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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Grassroots Organizing, Community, Social/Economic/Racial Justice, Youth Leadership, NYC
Deadline: Mar. 3, 2025
“The New York Foundation is a steadfast supporter of community organizing, grassroots advocacy, and movement-building. We believe that the resilience and vitality of New Yorkers is the city’s greatest resource, and we value the courage and experience of community groups and their leaders. In the ongoing struggle for racial, economic, gender, and climate justice, the Foundation supports grassroots initiatives that build power to confront systemic barriers and inspire people to work toward a more just, equitable, and inclusive city.
What we look for:
- Community-initiated and led: community, membership, or base identifies problems and solutions
- Power building: intentionally build community power through political activation, leadership development, base building, and collective action
- Systemic change: address the root causes of oppression to ensure the equitable distribution of resources, power, and rights
- Racial justice: address the harms caused by systemic and historical racism; creates intentional systems to support and sustain racial equity
- Collaborative: build alignment through coalition work with allies that have similar goals and values
We prioritize groups that:
- Are led by: Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color | Trans and gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people | Trans and cis women
- Proactively center racial, economic, and gender justice
- Are emerging or newly formed organizations, especially those with limited access to institutional funding
- Work with overlooked and under resourced constituencies or neighborhoods, or on critical social justice issues that have not yet received public attention.”
Funder: New York Foundation
Eligibility: “In order to be eligible for funding from the New York Foundation, your organization must: [1] Be based in NYC; [2] Be a 501(c)(3) organization or fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) organization; [3] Use community organizing & grassroots advocacy as primary strategies to address the root causes of oppression.”
Amount: $47,500 per year (Up to 3 years for established groups and 5 years for emerging groups)
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Related Report: “Youth Civic Empowerment” report released by YouthTruth
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