The New York Foundation is accepting applications for its Core Grants.
Donor Name: New York Foundation
State: New York
City: New York City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $45,000
Details:
In addition to funds, grants include access to capacity building resources:
- Community Resource Exchange
- One-on-one support to build sustainable, mission-driven organizations
- Lawyers Alliance for New York
- Probono legal services tailored to social change nonprofits
- Workshops
- Monthly skills-building trainings combined with coaching
- Summer Intern in Community Organizing
- Funds to hire a youth intern, bringing on additional capacity while building the pipeline for organizing in New York City
Priorities
They prioritize groups that:
- Are led by:
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- Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color
- Trans and c-nonconforming, and nonbinary people
- Trans and cis women
- Proactively center racial, economic, and gender justice
- Are emerging or newly formed organizations, especially those with limited access to institutional funding
- Work with overlooked and under resourced constituencies or neighborhoods, or on critical social justice issues that have not yet received public attention
Funding Information
New York Foundation Core Grants are $45,000 per year, up to 3 years for established groups and 5 years for emerging groups.
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 & grassroots advocacy as primary strategies to address the root causes of oppression
Community organizing: They define community 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.
Grassroots advocacy: They define grassroots advocacy as a strategy carried out by those directly affected that rallies public action to create equitable policies.
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
For more information, visit Core Grants.