The Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP) was founded in Berlin in 2018 as the world’s first organisation fully dedicated to advancing Feminist Foreign Policy. Over seven years, CFFP implemented over 60 projects, published more than 40 research and policy analyses, and influenced both national and global policy, including Germany’s adoption of a Feminist Foreign Policy in 2021. This publication emerges from this trajectory – from the years of building, influencing, resisting, and adapting. It distils the lessons CFFP learned as a successful and impactful feminist civil society organisation operating in an increasingly volatile environment: lessons about impact, alliances, structural constraints, leadership under pressure, and the necessity of both hope and resistance. The objective is not to romanticise this work, nor to offer a universal blueprint. Rather, it is to share the insights, methods, and reflections that shaped CFFP’s practice and may support others working toward a more just world. Feminist Foreign Policy was – and remains – a bold political experiment. So was CFFP. And the in – sights gathered along the way belong to all who continue – or start – the work.