The Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) at Borealis Philanthropy is currently accepting applications from organizations working to strengthen disability inclusion, rights, and justice.
Donor Name: Borealis Philanthropy
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/29/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
DIF grants will support organizations whose work is rooted in intersectional cross-movements, is collaborative, and works to build a more vibrant, just and joyful world for people with disabilities—from arts and culture, to policy and advocacy.
All funding will be aligned with the Disability Inclusion Fund’s guiding values:
- Participation: Movement funding is accountable to the disability justice movement. Those most impacted by injustice/exclusion should be involved in strategies to advance justice/inclusion.
- Intersectionality: Acknowledging that disabled people have multiple and intersecting social and political identities that can influence their access and inclusion including race, gender identity, class, and sexual orientation.
- Radical inclusion: Deeply committed to removing barriers and ensuring access so that those most affected by intersecting identities can participate, valuing lived experience.
- Leadership of those most impacted: Emphasis is given to organizations led by disabled people of color, queer, gender nonconforming and women with disabilities.
- Cross-movement solidarity: Intentional focus on collaboration and bridge-building amongst disability justice activists and across movements.
- Sustainability: Resources and tools that support the growth of grassroots disabled-led organizations, and expand operational capacities for ongoing movement building.
Borealis Philanthropy will prioritize funding organizations that meet the following criteria:
- Organizations that are disability-led with priority towards Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC), queer and gender non-conforming, and women disability-led organizations. Borealis Philanthropy define ‘disability-led’ as the leadership in your organization are people with disabilities, including more than 50% of the organization’s management staff/advisory committees/governing boards.
- Work that engages other social movements and injustices for examples: The movement for Black lives, climate change, immigration rights, labor rights, racial justice, queer and trans liberation, etc.
- Work that brings other organizations, leaders, movements, and communities together to build power through relationships, coalitions and opportunities for collaboration.
- Work that drives narrative change in ways that dismantle ableism and attitudinal barriers in the policy, society, and culture. towards more by
- Strategies that celebrate, create, and elevate uplifting the authentic representation of disabled people in the arts, media, literature, and other creative works.
- Work that moves practices of disability inclusion and disability justice forward. Examples of this work include community organizing, mutual aid, advocacy, and/or policy work.
Funding Information
This funding opportunity will provide two-year grants. Successful applicants will receive $75,000 per year totaling $150,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organization’s annual budget with committed revenue is less than $1 million
- Your organization must be U.S-based or U.S. territory-based 501(c)3 or be fiscally sponsored.
For more information, visit Borealis Philanthropy.
