Upcoming Grants Related to Advocacy and Social Justice

Albuquerque Involved

Deadline: Jun 7, 2019

Albuquerque Involved serves those who want to connect with their community but who struggle to find the time or place to start. It makes it easy for busy individuals and families to get involved in giving and service to nonprofits in the greater Albuquerque community. The hope is for members to find agencies that ignite...

Third Wave Fund: Mobilize Power Fund

Deadline: Jun 4, 2019

The Mobilize Power Fund is a rapid response fund for direct action, community mobilizing, and healing justice. The Fund supports the leadership of young women of color, trans, gender non-conforming, queer, and intersex youth under 35 in social movements. The Fund considers the following criteria is important: Youth Leadership: Young women of color and/or trans,...

A.J. Muste Memorial Institute: Social Justice Fund

Deadline: Jul 8, 2019

The Social Justice Fund supports grassroots activist projects, giving priority to those with small budgets and little access to more mainstream funding sources. The Social Justice Fund’s priority is to support: Direct grassroots activism and organizing Groups with diverse, representative, and democratic leadership structures Groups which have or can obtain sufficient economic and in-kind support...

Patagonia: Retail Grants Program

Deadline: Apr 30, 2019

Patagonia Retail Grants support small grassroots activist organizations with provocative direct-action agendas, working strategically on multi-pronged campaigns to preserve and protect the environment. Patagonia helps local groups working to protect local habitats and frontline communities through bold, original actions. Patagonia is most interested in making Retail Grants to organizations that identify and work on the...

Patagonia: Media Grants Program

Deadline: Apr 30, 2019

The Media Grants Program supports grassroots groups that also use film as a form of activism. This program funds environmental nonprofits that use media, mostly film, as a tool tightly linked to direct-action campaigns. Patagonia looks for groups using media as a strategic tool to advance a campaign that is in line with Patagonia’s general...

New Mexico Counts: Community-based Outreach to Hard-to-Count Immigrant Communities for the 2020 Census

Deadline: Apr 29, 2019

New Mexico Counts will support community-based outreach in Hard-to-Count (HTC) immigrant communities for the 2020 Census. The goal is to increase the participation rates in HTC New Mexico immigrant communities by 5%. Ensuring the highest level of participation, HTC communities in the 2020 Census will require a coordinated and well-informed effort that focuses on educating,...

Lalor Foundation: Anna Lalor Burdick Program

Deadline: May 1, 2019

The Anna Lalor Burdick (ALB) Program seeks to empower young women through education about healthy reproduction in order to broaden and enhance their options in life. The program focuses particularly on young women who have inadequate access to information regarding reproductive health, including comprehensive and unbiased information on contraception and pregnancy termination. The ALB Program...

Paso Del Norte Health Foundation: Think.Change Initiative

Deadline: May 16, 2019

The Paso del Norte Health Foundation will support organizations in one of the following interest areas that help meet the Think.Change initiative goal to reduce stigma associated with mental illness: Implementation of evidence-based trainings to reduce mental illness stigma and bias among people (i.e., teachers, landlords, law enforcement, etc.) who have frequent contact with individuals...

Open Technology Fund: Internet Freedom Fund

Deadline: May 1, 2019

The Internet Freedom Fund supports projects and people working on open and accessible technology-centric projects that promote human rights, internet freedom, open societies, and advancing inclusive and safe access to global communications networks for at-risk users including journalists, human rights defenders, civil society activists, and everyday people living within repressive environments who wish to speak...

AIDS United: Syringe Access Fund – Off Cycle Grants

Deadline: Jun 14, 2019

The Syringe Access Fund (SAF) is a national grantmaking initiative that supports service providers and policy projects to reduce the risk of HIV, hepatitis C (HCV), and other blood-borne pathogens among people who inject drugs and their sexual partners through expanded access to sterile syringes. SAF off-cycle grants support start-up syringe services programs and emerging...

Foundation for the Improvement of Justice

Deadline: May 17, 2019

The Foundation provides awards for innovative programs which have proven effective and can serve as models for others. The Foundation encourages improvement by rewarding accomplishments in the following categories: legal reform; crime prevention; child protection; speeding the process; effecting restitution; crime victims’ rights; alternative sentencing; reducing recidivism; lowering the cost; and other significant efforts. Awards...

Fund for Wild Nature

Deadline: May 1, 2019

The Fund for Wild Nature provides small grants for North American campaigns to save native species and wild ecosystems, with particular emphasis on actions designed to defend threatened wilderness and biological diversity. The Fund will provide grants to support advocacy, litigation, public policy work, development of citizen science, and similar endeavors. Amount: Grants will range...

Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation

Deadline: May 15, 2019

The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation’s mission is to invest in the future of journalism by building the ethics, skills, and opportunities needed to advance principled, probing news and information now and for the future. The Foundation has four program areas: 1) investigative reporting; 2) professional development; 3) Oklahoma journalism; and 4) special opportunities....

Con Alma Health Foundation: Northern New Mexico Health Grants Group

Deadline: Apr 24, 2019

Con Alma Health Foundation is organized to be aware of and respond to the health rights and needs of the culturally and demographically diverse peoples and communities of New Mexico. The Foundation seeks to improve the health status and access to health care services for all New Mexicans and advocates for health policy, which will...

Con Alma Health Foundation

Deadline: Apr 24, 2019