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.
Park Foundation
Application deadline: Letters of inquiry are accepted year-round. (Invited proposals are reviewed quarterly.)
Geographic scope: Nationally throughout the U.S., as well as New York and Tompkins County, NY
The Park Foundation is dedicated to advancing a more just, equitable, and sustainable society and environment, both nationally and in the Foundation’s local Ithaca, NY, community. The Foundation’s national grantmaking focuses on the following program areas: democracy, including a broad array of initiatives intended to strengthen the foundations of democracy and good governance; civic participation, with priority on state-based organizations that are educating and mobilizing voters, national and state groups protecting voters' rights and election integrity, and groups thwarting attempts to suppress participation in the democratic process; media, with a focus on public interest media that raises awareness of critical environmental, political, and social issues; the environment, with a focus on drinking water; and animal welfare, with a focus on nationally significant efforts to advance the protection and conservation of wildlife.
(Additional areas of interest target New York state and Tompkins County, NY.)
William Talbott Hillman Foundation
Application deadline: The Foundation has a year-round, rolling application process. The last day to submit an application to be considered for the current year is November 1.
The William Talbott Hillman Foundation strives for a future where creativity is nurtured, democracy is upheld, and gun violence is no more. The William Talbott Hillman Foundation supports Pittsburgh- and New York City-based visual arts institutions, as well as national efforts around strengthening gun laws, preventing gun-related suicides, and driving voter and civic engagement, particularly among young people and BIPOC communities.
Black Futures Lab: Black Organizing Innovations Project
Geographic scope: United States, with priority given to the states of North Carolina, California, Louisiana, Wisconsin, and Georgia
Grant amount: Up to $250,000
Through the Black Organizing Innovations Project, Black Futures Lab, in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will provide grants up to $250,000 for Black voter organizing innovations. The grants are intended to supercharge innovative or experimental ideas for how best to engage Black voters to participate civically and to stay engaged in the political process.
Grants support innovative or experimental strategies that engage and activate Black men in advance of the 2024 elections. Proposals must engage a minimum of 2,500 Black male voters, with priority given to proposals that focus on the target states of North Carolina, California, Louisiana, Wisconsin, and Georgia. Programs must be run, managed, and evaluated by Black-led, Black-focused organizations that have a track record of engagement and activation of Black community members.
William Talbott Hillman Foundation
Application deadline: The Foundation has a year-round, rolling application process. The last day to submit an application to be considered for the current year is November 1.
The William Talbott Hillman Foundation strives for a future where creativity is nurtured, democracy is upheld, and gun violence is no more. The William Talbott Hillman Foundation supports Pittsburgh- and New York City-based visual arts institutions, as well as national efforts around strengthening gun laws, preventing gun-related suicides, and driving voter and civic engagement, particularly among young people and BIPOC communities.
Third Wave Fund Mobilize Power Fund
Third Wave Fund's Mobilize Power Fund is a rapid response fund that resources gender justice organizations in the U.S. and U.S. territories to adapt or pivot their work when met with unanticipated, time-sensitive opportunities or threats to their movement building work and organizing conditions. Supported efforts can include community organizing and mobilization, healing justice work, conflict resolution, community accountability, transformative and restorative justice work, direct action, and more. Support is provided to organizations that are led by young women of color and trans, queer, gender non conforming, and intersex young people of color under 35. Organizations must demonstrate how the issues they are responding to are connected to patriarchy, transphobia, homophobia, gender inequity, or gender-based violence; be led by and for communities directly impacted by the issues they focus on; and have a total organizational budget under $500,000. Click here for more.
Henry Luce Foundation
The Henry Luce Foundation’s Religion and Theology Program seeks new ideas for projects that will deepen public understanding of — and promote more productive public discussions about — democracy, race and religion in America.
The Luce Foundation invites the submission of concept notes from a wide range of knowledge organizations, including community arts organizations, media outlets, museums, colleges and universities, independent seminaries, and other organizations committed to envisioning and building a more open, democratic, and equitable world through critical and creative engagement with religion and communities of faith.
We define knowledge broadly and aim to support its creation and public circulation in many forms, including (but not limited to) independent media, visual art, film and video, educational curricula, policy analysis, community advocacy, research and scholarship.
Due no later than February 15, 2023, concept notes should be submitted through the Foundation’s online portal. Grants awarded will range from $200,000 to $400,000 and will typically fund work that can be completed in less than five years.
Park Foundation
The Park Foundation is dedicated to advancing a more just, equitable, and sustainable society and environment, both nationally and in its local Ithaca, NY, community. The Foundation's national grantmaking focuses on the following program interests: democracy, including a broad array of initiatives intended to strengthen the foundation of democracy and good governance; civic participation, with priority on support for state base organizations educating and mobilizing voters, national and state groups protecting voters' rights and election integrity, and groups thwarting attempts to suppress participation; media, including public interest media that raises awareness of critical environmental, political, and social issues; the environment, with a focus on ensuring drinking water is clean, affordable, and accessible and protected and managed as a public necessity; and animal welfare, with a focus on nationally significant efforts to advance the protection and conservation of wildlife. (Additional areas of interest target New York state and Tompkins County, NY.) Letters of inquiry are accepted at any time and full proposals are reviewed quarterly. The upcoming deadline for full proposals is January 6, 2023. Click here for more.