Thanks to supporters like you PDF's 2020 Community Organizing Grantees are mobilizing their communities to participate in the upcoming election and are making a difference in some of the key battleground states. Nation Outside: The Voice of the Formerly Incarcerated is based in Michigan and organizes to increase civic engagement of people impacted by the justice system.

Director Troy Reinstra underscored the “power of grassroots organizing,” particularly in a critical election year, saying, “There are three million people in Michigan who have been involved with the justice system, if we can tap into 10% of that, we can move the state.” 

A Donor Advised Fund is a giving vehicle established at a public charity. DAFs allow donors to make a charitable contribution, receive an immediate tax deduction and then make grant recommendations over time. A Donor Advised Fund is straight forward to establish and manage at PDF, and grants can be anonymously. We provide 40 years of grantmaking experience in funding specific issues or communities. PDF carries out any needed research, ensures the reporting, and manages the government’s requirements while you work with PDF staff to make grant recommendations.

Through his DAF, The Babson 2020 Fund, Jamie Babson supports Indigenous rights organizations and projects, including the Nolumbeka Project in Massachusetts and

The Crow Language Consortium in Montana.

PDF has a top rating from Charity Navigator and Forbes Magazine highlighted PDF in its article “How to Find the Right Donor Advised Fund (And Why).” For more information on Donor Advised Funds, call or email Delia Kovac at 413-256-8306.

Did you know that the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act provided increased tax incentives for charitable giving? There is a new charitable deduction available to individual taxpayers that do not itemize their deductions, which allows for a charitable deduction of up to $300 per individual. Find out about other incentives by clicking here or emailing PDF Foundation Officer, Delia Kovac.

Matahari Womens Workers' Center is a Boston-based organization "Where women of color, immigrant women, and families come together as sisters, workers, and survivors to make improvements in ourselves and society and work towards justice and human rights. Our goal is to end gender-based violence and exploitation."

Matahari had this to say of the grant from a DAF at PDF, "Funding for an organization led primarily by queer women of color under 35 by a funder who shares our values is a rare and powerful opportunity. It supports personnel salaries and office rental costs, which are a stabilizing force, and allow us to respond to crises and opportunities, build internal and external capacity, and contributes to sustainability, leadership development, and staff retention."

Join PDF for two roundtable discussions with several of our 2020 Community Organizing Grantees from across the country. This dialogue will bring together community organizers working on different issues and will highlight some of the successes and challenges facing organizers in the movement today. Register by clicking here.

Applications open for the 2020 PDF Community Organizing grant cycle. They are due December 30, 2019. Read more about it here.

#GivingTuesday is an international day of charitable giving. Please support PDF’s goal of raising $5,000 for our Community Organizing Grants cycle. Your support will provide grants to grassroots organizations working toward peace, justice and lasting systemic change in their community.