The Kolibri Foundation is looking to fund organizations that are building infrastructure to support safety and care practices for vulnerable communities for a lifetime – inclusive of but not limited to violence perpetuated through the restriction and denial of abortion care and gender-affirming care.
Donor Name: Kolibri Foundation
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/31/2022
Size of the Grant: up to $250,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
For Summer 2022 cycle, Kolibri Foundation seeks to address the short and long-term approaches to responding to and addressing patriarchal and interpersonal violence through funding organizations that are working to transform the root causes of systems and cultures of violence that perpetuate interpersonal, communal, and state harm and abuse.
The foundation recognizes that movements need continuous general operating support funding and access to learning communities in order to develop and sustain the movement infrastructure necessary to shift systematic oppressive systems. In this round of grantmaking, they will invest over $3 million dollars of general operating support grants to support BIPOC-led and centering organizations that are working to address the root causes and impacts of structural state and interpersonal violence. Kolibri Foundation is accepting requests for general operating support from groups working across the US, with a particular focus on groups working in the U.S. South and Midwest.
Special Interest and Priorities
Kolibri is committed to using their resources to mobilize philanthropy to engage with communities differently and support non-traditional leaders to build long term sustained infrastructure. Kolibri is committed to funding organizations that have never been or are underfunded. They are excited about the possibility of funding organizations who are working outside of the measurements traditional funders use and in political projects that are working outside and beyond the state. Kolibri is particularly interested in supporting, but not limited to
- Organizations working in the following states: AL, AR, KS, KY, LA, MS, ND, OK, PR, SC, SD, WV, USVI
- Organizations utilizing survivor-led and use survivor-centering strategies and have survivors in their leadership
- Organizations with a focus on elevating, uplifting, and organizing queer, gender non-conforming, trans and intersex communities, Indigenous communities, working-class communities, and groups with and for multi-abled communities..
- Organizations that are critiquing the medical industrial complex, carceral state.
Funding Information
Organizations are invited to apply for up to $250,000 per year for up to two years.
Eligibility Criteria
The foundation is interested in work that involves gender justice, abolition, and reproductive justice frameworks. The Criteria and Parameters for the funding is:
- Organizations that are working to address the structural and systemic impacts of patriarchal, state-based, and interpersonal violence.
- Be an organized group of people or an organization that is a nonprofit with 501(c)3 status as determined by the IRS, OR is fiscally sponsored by 501(c)3. Organizations that are working explicitly with communities of color and/or other marginalized communities.
- Organizations with directly impacted people in meaningful and/or executive leadership throughout the organization.
- Organizations doing bold, innovative, sustaining, and/or envelope-pushing grassroots community organizing work that has the potential to have broad and deep impacts across movements.
For more information, visit Kolibri Foundation.
