Deadline: 2-Dec-22
The Circle for Justice Innovations (CJI) is seeking applications for its Strategic Opportunities Support (SOS) Rapid Response Fund.
The Strategic Opportunities Support Rapid Response Fund (SOS Fund) is a funding mechanism that issues micro-grants to eligible organizations addressing critically urgent strategic organizing and advocacy calls to action and meeting emergency needs in their communities.
What does the Fund Support?
- The Strategic Opportunities Support Rapid Response Fund supports:
- Responses to cases of state violence (police brutality or violence from other agents of law enforcement, ICE raids, etc.)
- Creation of community-based initiatives for alternatives to policing and incarceration
- Organizing against incidents of white supremacist/fascist aggression
- Work to halt policies that expand the criminalization and/or incarceration of marginalized groups, as well as those that aim to limit constitutionally protected activities
- Work to promote policies that protect, restore or expand protections for and rights of formerly incarcerated peoples, especially voting rights
- Responses to disasters that impact an organization’s ability to carry out their criminal justice work and/or that pose a direct threat to incarcerated people
- Advocacy and organizing for an appropriate and just response to COVID-19 such as compassionate release (funding is not offered for PPE supplies)
- Inclusion and/or participation of underrepresented communities or formerly incarcerated people and directly impacted families in movement and policy convenings
- Healing justice work
Funding Information
- Amount: up to $5,000
Ineligible
- They do not fund projects of the kind listed below:
- Annual fundraising drives, galas, or other development activities
- Projects are undertaken by individuals
- Capital costs, including real estate purchases or renovations
- Organizations operating in isolation and not working in a community with others
- Healing work that is not connected to organizing or the movement
- Direct services, such as housing, provision of clothes, shelter, food, etc., or standalone legal services divorced from movement work
For more information, visit https://www.cjifund.org/apply-for-grants