In 2016, Casa Fluminense established the Casa Fluminense Fund, a tool through which Casa supports collectives, social movements, local institutions, activists etc. who propose to organize monitoring and/or advocacy initiatives on public policy issues aligned with Agenda Rio, which guides Casa’s work. By supporting grassroots monitoring and advocacy initiatives, the Fund aims to strengthen local civil society’s capacity to monitor and advocate for more equitable public policies for metropolitan Rio, as well as for more transparent and accountable public administrations, as proposed in Agenda Rio.
Casa Fluminense believes in the importance of individual donations to support actions in its network of partners. In 2014, we raised R$9,720.00 to organize the Public and Citizen Safety course in Baixada Fluminense, a region north of the city of Rio composed of 13 municipalities. In December 2015, we undertook a crowdfunding to start the Fund, which raised R$3,543.27 in only 20 days. Casa Fluminense doubled this value with institutional resources, so that in 2016 the Fund was inaugurated with R$7,086.28 available to be allocated in initiatives promoted by the members of Casa’s network. Seminars, workshops, campaigns, public mobilizations, urban interventions, and other initiatives aimed at giving visibility to public policy proposals on various themes, received R$500.00 each. Casa Fluminense also provided general support to these actions.
Casa Fluminense selects actions that are aligned with its mission and that contribute to expanding the repertoire of the diverse groups and organizations acting in the metropole of Rio. From mobility to safety, from social policies to sustainability, from the participation and transparency in public management to the guarantee of rights in all locations of the metropolitan city: the common denominator of the supported actions is their contribution to the monitoring, formulation, and mobilization surrounding public policies that help to transform Rio into a more just, democratic, and sustainable space.