The Disability Inclusion Fund at Borealis Philanthropy is now accepting applications from organizations working to strengthen disability inclusion, rights, and justice.
Donor Name: Borealis Philanthropy
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/30/2022
Grant Size: $30,000- $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF), housed at Borealis Philanthropy, supports U.S.-based groups run by and for people with disabilities to lead transformational change.
All Disability Inclusion Funding will be aligned by the DIF guiding values of:
- Participation: Movement funding accountable to the disability rights movement. Those impacted by injustice/exclusion should be involved in strategies to advance justice/inclusion.
- Intersectionality: Acknowledging that disabled people have multiple and intersecting social and political identities that can influence their ability to have access and inclusion including race, gender identity, class, sexual orientation.
- Radical inclusion: Deeply committed to removing barriers and ensuring access so that those most affected by intersecting identities can participate, valuing lived experience.
- Leadership of those most impacted: Emphasis is given to organizations led by disabled people of color, queer, gender nonconforming and women with disabilities.
- Cross-movement solidarity: Intentional focus on collaboration and bridge- building amongst disability justice activists and across movements.
What they fund
They will prioritize funding organizations that meet the following criteria:
- Organizations that are disability-led with priority towards Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC), queer and gender non-conforming, and women disability-led organizations. They define ‘disability-led’ as: the leadership in your organization are people with disabilities, including management staff/advisory committees/governing boards. They define leadership as at least 50% of your organization’s leadership are people with disabilities i.e. the executive director, management staff, and advisory committee members or governing boards should be represented by a majority of people with disabilities.
- Work that engages other social movements and injustices for examples: The movement for Black lives, climate change, immigration rights, labor rights, racial justice, queer and trans liberation, etc.
- Work that brings other organizations, leaders, movements, and communities together to build power through relationships, coalitions and opportunities for collaboration.
- Work that drives narrative change by celebrating, creating, and uplifting the representation of disabled people in the arts, media, literature, and other creative works.
- Work that moves practices of disability inclusion and disability justice forward. Examples of this work include community organizing, mutual aid, advocacy, and/or policy work.
Funding Information
The DIF will provide one-year grants. The grants they offer will be general operating support or program support and will range in size from $30,000- $100,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizational budget cannot exceed $1.5 million
- Organization must be a U.S-based or U.S. territories-based 501(c)3, fiscally sponsored.
For more information, visit Borealis Philanthropy.
