Upcoming Grants Related to Advocacy and Social Justice

Funding Queerly Giving Circle

Deadline: May 30, 2020

The Funding Queerly Giving Circle is a group of young donors who believe that small-budget LGBTQI groups lack the funding resources they need to organize, build power and leadership, and make positive sustainable change. Funding Queerly has partnered with the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice to make grants to small-budget LGBTQI groups throughout the United...

Con Alma Health Foundation: Northern New Mexico Health Grants Group

Deadline: May 8, 2020

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: May 8, 2020

U.S. Department of Justice: Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking

Deadline: May 18, 2020

The Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking program aims to improve outcomes for children and youth who are victims of human trafficking by integrating human trafficking policy and programming at the state or tribal level and enhancing coordinated, multidisciplinary, and statewide approaches to all forms of trafficking, as well as at-risk...

National Endowment for Democracy

Deadline: Mar 27, 2020

Each year the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) makes direct grants to hundreds of nongovernmental organizations worldwide working to advance democratic goals and strengthen democratic institutions. NED is interested in proposals from local, independent organizations for nonpartisan programs that seek to: Promote and defend human rights and the rule of law Support freedom of information...

Righteous Persons Foundation

Deadline: Jan 15, 2020

The Righteous Persons Foundation is dedicated to supporting efforts that build a vibrant, just, and inclusive Jewish community in the United States. The Foundation is currently targeting national-level projects that: Foster Jewish arts, culture, and identity: To revitalize and illuminate Jewish identity today, the Foundation will invest in projects that make the old new. This...

U.S. Department of State: Global Equality Fund

Deadline: Jan 24, 2020

The Global Equity Fund supports projects that provide lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals and communities with the tools to prevent, mitigate, and recover from violence and crackdowns on fundamental freedoms and human rights, as well as programs that work to eliminate laws which criminalize LGBTI status and/or conduct. Organizations are invited to...

National Endowment for Democracy

Deadline: Jan 10, 2020

Peace Development Fund: Community Organizing Grants

Deadline: Dec 30, 2019

The Peace Development Fund (PDF) makes grants to community based organizations working for social justice. It believes that the change in values needed to establish a more just and peaceful world can come about only if it is strongly rooted in local communities that value the importance of building movements to create systemic social change....

WITH Foundation: Supported Decision-Making for Adults with Disabilities

Deadline: Dec 6, 2019

The WITH Foundation provides support to organizations that promote the establishment of comprehensive healthcare for adults with developmental disabilities that is designed to address their unique and fundamental needs. Proposed projects should improve delivery of healthcare to adult customers with developmental disabilities and include at least one of the following: Improve health practitioner competency through...

U.S. Department of Justice: Sexual Assault Forensic-Medical and Advocacy Services for Tribes (FAST) Initiative

Deadline: Jan 10, 2020

The Sexual Assault Forensic-Medical and Advocacy Services for Tribes (FAST) Initiative is a special initiative designed to increase the availability of trained Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners (SAFEs) and trained sexual assault victim advocates in tribal communities, including Alaska Native villages. The FAST Initiative seeks to ensure that sexual assault victims in tribal communities where there...

The Impact Fund

Deadline: Jan 14, 2020

The Impact Fund makes recoverable grants to lawyers, law firms, and nonprofit organizations involved in impact litigation. Most awarded grants are for one particular case, but occasionally fund a series of cases bound by a common strategy. The Impact Fund supports civil rights, human rights, economic justice (anti-poverty), and environmental justice cases that will affect...

International Trans Fund

Deadline: Dec 2, 2019

The International Trans Fund (ITF) was created to mobilize sustainable resources to help build strong, trans-led movements and support collective action, and to address and eliminate funding gaps impacting trans organizations across the globe. ITF’s current funding priorities are to: Fund a diversity of groups, including different regions, languages, gender identities, strategies, and issues Prioritize...

The Atlantic and Allstate: Renewal Awards

Deadline: Dec 10, 2019

The Renewal Awards are a program from the Atlantic and Allstate that recognizes the social innovation demonstrated by thousands of nonprofits that are finding creative solutions to America’s most pressing problems. Nominated nonprofits will be judged on: 501(c)(3) status and an online presence, including a Facebook account, Twitter account, YouTube channel, or website Score on...

GriffinHarte Foundation

Deadline: Dec 31, 2019

The GriffinHarte Foundation’s goal is to promote civil conversations about issues that divide people and are often contentious and difficult to sort through. These issues usually involve questions of fairness, equity, respect, identity, and the complex ways that people are connected to each other. Most importantly, they almost always are related to the very foundations...