Grant amount: Up to $5,000
The A.J. Muste Memorial Institute’s Social Justice Fund provides grants for grassroots activist projects in the U.S., giving priority to those with small budgets and little access to more mainstream funding sources.
The Fund is especially interested in supporting efforts to end the violence of borders and the criminalization of immigrants; abolish prisons and dismantle and redefine systems of policing and criminal justice; confront institutionalized violence against racial, ethnic, gender-based, and LGBTQ communities; put an end to economic exploitation, class stratification, and systemic poverty; and stop the war machine, end state sponsored terrorism, and expose the dangers of nuclear power.
Priority is given to direct grassroots activism and organizing and groups with diverse, representative, and democratic leadership structures.