Deadline: 10-Sep-21
Applications are now open for the Mosaic’s Movement Infrastructure to supports people working to ensure clean air and water, a safe climate, healthy and just communities for all, and thriving natural systems.
By supporting movement infrastructure – vibrant connections and indispensable shared tools across the environmental field – Mosaic seeks to equip organizations and advocates to achieve the most important environmental victories.
In this second annual RFP, Mosaic will distribute $5M to fund projects that advance one or more of six types of field-wide movement infrastructure: communications, leadership development, advocacy tools & training, data & information, relationships & trust, and philanthropic innovation.
Projects must be collaborative by design, engage and benefit multiple stakeholders, and create shared tools that are widely beneficial to movement members as opposed to narrowly focused on one or a small number of organizations.
Focus Areas
- Communications: Regional and national communications initiatives that develop holistic, equitable, and effective meta-narratives, messages, and messengers across the movement.
- Leadership Development: BIPOC and other under-resourced community-focused initiatives (e.g., resourcing movement leaders, fellowships, mentorship programs, etc.) that tangibly develop and expand diverse leadership in the movement.
- Advocacy Tools & Training: Large-scale advocacy, organizing, and power-building training programs, including existing ones, that develop fieldwide, 21st-century advocacy capabilities.
- Data & Information: Initiatives that support data democratization and broader, equitable access to information about the field, environmental issues, and policy formulation that can build and diversify power.
- Relationships & Trust: Cross-issue networks & initiatives focused on developing shared trust and connection and/or building alignment across differences (e.g., BIPOC and other under-resourced community-focused initiatives & centered frameworks/initiatives, rural-urban engagement, etc.) to unlock new strategic possibilities.
- Philanthropic Innovation: Efforts that advance streamlined grantmaking processes, decentralized decision-making, and equitable funding across environmental philanthropy.
Funding Information
- Mosaic will distribute $5,000,000; grants will range between $25,000 and $500,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Mosaic will consider projects that are:
- Led by a 501c3 non-profit public charity organization or fiscal sponsor (including a collaboration of organizations led by a 501c3 non-profit);
- Based in and substantially focused on the United States, (including Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, and other US affiliated territories),
- Supportive of people and organizations who predominantly focus on healthy and just communities, clean air and water, a safe climate, the thriving natural systems , or other related environmental protection and justice topics, and
- Advancing field-wide connections and shared tools across their six focus areas that are widely beneficial to multiple organizations (as opposed to one or a small few).
For more information, visit https://mosaicmomentum.org/rfp2021/