The Mobilize Power Fund is a rapid response fund that resources gender justice organizations to adapt or pivot their work when met with unanticipated, time-sensitive opportunities or threats to their movement building work and organizing conditions.
Donor Name: Third Wave Fund
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: American Samoa, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/04/2022
Size of the Grant: up to $20,000
Details:
Through the Mobilize Power Fund, they resource time-sensitive projects including community organizing and mobilization, healing justice work, conflict resolution, community accountability, transformative and restorative justice work, direct action, and more. This fund does not resource general operating support, ongoing or regularly planned programming, or recurring events. That being said, Third Wave Fund has other grantmaking programs that provide long-term general operating and capacity building support.
Funding Information
Grants can be made for up to $10,000 USD. Larger grants may be made on a case-by-case basis. Partnership or coalitions of two or more groups can request up to $20,000 USD.
Eligibility Criteria
The Mobilize Power Fund prioritizes organizations that are led by young women of color (transgender and cisgender), and trans, queer, gender non conforming and intersex young people of color under 35, led by and for communities directly impacted by the issues they focus on, have an intersectional gender justice lens, and have a total organizational budget under $500k. Groups do not need 501c3 of fiscal sponsor status to apply.
What other criteria are needed to apply
- Youth Leadership: Young women of color and/or trans, gender non-conforming, intersex, and/or queer youth activists under the age of 35 are a critical part of planning and decision-making processes. Campaigns, efforts or organizations are led by and for the communities affected by the event or situation you are responding to.
- Gender Justice Focus: Your political analysis and project demonstrate how the issue(s) you are responding to address or connect to patriarchy, transphobia, homophobia, gender equity, or gender-based violence. Gender justice activism includes racial justice, economic justice, immigration justice, reproductive justice, health and justice for people with HIV/AIDS, trans/intersex/queer justice, functional diversity justice, healing justice, the fight against violence and/or criminalization.
- Building Community Power: The strategies and activities in your proposal help build the power of young leaders of activism, organizing and/or healing in their communities in the field of gender justice, and connect with the goals, results and /or changes you want as a result of your proposed actions.
- Urgency or time sensitivity: The event or situation you are responding to was not anticipated, requires urgent or timely action, and/or takes advantage of recent attention or media coverage.
- Organizational Need: We will prioritize organizations that have budgets of less than $500,000 and are in areas with limited access to philanthropic resources.
This Fund Can Support
- Actions against criminalization and violence
- Community organization or urgent direct action
- Legislative campaigns or unexpected ballot initiatives
- Training for leadership or participatory action research
- Justice work with a vision of reparation and healing
- Payment of legal expenses or bail
- marches or demonstrations
- Mediation/conflict resolution
This Fund Does Not Support
- budget deficit
- Programs running and operating regularly
- Funds for startup or general operating costs
- fundraising
- Already planned or long-term campaigns
- Charity.
For more information, visit Third Wave Fund.
