Who We Are

Disability Rights at the Forefront of Every Movement!

Three women are wearing bright traditional Indonesian dresses. A young woman in front is holding a sign, 'Equality.'

Vision

Disability Rights for Everyone, Everywhere.

Purpose

We support disability rights movements to unleash their power and celebrate diversity.

Values

Our values inform how we are in the world:

We celebrate human diversity and disability pride.

We value the participation, access, and inclusion of all people with disability, in the promotion of human rights.

We embrace learning from success and failure as a powerful means of transformation.

We bring an intersectional feminist approach to our work.

We base our relationships on collaboration, solidarity, interdependence, joy, and accountability.

Diana Samarasan
Founder, Disability Rights Fund

“From its inception, the Disability Rights Fund has reimagined how philanthropy is done—from radically increasing support for activists with disabilities across the globe to ensuring representation of people with lived experience within philanthropic decision-making. From revisiting how advocacy wins are measured to addressing intersecting oppressions and ableism. DRF is an innovator, built on ideas generated from the global disability community.”