Deadline: 4 October 2017
The NoVo Foundation is seeking Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) for its Radical Hope Fund to support efforts that are bold and imaginative, focused on building the required movements, with efforts that will springboard communities forward in this moment of both crisis and opportunity. This means that people must engage in strategies that are adaptive and that aim for transformation rather than solely incremental change.
In the spirit of boldness and imagination, the Radical Hope Fund will focus on supporting the following essential strategies for change:
- Bringing communities together for cross-issue, cross-sectoral organizing that centers feminist leadership, including but not limited to policy advocacy campaigns
- Global solidarity and transnational movement-building connecting issues and movements that are aligned in their purpose and vision
- Leveraging the power of media, culture, and the arts to engage in storytelling and share ideas, moving hearts and minds for change, including creating new strategic platforms and collaboration between artists/culture-makers and movement organizations
- Seeding experiments in building new structures and systems to propel us into a world that is oriented around interdependence, mutuality, and love rather than domination and extraction, with an emphasis on cultivating local, community-driven solutions
Funding Information
Total Project Budgets should be at least $250,000 per year. In the case of a single organization, project budgets should not exceed 33 percent of the organization’s total annual budget. In the case of some newly formed initiatives/coalitions/campaigns, the project budget may be the same as the total budget of the collaboration, but should not exceed 33 percent of the total combined organizational budgets.
Project Qualifications
- Not limited to any single issue or geographic area. Within the United States, efforts based in under-resourced parts of the country are encouraged to apply.
- Registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, 501(c)(3) equivalent organizations outside of the U.S., or any initiatives/groups/collaborations with a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, including current NoVo grantee partners, are welcome to submit a Letter of Inquiry. At this time, NoVo is unable to directly support individuals or other formations outside of nonprofit organizations.
- Funding will be allocated primarily as project support rather than core support to affirm organizations’ and collaborative efforts’ interest in being bolder and trying ventures that they otherwise would not be able to without dedicated funding.
- Current NoVo grantees are eligible to apply, but are encouraged to consider how this project support will enable them to engage in creative collaborations, bold new campaigns, or strategic experiments.
- Projects may produce immediate results on a 1- or 2-year timespan, but most grants will support reaching project goals over the next four years.
- Projects may include a planning phase, particularly if newly emerging collaborations/alliances are keys to the project objectives.
How to Apply
LOIs should be submitted online via given website.
For more information, please visit Radical Hope Fund.