Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color

Autistic People of Color Fund is based in the nation currently known as the United States, though the reach is global.

Donor Name: Autistic People of Color Fund

Country: All Countries

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: Ongoing

Details:

The Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence, Survival, and Empowerment practices redistributive justice and mutual aid by returning and sharing money directly to and with autistic people of color. They provide microgrants to Black, Brown, Native, Asian, and mixed-race people in the autistic community for survival, organizing, leisure, and pleasure.

They are committed to the principles of Disability Justice, including leadership by those most impacted, intersectionality, anti-capitalist politic, cross-movement solidarity, interdependence, collective access, and collective liberation. The work is grounded in commitment to ending extractive economies and building and sustaining generative economies.

Criteria

• First and foremost, this fund is meant for autistic people of color applying for themselves – autistic youth of color and autistic adults of color.
• This fund is for autistic people of color, not for parents, caregivers, or family members.
• They also receive many inquiries from parents or caregivers of autistic children who’d like to apply for help with their child. Sometimes, they do approve applications sent by parents/caregivers on behalf of autistic people of color. Please note this important information if you are a parent/caregiver:
  • The fund gives money to be used for the autistic person of color, no matter who helps with the application. They strongly prefer applications that emphasize the autistic person’s individual wants, needs, desires, preferences, choices, and interests. For example, they’d love to know if your child wants help with math tutoring, is interested in art, wants to learn a sport, or loves bouncing on trampolines.
  • They sometimes approve applications for help for a child’s therapy, but only if this is therapy that the child actually wants. They never approve applications to pay for ABA because the community widely understands ABA to be abusive and unhelpful.
  • If you are applying for help with things affecting your whole family (e.g. rent, groceries, utility bills), they will still consider this application, since children rely on their parents to take care of necessities like rent and bills.
  • If you have more than one autistic child in your family, and you are applying for household help (e.g. rent, bills, etc.), they will consider your children as part of a single application for the family.
  • If you are applying for help for yourself as a parent/caregiver, you will not be eligible. For example, if you are looking for funds to give yourself a respite day from childcare, this would not be an eligible request. On the other hand, if you are looking for funds so your autistic child can have a weekend respite from family, then this would be an eligible request.

For more information, visit Autistic People of Color Fund.