Urgent Response Grants are for up to $5,000 to help grassroots, social change organizations respond quickly to unforeseen crises or opportunities that critically affect your organization and constituency.
Donor Name: Haymarket People’s Fund
States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: Ongoing
Size of the Grant: $5,000
Details:
This includes unexpected events, political crises, or organizing opportunities.
They are prioritizing funding work being led by and taking place in communities of color across New England. Priority will be given to frontline people of color-led organizations who incorporate anti-racism and anti-oppression values and practice into their work. They do not fund groups with budgets over $300,000.
What they do Not Fund
- Groups primarily providing direct services that focus on meeting people’s basic needs or that focus primarily on individual empowerment or self-help. Social service organizations can apply for a project-specific organizing grant if it fits Haymarket’s
criteria. - Publications, reports, workshops, classes, conferences, media events, arts, or theater productions, unless they are part of an ongoing community organizing effort or are accountable to social change movements.
- Groups outside New England (unless they have a strong base in New England that holds them accountable) or work focused outside New England.
- Legal or research expenses unless they are part of an overall organizing strategy.
- Capital campaigns or endowment drives.
- Individuals or individual projects (such as graduate research, fellowships, or scholarships)
- Projects sponsored by a government agency. For example, Haymarket would not fund
- project led by a school district. However, we would consider funding a project led by parents and students working to hold a school accountable for the inequitable treatment of children of color.
- Organizations with budgets over $300,000.
- Small businesses, alternative businesses, or business associations.
- Other foundations.
- IRS regulations prohibit us from funding the following:
- Electoral work that promotes specific candidates.
- Union organizing work, unless it is a campaign involving and benefitting the wider community (including non-union members).
- Civil disobedience or other actions that involve breaking the law.
For more information, visit Urgent Response Grants.
