Deadline: 17-Sep-21
The Rose Foundation is offering Consumer Products Fund to help consumers understand product labeling, marketing, advertising and product performance claims; the potential personal and environmental health impacts of product ingredients; and to promote truth-in-advertising and also truth-in-labeling with required warnings and disclosures.
Over the past several years, this fund has supported projects that promote truth-telling and consumer understanding regarding product ingredients and performance to protect people’s rights, health, and safety.
Activities
- Proposals must primarily support and enhance consumer rights or consumer education, and projects that focus on consumer products or consumer technology are especially encouraged.
- Only proposals designed to advance consumer rights or consumer education in the State of California are eligible for funding. However, proposals seeking general support, or which are conducted nationally or across multiple states are also eligible if the applicant can clearly articulate how the project specifically benefits Californians.
- Eligible proposals may include, but not be limited to, the following issues or focus areas:
- Educating consumers about consumer rights, especially about their rights under warranty or other consumer products issues, including exercising rights around product performance, making claims under warranty, or education surrounding product advertising and marketing claims.
- Law clinics or classes which train law students in consumer rights issues.
- Promotion of best practices in transparency and accuracy related to marketing and performance claims.
- Policy and/or regulatory development and implementation, including related research. However, project proponents must articulate an action component describing how any research activities will be used to advance protections and improvements around consumer products.
- General support for organizations that are primarily or wholly dedicated to advancing consumer product rights or consumer education in California.
Funding Information
- The maximum allowable grant request is $150,000.
- Applicants are encouraged to seek funding for projects starting January 1st, 2022, or later.
- Award and decline notifications will be sent out in December 2021.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicant must meet all the following criteria in order to qualify for this fund:
- Applicants must demonstrate expertise in consumer rights or consumer education, especially related to consumer products or consumer technology.
- The applicant must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit or be fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Nonprofit colleges, universities, university clinics and graduate programs are eligible to apply, but university overhead is limited to 5% of grant award.
- An applicant’s principal place of business must be within the United States.
- Only one application per organization will be considered.
For more information, visit https://rosefdn.org/consumer-products-fund