Social Justice Fund makes grants for grassroots activist projects in the US, giving priority to those with small budgets and little access to more mainstream funding sources.
Donor Name: AJ Muste Memorial Institute
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/23/2023
Size of the Grant: $5000
Details:
The AJ Muste Memorial Institute is especially interested in funding efforts to:
- end the violence of borders and the criminalization of immigrants, shut down CBP and ICE
- abolish prisons and dismantle and redefine systems of policing and criminal justice
- confront institutionalized violence against racial, ethnic, gender-based, and LGBTQ communities
- put an end to economic exploitation, class stratification, systemic poverty
- stop the war machine, end state sponsored terrorism, expose the dangers of nuclear power.
Grant Priorities
The Social Justice Fund’s priority is to support:
- direct grassroots activism and organizing
- groups with diverse, representative and democratic leadership structures
- groups that have or can obtain enough economic and in-kind support to carry out their regular work, but need additional support to carry out a project or build capacity.
Funding Information
The maximum grant award is $5000.00.
Eligibility Criteria
- AJ Muste Memorial Institute seeks proposals:
- for projects with expense budgets under $50,000
- from grassroots organizations with annual income of less than $500,000
- from groups with limited access to more mainstream funding sources
- from groups which have not received Social Justice Fund grants in at least two years
- from groups with or without 501(c)3 status or a fiscal sponsor: the Social Justice Fund only requires a fiscal sponsor if the group receiving the grant does not have its own bank account. If you cannot receive a grant check made out to the name of your organization, you will need a fiscal sponsor. They cannot issue checks to individuals.
- Although they value the work, they do NOT consider grant proposals for the following:
- individual efforts or scholarships
- schools or universities academic or research projects
- organizations with regular access to government, corporate or mainstream charitable funding
- art, theater, film or video projects that are not directly tied to activism or organizing
- sectarian religious purposes
- economic development projects
- capital campaigns or expenses
- direct social services
- legal defense or litigation
- lobbying or electoral campaigns
- projects geared toward participants personal improvement or business success
- conflict resolution or violence reduction projects, unless they directly promote activism
- projects that will have already taken place by the time the grant is received
- or for an organization’s general operating budget.
For more information, visit AJMMI.
