Deadline: 10-Sep-21
The Horning Family Foundation (HFF) is seeking applications for its Racial Justice Initiative to support Black-led organizing and advocacy and to administer the process through a grant-making team made up primarily of members of the community.
The Racial Justice Initiative:
- Strengthens the infrastructure of Black-led organizing and advocacy by providing sustained long-term investment
- Centers those most affected by anti-Black racism by recognizing them as the experts in resolving the issue
- Advances the efforts of Black-led organizations to strengthen movements for individual and institutional change which build power, transform systems, and achieve racial justice and equity
What do they mean by Black-led, Advocacy, and Organizing?
- Black-Led: Has Black people in key leadership positions with significant decision-making power and develops and supports Black leadership. Ending anti-Black racism is central to the mission and strategies of the work (which necessarily includes strong Black leadership)
- Advocacy: A process of informing and influencing people to bring about a desired change in attitudes, policies, and systems that adversely impact a community of people. An advocacy group’s strategy is initiated from the lived experience of those impacted and involves a racial equity and racial justice analysis of the issue(s).
- Organizing: A democratically-led sustained process by which people come together to build and exercise their power and their leadership in order to collectively identify harmful conditions in their communities and pursue just solutions. They understand organizing to include racial equity and racial justice analysis, issue and/or policy campaigns, healing justice, and the holistic support of people engaged in movement work.
Funding Information
- Grant applications are now being accepted for the first round of five-year grants (totaling $2.5 million). Grant requests may range from $25,000 to $100,000 per year.
Eligibility Criteria
To apply for a grant, applicants must:
- Be a nonprofit organization with a 501(c)(3) designation by the IRS or have a fiscal sponsor. Organizations without a fiscal sponsor may apply for a grant, but must obtain a fiscal sponsor by September 17, 2021 in order to be considered for funding.
- Be Black-led as defined above and have a primary focus on system-level change through advocacy and organizing with Black communities.
- Work in relationship with people and communities located in: Washington DC, Maryland – Prince George’s and Montgomery County; Virginia – Alexandria, Arlington, or Fairfax County.
For more information, visit https://www.horningfamilyfund.org/rji