The Strategic Opportunity Support (SOS) Fund is designed to enable bold, strategic, real-time actions to counter ongoing attacks on people most targeted by mass incarceration and state violence.
Donor Name: Circle for Justice Innovations (CJI)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Circle for Justice Innovations (CJI) has launched the Strategic Opportunities for Support (SOS) Fund —a rapid-response resource for grassroots organizations confronting the immediate harms of the current political landscape.
Funding Information
Organizations with budgets under $750,000.00.
Uses of Funds
The SOS Fund supports efforts such as: (not limited to)
- Rapid response to new political or legislative threats that escalate criminalization, surveillance, or incarceration;
- Organizing to protect constitutionally protected activity, including protest, assembly, and mutual aid;
- Actions that expose, resist, or halt state-led violence or expansions of carceral systems (e.g. new jails, surveillance programs, or immigration enforcement tactics);
- Work that advances restorative and transformative justice practices as alternatives to punishment and confinement;
- Movement-building events and activities that:
- Deepen cross-community solidarity, coordination and gathering,
- Center healing, care, and resilience among frontline organizers and directly impacted people,
- Invest in leadership development for those most harmed by systems of oppression.
- Narrative building and shifting for this moment,
- Know Your Rights education, training and production
- In this moment, they need bold resistance — but also radical care, visionary strategy, and collective endurance. The SOS Fund is a resource to help make that possible.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for an SOS Grant, organizations must:
- Be led by formerly incarcerated and/or directly impacted people
- Propose work that is responsive to current events or threats
- Be a 501(c)(3) organization or be fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) organization with a MOU.
For more information, visit CJI.
