Deadline: 30-Oct-22
The Pride Foundation is pleased to announce the Community Care Fund.
They prioritize funding queer and Trans organizations for and by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC) and QTBIPOC-led.
They prioritize funding QTBIPOC organizations that practice the following social justice values. They don’t expect organizations to practice all of these values, and they hope to learn more about what’s important to you:
- Racial justice
- Anti-colorism
- Gender Justice
- Feminism
- Disability Justice
- Reproductive Justice
- Fat Liberation
- Prison Abolition
- Transformative Justice
- Economic Justice and anti-capitalism
- Healing Justice
- Climate & Environmental Justice
- Housing Justice
- Immigration Justice
- Anti-imperialism and anti-militarism
- Decolonization
- Anti-ageism
- They prioritize QTBIPOC organizations for and by the following people. They don’t expect organizations to have every identity present, They are excited to learn more about your communities:
- People living with HIV/AIDS
- People discriminated by colorism
- Women and people discriminated by misogyny and patriarchy
- People with disabilities
- People targeted by sizeism and fatphobia
- People who are incarcerated and criminalized
- People whose livelihoods are criminalized e.g. sex work
- People exploited and harmed by capitalism e.g., low-wage workers
- People harmed by climate change and disasters
- People harmed by pollution, resource extraction, and land appropriation
- People experiencing houselessness and housing instability
- Immigrants
- Refugees
- People harmed by militarism, imperialism, and nationalism
- People harmed by colonization
- Youth
- Elders
Funding Information
- Award amounts are generally no less than $10,000
- They have allocated $551,000 for this grant to move from now until March 2023
The Foundation define “community care” as any effort to respond to community threats, harms, needs, hopes, and healing. They welcome your own definitions and practices of community care. Examples of community care include, but are not limited to:
- Mutual aid and financial relief
- Community organizing, policy advocacy, political education and mobilization
- Gifts cards & stipends for community members
- Access to housing, transportation & health care i.e. rent support, mental health, gender affirming care & abortion access
- Opportunities for rest, grieving, healing, play, pleasure, and joy
- Bringing community together though virtual and in person events
- Protecting people from violence, criminalization, incarceration, detention, and deportation e.g. bail and legal fees
- Leadership and professional development, for topics ranging from herbalism to accounting
- Language access and justice i.e. captioning, interpretation and translation
- Food access and justice
- Land access and justice
- Conflict resolution, accountability and efforts to address trauma and harm
- Safety planning
- Disaster and crisis preparation and response
- Administrative and technological support for events, programs, and organizations (e.g. hardware, software & licensing)
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations for and by QTBIPOC and QTBIPOC-led whose work is focused on supporting LGBTQIA2S+ communities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington
- Organizations with 501c3 status or are fiscally sponsored
- Organizations with equal or less than $750,000 budget or
- organizations with less than 5 staff (doesn’t have to be both); if you’re fiscally sponsored, the budget they consider is your group’s own budget not your fiscal sponsors
For more information, visit https://pridefoundation.org/find-funding/grants/community-care-fund/