Future Fund for Emerging Groups or Organizations (Pennsylvania)

The Future Fund provides $5,000 grants to groups that are working on emerging issues or developing new approaches to social justice activism or community organizing.

Donor Name: Bread & Roses Community Fund

State: Pennsylvania

County: Philadelphia County/city (PA), Bucks County (PA), Chester County (PA), Delaware County (PA), Montgomery County (PA), Camden County

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/01/2022

Size of the Grant: $5,000

Details:

These groups may employ one or more effective strategies, such as cultural work, media advocacy, and political education.

Award size

The Future Fund makes $5,000 grants. Groups who have received grants from the Future Fund in the past may reapply in the following grant cycle.

Criteria

The Future Fund makes grants to groups that:

• Meet all basic eligibility criteria
  • Organizations must meet all of the following basic requirements to be eligible for a grant from Bread & Roses:
    • Must be located in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Camden counties
    • Must be designated by the IRS as a 501(c)3 organization or have a fiscal sponsor that is designated by the IRS as a 501(c)3 organization or have documentation of a pending 501(c)3 application with the IRS
    • Must be current with all progress reports from previously awarded Bread & Roses grants
    • Must submit a complete application prior to the deadline (because of the volume of applications we receive, we cannot make exceptions)
    • Must be using community organizing to create sustainable social change
  • Bread & Roses makes grants to organizations that have a long-term vision for social justice and engage in strategies that promote sustainable social change, including:
    • A focus on community organizing and activism (not social service, self-help, or educational programs)
    • A clear understanding of the root causes of the problem or issue that they are working to resolve
    • A vision that emphasizes changing the systems that create or perpetuate the problem or issue being addressed
    • A strategy that includes building a local base for taking collective action by the community affected by the problem or issue and results in concrete outcomes at the neighborhood, city, state or national level
    • Leadership that is primarily composed of people most affected by the problem or issue that is being addressed
  • Are new or emerging groups or organizations that are new to Bread & Roses
  • Are focusing on developing their capacity and skills to build a local base and take collective action against the problem being addressed
  • Are led by people most affected by injustice, and focus on building broad membership and leadership bases that can survive when key leaders step down
  • Understand power and can talk about how they are trying to challenge power imbalances within their organizations and in their communities as well as between community members and policy makers
  • Are less likely to be funded by more traditional funders, because of their commitment to challenging power and prioritizing the leadership of marginalized people; therefore, a grant from Bread & Roses would be critical to seeding or sustaining their work
  • Groups cannot receive grants from both the Future Fund and the Racial & Economic Justice Fund during the same year.

For more information, visit Future Fund.