Social Justice Grant Opportunities
September 2024
Due September 1, 2024
Form $5,000 - $50,000 per year. The ProVeg Grants program is accelerating the transformation of our food system by providing support for organizations. Provide both financial support and assistance with capacity-building.
Geographic focus: Global
Global Impact Challenge: Digital Wellbeing
Due September 1, 2024
$250,000. The aim of the Singularity + Sync Digital Wellbeing Global Impact Challenge is to identify and support startups that have a moonshot of solving these issues. What solution do you propose to address the global challenge of social polarization? Status: Applicants should be founders of a fully established entity at any stage, including idea, working prototype, minimum viable product, pilot, or traction.Travel Requirement: Applicants must be able to travel to Silicon Valley for the pitch event.
Geographic focus: Global
Due September 2, 2024
Grants for national and international NGO’s, community organizations, advocacy groups and trade unions in their efforts to strengthen democracy, promote equitable development, provide humanitarian assistance, reduce economic insecurity and support human rights.
Geographic focus: Global
Digital and Green Innovation Action
Due September 4, 2024
Grants for national and international NGO’s, community organizations, advocacy groups and trade unions in their efforts to strengthen democracy, promote equitable development, provide humanitarian assistance, reduce economic insecurity and support human rights.
Geographic focus: Niger Senegal Morocco Mali Burkina Faso Benin Guinea-Conakry Mozambique Burundi Uganda Tanzania Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo
Due September 30, 2024
Up to $15,000 for non-Unitarian Universalist groups in the U.S. and Canada that use community organizing to bring about systemic change leading to a more just society and mobilize those who have been disenfranchised and excluded from resources, power and the right to self-determination. Groups with an annual budget over $500,000 are ineligible to apply.
Geographic focus: Canada and the United States
Upcoming & Ongoing
AJ Muste Social Justice Fund
Due October 21, 2024
Up to $10,000 for grassroots activist projects in the US. Priority to groups with small budgets and little access to more mainstream funding. Ending border and the criminalization of immigrants; redefining systems of policing and criminal justice; confronting institutionalized violence against racial, ethnic, gender-based, and LGBTQ communities; putting an end to economic exploitation, class stratification, systemic poverty; stopping stop the war machine, ending state sponsored terrorism, and exposing the dangers of nuclear power.
Geographic focus: United States
WYDE Civic Engagement Project
Due January 15, 2025
Involving youth civil service organizations in democracy. Up to $30,000 for national and transnational projects in support of youth civic engagement and participation in the political decision-making processes across the Sub-Saharan Countries.
Geographic focus: Global South and Sub-Saharan Africa
Climate Justice Impact Fund for Africa
Open applications
2024 Call for Proposals: up to 15,000 EUR per year, renewable. Accelerating the launch and scale up of high impact, market ready blended climate finance structures in developing economies in Africa. Supports robust engagement of communities at the frontline of the climate crisis together with governmental and private sector partners in collectively developing scaling up solutions. Result-oriented, sustainability-focused, and cost-effective concept ideas are highly encouraged.
Geographic focus: Africa
Open applications
Recoverable grants averaging $20,000 for legal services by nonprofits, private attorneys, and small law firms who seek to confront social, economic, and environmental injustice
Geographic focus: United States
Applications open until October 2024
Grants to further social and environmental justice. Support for local leadership and grassroots organizing of groups carrying out activities that build support and collective action to address impacts of inequity and injustice in their communities. Organizations with budgets over $350,000 are ineligible to apply.
Geographic focus: United States