January 2022
Looking Back and Visioning Ahead:
Celebrating PDF's New Funding Circle
As PDF enters this new year, it's a great time to look back at what was accomplished in 2021 and look at what's ahead in 2022, including the first iteration of PDF's New Funding Circle! PDF is deeply grateful for your support in 2021, for continuing to invest in community organizing and grassroots power. Thank you for making our work possible.

PDF's 40th Anniversary Highlights include:


  • Launching a grantmaking initiative to empower youth organizers, our New Funding Circle!


  • A series of online events, which can all be viewed at the links below:


  • A Cross-Generational Conversation on PDF and the Movement and the Premiere of PDF's 40th Anniversary Short Film - Part 1 and Part 2

PDF's New Funding Circle
Empowers Youth Organizers
In addition to PDF's annual Community Organizing Grants and the De Colores Rapid Response Fund, PDF is thrilled to be launching a new grantmaking initiative this year.

The New Funding Circle will be a participatory grantmaking model, with youth organizers from across the country serving on the advisory board and directing $40,000 in grant resources to U.S.-based grassroots organizations.

This New Funding Circle builds on PDF's longtime recognition of young people’s role in reshaping our society politically, economically, and culturally, and their essential role in building power to create social change. Stay tuned for more updates on this new initiative!
Welcome to New Fiscally-Sponsored Projects
PDF's Fiscal Sponsorship Program continues to grow as new grassroots groups benefit from the administrative support and handling of incoming donations, technical assistance and coaching from PDF staff, and our rich experience in social justice philanthropy.
Please join us in welcoming the following organizations:

Mission Statement: We amplify the collective power of readers, writers, and other artists to alchemize dreaming and build capacity in movements for liberation, justice, and survival.

Mission Statement: Decarcerate WMass Bailout Project is committed to posting bail for individuals without judgment in respect to their charges. We are committed to decarceration as a means towards abolition, to ending the incarceration of women and girls in Massachusetts, and to ending the use of bail as a means for detaining community members who cannot afford to secure their freedom.

Mission Statement: A podcast about women breaking barriers, working for positive change, and becoming galvanized along the way. We capture and amplify the stories and wisdom generated by progressive leaders and change-makers.

Mission Statement: Latino y Sano! is a non-profit organization of agents for social change with a mission to provide mental health resources and psychoeducation to dismantle the stigma of mental health care in the Latino diaspora.

Mission Statement: Lighthouse Foundation of Chicagoland is a Black Queer-led, multiracial social justice organization that advances justice for Black LGBTQ+ people across Chicagoland through empowerment, education, and entertainment.

Mission Statement: Think Again helps organizations and communities enact social justice principles.
Building It Together (Above)
New Haven, CT
A Fiscally-Sponsored Project since May, 2021


Thank you for your support.