Funding Priorities
We accept funding requests in race,
ethnicity, and gender equity
Within our emphasis on equity (race, ethnicity, and gender), we prefer to fund in the following areas:
Women’s Issues and Economic Empowerment
Proposals focused on under-resourced and marginalized communities
Strategies that simplify and streamline women’s access to support services
Initiatives to coordinate duplicative service delivery among domestic violence programs
Protecting a women’s right to choose
Training, education and coaching to accelerate economic empowerment, including women who have been recently incarcerated
Two-generational approaches that support parents and their young children
Opportunities for Youth of Color and LGBTQ+ Youth
Proposals focused on youth ages (9-21) are preferred
Youth mentoring programs
Youth engagement initiatives that organize and empower youth of color at the grassroots level
Alternatives to juvenile detention and strategies to reduce incarceration
Support for racial justice and equitable policing
Anti-bias/anti-racism training for middle and high school teachers in racially diverse schools
Advocacy efforts that increase public funding for children in foster care and youth in under-resourced areas
Early Childhood Education (0-8)
Proposals focused on under-resourced and marginalized communities
Collaborative initiatives to expand access to high quality early childhood education
Advocacy efforts to increase support for child care subsidies, medicaid, early childhood education, early childhood home visiting, and public schools
Anti-bias/Anti-racism training for early childhood teachers, caregivers, and parents
Two-generational approaches that support parents and their young children
Evidence-based early childhood home visitation programs serving vulnerable families.
We prefer proposals that use early, catalytic, upstream, or movement-building approaches.
Early
Funding an organization, initiative, or collaborative during the start-up phase, including planning grants for emerging ideas
Funding requests for emerging ideas should be grounded in research and include a detailed plan
Catalytic
Strategies that rely on networks and alliances rather than a single organization
Initiatives that transcend individual organizations and ignite collaborative change
Proposals that exhibit a strong potential for accelerated progress on a complex issue
Strategies that engage multiple organizations across sectors (nonprofit, academic, government, business)
Upstream
Initiatives that address problems at their source or address underlying factors that contribute to inequality and oppression
Innovative primary or secondary prevention programs
Research, public education, legal action, and advocacy initiatives that address race/ethnicity and gender equity
Movement Building
Support for progressive social movements that have equity at their core
Initiatives that are identified and led by grassroots, community-based members who are impacted by inequalities
Strategies that rely on networks and alliances rather than a single organization
WE DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED REQUESTS FOR
After school or summer camp programs for children
Charter or private schools
Child care center operating expenses or slots
Climate change and environmental issues
Consumable goods
Equipment or facility renovations
Health or medical care
Proselytism
Residential treatment programs
Temporary or transitional housing
The Arts