The People’s Fund is a grant program that aims to advance Mercy For Animals’ work to create a just and sustainable food system, build people power to accelerate change, and achieve racial equity in funding across the movement
Donor Name: Mercy For Animals
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $20,000
Details:
The Fund strives to ensure more equitable access to funding to challenge white supremacy and multidimensional oppressive constructs based on race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, immigration status, or any historically marginalized identity. They believe in reciprocity, not only in human relationships but in their ancestral connection to nonhuman animals and the land. They strive for transparency with program participants at every step of the process, from the application to funding. They are conscious of the problematic histories of capitalist philanthropy, and they are doing the work to radically fund projects through a mindset of solidarity, not charity.
Program Priorities
- Proposals that aim to compensate Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) staff, contractors, and interns equitably.
- Proposals that center the needs, experiences, and backgrounds of BIPOC communities
Grant Information
All grants are USD $20,000 and unrestricted.
Eligibility Criteria
- Values: Your organization is aligned with Mercy For Animals’ mission to end industrial animal agriculture by constructing a just and sustainable food system.
- Location: Your organization is based in a U.S. state or territory, including the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.
- Leadership: More than 75 percent of your organization’s decision-makers are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color).
- Budget: Your organization’s annual budget is less than $200,000.
- Practices: Your organization will use these funds in a manner that promotes veganism as a social justice practice.
- Partnership: Your organization will provide a progress update 10 months after signing the grant agreement, and you will allow Mercy For Animals to name your organization as a grantee on The People’s Fund website.
- Preferred: Status as a 501(c)3 nonprofit is preferred but not required. Individuals or organizations that do not have 501(c)3 status can designate a fiscal sponsor or work with Mercy For Animals to identify a fiscal sponsor.
For more information, visit The People’s Fund.
