Resist. 

Resist is a foundation that supports people’s movements for justice and liberation. They 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  

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 2: June 2nd, 2023, 6pm ET.

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.

The Third Wave Fund

For over 25 years,  Third Wave Fund has resourced and supported youth-led, intersectional gender justice activism and organizing across the U.S. and territories.  

The Mobilize Power Fund (MPF) is a rapid response fund that resources gender justice organizations met with unanticipated, time-sensitive threats or opportunities in their movement building and organizing. Grants are available for up to $10,000 (or up to $20,000 for partnerships or coalitions of two or more groups) on a monthly basis. The MPF prioritizes youth-led and intergenerational groups, nonprofits, coalitions, and efforts in the U.S., regardless of 501(c)3 status or fiscal sponsorship. See their 2023 deadlines, information on eligibility, and how to apply on the MPF page. Next Deadline to apply June 2, 2023. Para Español, aquí.

Groundswell Fund

Groundswell is one of the largest funders of the Reproductive Justice movement, and a leading funder of intersectional organizing across nearly every major social change movement.

Black Trans Fund: Community Care Grant Application

Launched in 2020, Black Trans Fund (BTF) seeks to change culture by shifting the narrative about Black trans communities towards joy and resilience, and away from violence and despair. The Black Trans Fund (BTF) defines Black trans-led organizations as organizations with a minimum of 75% of leadership and decision-making staff identifying as Black and trans. Applications due June 15th by 12 pm  PST/ 3  pm ET. Apply here. 

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. They are currently accepting applications here.

Native Voices Rising

Native Voices Rising is a research, donor education, re-granting, and capacity-building collaborative created and led by Common Counsel Foundation and Native Americans in Philanthropy. Native Voices Rising is designed to support organizing, advocacy and civic engagement in American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities. 

They are currently accepting applications  from Native-led groups that have a membership base in the community, work to develop leadership, and take collective action to win progressive social change. Grants range between $20,000 to $40,000. Application due by 11:59 pm PT on July 7, 2023. 

Grassroots Exchange Fund (GXF) 

A community-guided rapid response small grants program established to build bridges between grassroots social and environmental justice organizations throughout the United States. GXF grants help community-based organizations to engage in collaborative campaigns, strengthen key cross-region and cross-sector movements, and participate in organizing and technical assistance trainings. Typical grants range from $1000-$2000 and beginning in March 2023, GXF grants will be distributed on a monthly rolling cycle through July or until funds are exhausted.

RISE TOGETHER FUND

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. Learn more and apply here. 

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, they 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 Ben and Jerry’s Foundation 

The National Grassroots Organizing Program offers two-year flexible, general operating support grants of up to $30,000 per year, with an average grant size of $20,000 per year, to small, non-profit grassroots constituent-led organizations throughout the United States and its territories. 

The guiding principle behind this program is our belief that people most affected by a problem are in the best position to determine the solutions. They will consider proposals from grassroots, base-building organizations that are working to help themselves and their communities create broad systems change through community organizing campaigns and movement-building efforts. Organizations must have an annual budget under $350,000. Pre-applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Organizations invited to submit a full proposal will receive a due date. 

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.