Sex Worker Giving Circle Fellowship

Between 2018 to 2023, 57 current and former sex workers have led the Sex Worker Giving Circle (SWGC) in granting out over $3 million to 48 sex worker-led groups building safety, self-determination, community power, and systems of mutual aid for sex workers across the U.S. 

The giving circle (a cross-class, multi-racial, and intergenerational giving circle housed at Third Wave Fund) is made up of a group of Fellows with current or past experience with sex work or the sex trade. Fellows annually mobilize resources, make all high-level funding decisions and grantmaking recommendations, bring their voices and leadership into philanthropy, while strengthening community power.

In our sixth year of the Sex Worker Giving Circle, the SWGC became fully former Fellow-staffed. This year’s 2024 Fellows are planning to distribute $585,000 to new and returning SWGC grantees from across the U.S.