Deadline: 01-Mar-22
Applications are now open for the Life Comes From It Small Grants to support grassroots movement-building in restorative justice, transformative justice, indigenous peacemaking, and land-based healing, with work rooted in lived experience and relationships.
The Life Comes From It seeks to grow the movement for adopting restorative, transformative, and peacemaking practices throughout the society. They have come together around a shared vision of addressing harm through community solutions, without reliance on incarceration and punitive systems.
Life Comes From It aims to strengthen the foundation of restorative, transformative, and peacemaking practices led by people of color.
Funding Information
Life Comes From It makes small grants of $2,500–$25,000 to organizations.
Eligibility Criteria
- To receive a grant, you need to be a 501c3 organization or be fiscally sponsored by a 501c3. If you are neither, they can help connect you to fiscal sponsors. Organizations must be based in the United States.
- You can apply for a grant to support your organization’s work or to support a Network, Convenings and Collaborations that enhance movement building in restorative justice, transformative justice, indigenous peacemaking, land-based healing.
Funding Values & Criteria:
They aim to support projects, organizations and collaborations that embody these values:
- Commitment to working towards replacing criminalization and incarceration with alternative approaches to address violence and repair harm rooted in community solutions
- Prioritizing peacemaking development and indigenous initiatives led by Native people
- Rooting the work in the community’s own culture(s), language(s), place(s), faith(s), and belief system(s) so it reflects the people that engage in it
- Guided by the wisdom of people, families, and communities of color
- Commitment to anti-oppression practices
- Supporting the creation of new thinking and language that is holistic, intersectional, interdependent, and liberatory
- Promoting and sustaining collective leadership, collaboration and partnership
- Living the values of the work internally and externally to build community and heal harm within and against communities
- Intergenerational inclusivity—people of all generations: youth, adults, elders are encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit https://lifecomesfromit.submittable.com/submit
