Crossroad Fund is seeking applications for its Seed Fund to support new, emerging, and/or small community-based organizations that are actively engaged in social change work.
Donor Name: Crossroad Fund
State: Illinois and Indiana
County: Selected Counties
City: Chicago
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/06/2023
Size of the Grant: $15,000
Details:
Crossroads Fund supports social services when linked with activism, when there is a component of social change work within the organization. Crossroads Fund supports work rooted in communities in the Chicago metropolitan area
Priority is given to organizations that are:
- Collaborative or working in alliance with other progressive groups as a way to build multiple strategies for bringing social change
- Risk-taking by doing work that may be controversial, marginalized, and/or new and emerging
- Strategic and working with a long-term vision which clearly links to current plans
- Achieving concrete success which has positively impacted the community
- Raise money from multiple sources throughout the community, such as foundations, businesses, individuals, special events, and income generating projects.
Funding Information
Funding is provided for general operating, start-up costs, or project expenses. The maximum grant in this program is $15,000.
Funding Criteria
- Working for Social Change:
- Crossroads Fund supports organizations working to examine and challenge the underlying causes of injustice affecting their communities. They seek to change the conditions, institutions, and policies that create and maintain inequality and oppression.
- Cross-Issue Organizing:
- Their grantees work with an understanding of the connectedness among the various people and issues that make up the whole community.
- Grassroots Leadership:
- They support groups that involve the people who are directly affected by an issue at all levels of the organization – in planning, organizing and leading, and working to continue building leadership within the grassroots community.
- Solid Plan:
- They fund groups whose work is driven by the following:
- A clear purpose with well-planned goals, objectives, activities and a tool to measure outcomes and impact
- A timeline and budget that reflects the proposed objectives and activities
- A realistic fundraising plan.
- They fund groups whose work is driven by the following:
- Work in the Chicago Metropolitan Area:
- Crossroads Fund supports organizations rooted in communities in the Chicago metropolitan area. Counties include: Cook, Kanze, Lake and Will, along with Lake County, Indiana.
- Budget:
- Groups with previous year annual expenses under $500,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Open to registered 501c3 and fiscally-sponsored organizations, or groups with organizational bank accounts
- Organizations with previous year annual expenses under $500,000
- Meet Crossroads Fund’s Funding Criteria.
For more information, visit Crossroad Fund.
