Interested groups are encouraged to apply for 2022 Youth Making Change Grants program.
Donor Name: The Fund for Santa Barbara
State: California
County: Santa Barbara County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/28/2022
Size of the Grant: $3,000
Details:
The Fund for Santa Barbara is unabashedly progressive and is looking to support projects that address the systemic root causes of social inequalities. They support projects with a strong systemic change component.
They define social change as change that addresses the systemic, root causes of social (economic, environmental, political, and racial) inequalities in an effort to alleviate those inequalities but also the underlying conditions and circumstances that cause and sustain them.
Funding Information
- Maximum request: $3,000 for youth-led projects
- Length of funding: 6 months.
General Eligibility Criteria
- Must meet the Funding Guidelines and Priorities
- Must have a Tax ID Number or Employer Identification Number (EIN); or a tax-exempt fiscal sponsor
- Must have an organizational bank account; or a fiscal sponsor’s
- Budget and Planned Activities must fall within the funding timeframe for which the proposal is submitted
- Must not be a currently funded grantee (Racial Equity Fund & Mickey Flacks Social Housing Fund grantees excluded)
Funding Guidelines
- Actively support anti-discrimination based on race, sex/gender, age, religion, language spoken, or immigration status;
- Actively support communities marginalized by power structures to engage in dialogue and actions that seek to counter social injustice;
- Actively work to improve the rights of workers and their families whose living conditions have been marginalized;
- Promote the cultural life of underserved communities and support the activities of cultural workers;
- Promote self-determination and leadership development in low income and disenfranchised communities;
- Promote Global peace and organize locally for just policies;
- Work on building coalitions to enhance improving environmental justice and address climate change, especially organizing a constituency usually without access to decision-makers
- Engage in collaborative action and coalition-building to strengthen movement ecosystems;
- Work against community violence and actively support recovery and restorative justice activities and initiatives;
- Operate in a democratic manner, responsive to and directed by the constituency being served.
They do not fund
- Political campaigns that support a candidate or a political party;
- Private (vs. public) interests;
- Direct labor organizing;
- Projects providing direct services without a social change component;
- Direct support to individuals;
- Building improvements;
- Capital ventures, i.e. machines, vehicles, etc.;
- Office equipment;
- Projects located outside of Santa Barbara County.
For more information, visit The Fund for Santa Barbara.
