A calendar of grants, resources, and funding opportunities listed by application or inquiry due date and tagged in various categories. For more information about grant, foundation, and other resources contact Laura Hennighausen at lhennighausen@purposepossible.com.
The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP)
The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) aims to empower economically poor, oppressed, and disadvantaged people who are seeking to change the structures that perpetuate poverty, oppression, and injustice. Support is available to groups in the United States that are oppressed by poverty and social systems, want to take charge of their own lives, have organized or are organizing to do something about their own conditions, and have decided that what they are going to do will produce long-term changes for their lives or communities. Projects must utilize some combination of the SDOP core strategies to promote justice, build solidarity, advance human dignity, and advocate for economic equity. In addition, projects must be presented, owned, and controlled by the group of economically poor people who will directly benefit. (Internationally, applications are accepted from Panama, and work is done in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Nigeria through intermediary partners.)
There are no deadlines.
RRF Foundation for Aging Accepting LOIs
RRF Foundation for Aging focuses on improving the quality of life for older people. Priority areas are (1) caregiving, (2) economic security later in life, (3) housing, and (4) social and intergenerational connectedness. Next LOI deadline is 5/1. Grants tend to be $50k to $500k+ but no specified range.
Rocket Foundation: 2024 SPARK Grants
10 grants of $10K will be awarded to high-impact organizations that are helping build an ecosystem of gun violence prevention and reduction in Atlanta. These micro-grants will support evidence-based initiatives addressing community gun violence. We highly encourage all organizations that are eligible to apply, either to get support for an existing program or to pilot an initiative.
Open to nonprofits focused on advocacy, research, and/or (in)direct delivery services.
Race Forward and Americans for the Arts are seeking proposals for: Cultural Week of Action on Race and Democracy (CWA)
The first annual Cultural Week of Action on Race and Democracy (CWA) will take place September 27 to October 5, 2024. Race Forward and Americans for the Art are excited to sponsor select projects to encourage deep, bold, and long-term change. Through a competitive process, 12-15 local communities that represent the diversity of our country will receive $25,000-$40,000 for cultural organizers and community partners to design and implement projects that align with the theme of Building the Bigger We. This is an opportunity to deepen commitments to racial justice and inclusive democracy through cultural activities.
Participation in the CWA will also be encouraged and open to organizations not requesting funding.
WES Mariam Assefa Fund: Elevating Migrant Leadership Funding Opportunity
The WES Mariam Assefa Fund, the philanthropic arm of World Education Services, is committed to building an inclusive economy that works for immigrants and refugees. The Fund’s Elevating Migrant Leadership: Building Inclusive Futures Funding Opportunity seeks proposals from organizations in the United States that are elevating the voices and leadership of immigrants and refugees. Support will be provided to organizations that work with immigrants and refugees who are seeking to develop civic leadership and advocacy skills so they can more effectively influence the development of programs and policies that affect them and their communities.
Seven selected awardees will receive $100,000.
A.J. Muste Memorial Institute: Social Justice Fund
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.
Healthcare Georgia Foundation: Building the Field of Health Advocacy
Geographic scope: Georgia
Grant amount: Up to $75,000
The mission of the Healthcare Georgia Foundation is to inspire and promote collective action that advances health equity for all Georgians. Through the Building the Field of Health Advocacy program, the Foundation anticipates investing a total of $1.2 million to support advocacy efforts aimed at advancing health equity in Georgia.
Support will be provided for projects that identify emerging opportunities to advance health equity in Georgia at the systems level, either locally or statewide; elevate community voices to educate decision-makers on health-related issues of importance to communities; bolster the capacity of nonprofit organizations to engage in effective advocacy efforts including research, policy development, coalition building and mobilization, community education, and strategic communications; and strengthen the overall field of health advocacy. Nonprofit organizations and groups with a nonprofit fiscal sponsor working in Georgia on behalf of Georgians are eligible to apply.
Meyer Foundation Fund for Black-led Change
This Fund acknowledges the historic philanthropic divestment from Black communities and people, and makes explicit our commitment to resourcing local, Black-led organizations and their leadership as they grow their organizations; build enduring and sustainable infrastructure; grow deeper, wider bases of support and power; and advocate for better and just systems that will benefit all people.
In addition to our eligibility requirements, organizations or projects seeking funding should:
Address the root causes of inequity through systems change work. We define systems change as challenging and changing the culture, policies, practices, and priorities that create and perpetuate inequities. These inequities have only been further exposed and exacerbated during the pandemic.
Build power for purposes of advancing racial and/or economic justice.
Leverage one or more of these tactics for change:
Organizing & Base Building
Advocacy
Coalition Building
Actively participate in broader organizing, movement, and/or field-building work to advance racial and economic justice in Greater Washington.
American Bar Endowment: Opportunity Grant Program
Application deadline: September 1, 2023, for letters of inquiry, and October 6, 2023, for invited applications
Grant amount: Typically $25,000 or less
The American Bar Endowment’s Opportunity Grant Program provides funding for new and innovative law-related projects and programs of importance to the public and the legal profession in the United States.
Funding focus areas include:
Enhancing access to justice, especially for vulnerable and underserved populations using innovations to legal services delivery, capacity-building, or pro bono service
Improvement of the justice system, including ensuring equal justice and elimination of bias
Increasing public understanding of legal rights and responsibilities so people can recognize legal problems and know how to address them.
Examples of funded efforts include projects that build organizational capacity to serve clients better; develop tools, technology, or approaches that the broader legal community could use; launch a new law-related program; or document or prove a best practice.
Meyer Foundation Fund for Black-led Change
This Fund acknowledges the historic philanthropic divestment from Black communities and people, and makes explicit our commitment to resourcing local, Black-led organizations and their leadership as they grow their organizations; build enduring and sustainable infrastructure; grow deeper, wider bases of support and power; and advocate for better and just systems that will benefit all people.
In addition to our eligibility requirements, organizations or projects seeking funding should:
Address the root causes of inequity through systems change work. We define systems change as challenging and changing the culture, policies, practices, and priorities that create and perpetuate inequities. These inequities have only been further exposed and exacerbated during the pandemic.
Build power for purposes of advancing racial and/or economic justice.
Leverage one or more of these tactics for change:
Organizing & Base Building
Advocacy
Coalition Building
Actively participate in broader organizing, movement, and/or field-building work to advance racial and economic justice in Greater Washington.
Meyer Foundation Fund for Black-led Change
This Fund acknowledges the historic philanthropic divestment from Black communities and people, and makes explicit our commitment to resourcing local, Black-led organizations and their leadership as they grow their organizations; build enduring and sustainable infrastructure; grow deeper, wider bases of support and power; and advocate for better and just systems that will benefit all people.
In addition to our eligibility requirements, organizations or projects seeking funding should:
Address the root causes of inequity through systems change work. We define systems change as challenging and changing the culture, policies, practices, and priorities that create and perpetuate inequities. These inequities have only been further exposed and exacerbated during the pandemic.
Build power for purposes of advancing racial and/or economic justice.
Leverage one or more of these tactics for change:
Organizing & Base Building
Advocacy
Coalition Building
Actively participate in broader organizing, movement, and/or field-building work to advance racial and economic justice in Greater Washington.