Deadline: 23-May-23
Goodpush Alliance is excited to announce the 2023 Pushing Against Racism Fund, which aims to financially support and strengthen diversity and inclusion within the social skateboarding community worldwide.
Promoting Anti-Racist Leadership and Inclusion within Social Skateboarding.
Categories
- A total of 12 projects will be supported across two funding categories:
- Six “Continent grants” of $2000 – for larger, more established organizations (one project selected per continent)
- Six “Community grants” of $500 – for smaller or new projects (no geographic limitation)
Funding Information
- The Pushing Against Racism Fund will distribute a total of $15,000 USD in grants to support social skateboarding projects on six continents.
Why Does this Fund Exist?
- Access to funds is one of the top issues facing social skateboarding projects worldwide, particularly for smaller projects in low and middle income countries (LMICs) or poorer communities. On top of this, nonprofit organizations around the world continue to prop up institutional and structural racism. The leadership of many social skateboarding projects is mostly white — mirroring a trend in the wider nonprofit sector that has historically relied on unfair practices such as unpaid interns, volunteers, and centralizing positions of power in Western countries.
- To respond to these challenges, in 2022 the Pushing Against Racism working group created a fund to financially support greater diversity and inclusion within the social skateboarding community.
Essential Criteria
- Geography – Based in one of 6 eligible continents: Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America
- Commitment – Applicants must have signed on to the Commitment to Anti-Racism in Skateboarding.
- Registration – Applicants must be a registered nonprofit or have a partner nonprofit that funds can be sent to.
- Concept – Must show strong project concept involving skateboarding and the ability to carry it out between June 2023 – April 2024.
Guiding Criteria (what they are looking for in applications):
- Their priority is to support projects led by people of color or other ethnically disenfranchised groups.
- They will prioritize projects serving people of color and under-served communities (such as economically disadvantaged, immigrants, refugees), as well as those addressing intersectionality (gender, sexuality, race).
- Both one-off events (ie. public skatepark ‘takeovers’ or contests/festivals) and programs running as long as six-months are eligible. They will prioritize sustainable projects that have a potential of continuity.
- They are open to applicants who are new to skateboarding or who have less experience creating/running projects, however the project idea needs to be well thought-out and display commitment and motivation.
- The aim of the project should include one of the following elements:
- Improve physical and mental well-being of disenfranchised communities
- Promote greater racial equity in skateboarding
- Provide access to skateboarding in underserved communities
- Projects that feature additional social elements (like connecting participants to greater
- art/educational/leadership opportunities through skateboarding) are encouraged but this is not essential.
For more information, visit Pushing Against Racism Fund.