Deadline: 31-May-21
The Texas Pride Impact Funds (TxPIF) is seeking proposals for its 2021 State-wide Grants Program to support organizations addressing critical needs, finding solutions to the communities’ most pressing challenges, fostering creativity, power building, and promoting resilience for a more just and inclusive Texas.
The goals of the State-wide Grants Program are to:
- Invest in community-building efforts in targeted areas of support with an eye towards movement building in the state.
- Invest in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)-led organizations working to meet the needs within different communities; Grants may also be awarded to allied organizations, which are not BIPOC-led but are working to advance a racial and economic justice agenda.
- Invest in organizations that are advancing systemic change on racial injustice issues through advocacy, public policy, and community organizing.
The State-wide Grants Program is comprised of two areas:
- Community Building – designed to strengthen local organizations, programs, and support the most vulnerable populations. Investments in this area will focus on smaller, BIPOC-led organizations and allied organizations, emphasizing those serving rural areas of Texas and the transgender and gender non-conforming community. Areas of Support include:
- Arts & Culture
- Employment
- Faith
- Financial Security
- Healthcare & Mental Health
- Housing
- Immigration
- Seniors
- Youth
- Capacity Building – capacity-building grants enable organizations to grow competencies and invest in business processes to increase their organizations’ effectiveness and sustainability.
Examples of specific programs include (but not limited to):
- Skills-building
- Increasing access/reducing barriers to routine health care
- Improving employment prospects for transgender persons
- Increasing access for transgender persons
- Improving cultural competency of health care providers
- Decreasing social isolation
- Increasing financial security
- Address issues of inter-community racism, sexism, gender normativism
- Decrease isolation in non-urban areas
- Access to safe spaces
- Access to stable housing
TxPIF will Fund
- General operating expenses for organizations addressing the needs of LGBTQIA+ communities.
- Capacity building (may include conference/training registration fees, but no travel related costs).
- New and/or current projects, programs and/or strategies.
- Joint projects that combine the resources of two (2) or more eligible organizations working together to achieve shared goals.
- Matching grants.
TxPIF Doesn’t Fund
- Applications from individuals.
- National organizations or their local affiliates, except for programs developed at the local level to meet local needs in Texas.
- Projects/programs outside the State of Texas.
- Endowment funds.
- Annual campaigns, capital campaigns, fundraising Training, Events, Workshops and Conferencess, donor recognition Training, Events, Workshops and Conferencess, Training, Events, Workshops and Conferences sponsorships.
- Multi-year funding commitments.
- Costs incurred prior to the date of the grant award.
- Applications from government agencies.
- Religious organizations that discriminate on the basis of gender or sexual identity.
- More than one application per organization per year.
- Debt retirement.
- Academic research.
For more information, visit http://www.txpif.org/grant-process-defined/