New York Foundation makes core grants of $45,000, renewable for up to 3 years for established groups and 5 years for emerging organizations.
Donor Name: New York Foundation
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/01/2022
Size of the Grant: $45,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The New York Foundation is a steadfast supporter of community organizing and advocacy. In the ongoing struggle for equity, the Foundation supports grassroots initiatives that confront systemic barriers and inspire people to work toward a more just and inclusive city.
What they look for
- Community-initiated and led: community, membership, or base identifies problems and solutions
- Power building: intentionally build community power through political activation, leadership development, base building, and collective action
- Systemic change: address the root causes of oppression to ensure the equitable distribution of resources, power, and rights
- Racial justice: address the harms caused by systemic and historical racism; creates intentional systems to support and sustain racial equity
- Collaborative: build alignment through coalition work with allies that have similar goals and values
They prioritize groups that
- Are led by: Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color Trans and gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people Trans and cis women
- Proactively center racial, economic, and gender justice
- Work with overlooked and under resourced constituencies or neighborhoods, or on critical social justice issues that have not yet received public attention
- Emerging or newly formed organizations, especially those with limited access to institutional funding
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible for funding from the New York Foundation, your organization must:
- Be based in NYC
- Be a 501(c)(3) organization or fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) organization
- Use community organizing and grassroots advocacy as primary strategies to address the root causes of oppression
- They define organizing as community-initiated and -led mobilization that builds power for progressive social and systemic change. Organizing groups are accountable to their community and help to hold public officials accountable. Organizing strives to create the conditions that allow people to choose how to live their lives with dignity and with the support and resources to thrive.
- They define grassroots advocacy as a strategy carried out by those directly affected that rallies public action to create equitable policies.
For more information, visit New York Foundation.