The Rose Foundation is seeking applications for its 2023 California Wildlands Grassroots Fund to support the heroic efforts of activists to preserve California’s wildlands
Donor Name: Rose Foundation
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $7,500
Details:
California is blessed with tremendous natural beauty, biological diversity and economic opportunity. Yet, our remaining wild land heritage is in jeopardy from poorly managed growth and development. Californians have long recognized the importance of preserving our spectacular and precious wild lands. The California Wild lands Grassroots Fund (Cal Wild lands) was established to support the heroic efforts of activists to preserve California’s wild lands.
Cal Wild lands supports conservationists advocating for the permanent protection, including restoration and stewardship, of intact wild lands on both public and private lands to help preserve California’s wilderness and native biological diversity.
Because of the complex network of agencies, stakeholders, processes, and programs that affect land and habitat issues in California, wild lands protection efforts are challenging. That is why the Cal Wild lands Fund provides a broad range of support for activists and organizations working to protect wild lands and habitat throughout the state. The Fund supports:
- Small nonprofit organizations with annual actual expenses and income of $150,000 or less.
- Individual activists (with a sponsoring organization) with a solid track record of protecting California’s natural landscapes, ecosystems, plants, and wildlife.
- Geographic areas and advocacy efforts that have not received significant foundation support.
Funding Information
- Typical grants range between $2,500-$6,000.
- Maximum grant is $7,500.
- If your organization’s actual annual income and expenses are $30,000 or less, we strongly encourage you to request a grant of $5000 or less.
- If your organization’s actual annual income and expenses are between $50,000-$150,000, you may request up to $7,500.
- Organizations seeking the maximum grant size of $7,500 must be able to articulate a clear project and budget that justifies the full grant.
Eligible Activities
- Communications campaigns (including mailings, web-based communications and social media, paid advertising, etc.).
- Strategic campaign planning and implementation
- Advocacy-related travel or other expenses
- Research Hiring technical, legal, or scientific experts or consultants
- Equipment purchase or rental training
- Conferences
- Retreats
- Monitoring
- Mapping and restoration and trail maintenance. Educational activities targeting legislators are allowable, but grant dollars may not be used for lobbying as defined by IRS 501(c) (3)
Funding Priorities
- Requests for discrete, project-specific support in which both the site and strategy are concrete and specific, e.g., saving the River Styx from hydroelectric development by getting stakeholders and community members to a hearing in Sacramento.
- Geographic or issue areas that have not received significant financial support in the past, including rural communities and other regions without easy access to financial and political support.
- Community-based advocacy and organizing efforts in which the campaign/project is steered by affected community members and interest groups.
- Effort is predominantly driven and staffed by volunteers.
- Project will establish or combat a critical precedent that will influence other wild lands protection efforts.
- Innovative strategies.
- Project seeks to build diverse constituencies for wild lands protection and engage non-traditional stakeholders, especially communities of color.
- Note: Individuals may apply for Cal Wildlands support, but must be affiliated with 501(c)(3) organization. Cal Wildlands cannot make grants directly to individuals.
For more information, visit Rose Foundation.
