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.
Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium: Black Girls Dream Fund
Application deadline: The 2024 cycle is open through December 4, 2023, and several grantseeker workshops will be offered from November 14 through November 28, 2023.
Geographic scope: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, East TX, WV, and VA
Grant amount: The average grant is $35,000.
The Black Girls Dream Fund, an initiative of the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium, seeks to channel greater resources toward organizations that are intentionally supporting and empowering Black girls and women in the South.
For 2024, the Fund is providing general operating grants to support the capacity of organizations that care for Black girls. Black women-led and girl-led nonprofit organizations and fiscally sponsored projects within Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, East Texas, West Virginia, and Virginia are eligible to apply. Support is provided in five categories: education, health and wellness, economic opportunity, social justice, and leadership and empowerment.
Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundation
Geographic scope: Company communities in the ten states served by Food Lion
The Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundation provides support to organizations based in or providing support in the ten states in which Food Lion operates, including locations within a 20-mile radius of a Food Lion store in Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Grants support children at risk of hunger by providing funds to feeding agencies to increase their "fresh" capacity so families can put nutritious meals on their tables. Foundation grants can only be used for the purchase of food in support of an organization's hunger-relief effort.
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.
Gladys Brooks Foundation
The Gladys Brooks Foundation provides support in Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. The focus is on nonprofit libraries, educational institutions, and hospitals and clinics. Grants, generally between $50,000 and $150,000, may be used for endowments, capital projects, or capital equipment. The first step in the application process is to fill out an online request form. This form will provide information on developing a grant proposal letter, which must be submitted within two weeks from the date of the request form. (The final deadline for online grant proposal letters is May 31, 2023.)
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.
TD Bank Housing for Everyone Competition
The theme for the 17th annual Housing for Everyone competition is preservation of affordable rental housing.
With affordability restrictions expiring and costs increasing, rentals that were once reasonable are becoming out of reach for many. To address this issue, we'll fund a select group of non-profit organizations focused on creating more affordable rental options through property rehabilitation, rental assistance funds or growing their support teams.