Deadline: 29-May-24
The Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) at Borealis Philanthropy is currently accepting applications from organizations working to strengthen disability inclusion, rights, and justice.
Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) grants will support organizations whose work is rooted in intersectional cross-movements, is collaborative, and works to build a more vibrant, just and joyful world for people with disabilities—from arts and culture, to policy and advocacy.
The Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) supports U.S.-based groups led by people with disabilities, disabled people of color, disabled queer and trans folks, building a more liberatory world free from ableism. The Fund is supported by donors including the Presidents’ Council on Disability Inclusion in Philanthropy, which is comprised of foundation presidents who are committed to disability inclusion.
Funding Information
- Successful applicants will receive $75,000 per year totaling $150,000.
- This funding opportunity will provide two-year grants.
What they Fund?
- They will prioritize funding organizations that meet the following criteria:
- Organizations that are disability-led with priority towards Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC), queer and gender non-conforming, and women disability-led organizations. They define ‘disability-led’ as the leadership in your organization are people with disabilities, including more than 50% of the organization’s management staff/advisory committees/governing boards.
- Work that engages other social movements and injustices for examples: The movement for Black lives, climate change, immigration rights, labor rights, racial justice, queer and trans liberation, etc.
- Work that brings other organizations, leaders, movements, and communities together to build power through relationships, coalitions and opportunities for collaboration.
- Work that drives narrative change in ways that dismantle ableism and attitudinal barriers in the policy, society, and culture.
- Strategies that celebrate, create, and elevate uplifting the authentic representation of disabled people in the arts, media, literature, and other creative works.
- Work that moves practices of disability inclusion and disability justice forward. Examples of this work include community organizing, mutual aid, advocacy, and/or policy work.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organization’s annual budget with committed revenue is less than $1 million.
- Your organization must be U.S-based or U.S. territory-based 501(c)3 or be fiscally sponsored.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Types of support they cannot provide:
- Organizations that are non-U.S-based or non-U.S. Territories
- Individuals
- Universities
- Hospitals
- For profit / LLCs
- Organizations or projects whose primary work is research. Organizations or projects that provide research are eligible only if their primary focus is in community organizing, advocacy, and/or policy work.
- Organizations or projects whose primary work is direct service (i.e., Personal Care Attendants, durable medical equipment, behavioral or medical care, employment supportive programs, or adaptive sports, etc.). Organizations or projects that provide direct services are eligible only if their primary focus is in community organizing, advocacy, or policy work.
For more information, visit Borealis Philanthropy.