The Consumer Products Fund helps consumers understand product labeling, marketing, advertising and product performance claims; the potential personal and environmental health impacts of product ingredients; and to promote truth-in-advertising and also truth-in-labeling with required warnings and disclosures
Donor Name: Rose Foundation
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/03/2023
Size of the Grant: $150,000
Details:
Over the past several years, this fund has supported projects that promote truth-telling and consumer understanding regarding product ingredients and performance to protect people’s rights, health, and safety.
Funding Information
- The maximum allowable grant request for the 2023 grants opportunity is $150,000.
- There will be additional grants opportunities after this opening grant round.
- Multi-year projects are allowed.
Eligible Projects and Activities
- Proposals must primarily support and enhance consumer rights or consumer education, and projects that focus on consumer products or consumer technology are especially encouraged.
- Only proposals designed to advance consumer rights or consumer education in the State of California are eligible for funding. However, proposals seeking general support, or which are conducted nationally or across multiple states are also eligible if the applicant can clearly articulate how the project specifically benefits Californians.
- Eligible proposals may include, but not be limited to, the following issues or focus areas:
- Educating consumers about any consumer rights in California. However, projects focused on rights under warranty or other consumer products issues will be given priority, including exercising rights around product performance, making claims under warranty, or education surrounding product advertising and marketing claims.
- Law clinics or classes which train law students in consumer rights issues.
- Promotion of best practices in transparency and accuracy related to marketing and performance claims of consumer products.
- Policy and/or regulatory development and implementation, including related research. However, project proponents must articulate an action component describing how any research activities will be used to advance protections and improvements around consumer products.
- General support for organizations that are primarily or wholly dedicated to advancing consumer product rights or consumer education in California.
- Educational projects are encouraged to focus on specific goals and/or sectors of the general public and should articulate at least some level of immediate outcomes which are achievable within the grant period.
- Projects which create educational materials (guides, videos, worksheets, websites, etc.) should clearly state the existing need for the resource, why it is not duplicative of existing resources, why you think your resource would be effective, and a plan to distribute the resource to its intended audience.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicant must meet all the following criteria in order to qualify for this fund:
- Applicants must demonstrate expertise in consumer rights or consumer education, especially related to consumer products or consumer technology.
- The applicant must be a 501(c) (3) nonprofit or be fiscally sponsored by a 501(c) (3) nonprofit. Nonprofit colleges, universities, university clinics and graduate programs are eligible to apply, but university overhead is limited to 5% of grant award.
- An applicant’s principal place of business must be within the United States.
- Only one application per organization will be considered.
For more information, visit Rose Foundation.
