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.

https://www.emergentfund.net/

Funder: AARP

Due: March 22, 2022 at 4:00 pm CT

Funds: Quick-action projects that can help communities become more livable for people of all ages. This year, applications will be accepted for projects to improve public spaces, housing, transportation and civic engagement; support diversity, equity and inclusion; build engagement for programs under new federal laws; and pursue innovative ideas that support people age 50 or older.

https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/community-challenge/info-2022/2022-challenge.html

Funder: Build Healthy Places Network

Due: March 18, 2022

Funds: Building local Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC)-led community development capacity, supporting community power, exploring innovative community ownership models, and addressing the barriers and gaps within community development and health partnerships to effectively propel racial equity.

https://buildhealthyplaces.org/sharing-knowledge/blogs/news/community-innovations-for-racial-equity-2022/

Funder: Goldman Sachs Group

Due: March 11, 2022

Funds: 50 Black women-led nonprofits will be selected to receive general operating funding ranging from $50,000 to $250,000 over two years. Organizations must align with at least one of the seven impact areas of One Million Black Women: healthcare, education, housing, digital connectivity, financial health, access to capital, and job creation and workforce advancement.

https://www.goldmansachs.com/our-commitments/sustainability/one-million-black-women/impact-grants/index.html

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.

https://newmediaventures.org/

Funder: National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB) and JPMorgan Chase

Due: February 14, 2022

Funds: With the generous support of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, NALCAB will provide two cohorts of grants: $40,000 grants for the creation of equitable development action plans (Planning Grants) or $25,000 grants to support the implementation of an existing development action plan (Implementation Grants). NALCAB anticipates awarding up to 12 grants for a period of 12 months. An informational webinar is available here.

https://nalcab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Advancing-Equitable-Neighborhood-Development-RFP.pdf

Funder: Rumphius Foundation

Due: January 15, 2022

Funds: Grants up to $6,000 to organizations that support racial equity, environmental & social justice and that are currently leading projects that strengthen communities and protect the environment.

https://www.rumphiusfoundation.org/grants.html#.Ybo24H3ML0o

This bucket of the FLOURISH St. Louis fund is reserved for community groups to implement new and existing community engagement efforts that promote maternal and infant vitality, provide social support and healing to new and expectant mothers, and/or build community among Black parents in priority zip codes where infant mortality is at its worst. Our goal is to get funds in the hands of community leaders doing grassroots, on-the-ground work to support Black moms and babies – even if you are not a registered 501c3 or have not previously received grant funding, you are encouraged to apply!

Examples of projects we might fund include, but are not limited to:

• Providing baby-related supplies to families

• Leading peer groups/education

• Connecting families to resources

The final deadline to apply will be August 13, 2021. All applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Please note that staff will only be available until 4:00 p.m. to answer any questions or resolve issues. The anticipated project start date is October 1, 2021.

https://www.flourishstlouis.org/community-mobilization-funds/

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: EPA

Due: June 1, 2021

Funding Description: The Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving (EJCPS) Cooperative Agreement Program provides financial assistance to eligible organizations working on or planning to work on projects to address local environmental and/or public health issues in their communities. The program assists recipients in building collaborative partnerships with other stakeholders (e.g., local businesses and industry, local government, medical service providers, academia, etc.) to develop solutions that will significantly address environmental and/or public health issue(s) at the local level.

https://www.epa.gov/environmental-justice/environmental-justice-collaborative-problem-solving-cooperative-agreement-0

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.

https://www.americaspromise.org/RacialHealing

Funder: Solidaire

Due: April 23, 2021

Funds: The Movement Infrastructure Fund supports efforts that are led by those most impacted by injustice, with a focus on disrupting extractive, exploitative, and oppressive systems.

https://solidairenetwork.org/grantmaking/movement-infrastructure-fund/

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.

https://forwardthroughferguson.org/fundingpriorities/

This funding opportunity is accepting applications on an ongoing basis.

Funder: Solidaire

Due: Ongoing opportunity

Funds: Solidaire's Janisha R. Gabriel Movement Protection Fund provides urgently needed support to grassroots organizers and movement organizations in response to the increased threats resulting from white supremacist violence

https://solidairenetwork.org/grantmaking/janisha-r-gabriel-movement-protection-fund/

Funder: Solidaire

Due: Feb 26, 2021

Funds: The Black Liberation Pooled Fund supports both long-term movement partners working towards Black Liberation and smaller, start-up organizations who are rounding out the broader ecosystem of Black-led movement building.

https://solidairenetwork.org/grantmaking/black-liberation-pooled-fund/

Funder: W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Due: Registration deadline is January 28, 2021; Applications due February 25, 2021

Funds: Solutions worldwide that tackle the social, economic, political, or institutional inequities we see today.

https://www.racialequity2030.org/

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.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WHJ9SWV

Funder: Data Across Sectors for Health with support from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Due: December 16, 2020

Prize Funds: 5 awards of $100,000 for targeted funds and direct technical assistance to build the capacity of their community’s data ecosystem to initiate, strengthen, and leverage relationships with the state government to improve health, well-being, and equity outcomes.

https://dashconnect.org/funding-opportunities/lapp/

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.

https://www.lifecomesfromit.org/

Funder: The Nature Conservancy

Due: November 13, 2020, 10:59 pm CT

Funds: Rapid response, emergency relief, and support to frontline community-based nonprofit organizations that are led by and serve the interests of Black, Latinx/o/a, Indigenous, and/or Asian American/Pacific Islander communities as well as low-wage earners and migrant laborers. This fund is designed to respond to the disparate health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on these groups that stem from historic and present-day structural inequities and systemic racism.

https://tnc.app.box.com/s/vxsqm7jkjwfz27pm1uel77tl3gnwcl5e

Funder: Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) in partnership with The Chicago Community Trust

Due: First cycle due October 14, 2020 with funds being awarded late November. Second cycle due October 30, 2020 with funds being disbursed mid-December

Funds: Organizations interested in working on racial healing in four areas:

• Promoting Dialogue: conversations to build understanding and empathy

• Encouraging Collaboration: activities that bring people together in-person or virtually to connect, act together on a project or idea

• Facilitating Learning: activities designed to build or enhance knowledge

• Seeding Connection: racial healing circles, peace circles or restorative justice activities

https://www.dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?item=126286

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: Washington University & Mellon Foundation

Due: August 26, 2020

Funds: individuals and organizations in the St. Louis metro region engaged in community work or creative practice related to urban segregation. The goal is to provide direct support for proposals in the humanities, arts, design, urban design, and landscape architecture that engage the lived realities of the divided city.

http://thedividedcity.com/new-funding-opportunity/

Funder: FLOURISH

Due: June 3, 2020 (applications will re-open May 28)

Funds: Grants of up to $5,000 for programs that support the health & well-being of Black families during the COVID-19 pandemic

https://www.flourishstlouis.org/how-you-can-help/covid-19-response-fund/

Funder: Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

Due: May 30, 2020 (LOIs)

Funds: LGBTQI organizations that lack the funding resources they need to organize, build power and leadership, and make positive sustainable change; priority is given to groups that are led by and for people of color, indigenous, low-income, and rural communities

https://fundingqueerly.net/apply-for-funding

Funder: World Resources Institute Ross Center

Due: May 7, 2020

Funds: Initiatives & projects that show how to live & thrive in a changing climate by tackling both the climate crisis & urban inequality

https://prizeforcities.org/

Funder: Build Healthy Places Network with funding from The Kresge Foundation

Due: March 18, 2020

Funds: Up to $40,000 to support staff or a consultant for community development corporations serving low-income communities and communities of color that are focused on advancing health equity, racial equity, and social determinants of health.

https://www.buildhealthyplaces.org/whats-new/community-innovations-2020-rpf/

Funder: Wells Fargo and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

Due: Pre-Proposal due date: February 18, 2020 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time

Funds: Adaption through conservation projects, community capacity building and demonstration projects, adaption focused on affordable housing and small businesses

https://files.constantcontact.com/168520a1201/143ee0f1-96e8-48d3-95de-b6e6e0abfe0d.pdf

Funder: The Open Society Foundations
Due: February 13, 2020
Funds: Emerging midcareer professionals who are poised to become long-term innovative leaders impacting racial justice; awards individuals with $100,000 to support the production of an innovative racial justice project over the course of 18 months

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/soros-equality-fellowship