B.W. Bastian Foundation 

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, 2023. 

The Wild Geese Foundation

Wild Geese Foundation works in an intersectional manner to defend human rights, promote food justice and sovereignty, and to uplift youth. They acknowledge a society in which marginalized humans do not thrive is unsustainable.

Nationally, They support five issue areas: Reproductive justice, LGBTQ equality, youth, climate justice and organizing in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities. Additionally, in the state of Massachusetts, they support food justice and expanding access to affordable and healthy food. The median grant is $10000 and the application deadline is October 1, 2023. 

BEAM: Black Wellness Innovation Fund 

Through the Black Wellness Innovation Fund, BEAM is giving out grants of $10K to three Black-led peer support and community health projects that center Black folks living in distress or living with mental health conditions. Learn more and apply here. Application deadline October 1, 2023. 

The Herb Block Foundation: Defending Basic Freedoms 

This program helps safeguard the basic freedoms guaranteed in our Bill of Rights, to help eliminate all forms of prejudice and discrimination, and to assist government agencies to be more accountable to the public. The Herb Block Foundation will also consider contemporary societal issues that may arise.Grants are available nationwide. Grants range from $5,000 to $25,000. Letters of Inquiry due October 5, 2023. 

Resist. 

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:

• Have an organizational budget of under $150,000 per year 
• Be based in the US and led by those most impacted by intersecting systems of oppression
• Be an organization with a 501(c)3 status as determined by the IRS, be a federally recognized American Indian tribal government or agency or be sponsored by one of the above  

Grant Opportunities: 

General Support Grant: General Support Grants are available for up to $4,000 to support groups who are building movements for justice and liberation and resisting systemic oppression through grassroots/cultural organizing, art-making and resilience building. Deadline: December 1st, 2023, 6pm EST (Receive funding decision in February 2024).

Rapid Response Grants

Resist offers $1,000 Rapid Response grants to better meet the needs of frontline groups and organizations. This grant is decided on by Resist staff and generally has a one week turn around.

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: 

• Organizing in U.S. grassroots communities, with a focus on communities of color, poor and working-class;
• Opportunities for strategic intervention (i.e. Ferguson and Baltimore moments);
• Opportunities to impact new and strategic shifts (i.e. Occupy); and
• Opportunities to amplify the effects of in-the-moment issues (i.e. Hurricane Maria or #MeToo). The event or situation you are responding to was unanticipated and requires urgent action that is well thought out with clear goals and desired outcomes.

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. Currently accepting applications here. 

RISE TOGETHER Rapid Response Funding 

RISE Together Fund’s 2023 Rapid Response Fund provides a vehicle for deploying resources strategically to address unexpected and urgent needs and key opportunities within the Black, African, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (BAMEMSA)* field. RISE Together Fund (RTF), an initiative of the Proteus Fund, works alongside impacted communities to advance their civil rights, fight for full inclusion, and promote their contributions to democracy, culture, and society

 RTF will provide Rapid Response grants ranging from $5,000-$20,000 on a rolling basis budget permitting.

Opportunity and Convening Funding 

RISE Together Fund’s 2023 Opportunity and Convening Fund provides a vehicle for strategically deploying resources to catalyze emergent programs and strategies within the Black, African, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (BAMEMSA)* field, and to foster convenings across communities that achieve strategic goals. Opportunity and Convening Fund grants are designed to fund small-scale projects or discrete portions of larger projects related to proactive legal, advocacy, organizing, and research campaigns.

RTF will accept Opportunity and Convening Fund inquiries on a rolling basis throughout 2023 until funding has been committed. 

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.

Emergent Funds 

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

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:

• Project is campaign focused,centering grassroots organizing public education, training and/or capacity building that develops skills, increases awareness, and/or builds alliances.
• Project centers community-driven, strategic use of non-violent direct action that demonstrate local resistance to destructive environmental activities i.e privatization of public water sources.
• Project amplifies community voices in regional, national and international forums and provide access to decision makers, funds to go toward travel and/or other related costs.
• Project leverages field studies and original research to hold companies accountable for their on-the-ground activities
• Project supports growth for emerging grassroots organizations i.e. seed money. 

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.