Deadline: 19 June 2017
The A. J. Muste Memorial Institute is currently seeking applications for its Social Justice Fund supporting grassroots activist projects in the United States and around the world, giving priority to those with small budgets and little access to more mainstream funding sources.
Funding Criteria
The Muste Institute’s Social Justice Fund considers proposals:
- for new projects or campaigns, or efforts to expand existing work
- for ongoing projects or campaigns
- for capacity building, leadership development, and resource sustainability
- for projects with expense budgets under $50,000
- for projects which are local, regional, national or global in scope
- from grassroots organizations with annual expenses of less than $500,000
- from groups with limited access to more mainstream funding sources
- from groups that may be unincorporated or incorporated
- from groups with or without 501(c)3 status or a fiscal sponsor
- from groups which have not received Social Justice Fund grants from us in at least two years
Eligibility Criteria
The Social Justice Fund’s priority is to support:
- direct grassroots activism and organizing
- groups with diverse, representative and democratic leadership structures
- groups which have or can obtain sufficient economic and in-kind support from a diversity of sources to carry out their regular work, but need additional support to carry out a project or build capacity
- groups located anywhere in the world
Grants proposals will not be considered for the following:
- general support of ongoing operations
- individual efforts or scholarships
- schools or universities
- organizations with significant access to government, corporate or mainstream charitable funding
- academic or research projects
- art, theater, film or video projects which are not directly tied to activism or organizing
- economic development projects
- capital campaigns or expenses
- direct social services
- legal defense or litigation
- lobbying or electoral campaigns
- projects geared toward participants’ personal improvement or business success
- conflict resolution or violence reduction projects, unless they directly promote activism
- projects that will have already taken place by the time the grant is received
How to Apply
Applicants must download preliminary application form available on the given website and submit in a prescribed format via email.
For more information, please visit Social Justice Fund.