Deadline: 9-May-22
The Children’s Rights Innovation Fund has announced a call for proposals decolonize! provides funding for new or existing groups, organizations or projects that address racism, colonialism and related issues.
They hope to fund any work that addresses racism and colonialism and is led by Black children and youth. That could mean work that addresses other issues as well, such as climate justice, or gender justice, or land rights, sexual and reproductive health, racial bullying, discrimination of any kind or arts and culture. They are also interested in funding a wide range of projects that can also include school-based organizing, public awareness campaigns, peer-to-peer learning spaces, or anything else you might be working on.
Funding Information
- CRIF is accepting proposals from Black children and youth activists for grants ranging between USD $500 and $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
They really want to support the ideas and dreams of Black child and youth activists. In an ideal world, if they had unlimited funding, they would support anyone who applied. They are unfortunately not able to do that, and so they thought carefully about who amongst are most exposed to risk and harm – those who are most vulnerable – as well as those who are ordinarily excluded from opportunities like these. With that in mind, they invite you to apply if you:
- Identify as an activist of Black, African, and/or African descent.
- Are between the ages of 13-27. They want to specially invite youth and child activists who are from the LGBTQ+ community, and those living with disabilities to apply.
- Are applying as a part of a group: – this group does not need to be legally registered but must be led and driven by young people.
- Core grants: A core grant is a fully flexible grant, intended to support the operations of your organization. They’re meant to support a group’s continued existence, and enable it to continue doing work it is already doing. If the application is for a core grant, the group must have been working together for at least 6 months, and must be able to show evidence of this as requested.
- Project based grants: A project based grant is a grant intended to support a specific project. These are not intended to support an organisation’s core operations, but instead are to support or enable the execution of a project. Applicants for project based grants do not necessarily need to have worked together previously, but the application must be submitted by a group of at least 3 individuals who intend to execute the project together
- Reside in rural areas, or vulnerable urban areas within the Americas (South, Central & North America and the Caribbean), or West Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte D’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo). Because they want to ensure that those among them who are most at risk, or least likely to have grant opportunities are included, they especially invite persons from migrant and/or otherwise displaced communities to apply.
- Are in some way affiliated with a community-based or social movement organization or organized group that supports Black, African & African descent children, and youth. This could mean that you are employed by the organisation, you volunteer with them or that you have joined with them in support of their work for at least six (6) months in total. The organisation should be able to confirm your relationship to them, if asked.
For more information, visit https://crifund.org/decolonize-call-for-proposals-2022/