Geledés

What Geledés does

Geledés - Instituto da Mulher Negra is a Brazilian nonprofit organization founded in 1997 and headquartered at Rua Santa Isabel, 137, Vila Buarque, São Paulo. The organization operates as a digital media platform and advocacy institute dedicated to defending the human rights of Black women and the broader Afro-descendant population in Brazil. Its mission spans racial and gender justice, climate justice, media representation, education, and institutional memory, with documented programmatic expansion into international climate policy through participation in COP28, COP30, and the Bonn climate conference. Geledés served as a key convener of the Marcha das Mulheres Negras por Reparação e Bem Viver, which drew more than 300,000 participants in November 2025.

Its core digital product is the Portal Geledés website, a content portal built on a standard content management system and supplemented by specialized sections: the Biblioteca Digital for institutional documents and research; the Observatório da Mídia, which curates mainstream press coverage on race and gender; the Centro de Documentação e Memória Institucional, an archival center open to researchers by appointment; a Guest Post platform that accepts community-contributed articles; and a Newsletter subscription service. The platform integrates Google Analytics for traffic analysis and the Facebook Comments plugin for reader engagement; all content is freely accessible. Notable technical components are limited to commodity web tooling; the input data does not evidence proprietary technology, AI/ML systems, or software-as-a-service products.

The business model is nonprofit: Geledés does not generate commercial revenue from product sales or subscriptions, publishes financial transparency reports (Demonstrativos Financeiros) through its transparency portal, and accepts voluntary donations. The organization serves the Black and Afro-descendant population of Brazil (approximately 120 million people, or 56% of Brazil's population per IBGE 2022), Black women as a primary persona, and adjacent communities working at the intersection of climate, racial, and gender justice. Distribution is primarily through the digital portal, social media, in-person mobilizations, and direct engagement with international policy forums such as the UNFCCC.

Name

Geledés

Legal name

Geledés Instituto da Mulher Negra

Website

https://geledes.org.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Geledés - Instituto da Mulher Negra is a Brazilian nonprofit founded in 1997 that operates a digital media platform and advocacy institute defending Black women's rights, racial justice, and climate justice for Brazil's Afro-descendant population through research, media monitoring, and policy advocacy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Rights Advocacy / Nonprofit Services

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311), Libraries and Archives (51921)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Organizations (BPAGAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Gender Equality & Women’s Rights Advocacy (BPAGAFAD), Human Rights Monitoring, Documentation & Advocacy (BPADAGAK)

Keywords

• Civil rights advocacy
• Racial justice services
• Media monitoring research
• Cultural documentation services
• Women rights nonprofit

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Non-profit organization: Geledés operates as a non-profit organization. The website provides free access to all content. The organization publishes transparency reports and financial statements (Demonstrativos Financeiros) and accepts donations/support through its transparency portal.

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Geledés - Instituto da Mulher Negra is a Brazilian nonprofit organization founded in 1997 in São Paulo that defends the human rights of Black women and the Afro-Brazilian population. It operates a digital portal, a media observatory, a digital library, and a documentation and institutional memory center that publish advocacy content, monitor media representation, and preserve historical archives related to Black women in Brazil.

Product overview

Geledés operates as a content-focused digital platform and NGO, centered around the Portal Geledés news website. The offering consists of a unified content portal supplemented by specialized sections: the Biblioteca Digital (Digital Library) for institutional documents and research; the Observatório da Mídia (Media Observatory) for curated media monitoring; the Centro de Documentação e Memória Institucional (Documentation and Memory Center) for archival preservation; a Guest Post platform for collaborative content submission; and a Newsletter subscription service. The organization does not offer a software product in the traditional SaaS sense, but rather serves as a digital media organization and advocacy institute for Black women.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Portal Geledés

Quantifiable outcome

• First inclusion of 'afrodescendentes' in UNFCCC documents (COP30 - 2025) through advocacy
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, moderate and minor.

• Brazilian State / GovernmentcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2025Collaboration with the Brazilian State, specifically the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) and climate negotiators, to advocate for the inclusion of Afro-descendant references in UNFCCC documents at COP30. Geledés worked with Brazilian negotiators to maintain references to Afro-descendants in Just Transition, Gender Action Plan, and Global Goal on Adaptation texts.
• Organizações Afrodescendentes (Afro-descendant Organizations)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoalition of Afro-descendant organizations that collaborated with Geledés in advocating for recognition in international climate documents, particularly at COP30 in Belém.
• Gênero e Número / Oxfam Brasil / Observatório da BranquitudemoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for research publication: launched the Executive Summary 'Crise Ambiental e Climática: Mulheres Negras na Linha de Frente' during COP30, exposing how race and gender intersect with access to water, sanitation, waste collection, and food security.
• FGV Direito SP (Centro de Pesquisa Aplicada em Direito e Justiça Racial)moderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partnership for the study published in November demonstrating that international climate norms have systematically ignored the racial dimension of the climate crisis, analyzing 115 international documents published between 1992 and September 2025.
• Observatório do ClimamoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnvironmental NGO collaboration on climate policy analysis and advocacy, particularly regarding the COP30 outcomes and Brazilian climate negotiations.
• Nuestra América VerdeminorGTM or Marketing PartnerRegional environmental organization; Mariana Belmont, climate and environmental racism advisor at Geledés, serves on the board of this organization.
• Rede por Adaptação AntirracistaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerNetwork focused on anti-racist adaptation; Mariana Belmont, climate and environmental racism advisor at Geledés, serves as an organizer and board member.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• INESC (Instituto de Estudos Socioeconômicos): Brazilian civil-society organization monitoring public budgets and social policy with a rights-based framing; shares advocacy methodology and Brazilian civil-society positioning with Geledés.
• Article 19 (Brazil): Brazilian office of Article 19 working on freedom of expression and information rights; comparable as a media-monitoring and documentation-oriented civil-society organization.

Direct peers

• Criola: Brazilian nonprofit organization founded in 1992 dedicated to the rights of Black women, offering direct services, advocacy, and legal support in Rio de Janeiro — highly comparable in mission, target population, and advocacy model to Geledés.
• CEERT (Centro de Estudos das Relações de Trabalho e Desigualdades): Brazilian nonprofit focused on racial equity in labor, education, and public policy, producing research and advocacy outputs that overlap directly with Geledés' racial-justice and policy-influence work.
• Instituto Brasileiro de Direito da Mulher Negra: Brazilian institute operating in the intersection of law, race, and gender, complementing Geledés' legal-advocacy and research functions and addressing similar Black women's rights issues.

Broad incumbents

• Oxfam Brasil: Brazilian arm of global Oxfam with a broad inequality mandate; has partnered with Geledés on the climate-and-race research report, operating at greater scale and geographic scope in adjacent advocacy.
• Observatório do Clima: Brazil's leading climate-policy network of civil society organizations; Geledés is a coalition partner, and Observatório do Clima operates comparably in climate-advocacy but across a broader environmental mandate.
• Conectas Direitos Humanos: One of Brazil's largest human-rights NGOs with significant UN and international advocacy infrastructure; comparable in advocacy model and civil-society positioning though with broader human-rights mandate.

Others

• FGV Direito SP (Centro de Pesquisa Aplicada em Direito e Justiça Racial): Academic research center at FGV that partnered with Geledés on racial-justice climate-norm research; comparable as a research-producer in adjacent legal-racial domain.

Emerging players

• Race and Equality: Latin American–based NGO focused on racial justice across the region; intersects with Geledés' Afro-descendant advocacy work particularly on international and UN-system engagement.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/geledes
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/geledes-instituto-da-mulher-negra

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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