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Women Donors Network

At Women Donors Network, we believe in a world where all people enjoy basic human rights and freedom from discrimination, violence, and oppression; where we are able to use environmental resources sustainably; and where all communities have equal access to economic opportunity.

We boldly mobilize collective resources to meet emerging needs, launch catalytic initiatives, and build long-term power, capacity, and infrastructure of movements. We do this via several collective funding vehicles, incubated initiatives, and rapid-response funding.

Abortion Bridge Collaborative (ABC) Fund

The Abortion Bridge Collaborative (ABC) Fund was established in the wake of the 2022 Dobbs decision to ensure enduring abortion care across the United States. The ABC Fund moves money rapidly to build critical and emergent infrastructure to protect and advance reproductive justice nationwide.

Grantmaking Priorities

The ABC Fund supports organizations that center reproductive justice in their mission, values, and work as they navigate this new rapidly changing landscape – recognizing immediate needs while also funding the infrastructure necessary to ensure nationwide abortion access in the long term.

ABC Fund is explicitly focusing our support towards work that directly results in increased access to abortion care in communities. 

Our primary grantmaking priorities fall within the following areas: 

• Strengthening the abortion access ecosystem – including provision, abortion funding, and practical support for abortion seekers
• Investing in innovation and experimentation – bold and creative work that creates new or alternative pathways to care 
• Expanding the reach of info-sharing efforts nationwide – including information and/or support regarding telehealth, shield law provision, self-managed abortion, etc.

Environment

Through the Environment Program, the foundation seeks to ensure a thriving, resilient environment for wildlife and people, and foster an inclusive, effective conservation movement.

Doris Duke was a lifelong environmentalist with a keen interest in conservation. In her will, which guides our focus areas, she expressed her interest in "the preservation of wildlife, both flora and fauna" and in supporting "ecological endeavors."

Why It's Important

In the wildest places and the most urban, our health and quality of life depends on the natural world—from the water we drink, the air we breathe and the food we eat, to the places where we may find inspiration, joy, healing or kinship. Increasingly, nature depends on us as well, to be responsible stewards of the ecosystems where we and millions of other species dwell. In the face of accelerating extinctions and global climate change, now is the critical decade for taking action.

What We Support

The Doris Duke Foundation seeks to demonstrate how effective conservation can protect and restore nature, help address climate change and promote a more equitable society. We support initiatives that increase the pace and scale of land conservation and stewardship across the United States to protect biodiversity, bolster the resilience of natural areas and advance climate change mitigation. We also focus on conservation efforts that advance equity, in particular for communities that identify as Black, Indigenous and people of color. To achieve these goals, the foundation concentrates on three complementary and intersecting areas of focus.

Nature: Land Conservation in an Era of Climate Change

Conserving, restoring and managing ecosystems is fundamental to protecting wildlife and sustaining biodiversity in all its forms. As climate change increasingly alters the natural world, the approaches by which we conserve and steward land must adapt to ensure enduring benefits to wildlife, the climate and communities.

Our support focuses on three critical approaches to increasing the pace, scale and effectiveness of land conservation and stewardship across the United States, with the goal of conserving at least 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030 for biodiversity, landscape connectivity, climate resilience and thriving wild and human communities:

• Conservation of resilient lands and waters through efforts that identify and accelerate conservation of areas expected to be most intrinsically resilient to climate change.
• Climate-adapted conservation and restoration practices that draw on the best available science and traditional ecological knowledge to intentionally help prepare ecosystems for changing conditions rather than resist them.
• Landscape-scale conservation through collaborative approaches that focus on maintaining functioning, resilient, connected ecosystems.

Climate: Natural Climate Solutions

Natural climate solutions, strategies that leverage the capacity of ecosystems to absorb and store carbon, have the potential to provide 20% of the nation’s climate mitigation progress while also providing benefits to wildlife and communities. Through the Environment Program, the foundation works to accelerate the use of natural climate solutions as an essential means to mitigate climate change and support rural economic development. To that end, we focus on scaling climate mitigation through protection of intact ecosystems and priority habitats, ecosystem restoration and approaches to improved land management.

To dramatically scale natural climate solutions, we particularly focus on supporting the following activities:

• Land restoration approaches like reforestation, through efforts that drive innovation, investment and implementation.
• Policy and program frameworks that enable federal and state governments to pursue natural climate solutions.
• Market-based approaches with high ecological and methodological integrity and accessibility to a diverse array of conservation stakeholders.
• Science, research and synthesis that underpin the design of effective natural climate solutions policy, programs, and implementation.
• Innovative finance and new models to scale public and private investment in natural climate solutions.
• Strategic communications approaches that deepen key audiences’ understanding of natural climate solutions.

Equity: Inclusive Conservation

Land conservation, restoration and stewardship of nature can have a valuable and tangible role in advancing equity in our society. This is especially true when land conservation is inclusive and respectful of local communities and traditional knowledge, and when it advances equitable access to and benefits from nature. For this reason, the foundation works to support environmental organizations who are advancing conservation efforts from a variety of cultural perspectives, including those led by and serving communities who identify as Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC). We also aim to ensure that the conservation, restoration and stewardship of nature yield meaningful and equitable benefits to all people, particularly for BIPOC communities and those from households whose annual incomes fall below a government-designated threshold through the following approaches:

• Equitable distribution of urban trees and nature access for nature, climate and social well-being benefits.
• Expanding land access to enable conservation action by resolving barriers to land protection and stewardship posed by land tenure and usage rights issues.
• Diversifying the conservation workforce by investing with purpose in the next generation of young people, and supporting inclusive and equitable institutions. The longest running of the foundation’s efforts in this vein is The Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program, which launched in 2013 to support the next generation of environmental conservation professionals from a diverse set of backgrounds and perspectives.

About Us

When humanity is united, we can act together to create a powerful force for human dignity.

Our Work

At HU we are focused on cultivating the conditions that can transform human exploitation and violent conflict to enduring peace and freedom.

Forced Labor & Human Trafficking

Within our Forced Labor and Human Trafficking Work at HU, we focus on three themes that cut across all of our efforts, Safer Labor Migration, Worker Power, and Corporate Accountability. These themes are embedded into Global Supply Chains, the Asia-Pacific Seafood, and the Nepal/Qatar Migration Corridor program tracks.

Peacebuilding

The Peacebuilding portfolio seeks to support the agency and power of proximate peace actors, as they determine what peace should look like in their contexts. We invest in transformative relationships in Agency for Collective Action, Innovative Pathways for Peace, Inclusive Peace Processes, Healing, and Well-Being, through Learning, and Geographic Commitments.

Public Engagement

The Public Engagement Portfolio supports the strengthening of power among proximate actors and aims to shift power dynamics within the systems in which we work, by Centering Communities With Lived Experiences and Influencing Policy Outcomes. These themes are embedded into our program tracks that focus on Independent Journalism & Media, Strategic Communications, and Policy & Government Relations.

Racial Justice & Equity

Humanity United accompanies our partners to advance racial justice and equity. These extraordinary organizations work tirelessly to build the power of Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color (BIPOC) communities and address the conditions that have long harmed BIPOC lives.

Please see FAQs for additional guidelines.

Just Health Fund

The Just Health Fund is a Tides Foundation grantmaking initiative that delivers critical resources to community leaders on the front lines of protecting, providing, and ensuring health equity for marginalized groups.

Catalyze a Future of Health Equity and Opportunity

BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities still face discriminatory medical, financial, legal, and environmental barriers to health. Yet the health equity efforts they lead routinely lose out to national legacy organizations on funding. The erosion of healthcare access has only exacerbated existing inequities, posing a serious threat to the health of communities of color and LGBTQ+ people and putting countless lives at risk.

The Just Health Fund makes bold, well-informed grants toward community-led solutions. Just Health Fund grants advance many facets of health equity, from reproductive justice and LGBTQ+ rights to racial justice and mental health.

Funding Priorities

We are committed to shifting power and resources to proximate leaders with subject matter expertise, lived experience, and grassroots connections to create localized solutions to generational healthcare challenges.

Advancing Health Equity

The health of marginalized people is in peril. Policies nationwide are increasingly criminalizing healthcare providers who serve them. The Just Health Fund works alongside legal experts to award bold, risk-aware, and responsive grants supporting culturally affirming care. Our current funding cycle focuses on reproductive justice. Our ultimate vision is to establish long-term support that breaks barriers to health equity by resourcing community leaders who work across health issues, including mental health, LGBTQ+ healthcare, and more.

Centering Community-Based Solutions

Grassroots leaders have both deep knowledge about the healthcare system and intimate experience with the harmful discrimination that has deeply affected marginalized people for generations. The Just Health Fund partners with these changemakers to ensure they have the resources to continue critical community-based work.  

Strengthening Grantmaking That Centers Proximate Leaders

Equipping more organizations to push for reproductive justice will help us make progress faster. The Just Health Fund strives to strengthen the work of reproductive justice and LGBTQ+ organizations that are actively grantmaking in this space.  

Our Grants

RAF provides grants to organizations whose work promotes our vision of a world where the inherent value of people, plants, animals and the planet are honored and stewarded in a way that regenerates both human and natural communities.

Our Grantmaking Process

Much of RAF’s grantmaking is conducted with participatory grantmaking processes, including our farm bill advocacy support and Restorying Regenerative Agriculture. RAF has one annual distribution of its general grantmaking, conducted by invitation only, in the summer.

RAF was created as an intermediary funder for multiple reasons:

• To provide pooled funds and other tools to support collaborative funding into regenerative agriculture from across multiple sectors. Regenerative agriculture may not be the central focus of foundations that prioritize grantmaking in climate, public health, racial equity, and rural economic development, but regenerative agriculture is an important vehicle for advancing all of the goals.

• To encourage funders to see their work as part of an ambitious, transformational vision for agricultural systems. Agriculture is inherently a risk-averse sector dependent on annual cycles, and consequently change tends to be slow and incremental. Yet for many reasons, our ecosystems and our communities need systemic solutions, and fast. RAF seeks to create connections and partnerships between these short-term and long-term efforts, assuring that we collectively learn from the project work and celebrate each small step while continuing to envision long-term transformation.

• To serve funders as a repository of information and guidance about opportunities to advance regenerative agriculture. RAF staff, board, and partners maintain relationships with nonprofit organizations and networks across the country and are happy to talk with funders about grantmaking.

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation Funds:

• domestic organizations located within the United States and Tribal Nations
• organizations advancing RAF’s vision of a world where the inherent value of people, plants, animals and the planet are honored and stewarded in a way that regenerates both human and natural communities
• bold, on-the-ground efforts frequently outside the prevailing agricultural practices that are underappreciated as climate solutions
• a racial & climate justice emphasis on BIPOC-led and/or BIPOC-serving organizations

Borealis Philanthropy

Who We Are

Borealis is a social justice philanthropic intermediary working to resource grassroots movements for transformative change. We build bridges between funders and organizers to support movements working to make a future that serves all of us.

Founded in 2015, Borealis has grown to include nine collaborative funds working to enhance our collective impact within and between movements across the country. From Black-led movement building, to queer and trans liberation, to disability justice and inclusion, our work is rooted in the understanding that in order to upend oppressive systems, we must support the people most impacted by those systems.

Our Mission

Borealis works with funders to direct resources to people building powerful, thriving communities. We invest in leaders, organizations, and movements using diverse and leading-edge strategies to pursue transformational change.

Spark Justice Fund

The Spark Justice Fund (SJF) launched in 2019 and resources grassroots organizing groups that are ending money bail and unjust pretrial detention policies. The SJF focuses on supporting grassroots and power-building groups to decarcerate, close jails, and advance transformative visions of pretrial justice in the communities most impacted by incarceration.

Safety & Security Rapid Response Fund

Recognizing the challenging and hostile environments that organizations are operating in, particularly during this significant election year, the SJF is now accepting requests for proposals to support organizations addressing our safety & security rapid response funding priorities. The SJF prioritizes funding for work towards, but not limited to:

• Emergency Preparedness and Response:
  • Ensuring the physical safety of staff and volunteers, implementing security protocols, providing safety training, and having emergency response plans in place.
• Cybersecurity:
  • Protecting against data breaches, phishing scams, malware attacks, privacy concerns, and protecting sensitive information.
• Crisis Communication:
  • Managing communication during times of unexpected or significant adversity that could potentially harm an organization’s reputation, operations, or stakeholders.

Target Foundation

We’re proud to continue our long legacy of support for communities in our hometown and around the world.

At the Target Foundation, we envision a world where all families and communities have the resources they need to determine and realize their own joy in life. It’s a reality that is out of reach for far too many families as they struggle for access to economic opportunity and stability, for equity and for the kind of empowerment that lifts up their communities. We believe we have a responsibility to work to remove structural barriers and help create access for those who have been left out. When we shift power to communities, they can more meaningfully participate in the economy, creating a world where all families can thrive.

Serving as a learning lab, the Target Foundation is committed to enabling shared prosperity and opportunity by upholding equity and inclusion for all communities. Guided by our deep commitment to community, we invest in leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks that expand economic opportunity equitably, enabling communities to determine their own futures. We support strategies that center and elevate the voices, stories and leadership of individuals and communities that have historically been silenced.

The Target Foundation is leaning into trust-based philanthropy to drive systems change, with values rooted in advancing equity, shifting power and building mutually accountable relationships. The Foundation’s capabilities allow it to work toward long-term solutions across complex and interconnected economic issues, grounded in the voices of Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) as well as Global South communities and organizations.

Building on our legacy of giving in our twin hometowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and extending across the U.S. and in emerging economies around the world, we remain committed to listening, learning and building the kinds of relationships with partners that will shift systems to realize a world where joy is for all.

National Foundation Program

Building financial stability and empowerment for workers and families in a rapidly changing economy.

As the challenges and opportunities facing today’s workforce continue to evolve, the Target Foundation is taking action to help our neighbors grow and thrive. That’s why we’re committed to building financial stability and economic opportunity for working people and their families in a rapidly changing economy.

Grants and initiatives

The Target Foundation prioritizes investments that explicitly center on equity, with a focus on organizations working to address the specific systemic and structural barriers facing Black communities, Indigenous communities and other communities of color.

Through our national program, the Target Foundation invests in organizations that serve communities with programs focused on:

• The changing nature of work: Equipping individuals with limited income with the support, resources and opportunities for mobility needed to achieve their full potential in a rapidly changing economy.
• Financial resilience and inclusion: Supporting low-income workers and families in attaining financial stability and security, imbuing a sense of self-efficacy, control and dignity over their financial lives.

The Fund for Trans Generations resources BIPOC, trans-led organizations working to advance community safety, supportive community housing, decarceration, and access to health care and mental health—to build a world in which all people can live with self determination, safety, and joy.

The FTG plays an important role in providing significant resources to emerging trans-led groups that have had limited access to national funding streams. The FTG is committed to growing with organizations and increasing their capacity and leadership development as they meet the needs of transgender, gender non-conforming and nonbinary communities. The Fund provides both general support grants and organizational development grants to their grantee partners.

The FTG’s grantee partners work holistically to address the individual and collective needs of trans people, from survival to thriving to building power.

The FTG was launched in 2016 and has moved more than $12 million in 751 grants to 234 trans-led organizations!

The FTG prioritizes funding for organizations addressing:

• Health and Healing
• Education
• Anti-violence
• Employment
• Housing
• Criminalization
• Leadership Development
• Grassroots Organizing
• Movement Building
• Mutual Aid and Direct Services
• Arts and Culture

What are the values of FTG?

The Fund for Trans Generations is rooted in the following values:

• Moving beyond equality to justice;
• An intersectional feminism grounded in queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of color;
• A commitment to addressing the root causes of transphobia, misogyny, racism, classism, and homophobia;
• A focus on the resilience of trans communities and leaders of\ the trans movement; and
• A commitment to solidarity, collaboration and transparency.

Can you tell me more about the Rapid Response Fund?

As we have witnessed recently and historically, the conditions of trans communities can change rapidly due to increased visibility and transphobic attacks by individuals and institutions. Organizations and communities often need additional resources to respond quickly to organized opposition and to unanticipated events. The FTG rapid response fund will provide support for situations that require immediate response and for proactive activities that pursue strategic opportunities.

Budget Criteria

• Project budget should not exceed $600,000; we have no minimum budget requirements. A project based at an organization with a budget larger than $600,000 may apply as long as it is trans-led.
• Organizations or projects may apply for a rapid response grant at any time and may only receive one rapid response grant per every 12-month period. Grant amounts will not exceed $10,000 per organization with an average size grant being $3,000 to $7,000.

Grassroots Grants

Our Grassroots Grants program supports underfunded organizations and communities addressing a myriad of environmental and social justice issues, with a focus on fights over water privatization and plastic pollution.

Why We Give

The Story of Stuff Project established the Grassroots Grants Program in 2017 to support small organizations and groups organizing against water privatization and plastic pollution in the United States. Since we launched, we’ve supported over 100 grassroots groups with $400,000 in grants. Our 2024 goal is $100,000.

We offer these partners financial resources, media infrastructure, and strategic planning and coalition building know-how needed to build winning campaigns. The Grassroots Grants Program is committed to equity and inclusion and prioritizes the funding of people of color, low-income, rural and women-led organizations.

We support projects that value local community involvement and organizing, creative interventions, strategic thinking, and both defensive “fight-back” and offensive solutions-focused projects.

About Borealis Philanthropy

Borealis Philanthropy is a philanthropic social justice intermediary that works to resource grassroots leaders and social justice movements for transformative change. We help funders expand their reach and strengthen their impact through donor collaboratives that support a variety of issues, communities, and movements. Borealis is home to nine donor collaboratives, including the Disability Inclusion Fund and Disability x Tech.

DIF x Tech Fund

For the Disability Inclusion Fund at Borealis, part of our efforts for disability rights and justice includes the ways disability and technology are working towards shared goals in our movements. The DIF x Tech initiative, supported by the Ford Foundation’s Technology & Society Program and the MacArthur Foundation’s Technology in the Public Interest, invites proposals that are working to bring about transformational change at the intersections of disability, justice, and technology

About the Disability Inclusion Fund and DIF x Tech

The Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) supports U.S.-based groups run by and for people with disabilities to lead transformational change. The Fund is supported by donors including the Presidents’ Council on Disability Inclusion in Philanthropy, which is comprised of foundation presidents who are committed to disability inclusion as part of improving diversity, equity, and inclusion within philanthropy.

Part of the efforts of disability rights and justice includes the ways disability and technology are working towards shared goals in our movements. This newly launched initiative is housed at the Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) and supported by Ford Foundation’s Technology & Society Program and the MacArthur Foundation’s Technology in the Public Interest. 

DIF x Tech Fund Values

All Disability x Tech award decisions will align with the DIF guiding values. The DIF guiding values are:

• Participation: Movement funding accountable to the disability rights movement. Those impacted by injustice/exclusion should be involved in strategies to advance justice/inclusion.
• Intersectionality: Acknowledging that disabled people have multiple and intersecting social and political identities that can influence their ability to have access and inclusion including race, gender identity, class, sexual orientation.
• Radical inclusion: Deeply committed to removing barriers and ensuring access so that those most affected by intersecting identities can participate, valuing lived experience.
• Leadership of those most impacted by ableism: Emphasis is given to organizations led by people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation, particularly disabled people of color, queer, gender nonconforming and women with disabilities.
• Cross-movement solidarity: Intentional focus on collaboration and bridge- building amongst disability justice activists and across movements.

What we fund

DIF x Tech invites proposals that are at the nexus of technology, disability rights and justice. We believe that in order for a world where true technology and disability justice are realized, we must support disabled leaders, and disability-led organizations, working to ensure technology can be used by everyone in order to fully participate in our society. We also believe that such a world would be a place where technology is free from perpetuating ableist biases, algorithmic discrimination, and other forms of disparate treatment towards disabled people that contribute to further marginalization.

Disability justice principles and the DIF’s guiding values inform this RFP’s following areas of focus:

• To transform and identify the ways technology can/should be used to uphold disability rights and justice at the intersection of tech and civil rights.
  • These initiatives may include:
    • Policy advocacy initiatives to mitigate algorithmic bias in cross-movement areas such as abolition, climate justice, and the caregiving infrastructure, for example, through anti-discrimination statues;
    • Strategies that center and are led by disability rights and justice principles, including recognizing wholeness, self-determination, autonomy, and collective access to improve data ownership and privacy protection;
    • Programs that work to expand the consideration of disability rights laws in new tech policy development;
    • Supporting the partnership and collaboration across disability justice, rights, and broader civil rights movement leaders to establish issue-area coalitions at the intersection of justice and tech – for example school-to-prison pipeline and reproductive health access;
    • Opportunities to generate a deeper solidarity and relationship-building across disability justice and tech that moves beyond accessibility, compliance, and architectural barriers;
    • Bridging a commitment between technology and disability justice groups to facilitate knowledge sharing, identifying content/technical gaps, and trust-building towards a more disability justice informed tech industry.
• To democratize tech development, provide collective and equitable access to digital infrastructure, and mobilize cross disability solidarity in the tech sector.
  • This fund aims to support these efforts in ways that may include:  
    • Innovative strategies, toolchains, and infrastructure that improve and promote open source, anti-ableist design and tech development, such as accessible dev tools and workflows;
    • Programs that support technologists in ways of centering disability justice in the development of software in partnership with grassroots disabled leaders and disability justice activists;
    • Programs that support technologists in ways of centering disability justice in the development of software in partnership with grassroots disabled leaders and disability justice activists;
    • Efforts to broaden and implement cross-disability access tools, for example to housing and distributing multi-format accessible, plain language materials/instructions;
    • Efforts to improve access to the tools and infrastructure that disabled communities need to bridge the digital divide;
    • Programs to facilitate knowledge sharing in order to generate the development of curricula and lift up other ways to reframe tech in both traditional disability rights spaces and tech;
• To expand the participation, leadership, and thought partnership of overlooked and under-resourced people with disabilities in all areas of the technology sector.
  • These areas of work may involve:
    • Efforts to build inroads and pathways between disability communities and emerging tech;
    • Strategies to remove barriers to participation for disabled people as developers, engineers, and technologists, particularly in the civil society and disability justice sectors;
    • Programs to reframe tech education in disability-centered spaces and organizations;
    • Deliberately convening conversations that foster relationship-building where marginalized disabled peoples’ experiences as technologists are amplified and elevated, such as workshops, conferences, maker and hackerspaces, and hackathons;
    • Programs to expand education for a broad tech sector audience, on disability justice and anti-ableist approaches at the intersection of tech and disability;
    • Broadening the representation of people with disabilities in tech through peer mentorships, professional networks, and other community engagement campaigns;
    • Building and deepening the pipeline of professionals with experiences in both disability rights, justice, and tech expertise.

Funding

DIF x Tech will provide two-year grants to organizations working at the intersection of disability justice and technology. The grants will range in size from a total of $50,000 (or $25,000/year) – $100,000 (or $50,000/year). 

Nathan Cummings Foundation

We are a multigenerational family foundation, rooted in the Jewish tradition of social justice, working to create a more just, vibrant, sustainable, and democratic society. We partner with social movements, organizations, and individuals who have creative and catalytic solutions to climate change and inequality.

Our Approach + Focus

From our grants, to our investments, to our voice we are using all of our resources to advance our mission. We are committed to changemaking, not just grantmaking.

• Investing in Bold Leaders: Our partners are courageous leaders willing to work in innovative ways, forge powerful alliances, and push breakthrough ideas that make the “impossible” possible.
• Using All of Our Assets: We use a ‘totality of assets’ approach, meaning we leverage the full power of the foundation’s financial and non-financial assets for impact.
• Leveraging Our Voice: We leverage our voice and influence to amplify the voices and goals of our partners.

We believe the dual crises named in our mission (inequality and climate change) cannot be addressed without first addressing their root causes and oppressive manifestations. That’s why we are focused on the long-term and interconnected goal of advancing racial, economic, and environmental justice (REEJ).

Environmental Justice

Environmental justice is the right of all people and communities to a clean, healthy, and safe environment. It promotes equal environmental protection under the law and in fact. It empowers all communities to make informed decisions and fully participate civically and economically in the creation of environmental solutions.

Focus Areas

To advance environmental justice, we support organizations that address the following focus areas:

• Environmental Harms: BIPOC and low-income communities are disproportionately harmed by environmental hazards. We focus on efforts to prevent and repair these environmental disparities and ensure the affected communities can meaningfully engage in forging solutions.
• Inclusive Participation in the Green Economy: A Green Energy transition is well underway, but the economic opportunity that goes along with it is not distributed equitably. We focus on efforts to ensure that BIPOC-led environmental organizations and diverse companies can fully take advantage of the investments, benefits, and opportunities of the Green Economy.
• Regenerative Economic Models: Achieving environmental justice and addressing climate change requires a shift from extractive to regenerative economic models. We focus on social entrepreneurs and innovators who are building regenerative projects and models based on sustainability, ecological restoration, and community wealth-building and resilience.

Racial Justice

Our vision for racial justice is the removal of structural barriers and hierarchies based on race. It seeks to reimagine political, economic, and social systems in ways that allow all people to thrive, regardless of their racial identity.

Focus Areas

To advance racial justice, we support organizations that address the following focus areas:

• Civic Engagement: BIPOC and other marginalized communities face long-standing and concerted efforts to restrict and suppress their participation in the public sphere, especially in civic processes. We support efforts to ensure these communities have the access and capacity to participate freely in shaping the policies, practices, and institutions that impact their everyday lives.
• Racial Wealth Gap: As a product of centuries of policies and practices, extreme racial wealth inequality persists in the United States, especially among Black communities. We support efforts to repair this harm, build wealth, and address the root causes of the racial wealth gap.
• Racism + Oppression: White supremacy is at the root of our society’s most unequal systems, institutions, and policies. We support efforts to build the infrastructure and capacity necessary to create systems that are free from oppression and allow us all to thrive.

Economic Justice

Economic justice means that everyone has opportunities to participate and thrive in the economy, including those who are marginalized by our current economic systems. The principles of economic justice create a stronger economy because prosperity and equity go hand in hand.

Focus Areas

To advance economic justice, we support organizations that address the following focus areas:

• Economic Security: Economic security is a necessary baseline for people to survive and thrive, especially amidst conditions of rising inequality. We support efforts that systemically mitigate economic precarity and secure a path to a more stable future for poor and low-income people.
• Access to Capital: Generations of discriminatory lending and investment practices have prevented BIPOC and women from accessing the capital required to bring their innovative ideas to the marketplace and profit from them. We support efforts to provide more access to capital for historically excluded entrepreneurs and to cultivate an ecosystem in which they can prosper.
• Monopoly Power: Monopoly power drives many of the corrosive and pressing problems in our political, economic, and social systems. We support efforts to decrease corporate power and create a level playing field for workers, marginalized communities, and small businesses.

Program Related Investment (PRI)

Just like grants, PRIs must advance the foundation’s mission and accomplish one or more of the foundation’s tax-exempt purposes. Also, like grants, PRIs must not be used to influence legislation or take part in political campaigns on behalf of candidates.

Unlike grants, PRIs are made with the expectation that some or all the capital will be returned to the foundation in the future, according to terms that the foundation and the PRI recipient agree to. That said, we do not make PRIs for the purpose of financial gain. Therefore, we may be able to structure financing with more favorable and flexible terms than a traditional financial institution would.

We will consider PRIs in a variety of forms, including debt and equity instruments.

Funding

Our target budget for funding program-related investments is approximately $3 million.

Empowering Local Partners for Sustainable Impact

We're on a mission to scale our impact by sharing our deep knowledge and operational expertise with local nonprofit leaders and partners. By increasing the effectiveness of local nonprofit organizations with deep roots in at-risk communities, we’re building on what’s already working and delivering effective solutions at a greater scale to help more families return home.

How Our Share Program Works

In the wake of disasters, SBP’s SHARE Program fills critical capacity gaps in communities by providing local nonprofits with tailored funding, training, and capacity-strengthening initiatives to meet recovery needs. Through strategic partnerships with industry leaders, we empower local and national nonprofit partners to lead local recovery efforts with the specific tools, resources, and knowledge they need most. Through technical assistance, funding, specialized support for flood recovery, and training, our SHARE program equips partners to navigate challenges and support their communities to rebuild and recover.

National Long-Term Recovery Grant

The SHARE Program, SBP’s in-house foundation, awards grants to qualifying nonprofit partners to address the unmet housing needs of under-resourced neighbors and communities. In addition to funding, the SHARE Program offers grantees technical training and consulting services on a variety of topics, including how to implement the Toyota Production System, how to develop effective and efficient processes for volunteer management, case management, construction and contractor selection, and more. Additionally, the SHARE Program awards AmeriCorps member “slots” to qualifying organizations to help build capacity, launch new programs or support existing efforts.

Grant details:

SBP is offering eligible nonprofit organizations the opportunity to apply for grant funds to support impacted individuals impacted by a presidentially declared disaster in the last 4 years. These funds will support repairs for homeowners who reside in a FEMA Individual Assistance declared county and were impacted by the disaster event. Grantees will also assist impacted individuals in receiving the maximum eligible awards from FEMA, the Small Business Administration, and their insurance companies.

Grant funds may only be used to assist individuals at or below 120% of their respective Area Median Income. Please refer to the Department of Housing & Urban Development’s annual income limits for your specific county to ensure individuals meet this metric. In addition, these funds can go to either of the following:

• Homes being built or repaired with the intention of selling to renters whose unit was impacted and were deemed uninhabitable.
• Homeowners whose primary and only residence was impacted by the disaster event

On average the award will allow for $14,000 per home, with most organizations receiving funding to complete 4 to 6 repairs. Qualifying homes include owner-occupied properties, and first-time homes purchased after the rental unit was damaged and deemed uninhabitable.

Rebuild Guidelines:

This grant allows for an average of $14,000 of SBP funds per home, with a maximum allowance of $20,000 per home. The expectation is that SBP grant funds will be leveraged with other funding sources.

Costs associated with elevation certificates for homes in the floodplain are to be included in the allowance.

• All work done by contractors must comply with the state’s licensing requirements.
• All repairs will include resilient building modifications as appropriate and cost-effective
• All homes that receive repairs inside of the floodplain must carry flood insurance.
• Applicants can include up to 10% towards admin/project management costs.

Empowering Local Partners for Sustainable Impact

We're on a mission to scale our impact by sharing our deep knowledge and operational expertise with local nonprofit leaders and partners. By increasing the effectiveness of local nonprofit organizations with deep roots in at-risk communities, we’re building on what’s already working and delivering effective solutions at a greater scale to help more families return home.

How Our Share Program Works

In the wake of disasters, SBP’s SHARE Program fills critical capacity gaps in communities by providing local nonprofits with tailored funding, training, and capacity-strengthening initiatives to meet recovery needs. Through strategic partnerships with industry leaders, we empower local and national nonprofit partners to lead local recovery efforts with the specific tools, resources, and knowledge they need most. Through technical assistance, funding, specialized support for flood recovery, and training, our SHARE program equips partners to navigate challenges and support their communities to rebuild and recover.

Preparedness and Resilience Micro Grant

SBP exists to shrink the time between disaster and recovery. We believe a prompt, efficient, and predictable recovery fortifies survivors against reaching their breaking point. SBP is committed to sharing resources and best practices developed over the past 16 years with other nonprofits and community-based organizations. To learn more about SBP, please visit SBPUSA.ORG.

SHARE Program Overview:

The SHARE Program, SBP’s in-house foundation, awards grants to qualifying nonprofit partners to address the unmet housing needs of under-resourced neighbors and communities. In addition to funding, the SHARE Program offers grantees technical training and consulting services on a variety of topics, including how to implement the Toyota Production System, how to develop effective and efficient processes for volunteer management, case management, construction and contractor selection, and more.

Grant details:

SBP is offering eligible nonprofit organizations the opportunity to apply for grant funds to support individuals in areas at high risk for extreme weather or climate change impacts. This may include households that may experience flooding, wildfires, hurricanes, tornados, storm surge, or high tide flooding due to sea level rise. Resilience and preparedness measures to support these at-risk households can be supported by this grant in various capacities including:

Minor fortification of the home such as wind resistant windows and doors, flood vents (gates), removal of vegetation or trees that pose risk, elevation certificates, or acquiring a year of flood/wildfire insurance

• This would need to be matched with additional outside funds

Wider community preparedness and disaster response efforts such as preparedness and emergency kits or training events.

• Translation services in order to provide content to all program participants
• Home Mailer campaign to get the word out about preparedness /response resources
• Purchase and distribution of window unit or standalone air conditioners
• Generators
• Space heaters
• Rain Collection systems for non-potable water
• The aforementioned ideas are not inclusive of all purposes of this grant, however, are meant to provide a general understanding of the types of activities this funding may be used for.

Grant funds may only be used to assist individuals at or below 120% of their respective Area Median Income. Please refer to the Department of Housing & Urban Development’s annual income limits for your specific county to ensure individuals meet this metric. In addition these funds can go to either of the following:

• Homes being built or repaired with the intention of selling to renters
• Homeowners whose primary and only residence

While this grant is open to all organizations who meet the above criteria, priority will be given to groups providing social services to immigrant, migrant, refugee, indigenous, and communities of color to apply.

On average awards will be at or around $5,000 to impact a minimum of 2 households for repairs, or 15- 25 households for community programming. 

Nathan Cummings Foundation

We are a multigenerational family foundation, rooted in the Jewish tradition of social justice, working to create a more just, vibrant, sustainable, and democratic society. We partner with social movements, organizations, and individuals who have creative and catalytic solutions to climate change and inequality.

Our Approach + Focus

From our grants, to our investments, to our voice we are using all of our resources to advance our mission. We are committed to changemaking, not just grantmaking.

• Investing in Bold Leaders: Our partners are courageous leaders willing to work in innovative ways, forge powerful alliances, and push breakthrough ideas that make the “impossible” possible.
• Using All of Our Assets: We use a ‘totality of assets’ approach, meaning we leverage the full power of the foundation’s financial and non-financial assets for impact.
• Leveraging Our Voice: We leverage our voice and influence to amplify the voices and goals of our partners.

We believe the dual crises named in our mission (inequality and climate change) cannot be addressed without first addressing their root causes and oppressive manifestations. That’s why we are focused on the long-term and interconnected goal of advancing racial, economic, and environmental justice (REEJ).

Environmental Justice

Environmental justice is the right of all people and communities to a clean, healthy, and safe environment. It promotes equal environmental protection under the law and in fact. It empowers all communities to make informed decisions and fully participate civically and economically in the creation of environmental solutions.

Focus Areas

To advance environmental justice, we support organizations that address the following focus areas:

• Environmental Harms: BIPOC and low-income communities are disproportionately harmed by environmental hazards. We focus on efforts to prevent and repair these environmental disparities and ensure the affected communities can meaningfully engage in forging solutions.
  • We will prioritize work that:
    • Provides frontline communities with actionable data they can use to both inform decision-makers and mitigate the environmental harms they face 
    • develops and implements long-term solutions that protect both ecosystems and public health
    • holds polluters financially and/or legally accountable for environmental impacts caused by their operations
• Inclusive Participation in the Green Economy: A Green Energy transition is well underway, but the economic opportunity that goes along with it is not distributed equitably. We focus on efforts to ensure that BIPOC-led environmental organizations and diverse companies can fully take advantage of the investments, benefits, and opportunities of the Green Economy.
  • We will prioritize work that: 
    • Measurably increases jobs, investments, and/or wealth-building opportunities in the Green Energy Transition for companies and individuals from marginalized backgrounds 
    • Increases capital to support, replicate, and/or scale solutions led by frontline communities that advance the transition to a green economy  
    • Demonstrates and amplifies models of economic inclusion in climate adaptation, mitigation or resilience
• Regenerative Economic Models: Achieving environmental justice and addressing climate change requires a shift from extractive to regenerative economic models. We focus on social entrepreneurs and innovators who are building regenerative projects and models based on sustainability, ecological restoration, and community wealth-building and resilience.
  • We will prioritize work that: 
    • Creates economic and political incentives to transition or restore agricultural, forest or other lands and watersheds damaged by pollution 
    • Increases investments to organizations and social entrepreneurs that help them to scale innovative alternatives to extractive and/or polluting processes, practices, and products. 
    • Demonstrates and amplifies effective regenerative economic models and their impact on local economies, ecosystems and public health 

We anticipate that a majority of funding for new partners will support work happening in or focused on the U.S. South.

Racial Justice

Our vision for racial justice is the removal of structural barriers and hierarchies based on race. It seeks to reimagine political, economic, and social systems in ways that allow all people to thrive, regardless of their racial identity.

Focus Areas

To advance racial justice, we support organizations that address the following focus areas:

• Civic Engagement: BIPOC and other marginalized communities face long-standing and concerted efforts to restrict and suppress their participation in the public sphere, especially in civic processes. We support efforts to ensure these communities have the access and capacity to participate freely in shaping the policies, practices, and institutions that impact their everyday lives.
  • We are particularly interested in hyper-local civic engagement work in the U.S. South in the areas of school board reform, preemption, and voter suppression.
• Racial Wealth Gap: As a product of centuries of policies and practices, extreme racial wealth inequality persists in the United States, especially among Black communities. We support efforts to repair this harm, build wealth, and address the root causes of the racial wealth gap.
  • We are particularly interested in system interventions that help lower barriers to home ownership and business ownership, especially in the American South. 
• Racism + Oppression: White supremacy is at the root of our society’s most unequal systems, institutions, and policies. We support efforts to build the infrastructure and capacity necessary to create systems that are free from oppression and allow us all to thrive.
  • We are particularly interested in in data transparency and technological interventions in the American South that undermine societal biases and structural inequities.

Economic Justice

Economic justice means that everyone has opportunities to participate and thrive in the economy, including those who are marginalized by our current economic systems. The principles of economic justice create a stronger economy because prosperity and equity go hand in hand.

Focus Areas

To advance economic justice, we support organizations that address the following focus areas:

• Economic Security: Economic security is a necessary baseline for people to survive and thrive, especially amidst conditions of rising inequality. We support efforts that systemically mitigate economic precarity and secure a path to a more stable future for poor and low-income people.
  • We will prioritize work happening in or focused on the U.S. South that: 
    • Increases workers’ power and their ability to negotiate for fair pay and good benefits  
    • Addresses the high cost of housing for renters and/or homeowners 
    • Contributes to the development of alternative economic models and strategies that improve conditions for poor and low-income people 
    • Addresses the problem of state preemption
• Access to Capital: Generations of discriminatory lending and investment practices have prevented BIPOC and women from accessing the capital required to bring their innovative ideas to the marketplace and profit from them. We support efforts to provide more access to capital for historically excluded entrepreneurs and to cultivate an ecosystem in which they can prosper.
  • We will prioritize work happening in or focused on the U.S. South that:  
    • Increases capital controlled and allocated by women and people of color 
    • Expands Black, Indigenous, and other people of color’s ability to secure competitively priced private and public capital, including loans, lines of credit, and investment dollars  
    • Shift perceptions of risk and bankability and advances fair underwriting standards  
• Monopoly Power: Monopoly power drives many of the corrosive and pressing problems in our political, economic, and social systems. We support efforts to decrease corporate power and create a level playing field for workers, marginalized communities, and small businesses.
  • We will prioritize work happening in or focused on the U.S. South that: 
    • Increases competition in key industries (i.e., energy, agriculture, healthcare, and retail) and dismantles consolidated corporate power 
    • Ensures enforcement of regulations that keep corporate power in check  
    • Increases transparency about corporate influence in our political system

Nathan Cummings Foundation Grant

Grant Types

We believe that social change takes time and requires long-term investments. We also see immense value in supporting new, innovative, and exploratory work. To reflect this, we have a range of grant types: 

• Venture Grants (Up to $100k for one year) - These grants are short-term and designed to provide expedited support to social entrepreneurs with breakthrough, emerging, and innovative solutions. They serve to mutually explore new relationships and partnerships. 
• Advancement Grants (Up to $250k annually for up to two years) - These grants are designed to provide two-year support to project-based work and/or help scale organizations and promising solutions. 
• Enterprise Grants ($250k+ annually for more than two years) - These grants are designed to provide multi-year, unrestricted funding to partners that have deep alignment across our REEJ focus areas and offer the most opportunity to use all our financial and non-financial resources to support their solutions. 

Funding

Most of our grants range from about $50,000 – $250,000.

• Our budget for funding economic justice work is $3,900,000.
• Our budget for funding environmental justice work is $3,400,000.
• Our budget for funding racial justice work is $3,900,000.

YAMT's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Grant

The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem grant is to strengthen the survivor and sex worker community by providing safe employment opportunities and increased economic stability for underrepresented survivor-led and sex worker small businesses (BIPOC and LGBTQ+ individuals).

The catalyst for YAMT’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Program originated from the organization’s survivor community, which saw a significant need for additional entrepreneurial opportunities for trafficking survivors and sex workers than the ones that already existed.

Currently, YAMT’s Economic Empowerment Program directly invests in survivor-led small businesses through community building, mentorship, financial capital, and professional development as they embark on pathways to financial freedom. This grant will match a survivor-leader or sex worker in the community (as a consultant) to a small business, nonprofit, or community group to work on a capacity-building project that will be implemented over the course of 12 weeks and support the small business or nonprofit in increasing revenue streams for their business.

Two small businesses or nonprofit organizations across all sectors and U.S. geographies will be selected for this grant.

Project Goals

• Work closely with underrepresented small businesses owned by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ trafficking survivors and provide training, mentoring, financial support, and networking to help them attain long-term financial stability.
• Provide BIPOC and LGBTQ+ trafficking survivors with employment skills, mentoring, and job opportunities.
• Enhance economic stability and upward mobility for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ survivors.

Grantees will Receive

• 10 hours of training and technical assistance provided by You Are More Than Inc.
• Operating grant of $5,250.00 to improve their small businesses over a 12-week project timeline.

2021 Focus on Racism and Health

Hillman Innovations in Care Program

The Hillman Innovations in Care (HIC) Program was established in 2014 to advance innovative, nursing-driven models of care that target the health and healthcare needs of groups and communities who have historically struggled against oppression, discrimination and indifference. These populations include Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), the economically disadvantaged, LGBTQ+ people, people experiencing homelessness, low-income rural populations, and others.

This year the HIC program is issuing a special call for submissions that address racism and its impact on health. Racism has been, and remains, the root cause of serious health inequities that unjustly affect communities of color. These disparities include increased risk for diabetes, heart disease, obesity and mental illness; inequitable access to high quality care; inordinately negative outcomes such as infant and maternal mortality rates for Black mothers and babies that are twice as high as those for white populations, and life expectancy that can be as much as ten years shorter than white counterparts living a short drive away. 

The disproportionate harm of the COVID-19 pandemic in Black, Indigenous and other communities of color and police killings as part of a long history of police brutality are other manifestations of structural racism and societal inequities. Addressing and dismantling racism in its myriad forms—structural, interpersonal, and institutional—is a critical and constructive approach to advancing health equity and improving population health.

Goals

The goal of the HIC program is to advance leading-edge, nursing-driven models of care that will improve the health and health care of vulnerable populations, including the economically disadvantaged, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ people, the homeless, rural populations, and other groups that encounter barriers to accessing health-care services.

We seek bold, creative, patient- and family-centered approaches that challenge conventional strategies, improve health outcomes, lower costs, and enhance patient and family caregiver experience.

Program Priorities

The 2021 HIC program seeks proposals for bold, nursing-driven interventions that:

• Seek to mitigate the effects of racism on health and/or narrow gaps in health equity
• Identify and address sources of racism that affect health
• Challenge conventional strategies for delivering and improving care to populations affected by racism 
• Build trust and credibility in programs or systems of care
• Are informed by anti-racism practices
• Present strong preliminary evidence
• Show potential for broad replicability

The Foundation seeks proposals that address the health care needs of the vulnerable populations in the following areas:

• Maternal and child health
• Care of the older adult
• Chronic illness management

 Types of Proposals

• The adaptation of proven nursing-driven models to new or expanded settings or patient populations. The adaptation should be past the pilot phase and demonstrate significant preliminary evidence.
• The expansion of emerging nursing-driven models with early evidence suggesting a strong likelihood for achieving Triple Aim-like outcomes on a broad scale.

All proposals must address the potential for:

• Improving health, lowering costs, and enhancing patient and caregiver experience
• Scalability
• Sustainability

Grant Awards

The program will award two grants of up to $600,000 each, distributed over a 36-month period.

About Third Wave Fund

Third Wave Fund resources and supports youth-led, intersectional gender justice activism. We build on the brilliance of our communities using responsive and participatory grantmaking so we can sustain our movements and thrive—now and long term. We define gender justice as a movement to end patriarchy, transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny. Since gender oppression is tied to capitalism, classism, racism, ageism, and ableism, gender justice can only truly be achieved when all forms of oppression cease to exist. 

Our grantmaking and donor mobilizing advances the community power, well-being, and self-determination of young Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) most directly impacted by and best positioned to end gender oppression. We specifically resource grassroots movements that are 1) multi-issue, 2) community-led (we define "community-led" movements as being led by those who are directly impacted by oppression) and 3) unapologetically queer, trans, intersex, and sex worker-led.

Our vision is a world where ALL people have full autonomy over our own bodies and lives. 

About the Sex Worker Giving Circle

The Sex Worker Giving Circle (SWGC) launched in the spring of 2018. The SWGC was created because sex workers are best positioned to confront and transform the oppressive conditions of their own lives. However, movements led by sex workers and people with experience in the sex trade are critically under-resourced despite increasing political attacks. 

The SWGC is a giving circle made up of individuals with current or past experience in the sex trade. The Fellows participate in grantmaking trainings and make all high-level funding decisions and grantmaking recommendations.

About the Fund

In 2018, Third Wave Fund launched the SWGC, the first sex worker-led fund housed at a U.S. foundation, with the dual goal of funding a diverse range of sex worker-led groups throughout the country and bringing current and former sex workers to the philanthropic decision-making table. More than twenty years of funding sex worker-led organizing has taught us that sex workers are best positioned to transform the oppressive conditions impacting their lives but their movements remain critically under-resourced even as political attacks have continued to mount. We were inspired by community-led grantmaking at other funds as well as the long history of sex worker communities taking care of each other, especially sex workers of color and trans and gender non-conforming sex workers.

In 2022, we continued to facilitate the cohort nationally and we distributed a total of $585,000 to 25 new and returning grantees from across the United States. Pati Morales, SWGC Fellow from 2021, joined the fund as Program Associate.

In 2023, we welcomed Pati Morales as the new Program Officer for the fund, and CJ Bell, as the new Program Associate. With the program now being fully former Fellow-staffed, distributed $700,000 to new & returning grantees from across the United States.

In 2024, we welcomed our first fully former-Fellow staffed advisory board and increased our grants to up to $35,000 per year or $70,000 over two years.

About Us

CoFED (Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive) is a QBPOC-led organization that partners with young folks of color from poor and working-class backgrounds to meet our communities’ needs through food and land co-ops. We are building the leadership of young BIPOC cooperators to practice cooperative values, economics, and strategies for collective liberation.

Regranting Program

We are excited to open our next round of, CoFUND, our regranting program, aimed to support and build the collective resilience of food and land-justice based cooperatives; led by Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous People of Color of all ages.

Through this fund, CoFED will re-grant funding to cooperative and farmer-based organizations that are building and working to transform the food system.

Purpose

The purpose of this grant is to support co-ops and small farmers in the day-to-day operations to aid in the development of their organization. We encourage legally established cooperatives and other business entities at all stages (from start-up to scale-up) to apply!

Award

The grantee will receive up to $10,000.00. In addition to grant funding, grantees will also have access to 12 months of technical assistance in business management, financial and operational skills, and communications support.

Since 1986, The Trust for the Meditation Process has encouraged the practice of inner, silent awareness, whether it's called meditation, mindfulness or contemplative prayer. Our financial grants to non-profit organizations renew contemplative Christianity, promote health and wholeness, and bring silence and stillness to a hectic world.  

Contemplative Christianity Grants

Many people think of meditation as an exclusively Eastern religious practice. But Western religion, too, has a long tradition of silent, non-discursive prayer, often called contemplation, which is rooted in a rich mystical literature. Contemporary thinkers are unearthing this tradition. Their fresh encounter with the Gospels and mystics emphasizes that God is a living presence in us – to be known in silence and love and manifested in our acts of compassion.

• Grants made in the Contemplative Christianity Program have these objectives:  
• Introduce or expand the teaching and practice of Christian contemplative practices, such as Christian Meditation or Centering Prayer.
• Focus on silent, non discursive meditation rather than another aspect or method of prayer or spiritual formation.
• Connect with a Christian audience or have a Christian context.
• Identify and support emerging scholars and leaders in Contemplative Christianity and Christian mysticism.
• Raise the profile of Contemplative Christianity, with language and programs that speak to all Christian denominations and that reconnect people to Christian contemplative traditions.
• Reach underserved populations, such as children, teens, and young adults, people of color, people who are LGBTQ, people with low incomes and people facing addictions, illness, trauma or loss.
• Encourage dialogue among contemplative traditions in all religions.

Mindfulness Grants

Thirty years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts medical school adapted classic forms of meditation found in most religions for a modern, secular audience. A simple practice of paying silent attention to the present moment formed the core of their efforts to help people improve physical and emotional health. 

Since then, a large and rigorous body of research has shown that a regular practice of mindfulness meditation can change us in many significant ways: improving immune function, reducing stress, reducing pain and symptoms of chronic disease, improving sleep, improving attention, fostering self- care and compassion, and the list continues to grow. Today, an ever widening interest in the benefits of mindfulness practice has led to its introduction in many fields and professions.  

Grants made in the Mindfulness Program have both of these objectives:

Introduce or expand mindfulness meditation through educational or human service nonprofits or government entities, such as K-12 public schools, colleges and universities, correctional facilities, rehabilitation programs, healthcare, counseling and case management services.

Reach underserved populations, such as children, teens, and young adults, BIPOC and LGBTQ communities, people in the criminal justice system, people with low incomes, and people facing addictions, illness, trauma or loss.

Mindfulness Program grants are highly competitive and we generally receive more applications than we can award. 

Grant Guidelines

Our focus is short-term projects where a small grant can make a credible impact and result in clearly identifiable outcomes. We make 20 to 40 grants annually. Initial awards are typically small – $3,000 to $5,000.

The type of projects we fund includes:

• Meditation courses, workshops, lectures or retreats.
• Trainings, sabbaticals, retreats and other development for meditation teachers.
• Meditation curriculum development.
• Books, supplies and equipment for meditation programs.
• Efforts to expand and build the capacity of meditation programs and address barriers to practice. 
• Meditation research, especially the development of simple, effective, accessible evaluation tools.
• Publications that effectively spread critical perspectives on meditation and meet an important gap in the current literature.
• East/West meditation dialogue.

What We Fund

We fund grassroots trans-led groups organizing and fighting for trans justice in the U.S. and U.S. Territories.

For TJFP, this work can look a lot of different ways and it’s important that the trans communities name what is needed for their local community–whatever that may look like. And we understand that it can look different in every single place across the country.

We fund groups for and by the trans communities.

Over the years, we’ve moved money to trans leaders dreaming up solutions for their people. TJFP grantees are organizing online community organizing trainings and support groups, providing guidance on trans health and wellness, or legal support for undocumented communities. TJFP grantees are putting together mutual aid projects, clothing and food pantries, organizing film and art festivals while changing culture, they’re providing spaces for healing and housing, organizing carpools to and from doctor appointments and bail funds, or one time direct actions, and so much more! For more examples of groups and projects we’ve funded, you can check out our digital map and list of grantees here.

We fund groups and projects that are well established or newly forming.

Some groups that we fund have more of a formal structure with a 501c3 or fiscal sponsorship. And over half of the groups we fund each year are not incorporated and do not have nonprofit status or a fiscal sponsor.

We center the leadership of trans people organizing around their experiences with racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, incarceration, and other intersecting oppressions.

Trusting and supporting trans leadership is at the heart of everything we do both internally and externally at TJFP.

Is your organization working towards food justice for kids in the United States? If so, this is your chance to receive up to $100,000 in grant funding over the next 2 years and deepen your impact!

We’re seeking applications from organizations working in two priority program areas: 

• Indigenous Food Justice
• Nutrition Education and School Food

Why Food Justice for Kids

In the United States, more than 1 in 6 children (13.4 million) live in households where they do not have enough nutritious food to eat or know where their next meal may come from. This rate is significantly higher for some populations. For example, 1 in 5 American Indian and Alaska Native households are food insecure. We know what can work, as increased funding for nutrition assistance programs during the pandemic led to a significant decrease in childhood hunger. However, much of that progress was lost starting in 2022, with the termination of those benefits.

Food insecurity is associated with several adverse outcomes, including delayed development, chronic diseases (such as asthma and anemia), and increased anxiety and depression. Such outcomes can limit children’s ability to live healthful lifestyles, thrive, and realize their full potential.

Newman’s Own Foundation envisions the United States as a country where all children have access to nutritious, culturally relevant foods; learn about healthy foods and sustainable food systems; and have opportunities to grow, gather, and cook food and be nourished physically, emotionally, and spiritually. 

About the Prize

Up to $1M in total funding (over two years) is available for nonprofits, public schools, and tribes working to advance food justice for kids in the United States and its territories.

As many as 10 applicants (5 for each of our priority program areas) will receive up to $50,000 each in 2024, with the opportunity for an additional grant of up to $50,000 each in 2025. In 2026 and beyond, these grantee partners may be eligible for further funding.

Applicants who reach the finalist stage may also be considered for a $10,000 grant awarded through the Newman’s Own Foundation Community Choice Award.

In addition to receiving a grant of up to $50,000, the Food Justice for Kids grantee partners will have the opportunity to participate in a learning cohort, meeting periodically throughout the year (virtually) to network, share best practices, and engage in activities that can be leveraged for greater growth and impact. Grantee partners will then have an opportunity in 2025 to apply for an additional grant of up to $50,000.

About Decolonizing Wealth Project 

Established in 2018, Decolonizing Wealth Project (DWP) is committed to bringing truth, healing, and repair to our global community. Reparative Philanthropy, our signature framework, is at the heart of our work and aims to transform wealth into collective wellbeing. DWP operates through three key strategies: sector transformation, storytelling and culture, and reparative giving. Our work has radically transformed the philanthropic sector and has facilitated the distribution of nearly $1 billion for truth, healing, and reparative efforts. Liberated Capital, DWP’s fund and donor community, has directly granted over $23 million to support economic solidarity, wellbeing, and earth and climate efforts primarily led by communities most impacted. 

Youth Mental Health Fund - Anchor Grant

Background

Decolonizing Wealth Project is excited to launch a new culturally responsive care fund focused on supporting and expanding mental health care for youth in the United States, prioritizing access for LGBTQ+ youth and youth of color. The fund will redistribute a minimum of $15 million in grants over three years starting this year.

Throughout history, young people have been drivers of social change. They have led efforts from Selma to Standing Rock, inviting us all to imagine a better future. Youth today face a world of compounding challenges with the changing technology and social media, climate crises, income inequality, and deadly extremist violence in the United States and beyond. However, the burden of these challenges is not carried equally. Young people of color and queer youth are often forced to navigate a world that refuses to honor their brilliance and embrace their identities. As a result, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth are more likely to experience depression, anxiety, or even suicide.

Suicide is the leading cause of death for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders ages 10-24, and the second leading cause of death for young Black or African Americans (CDC, 2023; NAMI, 2023; ACAMH, 2023) and nearly half of all LBGTQ youth considered suicide, and 60% of those who sought mental health support were not able to access it (The Trevor Project, 2022).

One of the most significant barriers to supporting BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth mental health is the lack of access to culturally responsive care. Youth of historically marginalized identities are in dire need of access to mental health providers who actively implement culturally responsive practices and care in affirming spaces that honor their identities. Culture also carries unique protective factors, and centering these strengths will ensure healing for both young people and society. 

The Opportunity

A Community-Aligned Fund that Centers Marginalized Youth

In collaboration with an external advisory committee composed of youth leaders and experts and practitioners in the field of adolescent mental health, DWP is launching the Youth Mental Health Fund (YMHF) – a culturally affirming initiative focused on expanding access to community-based mental health care for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth between the ages of 12-24. In addition to supporting community-based programs and partnerships, YMHF will also fund work to shift narratives around care and programs that offer culturally grounded healing experiences that center the unique needs and strengths of marginalized youth living at the intersections.

The YMHF fund will invest at least $15 million in grants over the next 3 years, for a minimum of $5 million annually. Alongside grantmaking, DWP will invest in capacity-building opportunities for grantee partners and elevate critical issues undergirding the Fund through communications and field-building efforts.

Fund Priorities: Culturally Responsive Care

Decolonizing Wealth Project seeks to nurture healing, belonging, and empowerment for youth. We will prioritize initiatives that are community-led or engage young people directly in decision-making processes and efforts. Examples of meaningful youth leadership may be in staffing, youth steering committees, youth boards, and processes that generate regular feedback from youth. An external, intergenerational Advisory Committee will review every eligible application.

Applications will be accepted across the following three priority areas:

• Community-Based Programs -
  • Increasing access to culturally responsive mental health care by providing services in places where youth live, learn, and play (e.g. in schools, churches, community centers, particularly in rural areas, etc). (Note: in the case of partnerships between community-based organizations and clinics/health care system units, grants will be awarded to the community-based nonprofit).
  • Youth-led organizations that provide programs to improve mental wellbeing outcomes, such as peer support, skill-building, and youth advocacy. These programs should create spaces where youth can connect, share experiences, and learn coping strategies, while advocating for changes in policies and practices that impact their mental well-being.
• Cultural-Based Healing -
  • Innovative culturally relevant delivery models that promote connection to belonging, culture, and improve mental health care. This may include programs that use creative expression such as: language, movement, art, music, dance, and theater as therapeutic tools to explore identity, process trauma, and build resilience.
  • Storytelling projects that amplify communal and personal stories of mental health journeys to foster solidarity and representation.
  • Heritage-based wellness programs that integrate cultural practices, rituals, and spirituality into mental health approaches for young people.
• Awareness and Advocacy Campaigns -
  • Community-based education programs tailored to equip youth, families, providers, and educators with tools to recognize and address mental health challenges.
  • Campaigns that challenge cultural and systemic stigmas around mental health care and identity, and work to expand access to services and support, as well as post-traumatic growth and joy.
  • Support for organizations working towards systemic change in mental health services and care delivery to dismantle inequities in mental health care systems impacting youth; Priority given to programs that train youth as advocates for systemic change in mental health policies and systems.

Funding

In this first year of grantmaking, we will use the following approach to grant $5 million:

• There are two grant types organizations can apply for (this grant page focuses on the Anchor Grant)
  • Anchor Grants: General operating support grants ranging from $100,000-$250,000 for youth mental health organizations or projects that have been operating for 5 years or more with organizational budgets over $2,000,000.

About Decolonizing Wealth Project 

Established in 2018, Decolonizing Wealth Project (DWP) is committed to bringing truth, healing, and repair to our global community. Reparative Philanthropy, our signature framework, is at the heart of our work and aims to transform wealth into collective wellbeing. DWP operates through three key strategies: sector transformation, storytelling and culture, and reparative giving. Our work has radically transformed the philanthropic sector and has facilitated the distribution of nearly $1 billion for truth, healing, and reparative efforts. Liberated Capital, DWP’s fund and donor community, has directly granted over $23 million to support economic solidarity, wellbeing, and earth and climate efforts primarily led by communities most impacted. 

Background

Decolonizing Wealth Project is excited to launch a new culturally responsive care fund focused on supporting and expanding mental health care for youth in the United States, prioritizing access for LGBTQ+ youth and youth of color. The fund will redistribute a minimum of $15 million in grants over three years starting this year.

Throughout history, young people have been drivers of social change. They have led efforts from Selma to Standing Rock, inviting us all to imagine a better future. Youth today face a world of compounding challenges with the changing technology and social media, climate crises, income inequality, and deadly extremist violence in the United States and beyond. However, the burden of these challenges is not carried equally. Young people of color and queer youth are often forced to navigate a world that refuses to honor their brilliance and embrace their identities. As a result, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth are more likely to experience depression, anxiety, or even suicide.

Suicide is the leading cause of death for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders ages 10-24, and the second leading cause of death for young Black or African Americans (CDC, 2023; NAMI, 2023; ACAMH, 2023) and nearly half of all LBGTQ youth considered suicide, and 60% of those who sought mental health support were not able to access it (The Trevor Project, 2022).

One of the most significant barriers to supporting BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth mental health is the lack of access to culturally responsive care. Youth of historically marginalized identities are in dire need of access to mental health providers who actively implement culturally responsive practices and care in affirming spaces that honor their identities. Culture also carries unique protective factors, and centering these strengths will ensure healing for both young people and society. 

The Opportunity

A Community-Aligned Fund that Centers Marginalized Youth

In collaboration with an external advisory committee composed of youth leaders and experts and practitioners in the field of adolescent mental health, DWP is launching the Youth Mental Health Fund (YMHF) – a culturally affirming initiative focused on expanding access to community-based mental health care for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth between the ages of 12-24. In addition to supporting community-based programs and partnerships, YMHF will also fund work to shift narratives around care and programs that offer culturally grounded healing experiences that center the unique needs and strengths of marginalized youth living at the intersections.

The YMHF fund will invest at least $15 million in grants over the next 3 years, for a minimum of $5 million annually. Alongside grantmaking, DWP will invest in capacity-building opportunities for grantee partners and elevate critical issues undergirding the Fund through communications and field-building efforts.

Fund Priorities: Culturally Responsive Care

Decolonizing Wealth Project seeks to nurture healing, belonging, and empowerment for youth. We will prioritize initiatives that are community-led or engage young people directly in decision-making processes and efforts. Examples of meaningful youth leadership may be in staffing, youth steering committees, youth boards, and processes that generate regular feedback from youth. An external, intergenerational Advisory Committee will review every eligible application.

Applications will be accepted across the following three priority areas:

• Community-Based Programs -
  • Increasing access to culturally responsive mental health care by providing services in places where youth live, learn, and play (e.g. in schools, churches, community centers, particularly in rural areas, etc). (Note: in the case of partnerships between community-based organizations and clinics/health care system units, grants will be awarded to the community-based nonprofit).
  • Youth-led organizations that provide programs to improve mental wellbeing outcomes, such as peer support, skill-building, and youth advocacy. These programs should create spaces where youth can connect, share experiences, and learn coping strategies, while advocating for changes in policies and practices that impact their mental well-being.
• Cultural-Based Healing -
  • Innovative culturally relevant delivery models that promote connection to belonging, culture, and improve mental health care. This may include programs that use creative expression such as: language, movement, art, music, dance, and theater as therapeutic tools to explore identity, process trauma, and build resilience.
  • Storytelling projects that amplify communal and personal stories of mental health journeys to foster solidarity and representation.
  • Heritage-based wellness programs that integrate cultural practices, rituals, and spirituality into mental health approaches for young people.
• Awareness and Advocacy Campaigns -
  • Community-based education programs tailored to equip youth, families, providers, and educators with tools to recognize and address mental health challenges.
  • Campaigns that challenge cultural and systemic stigmas around mental health care and identity, and work to expand access to services and support, as well as post-traumatic growth and joy.
  • Support for organizations working towards systemic change in mental health services and care delivery to dismantle inequities in mental health care systems impacting youth; Priority given to programs that train youth as advocates for systemic change in mental health policies and systems.

Funding

In this first year of grantmaking, we will use the following approach to grant $5 million:

• There are two grant types organizations can apply for (this grant page focuses on the Opportunity Grant)
  • Opportunity Grants:
    • General operating support grants ranging from $30,000– $100,000 for organizations or projects that have been operating for less than 5 years; or
    • Project-specific grants for new innovative solutions, pilots, convenings, one-time special opportunities, etc.

Documentary Fund

The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund supports the work of nonfiction filmmakers from around the globe. In a changing media landscape, the fund has been a stable, progressive force in supporting work that has expressed the world in creative, complex, beautiful, and provocative ways, and has created real cultural and social impact around some of the most pressing issues of our time. We are proud to sit at the center of this burgeoning creative field with the Documentary Fund, which offers (non-recoupable) support for nonfiction projects that continue to elevate and advance cultural dialogue and break new ground in creativity and innovation. In its ongoing search for artists and projects to support, the Documentary Fund is seeking filmmakers with a distinct voice and vision, and a meaningful connection to the work they create. We are especially keen to raise the voices of underserved or underrepresented communities from around the world in the service of building a more fair, free, and open society.

Grant Categories

• Development (up to $40,000):
  • There is no reel required with an application, but access to location and characters must be confirmed. The proposal should clearly articulate a potential direction for the project and ask questions that would indicate a layered and nuanced approach. Mood reels, stills, or some visual references for or depiction of the project in development are recommended. Prior work samples are strongly recommended for development applications.

• Production/Post-production (up to $100,000):
  • Production grants provide funds to projects that are able to deliver to us at least 10 minutes of edited material. At least 20 minutes are required for post-production grants. The reel should convey the narrative and aesthetic approach for the final film.

Poetry Programs, Partnerships, and Innovation

The Poetry Programs, Partnerships, and Innovation grant program provided funding to nonprofit organizations based in the U.S. and U.S. territories that are dedicated to advancing the field of poetry. Grants supported organizations working to:

• Broaden audiences for poetry,
• Increase access to poetry,
• Foster new collaborations and partnerships in poetry, and
• Drive innovations in poetry, including the use of new technologies.

Types of Support

Grants ranged from $10,000 to $75,000 for a 12-month period and offered two types of support:

• general operating support for poetry-centric nonprofits and
• program support for organizations with multi-genre or diverse poetry programming.

General Operating Support

The General Operating Support Program offers unrestricted funding to nonprofit poetry organizations, presses, publications, and select literary arts service and membership organizations. This funding is designed to support and strengthen core operations, including:

• Staff salaries
• Rent and utilities
• Technology
• General administrative expenses
• Marketing and fundraising efforts
• Technical support
• Hiring new paid staff positions

This program aims to provide flexible resources that enable organizations to focus on their missions and sustain their vital work in the literary arts.

Below are the eligibility details for each category:

Nonprofit Poetry Organizations and Literary Arts Service and Membership Organizations

The Foundation supports nonprofit poetry organizations based in the U.S. and U.S. territories with poetry central to their mission, along with select literary arts service and membership organizations. The Poetry Foundation supports both traditional literary arts service and membership organizations and literary arts organizations that serve as literary arts service and membership organizations for historically underrepresented poets and writers.

Nonprofit Poetry Presses and Publications

Nonprofit poetry presses and publications based in the U.S. and U.S. territories are eligible to apply for general operating grants. The Foundation also considers, on a case-by-case basis, presses and publications whose stated mission is to publish underrepresented poets and feature content that is at least 50% poetry.

Mission

AIDS United’s mission is to end the HIV epidemic in the United States.

In the ongoing work for social justice and true equity, ending the HIV epidemic in the United States is our chosen role. We’ve seen firsthand how the intersectionality of social injustice, discrimination and health care disparity impacts those living with HIV, and we believe alleviating this struggle is a pivotal step toward our national well-being.

Vision

AIDS United envisions a time when all people, governments, and organizations commit to ending the epidemic and strengthening the health, well-being, and human rights of everyone impacted by HIV.

Harm Reduction Futures Fund

The Harm Reduction Futures Fund (formerly the Syringe Access Fund) is a collaborative grantmaking initiative that seeks to reduce the health, psychosocial, and socioeconomic disparities experienced by people who use drugs (PWUD). The Harm Reduction Futures Fund invests in evidence-based and community-driven approaches to prevent the transmission of both HIV and viral hepatitis, reduce injection-related injuries, increase overdose prevention and reversal efforts, and connect people who use drugs to comprehensive prevention, treatment, and support services.

The Harm Reduction Futures Fund will award grants this Round to three kinds of organizations:

• syringe services programs providing direct services,
• harm reduction organizations supporting multiple syringe service programs providing direct services

Please note, we are currently not offering advocacy grants. At this time only direct service applications will be accepted. 

Purpose

The primary goal of the Harm Reduction Futures Fund is to provide core support for programs that demonstrate:

• an ability to provide high quality syringe and other drug user health services to one or more identified communities

The Harm Reduction Futures Fund seeks to identify and support organizations across intersecting movements to enhance and coordinate services for people who use drugs. It supports and funds organizations that are led by and/or meaningfully involve and serve networks of people who use drugs, including in the design, delivery, and evaluation of services. In Round 16, the Harm Reduction Futures Fund will prioritize support for programs that are led by and serve Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC), as well as those in jurisdictions of high need and low resources. Other compelling factors may include the leadership of current or former sex workers; prevalence of HIV, viral hepatitis, and other blood-borne pathogens in a community; injection drug use prevalence; opioid use; overdose incidence; availability of local funding.

Funding

AIDS United expects to provide one-year cash grants to a total cohort of  7 to 15 organizations.

• Direct Service organizations are invited to submit proposals for $10,000 to $25,000 for one year.
  • AU anticipates 5-13 programs will receive funding
• Multi-Program Support organizations are invited to submit proposals for $25,000 to $40,000 for one year.
  • AU anticipates 1 program will receive funding