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REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS
Let Us Breathe Fund Grants
North Star Fund’s Let Us Breathe Fund supports Black-led organizations engaging in grassroots organizing—the process of building collective power—in New York City and the Hudson Valley. Grassroots organizing seeks not only the transformation of individual lives, but the undoing of systemic racism, including specific laws and institutional policies that create inequities.
Mobilize Power Fund - Next Deadline May 7
The Mobilize Power Fund, part of Third Wave Fund, is a rapid response fund that resources gender justice organizations to adapt or pivot their work when met with unanticipated, time-sensitive opportunities or threats to their movement building work and organizing conditions.
Disability Inclusion Fund Grant Opportunity
The Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) of Borealis Philanthropy supports U.S.-based groups led by people with disabilities, disabled people of color, disabled queer and trans folks, building a more liberatory world free from ableism.
WEBINARS, TRAININGS, AND BRIEFINGS
Grantmaking for Disability: LGBTQIA+ Funding
In this webinar hosted by the Disability & Philanthropy Forum, learn why it's crucial for philanthropy to fund disabled LGBTQIA+ communities—and how to get started. Shaena Johnson, Funders for LGBTQ Issues' Interim Out in the South Project Director, will be a panelist.
Funder Organizing Intensive
Registration is now open for a Funder Organizing Intensive conducted by Funders for Justice. The Intensive aims to introduce and equip emerging philanthropic leaders with the knowledge and tools necessary to advance equitable and just philanthropic practices that are in alignment with BIPOC-led movements to end criminalization. Prior participation in an FFJ program is a prerequisite for joining this cohort.
RESEARCH, RESOURCES, AND UPDATES
Funding Nonprofit Endowments: Foundation Perspectives and Practices
Fewer than a third of foundations fund nonprofit endowments, according to new research by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), and for those that do, these grants represent a small fraction of their giving. While in recent years endowment giving has been championed as a way to advance equity, CEP’s new research finds that for those foundations that do fund endowments, advancing equity is not their primary consideration.
Reevaluating Practice: Reimagining Philanthropy
The Edward W. Hazen Foundation culminates its sunset with a final message to philanthropy co-created with its nonprofit partners across the country. The report “Reevaluating Practice: Reimagining Philanthropy” shares a call by grassroots organizers for alliances with funders that enable a more effective and sustainable movement for social justice.
How Movement-Accountable Intermediaries Can Change Philanthropy
Leaders of several intermediary organizations, including Funders' Board Member Aldita Amaru Gallardo, share how they envision their role within—and how they ultimately hope to upend—the philanthropic landscape.
Resonance: A Just Transition Guide for Philanthropic Transformation
In the second edition of this guide, Justice Funders translates the Just Transition Framework for philanthropic audiences, offering a historical review of how the field of philanthropy arrived at where we are today. They also offer the updated framework that centers on strategic questions, utilizing appreciative inquiry to guide philanthropic institutions in developing more restorative practices.
Insights and Action for U.S. LGBTQ+ Women: National Survey Results
In 2019, U.S. LGBTQ+ movement veterans set out on a groundbreaking mission to uncover and bring to light the experiences of the full spectrum of LGBTQ+ women through the National LGBTQ+ Women’s Community Survey. Arcus Foundation shares the first results here.
LGBT Adults’ Experiences with Discrimination and Health Care Disparities: Findings from the KFF Survey of Racism, Discrimination, and Health
This research report by Alex Montero, Liz Hamel, Samantha Artiga, and Lindsey Dawson, is based on analysis of KFF’s 2023 Racism, Discrimination, and Health Survey and focuses on LGBT adults’ experiences with discrimination in their daily lives and in health care settings in addition to experiences with severe mental health crises, homelessness, well-being and stress, and experiences accessing mental health care.
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