The Resist Foundation is seeking application for its grant for transformative justice by creating community-based alternatives to dehumanizing or inaccessible institutions and systems.
Donor Name: Resist Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/02/2022
Size of the Grant: up to $4,000
Grant Duration: 12 Months
Details:
Resist funds groups that:
- Resist: Groups that organize, base build, engage in direct action, and cultural organizing. Groups organize within communities for structural social and economic change. Groups develop tools for consciousness-raising, including popular education and radical pedagogy development.
- Re-imagine: Groups that actively build new systems that provide alternatives to the ones they are fighting now. These groups live into transformative justice by creating community-based alternatives to dehumanizing or inaccessible institutions and systems. This work might look like: alternatives to policing, urban gardens, cooperative childcare, etc.
- Build Resilience: Groups that are creating through arts and cultural work and all forms of creative resilience building. Groups that are healing through sacred resistance, sustainability, ritual, bodywork, and other embodied healing for communities engaged in the work of liberation.
Funding Information
- General Support Grants – up to $4,000
- Accessibility Grants – up to $4,000
- Rapid Response Grants – $1,000
- Groups can only be funded once per 12-month period.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible organizations must:
- Have an organizational budget under 150k per year,
- bee based in the US,
- Be led by those most impacted by intersecting systems of oppression,
- Be an organization with a 501(c)3 status as determined by the IRS,
- Be a federally recognized American Indian tribal government or agency or be sponsored by one of the above”.
- Groups that are aligned with Resist will fit most of the following criteria:
- Their work is located within an ecology of social justice organizations. They are aware of how their work fits into a greater whole. Work reflects a clear understanding of purpose and function within movements for social change
- Have an intersectional / cross-issue analysis
- Work actively against white and Christian supremacy, capitalism, gender, and sexual oppression, and all forms of patriarchy
- Are led by those most affected by structural oppression.
For more information, visit Resist Foundation.