Deadline: 01-Mar-2025
The Clif Family Foundation is pleased to announce the Open Call Grant Program to support general operating cost or specific projects.
Priorities
- Regenerative and Organic Farming
- Accelerate the adoption of regenerative farming practices, including organic, climate-resilient, equitable, and agroecological approaches.
- Food Production Workers’ Health and Safety
- Amplify efforts to secure healthy, safe, just, and empowering working and living conditions for food production workers.
- Climate Justice
- Expand community-centered solutions to climate change that build resilience and empower those who have been historically marginalized.
- Healthy Food Access
- Advance food systems’ changes that make healthy and sustainably produced food accessible, affordable, and culturally appropriate.
- Inclusive Outdoor Access
- Catalyze solutions that expand access to safe places to enable healthy physical activity and improve mental health.
- Indoors and Outdoors Safe from Pollution
- Promote preventative health approaches by identifying and eliminating toxics from the air, water, soil, and human-made materials.
Funding Information
- Typical grants range from $5,000 – $50,000 and last for one year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be registered as (or fiscally sponsored by) a 501(c)3 organization.
- Priority is given to applicants that:
- Advance the strategic priorities and align with the values
- Focus their work primarily in the United States and its organized incorporated territories
- Demonstrate strong community ties
- Have operating budgets under $3MM
- Operate at the grassroots level to implement change at the local, state or national stage
Ineligibility Criteria
- Areas not funded
- Capital construction
- (construction, demolition, renovation, or renewal of a public building)
- Deficit funding
- Endowments
- Faith-based or religious organizations
- Fundraising events (e.g., fun run, challenges, annual gala)
- Individuals
- Local and state public sector or government agencies
For more information, visit Clif Family Foundation.