The Boston Women’s Fund (BWF) is accepting nominations for its 2025 Movement Building Grants.
Donor Name: Boston Women’s Fund (BWF)
State: Massachusetts
City/Town: Selected Cities and Towns
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/28/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
With the leadership of the Allocations Committee, the Boston Women’s Fund will award three early-stage grassroots organizations in the Greater Boston area with a one-year, unrestricted $25,000 grant to support their movement building work advancing immigrant justice.
Funding Priorities
This year, BWF and its Allocations Committee will prioritize organizations that are doing immigrant justice work.
BWF looks to the expertise of organizations doing immigrant justice work in their communities and at larger-scales. Immigration Justice Campaign defines immigrant justice work as “protecting and advocating for the human rights and dignity of immigrants, migrants, and refugees and addressing the inequities of the immigration system.
BWF also believes immigrant justice work includes, but is not limited to
- ensuring human rights protections for families and community members
- building power among local immigrant and refugee communities
- working to dismantle systems of exploitation of refugee, migrant, and immigrant workers
- providing legal, social, and/or economic resources to immigrants and refugees.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for BWF’s 2025 Movement Building grants:
- Organizations must have a 501(c)(3) federal tax-exempt status or a fiscal agent with that status.
- Organizations must have a general operating budget less than or equal to $500,000.
- Organizations must be directed and run by and for women, girls, and/or gender-expansive communities.
- Organizations must be located in and serve the Greater Boston Area.
- Organization’s board of directors must be at least 60% women, girls, and/or gender-expansive.
- Organization’s leadership (board and staff) and decision-makers of the organization or project must be reflective of the groups (race, age, class, and/or sexual orientation) most affected by their work.
- Organizations must be doing immigrant justice work.
For more information, visit BWF.
