The Story of Stuff Project is accepting applications for its Grassroots Grants program to support underfunded organizations and communities addressing a myriad of environmental and social justice issues, with a focus on fights over water privatization and plastic pollution
Donor Name: The Story of Stuff Project
Country: United States
State: All States
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): Ongoing
Grants Size: $5,000
Details:
They offer these partners financial resources, media infrastructure, and strategic planning and coalition building know-how needed to build winning campaigns. The Grassroots Grants Program is committed to equity and inclusion and prioritizes the funding of people of color, low-income, rural and women-led organizations.
They support projects that value local community involvement and organizing, creative interventions, strategic thinking, and both defensive “fight-back” and offensive solutions-focused projects.
Funding Information
- Since they launched, they have supported 70 grassroots groups with over $200,000 in funding. In 2022, their goal is to award $100,000.
- Grants do not exceed $5,000.
- They prioritize BIPOC led and serving groups with a budget of $50,000 or less, and focus on water privatization, plastic pollution, and other environmental justice focus areas.
Eligibility Criteria
To apply, groups must be led by and serving black, indigenous, and communities of color AND meet one or more of the following requirements:
- Project is campaign-focused, centering grassroots organizing, public education, training and/or capacity building that develops skills, increases awareness, and/or builds alliances.
- Project centers community-driven, strategic use of non-violent direct action that demonstrate local resistance to destructive environmental activities i.e. privatization of public water sources.
- Project amplifies community voices in regional, national and international forums and provide access to decision makers, funds to go toward travel and/or other related costs.
- Project leverages field studies and original research to hold companies accountable for their on-the-ground activities.
- Project supports growth for emerging grassroots organization i.e. seed money.
For more information, visit The Story of Stuff.