The IE Black Equity Fund is excited to announce an open call for proposals for its Powerbuilding and Systems Change Grant!
Donor Name: Inland Empire Community Foundation (IECF)
State: California
County: Riverside County (CA), San Bernardino County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/13/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
This grant is designed to support transformative projects that advance systems change and power building work in the IE’s Black community. Applicants may apply for funding in one of four tiers, including Learning grants, Emerging grants, and Scale-up grants. Nonprofits that operate within Assemblymember Corey Jackson’s District 60 are also eligible for AD60 grants.
Project Scope
The project scope is limited to the Inland Empire, and all funded activities will be limited to Riverside County and San Bernardino County only. Organizations will be provided resources to advance systems change and power building work in these priority areas:
- Civic Engagement
- Criminal Justice Transformation Housing Justice
- Health Equity
- Education Equity
- Economic Liberation (Development)
- Youth & Family Engagement (AD 60 Applicants Only)
Funding Tiers and Eligibility
Applicants may apply for funding in one of four tiers:
- Learning Grants, up to $20,000 (up to 12 months) Funding supports their unique learning needs related to systems change and power building in their priority focus areas. Learning funds also pays for staff participation in at least (2) required grantee learning sessions. Learning applicants may be invited to apply for emerging track after one year.
- Criteria: An organization may not have experience in systems change/power building work but are interested and committed to learning and growing the organization capacity to support racial equity work and desire to contribute to collective policy agenda setting through BEI Coalition.
- Emerging grants, up to $71,000 (24 months) to support the emerging systems change/powerbuilding work that is already underway and is emerging. Emerging grantees must participate in at least (2) required learning sessions and BEI coalition meetings.
- Criteria: An organization that has initiated systems change/power building work (1-3 years) and is seeking to move that work forward; and committed to moving that work forward; is currently participating in a coalition; and is interested in contributing to collective policy agenda setting through BEI Coalition.
- Scale Up grants, up to $100,000 (24 months) to existing systems change/power building work that already has a demonstrated impact but is ready to scale up. Scale up grantees must participate in at least (2) required learning sessions and BEI coalition meetings.
- Criteria: An organization that has significant track record for systems change/power building work (3 or more years) and is seeking to take that work to scale or it’s next phase; staff capacity to engage with policymakers and to monitor and address policies and practices in a strategic and ongoing manner; is currently leading and/or participating in a coalition; and is interested in contributing to collective policy agenda setting through BEI Coalition.
- AD60 grants, up to $70,000 (12 months) to existing systems change/power building work (minimum of 3 years) that already has a demonstrated impact specifically focused on Assembly District 60 of Riverside County as represented by Assemblymember Corey Jackson. Efforts must service or directly impact the residents of Assembly District 60 (Including: East Hemet, Good Hope, Green Acres, Hemet, Homeland, Lakeview, March ARB, Mead Valley, Moreno Valley, Nuevo, Perris, Riverside, Romoland, San Jacinto).
- Criteria: Organizations that are located in and/or serve residents of Assembly District 60 of Riverside County.
Eligibility Criteria
The Black Equity Fund intends to fund Black-led, Black empowering and/or Black serving nonprofit organizations (NPO) based in the Inland Empire as defined by the following identity criteria:
Black Led
- Black leaders are in a position of influence within the organization
- A Majority of the Board is Black, AND
- Executive Director is Black, or the Executive Leadership/Organizational Lead is majority Black
Black Empowering
- The organization demonstrates an institutional commitment to justice and liberation for Black people, evidenced by one or more of the following:
- Developing a constituent base working to advance structural and systemic changes that improves the material conditions for Black life,
- Embedding Black voice and the lived experiences of Black people as critical expertise that guides the fabric of the organization’s mission, vision, values, and core work; and develops both individual agency and community capacity to advocate for conditions that enable Black people to thrive.
Black Serving
- Organizations that are committed to serving and empowering Black people as evidenced by:
- Programmatic services that prioritizes and target the needs of Black people
- Has a history of serving Black people
For more information, visit IECF.
