Deadline: 16-Feb-2025
The Groundswell invites applications for its grant program to increase the capacity of organizations struggling for social change that challenges the dominant, oppressive structures of the political, social, and economic systems.
Grants will be directed towards member-driven, grassroots initiatives or organizations that face difficulty raising funds due to the nature of their work. This year they particularly want to encourage groups doing Palestinian solidarity and liberation organizing to apply.
Funding Information
- Grants are for up to $10,000.
Who can apply?
- The fund prioritizes the following things:
- Groups led by the communities they are organizing; specifically, folks who are most directly affected by oppression.
- Transformative work that seeks to confront the root causes of oppression and work toward lasting change.
- Work that actively confronts power imbalances and seeks to build community power.
- They are committed to giving a minimum 50% of total funding to organizations led by Black and/or Indigenous organizers.
- Work that increases organizational infrastructure, allowing groups to do their work on a long-term basis.
- Work that cannot get adequate funding from other sources.
- Work taking place across the expanse of Turtle Island, now called Canada (Given the commitment to decolonization, they do not define the work according to colonial borders but instead engage applicants with some flexibility around their geographies).
- Note: Applications for legal defence costs are not typically eligible for funding. Organizations funded by a funded by a settler government agency (e.g., federal, provincial and municipal governments, including government-funded agencies), extractive industries (e.g., mining companies), energy corporations, or banks will not be funded. They may consider funding projects housed by such organizations. Applications on behalf of individuals will not be considered.
For more information, visit Groundswell.