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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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