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.
Nike | Black Community Commitment
As part of our 10-year, $100 million Black Community Commitment, in partnership with Michael Jordan, we are pleased to announce the fifth round of our annual Community Grant Program, benefiting grassroots nonprofit organizations throughout the United States. The application portal will open on January 15th – February 16th 2025 at 11:59PST.
Qualifications and Application Requirements:
FOCUS AREAS:
ECONOMIC JUSTICE: Expand pathways to generational wealth to Black people through access to financial literacy and career development coaching.
EDUCATION: Support Black students by increasing the amount of Black educators, supporting educators in underserved neighborhoods, and providing access to higher education opportunities.
NARRATIVE CHANGE: Increase awareness of the role race plays in our history to drive a deeper understanding of the consequences of racism in our everyday lives.
SOCIAL JUSTICE: Grow the Black Community’s social and political capital by investing in and advocating for policy reform to increase voter registration and turnout.
The Trans Justice Funding Project (TJFP) is a community-run, non-charitable trust that funds Trans-led grassroots organizations in the US and US Territories who exist to serve and improve the lives of their local and national trans, gender non conforming and non-binary communities. TJFP is staffed by all trans and non-binary individuals who are Black, Brown, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC).
Eligibility Criteria
TJFP will be organizing three opportunities for trans-led organizers and activists to apply for funding each year:
The Nathan Cummings Foundation is a multigenerational family foundation, rooted in the Jewish tradition of social justice, working to create a more just, vibrant, sustainable, and democratic society through our grantmaking in the United States and Israel.
For FY 2025, the portal will be open from January 16, 2025, through June 30, 2025, and will reopen on October 1, 2025. The portal will be closed from July 1, 2025, to September 30, 2025, to allow time for assessment and reflection.
NCF is on a learning journey, and we seek to connect with innovative partners and proximate change makers who are driving impact. We want to learn from, work with, and support organizations that share our commitment to advancing racial, economic, and environmental justice (REEJ).
NCF offers two types of funding opportunities: grants and PRIs. Successful grant and PRI proposals will align with NCF’s interconnected goals of REEJ focus areas.
This is a competitive process and NCF has limited resources. This year, we anticipate awarding six to eight new grants per REEJ area with a focus on initiatives in the U.S. South. Review our FAQs and racial justice, economic justice, and environmental justice focus areas to understand if your work aligns and apply here.
NDN Collective Community Action Fund
The Community Action Fund (CAF) grants support direct actions and organizing efforts that are often urgent and time sensitive. CAF prioritizes frontline, grassroots and community-based efforts that defend Indigenous peoples rights, communities and nations, including responses to climate disasters.
Eligibility: Indigenous-led frontline, grassroots, and community-based groups and organizations, including non-profit organizations, U.S. based Tribes, tribal non-profit entities or tribal programs, Alaska Native Villages or their non-profit entities, First Nations or Inuit and Metis communities, groups and organizations based in Canada, Indigenous communities, groups and organizations based in Mexico, and Individual Indigenous people leading direct action or movement building work.
Applicants must be based in the post-colonial borders of the US, Canada, Mexico, and the related Island Nations of Hawai’i, Borikén/Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Budget: Applicants will be required to submit a budget for the funds relating to the direct action such as funding for travel, climate response items, supplies, equipment, consultants, contractual services and staff that support various forms of NVDA (non-violent direct action), i.e., marches, camps, boycotts, prayer vigils as a form of resistance, organizing or protest to affect change.
Reporting: Awardees will be required to submit a grant report at the end of their grant term within 30 days of their grant closing.
Grant Cycle Deadlines:
Opens: January 29, 2025
Registration Closes: October 17, 2025 5pm Central Time US
Application: Accepted on a rolling basis until October 31, 2025 5pm Central Time US (or until funds are expended)
Spark Justice Fund (SJF) Safety & Security Rapid Response 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.
About This Funding Opportunity
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:
Proposals are currently being accepted. The SJF Team will continue accepting applications until our funding designated for this support is depleted. All grant proposals will be reviewed by SJF team members and a grantmaking advisory committee. The SJF Team will notify all applicants about the status of their proposal once our funding allocation for this support has been depleted.
Eligibility Criteria
The proposal process is open to any groups meeting the criteria below:
Priority Considerations
Groups that are:
See additional information and apply here.
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.
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.
Fund reopens early 2025, check for updates here.
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.
Alliance for Justice (AFJ) stands as the premier nonprofit organization committed to fortifying the progressive movement through its unwavering focus on federal and state courts and building power by providing unique resources to maximize nonprofits’ advocacy capacity.
Upcoming Training(s):
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) and programs:
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.
Alliance for Justice: Advocacy Check-Up: Nonprofit Self Assessment
The Advocacy Check-Up: Nonprofit Self-Assessment is designed to help your 501(c)(3) public charity assess its overall compliance with federal and state advocacy-related tracking and reporting requirements and to identify opportunities for you to build your organization’s advocacy capacity. The goal is to ensure that your nonprofit is aware of the opportunities for advocacy allowed by the tax and election laws that govern lobbying and election-related activity by tax-exempt organizations.
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.
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
Building Healthy Futures for Youth
This free event is continuing to empower rural communities by prioritizing youth mental wellness. Parents, youth, educators, and professionals are invited to come together once again to raise awareness and take action on the unique mental health challenges faced by rural youth.
Date: Saturday, March 29, 2025 | 9:00 am – 2:30 pm
Location: Arizona Western College
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.
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:
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 weekly for the Burnt Out Activist Club, a peer support group for QTIBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Intersex + Black, Indigenous, People of Color). Meetings include space for discussion among members, as well as contemplative/meditative practice to explore the topic of the day. Sign up on Eventbrite for the Zoom link.
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 MID-MARCH 2025
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.
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 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.
The GenForward Survey is the first of its kind—a nationally representative survey that pays special attention to how race and ethnicity shape how young adults, both Millennials and Gen Z-ers, experience and think about the world.
Narrative Guidance for the Immigrant Justice Movement
The movement for immigrant justice is in the midst of a deep narrative battle. As we fight for a world where everyone is treated with respect and dignity, we are up against forces determined to dehumanize and criminalize our communities. In the fall of 2024, The Opportunity Agenda’s Narrative Research Lab hosted a three-part Narrative Bootcamp series with simultaneous Spanish interpretation. The series provided tools and training to over 400 people across 10 countries, empowering them to shift the narrative on immigrant justice. The Bootcamp series is part of TOA’s soon-to-be launched Immigrant Narrative Strategy Table, which will coordinate and mobilize narrative strategies around a 50-year vision for the immigrant justice movement.
Revolutionary Generosity: Ramon Ramirez on Building Multiracial Movements for Justice
On the first episode of the second installment of No Matter What Happens: A Race Forward Podcast, Eric Ward, Executive Vice President of Race Forward, sits down with Ramon Ramirez, a Race Forward board member and Coordinator of the Elders Network. Together, they examine the power of multiracial coalitions in confronting the pressing challenges of racial and social justice.
This report documents the ways that significant portions of Black, Latino, and AAPI communities are systematically ignored by current voter-file based digital and technological systems of voter engagement. Combining census data and recent research on voter file missingness, McKinney Gray finds that nearly 25 million Black and Latino eligible voters are missing from or misidentified in voter file databases: twice the rate of White eligible voters.
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:
‘We Care For Each Other, We Fight For Each Other’: Mutual Aid and Power-Building
Movement scholar Erica Chenoweth moderates an exchange among Kate Hess Pace of Hoosier Action, Ginny Goldman of Organizing Resilience, and Anna Duncan of the National Domestic Workers Alliance on the role, promise, and challenges of mutual aid in their varied organizing projects.
Young People and the 2024 Election: Struggling, Disconnected, and Dissatisfied
The CIRCLE Post-2024 Election Poll gives us that comprehensive data from a nationally representative survey of young people ages 18-34. In this initial analysis from our poll, we answer key questions about what motivated youth to vote and why others stayed home, their diverse issue priorities, and whether campaigns and institutions did enough to reach young voters this past cycle.