Deadline: 19 August 2020
The Social Justice Fund has announced the Eradicating Anti-Blackness & Covid Recovery Grant Program.
Social Justice Fund is offering this grant to move necessary financial resources to organizers addressing the short-term impacts of COVID-19 and planning for the long haul. They are excited to fund organizations that serve Black, Indigenous, Pacific Islander folks, and other communities who do not typically receive as much funding from philanthropy as others.
It is especially important for them to support organizations that are not just working against the current system but also imagining and building a new world that centers the joy, safety, and success of historically marginalized people.
Addressing the short and long-term impacts of COVID-19 could include:
- Mobilizing against prisons and the criminalization of BIPOC
- Working to end anti-Black violence, ending surveillance of communities
- Organizing led by Black trans women
- Creating cooperative economics systems
- Organizing for health systems & health care
- Building food sovereignty, establishing land trusts, collective housing
- Teaching and learning decolonized medical practices
- Building up civic engagement in Black, Indigenous, and POC communities
- Renters rights
- Supporting worker’s rights and worker organizing
Funding Information
- Expected grant amount: $15,000/year for two years. Total of $30,000
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for any Social Justice Fund NW grant, an organization or project must:
- Be an organized group of people (they do not fund individuals).
- If your organization is a nonprofit with 501(c)3 or 501(c)4 status as determined by the IRS, or be a federally recognized American Indian tribal government or agency OR is fiscally sponsored by 501(c)3 or 501(c)4 organizations or by federally recognized tribal governments, you can apply.
- If your organization is not incorporated or fiscally sponsored, you can still apply, but you must speak with SJF program staff first.
- Use a community organizing approach
- Be led by people who are most directly affected by the problems that the organization or project is addressing.
- Carry out most of its work in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and/or Wyoming.
- Satisfy evaluation requirements for any previous Social Justice Fund grants.
For more information, visit https://socialjusticefund.org/announcing-the-eradicating-anti-blackness-covid-recovery-grant/