Funding Opportunities
This grant is accepting applications in a rolling basis.
Funder: Life Comes From It
Due: Ongoing opportunity
Funds: Nonprofits that offer approaches to address violence & repair harm rooted in community solutions
Funder: Abelard Foundation West
Due: Rolling deadline; note Abelard has an open Letter of Inquiry (LOI) process for qualifying organizations, but full proposals are accepted by invitation only
Funds: Grassroots social change organizations in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color that seek to expand community control over economic, social and environmental decisions affecting their communities’ wellbeing
Funder: Acorn Foundation
Due: Rolling deadline; note Acorn has an open Letter of Inquiry (LOI) process for qualifying organizations, but full proposals are accepted by invitation only
Funds: $5,000-$10,000 grants for community-based organizations working for environmental conservation, sustainability, and environmental justice
This grant is accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Funder: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Presbyterian Mission
Due: Ongoing
Funds: Organizations looking to promote justice, build solidarity, advance human dignity, & advocate for economic equity; supported projects must be presented, owned, & controlled by the groups of people who will directly benefit from them
https://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/sdop/apply-grant/
Funder: Emergent Fund
Due: Rolling Deadline
Funds: Funds two types of efforts:
Efforts that support emergent strategies that help communities respond to rapidly changing conditions. This includes resisting new or amplified threats and building power to move a proactive agenda.
Efforts seeking long-term social justice and economic justice in a political and social climate that seeks to dismantle such efforts.
This grant is accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Funder: Walgreens
Due: Ongoing opportunity
Funds: Funding to improve access to health and wellness in the community, pharmacy education program and mentoring initiatives, civic and community outreach, and emergency and disaster relief.
https://www.walgreens.com/topic/about/community/companyguidelines.jsp
Funder: Common Counsel Foundation
Due: Rolling deadline, February through November; applications submitted by the first Monday of each month will be reviewed for consideration by the end of the month
Funds: Small rapid response grants to support small community-based groups seeking to meet with other grassroots organizations, build collaborative campaigns, and benefit from organizing, training, and technical assistance opportunities
https://www.commoncounsel.org/grantmaking-initiatives/grassroots-exchange-fund/
Funder: Deaconess Foundation
Due: September 23, 2022
Funds: Policy Campaign / Collaborative Grants work to leverage the impact of Deaconess’ funding strategies by supporting community campaigns, testing and incubating new policy ideas, generating evidence, and supporting interdisciplinary or cross-cutting work that informs and animates the public witness of the Foundation on behalf of children.
Funder: Deaconess Foundation
Due: July 29, 2022 (quarterly cycle)
Funds: 1-2 year grants to support public policy advocacy or community organizing efforts aligned with Deaconess policy agenda / strategy screens
Funder: Deaconess Foundation
Due: July 29, 2022
Funds: 1-2 year grants for Deaconess Impact Partners to sustain capacity-building culture and advance child well-being policy
Funder: Ben & Jerry's Foundation
Due: June 15, 2022, 4:00 pm ET
Funds: Nonprofit grassroots organizations that are working to help themselves and their communities create broad systems change through community organizing and movement-building efforts.
Funder: New Media Ventures
Due: February 15, 2022 at 7:00 pm CT
Funds: Entrepreneurs and activists who are strengthening our democracy, building progressive political power, and/or empowering historically marginalized communities. NMV is mission-driven and aims to invest in startups that are working to advance progressive change in the United States in a variety of fields, including environmental protection, economic equality, racial justice, and a thriving democracy.
Funder: Peace Development Fund
Due: December 29, 2021
Funds: Support to community-based organizations in the United States, Haiti, and Mexico that are working for social justice. Funding priorities include organizing to shift power, working to build a movement, dismantling oppression, and creating new structures.
https://www.peacedevelopmentfund.org/grants-and-programs/community-organizing-grants-program/
Funder: Missouri Foundation for Health
Due: November 4, 2021
Funding: The Missouri Foundation for Health Opportunity fund is seeking ideas that create sustainable change to address systemic inequities in health. Idea proposals are due November 4, 2021.
https://mffh.org/our-focus/community-ideas/opportunity-fund/
Funder: Economic Development Administration (EDA)
Due: October 19, 2021
Funding: The American Rescue Plan Act Build Back Better Regional Challenge is designed to help communities and regions affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The Economic Development Administration (EDA) will grant $27-75 million to 20-30 finalist coalitions.
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334735
Funder: Missouri Foundation for Health
Due: Final proposal July 1st, 2021
Funds: The Opportunity Fund enables us to respond to emerging issues and test new or innovative approaches that may be unique to the state. Ideas can also be based on existing, promising, or effective models that can be tested with new audiences or geographies. Projects may also test the viability and sustainability of an idea on a small scale as a proof of concept.
https://mffh.org/our-focus/community-ideas/opportunity-fund/
Funder: Needmor Fund
Due: June 30, 2021
Funds: Support is provided to grassroots, membership-based community organizations that are democratically led, engaged in direct action campaigns, and committed to leadership development.
Does not fund Community Development Corporations.
Funder: The All-State Foundation
Due: April 30, 2021
Funds: The Power of Youth Challenge: Youth Leading Racial Healing, an initiative of America's Promise Alliance, is a leadership and service opportunity supporting youth-designed projects that promote racial equity and address systemic racism.
Funder: Forward Through Ferguson & Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Due: April 19, 2021
Funds: Initiatives that: (1) heal individual and community trauma, (2) engage a broader range of residents in systems change work, (3) prepare leaders of color to organize for healing justice, (4) build local capacity to nurture, support, and cultivate healing assets and (5) align resources for long-term sustainability.
Funder: AARP
Due: April 14, 2021
Funds: The AARP Community Challenge grant program will support quick-action projects that can help communities become more livable for people of all ages. Nonprofit organizations and government agencies may apply for grants for community-based projects to improve public spaces, housing, transportation, civic engagement, coronavirus recovery, diversity and inclusion, and more.
https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/community-challenge/
Funder: Historic Preservation Fund
Due: March 31, 2021
Funds: The Historic Preservation Fund: Underrepresented Community Grants program works toward diversifying the nominations submitted to the National Register of Historic Places.
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=331125
Funder: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Due: March 15, 2021
Funds: Groups using community organizing to bring about systemic change & mobilize those who have been disenfranchised
Funder: Borealis Racial Equity to Accelerate Change (REACH) Fund
Due: Take a brief survey to be considered for an invitation to submit a proposal in January of 2021.
Funds: Racial equity practitioners—the individuals and institutions working closely with nonprofit groups on the ground to advance their racial equity work internally and externally—who are independent consultants, teams of individual consultants, capacity building organizations, or firms. The Fund is seeking racial equity practitioners who are engaged in nonprofit organizational development work within the following communities: Indigenous, rural, American territories, and communities in the middle of the nation.
Funder: Resist
Due: December 4, 2020
General Support Grants fund: Groups who are building movements for justice & liberation & resisting systemic oppression through grassroots/cultural organizing, art-making, & resilience building
Accessibility Grants fund: Efforts that specifically allow for a group's work to be more accessible
Funder: Life Comes From It
Due: Letters of introduction may be submitted at any time and will be reviewed from August to December of each year.
Funds: Up to $25,000 grants to nonprofit organizations that offer approaches to address violence and repair harm rooted in community solutions. The focus is on investing in leaders of color committed to doing movement-building work. Two categories of grants are offered: Individual Projects and Networks, Convenings, and Collaborations.
Funder: Common Counsel Foundation
Due: Twice monthly rolling cycle until November
Funds: Networking and collaboration between grassroots social change and environmental justice organizations throughout the United States. GXF prioritizes grants to small community-based groups seeking to meet face-to-face with other grassroots organizations, to build collaborative campaigns, and to benefit from technical assistance opportunities.
http://www.commoncounsel.org/grantmaking-initiatives/grassroots-exchange-fund/
Funder: Prudential Spirit of Community Awards
Due: November 10, 2020
Funds: Honors young people in grades five to twelve who are volunteering in their communities. Honorees receive an award of $1,000 and an invitation to the program's national recognition events. Out of the State Honorees, National Honorees are selected to receive an additional award of $5,000 as well as a $5,000 grant for a nonprofit organization of their choice.
Funder: Herb Block Foundation
Due: Letters of Intent due October 6, 2020. Full proposals due December 15, 2020.
Funds: Nonprofits organizations nationwide that seek to safeguard the basic freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, to help eliminate prejudice and discrimination, and to assist government agencies to be more accountable to the public. Grants range from $5,000-$25,000.
https://www.herbblockfoundation.org/grant-programs/defending-basic-freedoms
Funder: Sparkplug Foundation
Due: Answers to the preliminary questions must be submitted by October 5, 2020. Letters of Intent must be submitted by October 19, 2020. Completed applications must be submitted by November 9, 2020.
Prize Funds: Funds start-up organizations and new projects of established organizations in music, education and community organizing
Funder: Roth Cheese
Due: September 30, 2020
Funds: $2,500 to chosen recipients for not-for-profits conducting projects that benefit the community.
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