The Media Justice Fund is a special fund at the Bread & Roses Community Fund that provides $20,000 grants to groups using community organizing to create change in policies or practices.
Donor Name: Bread & Roses Community Fund
State: Pennsylvania
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/03/2022
Size of the Grant: $20,000
Grant Duration: 24 months
Details:
Media justice exists when all people—especially people of color, poor and working-class people, people with disabilities, women, and LGBTQI+ people—are able to create and share information, ideas, and stories to shift power and build movements for racial, social, and economic justice.
Does my group qualify for a Media Justice Fund grant?
The Media Justice Fund makes grants to groups that are:
- organizing to change policies or practices related to the production, licensing, or distribution of media, or
- using media as a tool in their social change plan which includes short- and long-term goals that are specific and achievable.
- Applicants must select one of these two tracks, and the Media Justice Fund will award a minimum of 7 grants in each track.
Funding Information
The Media Justice Fund makes $20,000 grants.
Grant Period
Awardees can select a grant period of 12 or 24 months.
Eligibility criteria:
Meet Bread & Roses Community Fund’s basic requirements
Organizations must meet all of the following basic requirements to be eligible for a grant from Bread & Roses:
- Must be located in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Camden counties
- Must be designated by the IRS as a 501(c)3 organization or have a fiscal sponsor that is designated by the IRS as a 501(c)3 organization or have documentation of a pending 501(c)3 application with the IRS
- Must be current with all progress reports from previously awarded Bread & Roses grants
- Must submit a complete application prior to the deadline (because of the volume of applications they receive, they cannot make exceptions)
- Must be using community organizing to create sustainable social change
- Have a long-term vision for social justice and engage in strategies that promote sustainable social change, including:
- A focus on community organizing and activism (not social service, self-help, or educational programs)
- A clear understanding of the root causes of the problem or issue that they are working to resolve
- A vision that emphasizes changing the systems that create or perpetuate the problem or issue being addressed
- A strategy that includes building a local base for taking collective action by the community affected by the problem or issue and results in concrete outcomes at the neighborhood, city, state or national level
- Leadership that is primarily composed of people most affected by the problem or issue that is being addressed
Bread & Roses makes grants to organizations that have a long-term vision for social justice and engage in strategies that promote sustainable social change, including:
- A focus on community organizing and activism (not social service, self-help, or educational programs)
- A clear understanding of the root causes of the problem or issue that they are working to resolve
- A vision that emphasizes changing the systems that create or perpetuate the problem or issue being addressed
- A strategy that includes building a local base for taking collective action by the community affected by the problem or issue and results in concrete outcomes at the neighborhood, city, state or national level
- Leadership that is primarily composed of people most affected by the problem or issue that is being addressed
The Media Justice Fund does not support:
- Individual media-makers
- Direct service work/social services, self-help/empowerment programs, educational programs, or advocacy
- Research
- Schools
- Capital campaigns or building projects
- Scholarships, fellowships, or grants to individuals
For more information, visit Media Justice Fund.
