The San Francisco Foundation is accepting applications for its Rapid Response Fund to support actions, protests, and other movement building strategies.
Donor Name: San Francisco Foundation
State: California
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/31/2022
Size of the Grant: $3,000–$20,000
Grant Duration: 6 months
Details:
The Rapid Response Fund for Movement Building provides quick-turnaround funds to frontline social justice organizations that are strengthening the voice and power of low-income residents and people of color. The fund offers grassroots organizations small, one-time grants within 30 days of receiving a funding request.
With the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the growing uprisings connected to the Movement for Black Lives, their Rapid Response Fund is looking to support eligible applications supporting the movement in the Bay Area during this critical time. While the Rapid Response Fund does not generally fund ongoing services, they will be accepting applications for legal services and support tied to protests at this time.
Priority will be given to:
- Requests from small organizations (budgets of $500,000 or less) and new grassroots efforts, including faith-based groups and fiscally sponsored projects.
- Projects that partner with other local organizations and community leaders who are doing complementary work.
- Projects aimed at supporting actions, protests, and other movement building strategies.
Grant size
One-time grants of $3,000–$20,000 for discrete projects.
Grant Duration
The project must be completed within six months of receiving the grant.
Projects must demonstrate the following to be eligible for funding:
- Timely and urgent
- Your organization must be responding to an unanticipated catalyzing event or urgent external challenge.
- Opportunity for immediate impact:
- The project is strategic with a clear timeline and goals, with the desired outcomes having the potential to positively affect the community right away.
- Clear focus on racial and/or economic equity
- Your project specifically addresses racial and/or economic inequities. It should demonstrate a clear equity framework, explicitly responding to the unique needs, challenges, and strengths of marginalized communities.
- Movement- and power-building
- The project must aim to build the voice and power of people of color or other marginalized communities.
- Representative leadership and staff
- The project must be led by those who are most impacted by the racial and economic inequities that the effort aims to address (e.g. communities of color, immigrants, refugees, formerly incarcerated residents, youth, low-wage workers, people with disabilities, low-income residents, LGBTQ community members, etc
Eligibility Criteria
Projects must demonstrate the following to be eligible for funding:
- Geography: funding requests must serve residents in one or more of the following five Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo.
- Tax exempt status: Organizations must have an IRS 501(c)(3) tax exempt status or be a fiscally sponsored project of another nonprofit entity. 501(c)(4) organizations will be considered but must submit additional lobbying documentation. The foundation cannot make grants to individuals
For more information, visit Rapid Response Fund for Movement Building.
