As trusted partners in your networks and communities, we understand the immense work and resources it takes to show up daily. We know the toll this work can take and reiterate our commitment to supporting you and your organizations. Guided by our conversations and your recommendations, the YEF team curates a list of resources and opportunities focused on fundraising, training, wellness, and stories to spark thought.
The information on this page will be time relevant, which means it will only include links to currently active sources and open deadlines. This Knowledge Hub page will be updated regularly as new opportunities and information arise.
The B.W. Bastian Foundation only supports organizations who wholeheartedly embrace the principle of equality. As such, each organization must include a statement specifically stating their commitment of equality for all Americans, including the gay and lesbian community in their application. B.W. Bastian Foundation only accepts solicited grant requests. You must first enquire by email or phone, prior to any submission. Grants range from $100 to $15000, application deadline is September 15, 2024.
JustFund is the nation’s first—and only—common application grantmaking solution. Rather than requiring organizations to complete dozens of separate and time-consuming grant proposals, JustFund offers a common application model designed to save grantseekers time and help grantmakers with thoughtful decisions.
Resist is a foundation that supports people’s movements for justice and liberation. We redistribute resources back to frontline communities at the forefront of change while amplifying their stories of building a better world.
Eligible organizations must:
Rapid Response Grants
Resist offers $2,000 at-minimum Rapid Response grants to better meet the needs of frontline groups and organizations. This grant is decided on by Resist staff and decisions are generally announced within 14 business days.
Resist offers Rapid Response Grants for groups and organizations to:
Peace Development Fund: De Colores Rapid Response Fund
De Colores RRF is looking to impact positive, dynamic-shifting opportunities, rather than provide emergency response for humanitarian crises or technical assistance. It is designed to make funds available for quick, short-term delivery to hot spots of opportunity for organizing in marginalized urban and rural communities. Please read RRF’s Grant Guidelines to see if your organization is eligible to apply.
Additional eligibility criteria includes:
Proposals are accepted all year, and reviewed regularly. Groups will be notified within one to three weeks and checks will be mailed the following week. Grants are in the $500 to $1000 range.
Groundswell Fund Rapid Response Fund
Groundswell’s Rapid Response Fund (RRF) provides fast funding to grassroots organizing groups led by women of color, trans and gender-expansive people of color, and low-income women in critical but unexpected fights to protect and advance reproductive and social justice. The Rapid Response Fund is open to rolling requests monthly. Please see the Groundswell Fund Rapid Response Fund landing page for a sample timeline of the decision-making process. Currently accepting applications here.
Get Up Rise Up: Direct Action Fund
The purpose of the Get Up, Rise Up direct action fund is to support activists globally to shift power through strategic nonviolent direct actions to create a more social and ecological just, healthy, and equitable world for all. While doing so the fund also seeks to advance the theories, principles, methods and tactics of strategic nonviolent direct action, building from lessons at the frontlines and adding these to our collective world of social movement wisdom.
Grants range from $250-$1000 and are accepted on a rolling basis. Please submit your application by the 5th of the month to be considered for that month.
Founded in 2016, Emergent Fund is a national rapid response fund created to explicitly support Black, Indigenous and People of Color-led (BIPOC) social justice movements. From family separation, to Muslim bans to continued violence against Black communities, Emergent Fund grantees are BIPOC organizers and directly impacted communities responding to the biggest crises of our time by boldly fighting to build the world we all deserve.
As a rapid response fund, we play a unique role in the funding ecosystem; often filling a gap by providing low barrier funding in as little as a week to organizers when they need it most.
Grants are awarded on a rolling basis. Grants decisions are made on a month basis and typically, you will receive an update on the status of your proposal within 4-5 weeks. There is no set grant size, but they have ranged from $10,000 to $30,000.
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 they launched, they have supported over 70 grassroots groups with nearly $200,000 in funding. They prioritize BIPOC-led and serving groups focused on water privatization, plastic pollution, and other environmental justice focus areas.
To apply, groups must be led by and serving black, Indigenous, and communities of color AND meet one or more of the following requirements:
Grants do not exceed $5,000. Applications are reviewed on a quarterly basis. Apply here.
Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People Grants
Led by a committee of Presbyterians and ecumenical partners dissatisfied with poverty and oppression, united in faith and action through sharing, confronting, and enabling by participating in the empowerment of economically poor, oppressed, and disadvantaged people, seeking to change the structures that perpetuate poverty, oppression and injustice. Partnerships are initiated by applications to the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) and are evaluated using SDOP’s funding criteria and overarching SDOP program measures.The review process might take up to 6 months. Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Youth Direct Action Fund (YDAF)
YDAF offers funding in various categories such as activist’s time and travel support, community services, direct action, supplies and equipment, tech needs, and research and development needs. The YDAF Committee meets every Wednesday at 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm ET to review applications. It takes about 2 weeks from the approval date for recipients to receive funds.
YDAF issues grants up to $5,000. For more information, you can view the YDAF guidelines here.
AORTA (anti-oppression resource & training alliance)
AORTA is a worker-owned cooperative of facilitators and strategists devoted to helping our movements renew a stronger sense of liberatory vision, values, and purpose. From facilitating 200 person coalition campaign strategy meetings to monthly 1 on 1 coaching with young workers, AORTA is called into facilitate, coach, consult, and train in movement spaces across the country.
Upcoming Training(s):
re:power offer training and strategic support to BIPOC leaders and community organizations across the progressive ecosystem, focusing on movements, technology, civic engagement, governance, and women of color leadership.
Upcoming Training(s):
All workshops are rooted in Training for Change’s Direct Education approach. Trainers center the group, building upon dynamics in the room and participants’ own experience to introduce new content and help the group access their own wisdom. Workshop costs $35.00 – $200.00, sliding scale based on income.
Trainings and programs Include:
The Management Center helps leaders for social change build and run more equitable, sustainable, and results-driven organizations. In addition to regular training offerings, they have gathered a series of resources to support with everything from check-ins, to hiring, managing up and sideways, roles clarification and more.
Trainings include:
Social Movement Technologies (SMT)
SMT is A non-profit/NGO providing organizing strategy, training and campaign support. They collaborate with campaigners and activists around the world to build people power for justice in the digital age.
Upcoming Trainings Include:
SMT also offers a repository of free recorded trainings & online community- building resources that can be found here. SMT is rapidly ramping up support and training for movement organizations around the world. Additional training is planned. If there’s anything that you don’t see below that you’d be interested in, contact them at info@socialmovementtechnologies.org.
Craft of Campaigns is a podcast from Training for Change. In this podcast, we go behind the headlines and hashtags, inviting movement storytellers to share lessons from social justice campaigns. In each episode, we’ll explore one campaign, through firsthand interviews, for key lessons, principles, and practices for organizers today.
Texas Gun Sense, Advocacy Toolkit Resources
Texas Gun Sense is a community-based gun violence prevention (GVP) advocacy organization. Their work centers around education, collaboration and advocacy.
Resources available on their website include:
Data Disaggregation Action Network (D-DAN) Data Disaggregation Resources
The Data Disaggregation Action Network and The Leadership Conference Education Fund host a resource hub related to Data Disaggregation. Resources Include: toolkits, policy resources, research, data tools, recorded webinars, reports, guides.
National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP)
The NNIP is a learning network coordinated by the Urban Institute to connect organizations that share a mission to ensure all communities have access to data and the skills to use information to advance equity and well-being across neighborhoods. NNIP partners have extensive knowledge about national and local sources of neighborhood-level data. A collection of partner’s Data Sources and Summary Information is compiled here.
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit research organization that provides data and evidence to help advance upward mobility and equity. There website also hosts a repository of project
Some resources to explore:
CIRCLE, the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, is a non-partisan, independent research organization focused on youth civic engagement in the United States. CIRCLE conducts extensive research on youth participation, and we leverage that research to improve opportunities for all young people to acquire and use the skills and knowledge they need to meaningfully participate in civic life. CIRCLE frequently publishes analyses based on newly calculated data that offers insight into various aspects of youth civic education and engagement. Explore their Research and Data Tools here.
NonProfit Learning Lab Nonprofit Resources
The Nonprofit Learning Lab has free non-profit resources including free webinars, guidebooks, consultants directory and more.
Facilitation Resources from Jaime-Jin Lewis
Jaime-Jin Lewis, a freelance facilitator grappling with how (and if) to deliver engaging, participatory online experiences, has designed a set of activities and tools to inspire reflection, collaboration, and growth in online meeting spaces.
Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. They have created and curated useful curriculum to help guide your political development, these resources include suggestions for making mobilizations and events more accessible and the 10 Principles of Disability Justice.
BLM Instructional Library for Children
List of E-books for children by Black Lives Matters that includes books on activism and advocacy, self-love and empowerment, and Black history.
A resource hub about ending violence. Created by Mariame Kaba and designed by LuDesign Studio, the site includes selected articles, audio-visual resources, curricula, and more.
Tips, tools and how-tos for safer online communications a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
This guide offers a list of the top 50 resources to support Black Men who are struggling with addiction or mental illness.
Live Another Day believes in equal access to life-saving mental health and substance use resources. This website provides extensive information on the best resources available.
National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network
The National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC). This resource includes an interactive digital directory that helps QTBIPOC connect to QTBIPOC mental health practitioners.
Mutual Aid Mourning and Healing Request for Support
A group of Chicago-based organizers is gathering a list of clergy members, death midwives/doulas, therapists, social workers, and healers who can offer support by phone or video conference to community members who had someone close to them pass away. Offerings based upon completion of application.
Black Virtual Therapist Network
BEAM has started an online directory of licensed Black therapists who are certified to provide telemental health services
Grounding skills to manage stress and remote online therapy sessions available
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM)
BEAM is a national training, movement building, and grant making institution that is dedicated to the healing, wellness, and liberation of Black and marginalized communities. Beam offers a variety of training, events and gathering resources including:
Heart Space: A Virtual Healing Circle: A monthly, online support group and emotional skills building space for Black folks looking to learn and connect.
Upcoming Public Trainings:
Note: This is a 4 day course, occurring on Thursdays (July 11th, 18th, 25th and August 1st). All attendees must complete a post-training evaluation before receiving a certificate of completion.
Agua y Sangre Healing: BIPOC Healing Circle
Agua y Sangre support individuals and communities in navigating the portal-like experiences of grief, fertility & TTC, and the postpartum. I offer space holding, somatic care, intuitive coaching, and herbal remedios for folks going through their “goo eras.”. They offer various healing circles and wellness workshops, among other offerings.
Upcoming Events:
Please Note: This group is donation based, and no one is turned away for lack of funds. Suggested sliding scale is $5-$33. Allies’ and those who wish to pay it forward to support this group please see the registration page for more information.
Rest for Resistance by QTPoC Mental Health empowers community through knowledge and compassion, with the ultimate goals of creating online & offline spaces for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC) to be unapologetically our whole selves.
QTPoC Meditation gathers online three times each month for stillness practice, movement practice, and a planning meeting. Sign up on Eventbrite for the Zoom link.
Fireweed Collective offers mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice and Disability Justice lens. We support the emotional wellness of all people and center QTBIPOC folks in our internal leadership, programs, and resources. Fireweed Collective Groups are virtual spaces where folks can connect, and offer mutual aid with others who share similar life experiences and struggles.
Groups run for a month. They meet once a week online for 60 to 90 minutes. All support groups are sliding scale and are facilitated by members of Fireweed Collective.
Immigrants Rising Wellness Gatherings
Immigrants Rising’s virtual Wellness Gatherings help undocumented young people stay grounded and connected to one another. These 6-week Wellness Support Groups led by trained mental health providers or registered clinicians, are designed to help undocumented people feel less alone and more understood. The weekly virtual sessions are closed; meaning that advance registration is required, with the goal of creating a confidential space where 10-12 participants can feel grounded, find community, and share their unique experiences, challenges, and successes with one another. Note: though participation can be therapeutic, the groups are not a form of therapy. Gatherings are always being updated.
NEW GROUPS STARTING IN AUGUST
Decolonizing Wealth is working to disrupt the existing systems of moving and controlling capital. They offer truth, reconciliation, and healing from the ails of colonization through education, radical reparative giving, and narrative change. These steps are a means to both heal, and translate this healing into action.
Trauma Stewardship’s Tiny Survival Guide + Other Resources
Trauma Stewardship Institute has a wealth of resources to protect your energy and support individuals and organizations through healing and trauma work.
44 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Survive in This Country
A list of forty-four mental health resources for Black people including people, brands, collectives, and organizations to follow. By Zahra Barnes, Self
Healthcare access for Undocumented Folks in the Time of COVID19
United We Dream has put together this healthcare access guide for undocumented people listed by state.
Mental Health: How and Where to Find Affordable Resources
Navigating the healthcare system to find mental health care can be difficult. Here are some tools and resources to get started.
List of resources from the Center for Sexual & Traumatic Stress to help deal with anxiety
Tips for supporting Someone during Panic Attack
List of how you can support a colleague or loved one during a panic attack
Herbal Guide to Collective Protection and Healing During COVID-19 from Plant Stories, Plant stories from Lakota & Dakota territory. This guide includes preventative care and COVID-19 patient care, it is also applicable to various other respiratory illnesses.
Black and Latino voters are being erased from databases: Here’s how to fix it
An Op-ed by Miriam McKinney Gray, lab director and senior data analyst for the Democracy and Power Innovation (DPI) Fund.
Black and Brown Voters Are Building Power in Rural America
An Op-ed by Kendra Cotton, CEO of New Georgia Project Action Fund, and Art Reyes III, founding executive director of We the People Action Fund.
State-by-State Youth Voter Turnout Data and the Impact of Election Laws in 2022
Comprehensive research on youth voter turnout in the 2022 midterm elections. This data includes an interactive state by state map.
Building Resilient Organizations: Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis
Maurice Mitchell is a nationally-recognized social movement strategist and organizer for racial, social, and economic justice, as well as the National Director of the Working Families Party. In this article, he unpacks the problems our organizations and movements face, identifies underlying causes and core problems, and proposes concrete solutions. This resource includes an audio version, podcast, and discussion guide and is available in Spanish.
Construyendo Organizaciones Resilientes: Hacia la alegría y el poder duradero en tiempos de crisis
Hay cosas que podemos y debemos hacer para cambiar los movimientos por la justicia hacia una posición poderosa de alegría y victoria. Una metamorfosis de este tipo no es inevitable, pero es esencial.
Comprehensive research on youth voter turnout in the 2020 presidential election. This data includes an interactive state by state map.
The Dorothy A. Johnson Center For Philanthropy
The Dorthy A. Johnson Center at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) works to bridge research and practice to support effective philanthropy. They provide tools, research, development trainings, and professional development services to Nonprofits and Grantmakers.
Some Articles From The Center:
