The AJ Muste Foundation in New York City provides grants, sponsorships, and educational resources to hundreds of grassroots projects around the world.
The foundation invites applications for its Social Justice Fund, through which it awards grants for grassroots activist projects in the United States, giving priority to those with small budgets and little access to more mainstream funding sources. The foundation is especially interested in funding efforts to end the violence of borders and the criminalization of immigrants; shut down CBP and ICE; abolish prisons and dismantle and redefine systems of policing and criminal justice; confront institutionalized violence against racial, ethnic, gender-based, and LGBTQ communities; put an end to economic exploitation, class stratification, and systemic poverty; and stop the war machine, end state sponsored terrorism, and expose the dangers of nuclear power.
The Social Justice Fund’s priority is to support direct grassroots activism and organizing, groups with diverse, representative and democratic leadership structures, and groups that need additional support to carry out a project or build capacity. The maximum grant award through the fund is $10,000, and occasionally the foundation will consider requests for multiple-year funding.
The fund seeks proposals from groups with limited access to more mainstream funding sources, with or without 501(c)(3) status or a fiscal sponsor. The fund only requires a fiscal sponsor if the group receiving the grant does not have its own bank account.
For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the AJ Muste Foundation website.
Deadline: October 21, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. ET
