Social Justice Grant Opportunities
October 2024
Due October 8, 2024
Grants and legal support to assist in human and civil rights cases and impact litigation in pursuit of environmental justice, aiming to help people or communities who are affected by environmental harm or who lack access to basic environmental needs.
Geographic focus: Global
Due October 11, 2024
Up to $20,000 - Financial support for both outreach activities and infrastructure development to enable organizations in regions and communities currently underrepresented in the global open science infrastructure landscape to benefit from DataCite infrastructure services. The Global Access Fund was established to enable communities worldwide to make their research outputs discoverable.
Geographic focus: Global
Due October 13, 2024 (early submission; regular deadline Nov. 3)
Up to $20,000 - Seeding new organizations distributing proven poverty solutions, all aiming to scale. Startup grants to entrepreneurs launching new organizations. Funds for social impact for-profit ventures, NGOs, and charities. Supporting organizations in any low-or-middle income country where extreme poverty still exists.
Geographic focus: Global
The Fund for Southern Communities
Due October 15, 2024
Up to $1,000 - $5,000 - The Fund invites applications from organizations: fighting discrimination based on race, sex, age, religion, economic status, sexual orientation, ethnic background, or physical and mental disabilities; struggling for the rights of workers; promoting self-determination in low-income and disenfranchised communities; protecting the environment; promoting and/or creating non-traditional arts and media; promoting peace.
Geographic focus: Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina
International Center for Journalists
Due October 16, 2024
Up to $20,000 for experienced professionals to submit ideas, concepts or vision statements for news publishers to leverage new technologies and novel approaches to more effectively reach audiences most vulnerable to disinformation.
Geographic focus: Global
Geographic focus: Global
UNESCO: Protecting Environmental Journalists
Due October 18, 2024
Up to $50,000 - UNESCO invites not-for-profit organizations to submit proposals aimed at enhancing the legal protection of journalists covering the environment and reducing impunity for crimes against them. Supporting programs that work to bolster journalists’ legal protection and promote media freedom through relevant investigative journalism or strategic litigation.
Geographic focus: Global
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
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
Upcoming & Ongoing
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
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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
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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