Akonadi Foundation’s So Love Can Win Fund provides project support grants to Oakland’s organizers, storytellers, culture bearers, and healers who seek to ignite and implement a radical collective vision of freedom and racial justice.
Donor Name: Akonadi Foundation
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/05/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
In 2025, Akonadi will disperse a total of up to $400,000 in one round through the So Love Can Win Fund. The fund seeks to support work that fosters belonging and radical imagination for racial justice movement building in Oakland through the following:
- Invest in storytelling that advances and amplifies narratives of togetherness and belonging.
- Invest in spaces that bring people together and create opportunities for deeper understanding and collective action.
- Fund projects and initiatives that foster collaboration and partnership between movement leaders, community leaders, and artists/culture bearers.
Funding Information
Grant awards range between $10,000 to $30,000.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for a 2025 So Love Can Win grant, applicants must:
- Be an organization, group, formation or collective, not an individual
- Be based in Oakland
- Note: They are fairly strict about only funding organizations that have a physical address in Oakland and whose primary work happens in Oakland. They have made some exceptions in cases where an organization might have an outside address but run an extremely important program in Oakland.
- Demonstrate a history of work to advance racial justice
- Have 501(c)(3) status or are fiscally sponsored. Akonadi is continuing its partnership with the Social Good Fund, which will waive its normal fiscal sponsorship fees to groups that have been approved for a So Love Can Win grant and are in need of a fiscal sponsor. If you need a fiscal sponsor, please let us know in the So Love Can Win application.
- Submit a project budget in addition to the proposal.
For more information, visit Akonadi Foundation.
