Progressive Multiplier awards grants to help organizations build a progressive movement of, by and for everyday people.
Donor Name: Progressive Multiplier
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: Ongoing
Details:
Progressive Multiplier does this by organizing and leveraging funding to create on ramps for progressive organizations to start, strengthen or scale individual giving and earned revenue programs.
What does the PM do?
- PM offers grants for experimentation in revenue generation, as well as recoverable grants and loans for nonprofits to scale projects; and
- Provide a resource center, the Center of Excellence, for progressive nonprofits on earned revenue techniques.
Funding Areas
- Clean Energy, Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Criminal Justice Reform, Democracy/Voting, Disability Rights, Economic Justice, Education Justice, Environmental Justice, Gun Control, Health Care, HIV/AIDS, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrant Rights, LGBTQ Rights, Mass Incarceration, Minimum Wage, Neighborhood Issues, Protecting Medicare, Protecting Social Security, Puerto Rico Justice, Racial Justice, Refugee Crisis, Reproductive Rights, Gender Equity, Social Justice, Wilderness Protection, Women’s Rights, Workers Rights, and other progressive issues.
- If your organization does not consider itself progressive but works on multiple issues above in a way that would be considered progressive while reaching out “across the aisle,” you may qualify for PM funding.
Funding Information
PM gives three kind of grants:
- Kickstart Grants are for those organizations just getting started with independent revenue generation. They average $10,000 and are meant to test things like acquiring small dollar donors for the first time.
- The Test & Innovation Grants are for testing new revenue generation models, as well as testing the replication of revenue generation programs that have worked in other organizations. Grants average $25,000.
- The Scale Grants & Loans are recoverable grants and market rate loans to support organizations seeking to expand their revenue streams and have a greater impact. Recoverable grants and loans average $120,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Grantees must:
- Be US based, nonprofits and subsidiaries with 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s, projects housed in these entities, or LLCs in which a 501(c)(3) or (c)(4) are the only members.
- Do some form of domestic policy or legal advocacy, civic engagement, or are a media organization in one of PMF’s issue areas.
- Should have an operating budget of $500,000 or more.
For more information, visit Progressive Multiplier.
