Funding Opportunities
This grant is accepting applications in a rolling basis.
Funder: Life Comes From It
Due: Ongoing opportunity
Funds: Nonprofits that offer approaches to address violence & repair harm rooted in community solutions
This grant is accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Funder: Cornell Douglas Foundation
Due: Ongoing opportunity
Funds: Nonprofits that address one or more of the following areas of interest: environmental health and justice, land conservation, sustainability of resources, mountaintop removal mining, watershed protection, and K-12 financial literacy
This grant is accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Funder: Wallace Global Fund
Due: Ongoing opportunity
Funds: Initiatives that promote an informed & engaged citizenry, fight injustice, &/or protect the diversity of nature & the natural systems upon which all life depends; grants are provided for initiatives at the national & global levels, as well as for significant local or regional programs offering the potential to leverage broader impact
Funder: Abelard Foundation West
Due: Rolling deadline; note Abelard has an open Letter of Inquiry (LOI) process for qualifying organizations, but full proposals are accepted by invitation only
Funds: Grassroots social change organizations in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color that seek to expand community control over economic, social and environmental decisions affecting their communities’ wellbeing
Funder: Acorn Foundation
Due: Rolling deadline; note Acorn has an open Letter of Inquiry (LOI) process for qualifying organizations, but full proposals are accepted by invitation only
Funds: $5,000-$10,000 grants for community-based organizations working for environmental conservation, sustainability, and environmental justice
This grant is accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Funder: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Presbyterian Mission
Due: Ongoing
Funds: Organizations looking to promote justice, build solidarity, advance human dignity, & advocate for economic equity; supported projects must be presented, owned, & controlled by the groups of people who will directly benefit from them
https://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/sdop/apply-grant/
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.
Funder: Common Counsel Foundation
Due: Rolling deadline, February through November; applications submitted by the first Monday of each month will be reviewed for consideration by the end of the month
Funds: Small rapid response grants to support small community-based groups seeking to meet with other grassroots organizations, build collaborative campaigns, and benefit from organizing, training, and technical assistance opportunities
https://www.commoncounsel.org/grantmaking-initiatives/grassroots-exchange-fund/
Funder: Clif Family Foundation
Due: June 1, 2022
Funds: Operational support for organizations that demonstrate strong community ties, operate within viable and clearly defined plans for positive change, and address two or more of the Foundation’s funding priorities:
Strengthen our food system
Enhance equitable community health outcomes
Safeguard our environment and natural resources
Funder: Deaconess Foundation
Due: September 23, 2022
Funds: Policy Campaign / Collaborative Grants work to leverage the impact of Deaconess’ funding strategies by supporting community campaigns, testing and incubating new policy ideas, generating evidence, and supporting interdisciplinary or cross-cutting work that informs and animates the public witness of the Foundation on behalf of children.
Funder: Deaconess Foundation
Due: July 29, 2022 (quarterly cycle)
Funds: 1-2 year grants to support public policy advocacy or community organizing efforts aligned with Deaconess policy agenda / strategy screens
Funder: Deaconess Foundation
Due: July 29, 2022
Funds: 1-2 year grants for Deaconess Impact Partners to sustain capacity-building culture and advance child well-being policy
Funder: Ben & Jerry's Foundation
Due: June 15, 2022, 4:00 pm ET
Funds: Nonprofit grassroots organizations that are working to help themselves and their communities create broad systems change through community organizing and movement-building efforts.
Funder: St. Louis Development Corporation
Due: June 1, 2022
Funds: Businesses and nonprofits located on 11 eligible corridors and neighborhoods in North St. Louis can apply for operational support and façade and storefront improvement grants. This allows SLDC to award funds to organizations along the following corridors and eligible neighborhoods in North City.
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.
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.
Funder: Peace Development Fund
Due: December 29, 2021
Funds: Support to community-based organizations in the United States, Haiti, and Mexico that are working for social justice. Funding priorities include organizing to shift power, working to build a movement, dismantling oppression, and creating new structures.
https://www.peacedevelopmentfund.org/grants-and-programs/community-organizing-grants-program/
Funder: Missouri Foundation for Health
Due: November 4, 2021
Funding: The Missouri Foundation for Health Opportunity fund is seeking ideas that create sustainable change to address systemic inequities in health. Idea proposals are due November 4, 2021.
https://mffh.org/our-focus/community-ideas/opportunity-fund/
Funder: City of St. Louis Community Development Administration
Due: September 30, 2021
Funds: In response to the public health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 public health emergency, The City of St. Louis Community Development Administration (CDA) is accepting proposals for activities that will assist in the elimination of food instability experienced by City of St. Louis residents, caused by the health emergency.
Funder: First Unitarian Church of St. Louis
Due: September 13, 2021
Funds: Non-sectarian, direct service, social action projects in the St. Louis community. Approximately $7,000 is available this grants cycle for individual grants of $500 or less, and potentially for funding one or more larger requests based on project merit and need. Funders are most interested in programs/projects that address issues surrounding homelessness, poverty, and marginalized populations in the metro St. Louis area, particularly in St. Louis City.
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.
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.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice
Due: March 16, 2021
Funds: $750,000 award ceiling; purpose: To provide a comprehensive response to assist in the transition individuals make from prison, jail, or juvenile residential facilities to the community so that the transition is more successful and promotes public safety.
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=330929
Funder: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Due: March 15, 2021
Funds: Groups using community organizing to bring about systemic change & mobilize those who have been disenfranchised
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.
This grant is accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Funder: Omidyar Network
Due: Ongoing opportunity
Funds: 501(c)(4) funding into national, state, and local advocacy and organizing efforts aimed at passing economic stimulus to address the immediate toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on working people while reshaping our economic structure to ensure they are less vulnerable in the future
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.
Funder: Resist
Due: December 4, 2020
General Support Grants fund: Groups who are building movements for justice & liberation & resisting systemic oppression through grassroots/cultural organizing, art-making, & resilience building
Accessibility Grants fund: Efforts that specifically allow for a group's work to be more accessible
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.
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