The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) seeks to encourage projects that will strengthen the power of culturally specific and cross-racial organizations, including those led by Black, Indigenous, and other people of color.
Donor Name: Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/12/2022
Size of the Grant: Up to $50,000
Grant Duration: 15 months
Details:
CSPI is excited to fund the critical and often unseen community and powerbuilding work that is critical for successful policy passage and supports sustaining the movement towards an equitable food system. Successful projects will include three core activities: convening community members, building skills and power, and co-creating programmatic and policy solutions to pressing issues in the food system. Important considerations for the project should include power sharing, accountability, and accessibility.
Ultimately, proposed projects should build on the strengths of cultural traditions and community connections as they seek to address the systemic and power structures that drive health and racial inequities.
Application Requirements and Priorities
- They will prioritize organizations that are founded, led, and mission oriented to serve Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color (BIPOC) that have been subject to chronic underinvestment.
- Experience leading or collaborating on culturally responsive community engagement projects and activities
- While this is not an exhaustive list, they are prioritizing applications led by BIPOC-led groups working with the following communities: Black trans women, Indigenous/Native American communities, people who are transient/experiencing homelessness, returning citizens, youth and families with children experiencing food insecurity, LGBTQ+ and gender expansive youth, and/or immigrants and refugees.
- Organizations that center and advance an intersectional approach in their work, prioritizing the communities that experience overlapping oppressions in addition to race and ethnicity, including gender identity, immigration status, sexual orientation, and people with disabilities.
- Projects with strategies that contribute to advancing an equitable food system – from production, processing, distribution & access, to healthy and culturally appropriate food, retail & marketing, reduced use of packaging and plastics, land use conservation, and sustainability.
Funding Information
Applications may be submitted for up to $50,000 in direct costs and up to $10,000 in indirect costs (totaling $60,000) for a duration of 15 months.
Who can apply?
To apply for grants offered by CSPI, organizations must be located in the United States or U.S. Territory, AND
- Be a nonprofit with a 501(c)(3) public charity or other tax-exempt designation from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), OR
- Be fiscally sponsored by a nonprofit as described above
For more information, visit CSPI.
