Deadline: 5-Apr-21
Applications are now open for the 2021 Diverse City (DC) Fund, it works to nurture community leaders and grassroots projects that are transforming Washington, DC into a more just, vibrant place to live.
Through collective grantmaking, they identify, support, and connect changemakers of color whose efforts are centered in DC. They support the development of community-level social change by funding projects that have less access to traditional funding sources.
Diverse City Fund invests in social justice projects which:
- Amplify the leadership and voice of those directly affected by issues and needs.
- Take action to create equitable outcomes and transfer of power and resources to directly-affected communities.
- Tackle root problems by engaging directly-affected communities to find solutions, organize against the oppression of all kinds, and create mechanisms for change.
Priorities
- Mobilization – work that mobilizes people for protest and resistance.
- Organizing and Advocacy – work that engages in organizing and advocacy, particularly around funding for public programs and services.
- Healing, Inspiration, and Liberation – work that brings communities together for cultural and mental liberation, the individual level work that prepares people to resist.
Funding Information
- Diverse City Fund awards grant to people of color-led social justice projects in DC. Through the spring and fall grant rounds they award grants of up to $5,000 to individual organizations and up to $15,000 to coalition projects.
The DC Fund will Fund
- Social justice work — meaning there is an analysis of power and strategy towards transformational change.
- BIPOC led work — where core leadership and primary decision-makers are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, and whose other identities may be women, LGBTQ communities, returning citizens, immigrants, people with disabilities, and excluded workers.
- Work that centers DC residents — programs that primarily impact DC residents of color or former DC residents of color who have been displaced/gentrified out of the city.
- Work not funded in the last full cycle —organizations/projects and coalitions that have received a grant from the Diverse City Fund within the last 12 months are not eligible i.e. an individual grantee must wait for a full general grantmaking round before reapplying.
Eligibility Criteria
- The DC Fund only funds organizations/projects in which Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, women, LGBTQ communities, returning citizens, immigrants, people with disabilities, and excluded workers are at the core of their leadership.
- The DC defines these efforts as groups, coalitions, or organizations in which these intersecting communities hold a majority of leadership positions, including board members, staff, and volunteers.
For more information, visit https://www.diversecityfund.org/grants/apply/