Applications are now open for the Emergent Fund, a national rapid response fund created to explicitly support Black, Indigenous and People of Color-led (BIPOC) social justice movements.
Donor Name: Emergent Fund
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): Ongoing
Grant Size: $10,000-$30,000
Details:
From family separation, to Muslim bans to continued violence against Black communities, Emergent Fund grantees are BIPOC organizers and directly impacted communities responding to the biggest crises of their time by boldly fighting to build the world they all deserve.
Priorities
They prioritize grantees engaged in these activities:
- Coalitions/Alliances– multi-issue, multi-constituent alliances of social change groups led by and organized in communities of color
- Mobilization– groups mobilizing people for protest and resistance
- Organizing and Advocacy– groups engaged in organizing and advocacy, including: funding for public programs and services, creation of policies that protect their communities or defense against policies that harm their communities
- Healing, Inspiration, and Liberation– groups that bring people of color together for cultural and mental liberation, the individual and intra-communal level work that prepares people to resist
- Digital spaces and digital organizing– communication tools, or other tools to build digital resilience
Funding Information
There is no set grant size. They have ranged from $10,000-$30,000, depending on the scope of the project, the demands of the moment, and the expressed needs within each applicant pool.
Criteria
- There are two types of efforts they support, which distinguish an Emergent Fund grant from thousands of other worthy projects and organizations:
- Efforts that support emergent strategies that help communities respond to rapidly changing conditions. This includes resisting new or amplified threats and building power to move a proactive agenda.
- Efforts seeking long-term social justice and economic justice in a political and social climate that seeks to dismantle such efforts.
- Additional Considerations:
- Emergent work: New solutions responding to rapidly changing conditions in the current political environment
- Visionary and Power Building: Seeks transformational systemic changes rooted in social and economic justice. Develops community power through organizing and/or leadership development (including through new tools), direct action, and/or cultural work
- Leadership from impacted communities
- Intersectional Analysis: Engages multiple identities and multi-racial alliance building as core to theory of change
- Endorsed: Recommended by a member of the Nominations Network
- Right size of need: The level of Emergent Fund support is appropriate to the work
For more information, visit Emergent Fund.
