The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation is accepting applications for its Grant Program to support nonprofits helping people and places move out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice.
Donor Name: Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
States: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): Ongoing
Details:
They look for the most promising opportunities to support power building work to advance racial equity and social and economic justice. A likely candidate for funding would align with the Foundation’s mission, vision and values and demonstrate the following characteristics:
- Accountability to low-wealth communities: Their grantee partners have meaningful connections with low-wealth people and are accountable to communities through their governance structures. These organizations have people of color and people directly affected by systems of oppression in leadership positions, including their boards of directors, steering committees and executive roles.
- Clear analysis and strategies: They look to partner with groups that have a clear analysis of how race and power are operating in a given context at a given moment. This analysis informs strategies for increasing impact, fostering trusting relationships with communities and leveraging political will to dismantle harmful systems and policies at the local, state, regional and/or institutional level.
- Networks, alliances and resources: They look to support goal-oriented, values-aligned networks to leverage resources, share strategies and achieve impact in ways that make sense in their places. These networks may be formal or informal, short-term or long-term, and structured in a variety of ways. They encourage networks that include both grassroots organizations and statewide or institutional partners.
- Long-term view: Change rarely happens overnight, particularly in the South. Their partners take a long-term view of what is needed to change systems and policies, build power, and advance social and economic justice and racial equity.
- Strategic and opportunistic: In addition to supporting long-term, patient systems change work, they aim to be nimble and responsive when the moment to act is now to improve the lives of people and communities.
The Foundation funds work that builds power to advance racial equity across an 11-state Southern footprint: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Eligibility Criteria
The Foundation invites proposals from local, statewide, regional and national nonprofits serving the South.
For more information, visit Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation.
