Het Actiefonds Grants to support Social Movements and Action Groups

Deadline: Ongoing

The Het Actiefonds is accepting applications for its grant program to support activism that focuses on climate and various human and animal rights.

Themes

• Het Actiefonds supports a broad range of themes. Het Actiefonds do this because they believe that all these themes are connected and they can only achieve the goals if change happens in all aspects. Working together and intersectionality are indispensable in the fight for a better world.
  • Animal rights
  • Anti-dictatorial regimes
  • Antiracism
  • Civil rights
  • Climate
  • Feminism
  • Housing rights
  • Land rights
  • LGBTQIA+ rights
  • Migrant rights
  • Workers’ rights.

Funding Information

• The maximum grant size is €2,500 per project. The average grant size is between €750 and €2,000.

What they fund?

• Grassroots activist groups that strive for a sustainable and socially just world in which people and the environment are valued economic interests
• Direct actions, such as demonstrations, blockades, occupations, strikes, revolts, revolutions and other creative forms of (non-violent) confrontational protest
• Protests that pressure authoritarian and oppressive regimes, aiming for political change
• Politically controversial and radical projects that have difficulty finding funding elsewhere
• Protests that are part of a long term strategy aimed at systemic change.

Eligibility Criteria

• Anyone who is planning to organize a protest is eligible for the funding. However, while discussing your project they also check if the project is feasible, based on what experience and network the applicant has.

What they do not fund?

• Groups that try to exclude other progressive movements
• Conferences, seminars, workshops, debates or other meetings, unless they clearly aim to prepare for political direct actions
• Humanitarian projects, healthcare or emergency aid
• Campaigns or other educational projects that only focus on awareness raising or advocacy
• Micro-credit programs or income generating projects
• Structural organisational costs, like wages or rental costs
• Juridical procedures, unless these are part of a broader activist campaign
• Projects through third parties; they want to cooperate directly with the groups they support
• Individuals, political parties or religious organizations
• Projects with a total project budget of more than €20,000
• Het Actiefonds have a strong preference for organizations with an income of less than €100,000 per year.

For more information, visit Het Actiefonds.