mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors.

Interior Aids Association

2024–2025 Awardee

FFF supported IAA technology upgrades that strengthened Fairbanks Opioid Workgroup meetings, telehealth counseling, and training related to HIV prevention and community care.

Fairbanks HopeLink

2024–2025 Awardee

Fairbanks HopeLink operates a seasonal overnight warming center that keeps people warm, safe, and connected to community resources during dangerous winter conditions.

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