The Fund for Santa Barbara is accepting applications for Single Year Grants Program to address causes of economic, environmental, political, and racial inequalities.
Donor Name: The Fund For Santa Barbara
State: California
County: Santa Barbara (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/29/2022
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Grant Duration: 12 Months
Details:
The Fund for Santa Barbara is unabashedly progressive and is looking to support projects that address the systemic root causes of social inequalities. They support projects with a strong systemic change component. They define social change as change that addresses the systemic, root causes of social (economic, environmental, political, and racial) inequalities in an effort to alleviate those inequalities but also the underlying conditions and circumstances that cause and sustain them.
Funding Guidelines
In order to meet their guidelines, a project must:
- Actively support anti-discrimination based on race, sex/gender, age, religion, language spoken, or immigration status;
- Actively support communities marginalized by power structures to engage in dialogue and actions that seek to counter social injustice;
- Actively work to improve the rights of workers and their families whose living conditions have been marginalized;
- Promote the cultural life of underserved communities and support the activities of cultural workers;
- Promote self-determination and leadership development in low income and disenfranchised communities;
- Promote Global peace and organize locally for just policies;
- Work on building coalitions to enhance improving environmental justice and address climate change, especially organizing a constituency usually without access to decision-makers
- Engage in collaborative action and coalition-building to strengthen movement ecosystems;
- Work against community violence and actively support recovery and restorative justice activities and initiatives;
- Operate in a democratic manner, responsive to and directed by the constituency being served.
Funding Information
- Maximum request and award amount is $10,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Must have a Tax ID Number or Employer Identification Number (EIN); or a tax-exempt fiscal sponsor
- Must have an organizational bank account; or a fiscal sponsor’s
- Budget and Planned Activities must fall within the funding timeframe for which the proposal is submitted
- Must not be a currently funded grantee (Racial Equity Fund & Mickey Flacks Social Housing Fund grantees excluded)
For more information, visit The Fund For Santa Barbara.
