Community care is the antidote for isolation, exploitation, and oppression. For queer and trans people, there are infinite possibilities for how we protect and care for each other—and Community Care Fund supports collective efforts to practice that care.
Donor Name: Pride Foundation
State: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/15/2022
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Details:
Examples of community care include, but are not limited to:
- Mutual aid and financial relief
- Community organizing, policy advocacy, political education and mobilization
- Gifts cards & stipends for community members
- Access to housing, transportation & health care i.e. rent support, mental health, gender affirming care & abortion access
- Opportunities for rest, grieving, healing, play, pleasure, and joy
- Bringing community together though virtual and in person events
- Protecting people from violence, criminalization, incarceration, detention, and deportation e.g. bail and legal fees
- Leadership and professional development, for topics ranging from herbalism to accounting
- Language access and justice i.e. captioning, interpretation and translation
- Food access and justice
- Land access and justice
- Conflict resolution, accountability and efforts to address trauma and harm
- Safety planning
- Disaster and crisis preparation and response
- Administrative and technological support for events, programs, and organizations (e.g. hardware, software & licensing)
Grant award priorities: who & what they fund
The foundation prioritizes funding queer, trans, and gender diverse organizations for and by Black, Brown, Indigenous and other Racialized Peoples (BBIRP).
They prioritize funding BBIRP-led LGBTQIA2S+ organizations that practice the following social justice values. They don’t expect organizations to practice all of these values, and they hope to learn more about what’s important to you:
- Racial justice
- Anti-colorism
- Gender Justice
- Feminism
- Disability Justice
- Reproductive Justice
- Fat Liberation
- Prison Abolition
- Transformative Justice
- Economic Justice and anti-capitalism
- Healing Justice
- Climate & Environmental Justice
- Housing Justice
- Immigration Justice
- Anti-imperialism and anti-militarism
- Decolonization
- Anti-ageism
They prioritize BBIRP-led LGBTQIA2S+ organizations for and by the following people. They don’t expect organizations to have every identity present, they are excited to learn more about your communities:
- People living with HIV/AIDS
- People discriminated by colorism
- Queer people
- Trans people
- Non-binary, Two-Spirit, and Gender Expansive People
- Women and people discriminated by misogyny and patriarchy
- People with disabilities
- People targeted by sizeism and fatphobia
- People who are targeted by law enforcement, incarcerated, and criminalized
- People whose livelihoods are criminalized e.g. sex work
- People exploited and harmed by capitalism
- People harmed by climate change and disasters
- People harmed by pollution, resource extraction, and land appropriation
- People experiencing houselessness and housing instability
- Immigrants
- Refugees
- People exploited and harmed by militarism, imperialism, and nationalism
- People exploited and harmed by colonization
- Youth
- Elders
Funding Information
Award amounts are generally no less than $10,000; however, if you want less than that, they can honor your request!
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations whose work is focused on supporting LGBTQIA2S+ communities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington
- Organizations with 501c3 status or are fiscally sponsored
- Organizations with equal or less than $750,000 budget or
- organizations with less than 5 staff (doesn’t have to be both); if you’re fiscally sponsored, the budget we consider is your group’s own budget not your fiscal sponsors.
For more information, visit Pride Foundation.
