Akonadi Foundation’s So Love Can Win Fund provides general support grants of $10,000 to Oakland’s organizers, storytellers, culture bearers, and healers who seek to ignite and implement a radical collective vision of freedom and racial justice.
Donor Name: Akonadi Foundation
State: California
City: Oakland
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/13/2022
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Details:
The So Love Can Win Fund provides grants to organizations, initiatives, and projects in Oakland that have a focus on one of the following strategies:
- Organizing – Base-building organizations that mobilize, support, develop, and build power with their members.
- Arts & Culture – Cultural formations that use culture as a tool for racial justice movement building.
- Healing – Healing justice collectives and organizations provide accessible and relevant healing, wellness, and self-care practices using an anti-racist political frame.
- Voice – Oakland-focused journalism or narrative efforts that highlight racial justice movement building and/or issues impacting Black, Indigenous, or people of color communities with an emphasis on promoting community leadership, mutual aid, and cultural resilience.
In 2022, Akonadi Foundation will disperse a total of $500,000 in two rounds.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for a 2022 So Love Can Win grant, applicants must:
- Be an organization, group, formation, or collective
- Be based in Oakland
- Be led by Black, Indigenous, people of color and demonstrate a history of work with Black, Indigenous, people of color in Oakland
- Have 501(c)(3) status or are fiscally sponsored. Akonadi is continuing its partnership with the Social Good Fund, which will waive its normal fiscal sponsorship fees to groups that have been approved for a So Love Can Win grant and are in need of a fiscal sponsor
For more information, visit So Love Can Win Fund.
