The Pride Foundation is seeking applications for its Community Care Fund.
Donor Name: Pride Foundation
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $415,000
Details:
- Foundation prioritizes funding organizations for and by Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC) and are focused in rural communities
- Pride Foundation operates across a vast and diverse five-state region: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. They recognize and appreciate the complexity and temporality of space, in which one area may be considered a “big city” within context of their state, but in comparison of the region—specifically Seattle and Portland—it is still considered “small.” With this in mind, they define “rural” as communities that are less populated, under-resourced areas with limited and inequitable access to institutions for support. They purposefully leave the definition vague to encompass the region in which they serve. Priorities will be given to small towns/counties and Reservations and Reservation border towns.
- Foundation welcomes your own definitions of rural.
- For this grant the definition for “community care” is broad; ‘community care’ is any collective efforts to protect and care for queer and trans communities. They welcome your own definitions.
- This funding will be unrestricted (unless you want it to be restricted).
- Award amounts are generally no less than $10,000; however, if you want less than that, they can honor your request!
- Foundation allocated $415,000 for this grant to move from now until March 2024 (the end of the fiscal year) or until are funds are moved out, whichever comes first.
Examples of community care include, but are not limited to:
- Mutual aid and financial relief
- Community organizing, policy advocacy, political education and mobilization
- Gifts cards & stipends for community members
- Access to housing, transportation & health care i.e. rent support, mental health, gender affirming care & abortion access
- Opportunities for rest, grieving, healing, play, pleasure, and joy
- Bringing community together though virtual and in person events
- Protecting people from violence, criminalization, incarceration, detention, and deportation e.g. bail and legal fees
- Leadership and professional development, for topics ranging from herbalism to accounting
- Language access and justice i.e. captioning, interpretation and translation
- Food access and justice
- Land access and justice
- Conflict resolution, accountability and efforts to address trauma and harm
- Safety planning
- Disaster and crisis preparation and response
- Administrative and technological support for events, programs, and organizations (e.g. hardware, software & licensing).
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations for whose work is focused on supporting LGBTQIA2S+ in rural communities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
- Organizations with 501c3 status or are fiscally sponsored.
For more information, Pride Foundation.
