GRANTS
Hamilton Family Charitable Trust – May 15
They support programs that lead to students’ academic excellence in high school and college and to job readiness.
Funding Information: First-time grants generally range from $5,000 to $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Tax-Exempt Status and Financial Documents: Applicants must provide documentation verifying tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status. For an organization that is part of a larger group, such as a religious affiliate, the ruling organization’s 501(c)(3) letter will suffice. They require a budget for the project as well as the organization’s operating budget overall. Applicants with budgets over $100,000 must provide financial statements that have been prepared or audited by a CPA.
- Geographical Focus: The Trust funds projects serving children and youth in Philadelphia, Chester, Montgomery, Delaware, and Camden counties.
- Population(s) Served: Programs must serve children and youth in grades K-12. College programs are not funded. They generally fund programs whose recipients of direct services are generally in economically underserved areas—more than 70 percent of all participants in the organization’s groups or classes should be eligible for free or reduced-rate lunch in schools.
- Program Focus: The Trust seeks primarily to fund data-driven literacy-based programs—focused on developing robust reading and writing skills—with a strong history of success. These can be programs that:
- take place during school hours, after school, or during the summer.
- take place across school systems, but the funding can support only nonsectarian programming—including within a religious institution.
- For potential grantees serving students in earlier grades (K–8), the Trust gives preference to programs that devote at least 70 percent of their time directly to instruction and activities in reading and writing. In high school grades (9–12), the Trust seeks to fund organizations that provide innovative approaches to students in underserved areas for success in higher education, from the college admission process and acceptance through to completion. The Trust also funds job skills training with a proven record of successful workforce placement.
For more information, visit Hamilton Family Charitable Trust.
Disrupt Criminalization of Mental Illness – May 18 (letters of intent)
Sozosei Foundation invites applications for programs to disrupt criminalization of mental illness
Established in 2019 as a philanthropic arm of Otsuka, the Sozosei Foundation has a mission to be a catalyst for ideas that nurture creative solutions for healthier communities.
The foundation’s primary focus is to eliminate the use of jails and prisons to diagnose and treat mental illness. To that end, the foundation invites statements of interest in the decriminalization of mental illness. Grants will be awarded in support of evidence-based programs and innovative (untested) approaches with the potential to disrupt the current practice of criminalizing mental illness and accelerate access to community-based mental health care.
Priority will be given to proposals in the following areas: 988 implementations, operations, communications, and other activities related to responses to mental health emergencies that increase access to care in communities; scaling efforts to increase access to community-based mental health care so that people with mental illness do not enter the criminal legal system; increasing the number of psychiatrists in the United States, with a focus on psychiatrists from BIPOC communities; supporting education and organizing around enforcing the Mental Health Parity Act and ensuring parity in health plans not covered by the Act itself (please note that the foundation does not support lobbying or political campaigns); and arts and communications to increase access to mental health care outside of the criminal legal system. The foundation will also consider proposals outside of these categories that are creative and have potentially scalable approaches to decriminalizing mental illness.
The foundation will provide a small number of general operating or project-based grants ranging between $25,000 and $300,000. Grants may be extended up to two years and are eligible for renewal at the end of the grant term at the foundation’s discretion.
Applicants must be tax-exempt as defined by section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, have a fiscal sponsor with such status, or coalitions with a lead 501(c)(3) organization.
Statements of interest are due May 18, 2022, and selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal, due July 6, 2022.
For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Sozosei Foundation website.
Deadline: May 18, 2022 (Statements of Interest)
Social change, justice grants – Jun 3
Resist invites applications for social change, justice grants
Boston-based Resist redistributes resources back to frontline communities at the forefront of change while amplifying their stories of building a better world.
Groups aligned with Resist will have their work located within an ecology of social justice organizations, are aware of how their work fits into a greater whole, and reflect a clear understanding of purpose and function within movements for social change. They have an intersectional/cross-issue analysis, work actively against white and Christian supremacy, capitalism, gender, and sexual oppression, and all forms of patriarchy, and are led by those most affected by structural oppression.
Two types of grants will be awarded at this deadline:
General Support: Grants of up to $4,000 will be awarded to support groups building movements for justice and liberation and resisting systemic oppression through grassroots/cultural organizing, artmaking, and resilience building.
Accessibility: Grants of up to $4,000 will be awarded to fund the additional costs of making projects or events more accessible to community members with specific accessibility needs.
Applicants must have an organizational budget under $150,000 per year, be based in the United States, be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) according to the Internal Revenue Code or be a federally recognized American Indian tribal government or agency, or be sponsored by a previously listed entity.
For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Resist website.
Deadline: June 3, 2022 6:00 p.m. ET
Ben & Jerry’s GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING Grants – June 15
Ben & Jerry’s National Grassroots Organizing Program offers one-year general operating support grants of up to $30,000, with an average grant size of $20,000, to small, non-profit grassroots organizations throughout the United States and its territories that are not located in the state of Vermont.
The guiding principle behind this program is our belief that people most affected by a problem are in the best position to determine the solutions. We will consider proposals from grassroots organizations that are working to help themselves and their communities create broad systems change through community organizing and movement-building efforts.
We prioritize organizations that are led by and center the leadership and agency of Black communities, Indigenous communities, and communities of color that approach their work using anti-oppression values – consciously striving to dismantle systems of oppression and the legacies of white supremacy culture in this country while working toward a more just and equitable society.
We define grassroots organizing as collective action from the bottom up. It challenges the status quo, demands changes in policy and practice, educates communities about root causes, and advocates and agitates for systemic and just solutions. True progressive change occurs only when underlying, systemic forces are understood and addressed. We firmly believe that grassroots, constituent-led organizing is among the most effective means to create social change.
FOR 2022, WE HAVE CHANGED OUR DEADLINES:
JUNE 15, JULY 15, AND AUGUST 15 – 4 pm ET
PENNSYLVANIA COMMISSION ON CRIME AND DELINQUENCY
Enhancing Services to Culturally Specific Populations – June 20
The Office of Victims’ Services (OVS) of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) announces the availability of up to $1,125,000 in federal STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant funding for projects beginning January 1, 2023.
Culturally specific, community-based organizations are eligible to apply for up to three years of funding, with projects not to exceed a total of $375,000.
Under this solicitation, federal funds are being made available to establish, expand, or maintain culturally relevant direct services for violence against women crime victims from culturally specific communities. Specific information regarding applicant organization eligibility requirements can be found in the solicitation.
Applications must be submitted in PCCD’s Egrants system no later than June 20, 2022. Questions concerning the Egrants system should be made directly to the Egrants Help Desk at either (717) 787-5887 or you may call toll-free at (800) 692-7292 and select option 9 and then option 6 when prompted.