Communities First Fund’s Movement CARE (Community, Assistance, Regeneration, Endurance) Fund is created to shift philanthropic practices by distributing responsive resources in a timely way that prioritizes the humanity of Black and brown people, the frontline organizations they may lead, and the grassroots organizations accountable to them.
Donor Name: Communities First Fund
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: American Samoa, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Guam and U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/16/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This moment requires deep investment in the people and organizations that lead the climate, environmental, and energy movements. To realize this vision, the CFF Movement CARE Fund will provide rapid response funding to support organizations’ needs to position themselves in this moment of intersecting crises and rapid mobilization, as well as support community-led infrastructure efforts that build long-term power and demonstrate best practices for accountability to communities.
The Movement CARE Fund provides flexible support to grassroots, frontline, and community-based organizations. Designed for this moment, the fund uplifts:
- Community accountability and connection
- Assistance through operational and staff support
- Regeneration via healing, wellness, and strategic rest
- Endurance to sustain transformative work with staff for the long term.
Funding Information
The Movement CARE Fund is a $2,000,000 fund. Awards will range up to $25,000, depending on the scope and scale of the work funded.
Eligibility Criteria
The Movement CARE Fund supports frontline, grassroots, and community-based 501 (c)3 organizations and fiscally sponsored projects that are:
- Rooted in and serves historically underserved and under-represented communities, embodying racial justice, environmental, climate, and energy justice. Some indicators include:
- Board and staff (including leadership) are majority people of color and reflective of the communities it works with and centers community priorities – in its governance, its culture, and its programming.
- Grassroots, power-building organizations that are accountable to the communities
- A grassroots member of an environmental and climate justice coalition.
- Responsiveness and accountability to the community your organization serves
- Based in the United States or a U.S. Territory. They will prioritize organizations in the Midwest and South, geographies that have historically received disproportionate public and philanthropic investment.
- They will prioritize organizations adversely impacted by federal funding cuts and action.
For more information, visit CFF.
