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Mission/Giving Statement: Third Wave Foundation is a feminist, activist foundation that works nationally to support young women and transgender youth ages 15 to 30. Through strategic grantmaking, leadership development, and philanthropic advocacy, it supports groups and individuals working towards gender, racial, economic, and social justice.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Reproductive Health & Justice

Types of Funding/Funding Restrictions: The Foundation funds projects which benefit, target, are devised by, and led by young women, transgender, and gender nonconforming youth activists, between the ages of 15 and 30. It especially looks for programs or organizations that focus on the needs of low-income communities, people with disabilities, immigrants, LGBTQ communities, and people of color. The Foundation does not fund national organizations, intermediaries or subsidiaries. Additional restrictions listed online.

Application Instructions: Email LOIs to program[at]thirdwavefoundation[dot]org.

Mission/Giving Statement:  The Needmor Fund's mission is to work with others to bring about social justice. It supports people who work together to change the social, economic, or political conditions which bar their access to participation in a democratic society. It seeks to fund community organizing groups with the following characteristics (see website for complete list).

• The organization is well managed; it has a financial and fundraising plan, engaged in strategic planning, and has strong leadership and lively governance.
• The organization is multi-issue: in particular, it addresses issues of race, immigration, poverty, economic  justice and low-wage work.
• The organization balances issue work with organization building; it effectively links issues to building organization and power...

Grantmaking Program Areas:  Southwest Cluster; National Program

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Southwest Cluster (Arizona, New Mexico and southern portions of California and Texas):  Funds community organizing groups- organizing in rural areas and border regions; organizing low-wage workers and immigrants; labor-community linkages; faith community involvement; and building community infrastructure.

National Program:  Funds community organizing groups in various parts of the country, particularly those that cross boundaries and offer promising models.  See website for more information.

Type of Funding/Funding Restrictions:  Core operating support to grantee organizations one year at a time, for up to four years, after which time organizations may not re-apply for at least two years. The Needmor Fund does not fund Community development corporations; Direct service or training programs; Litigation; Government sponsored or controlled projects; or National organizations. List of additional restrictions available online. 

Application Instructions:  Grant application and instructions available online. Southwest Cluster applicants must submit full proposal. National Program applicants must submit a Pre-Application Inquiry Form. 

Mission/Giving Statement: The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice works for social, racial and economic justice in the U.S. and interantionally. Its grantmaking and philanthropic advocacy programs help lesbians and allied communities challenge oppression and claim their human rights.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Emergency Fund; Movement Resource Fund

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Emergency Fund: Astraea’s Emergency Fund is a rapid-response grantmaking mechanism, providing timely support for organizations to address urgent and strategic political opportunities and crises affecting LGBTI communities.

Movement Resource Fund: Astraea’s Movement Resource Fund provides grants to enhance the capacity and effectiveness of LGBTI organizations to engage in movement building work. Grants are generally provided in three areas: Technical Assistance, Travel/Peer-to-Peer Learning and Historic Convenings.

Type of Funding/Funding Restrictions: Astraea makes US and International grants to both organizations and individuals. Although any organization that fits the funding criteria may apply, Astraea prioritizes its current grantee partners.

Application Instructions: Send one one page inquiries via email.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Historic Preservation; Migrations; Furthermore Publishing

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Historic Preservation: The Fund supports the preservation and protection of major archaeological sites in North Africa and Southwest Asia; the development of a movement to inventory and protect North America industrial architecture; zoning protections for twentieth century architecture in Miami and Havana; and the rescue of particularly valuable building in New York City.

Migrations: The Fund supports a comprehensive immigration policy reform for the United States; and the integration of immigrants into local and national communities.

Furthermore Publishing: In addition to the above principal efforts, the Fund also sponsors Furthermore grants in publishing, a program directed by president emeritus Joan K. Davidson. Furthermore supports nonfiction books on art, architecture, and design; conservation, cultural history and public issues. See website for more information and contact information.

Application Instructions: LOI instructions online.

Mission/Giving Statement: The Public Welfare Foundation supports efforts to ensure fundamental rights and opportunities for people in need. The Foundation looks for carefully defined points where its funds can make a difference in bringing about systemic changes that can improve the lives of countless people.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Criminal Justice; Juvenile Justice; Workers' Rights

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions: 

Criminal Justice: Supports groups working to end over-incarceration of adult offenders in America. In particular, the program makes grants to groups that are working to: 1) Reduce incarceration rates through the reform of sentencing laws and parole and probation systems, including the use of diversion and alternatives to incarceration; 2) Reduce jail populations through the reform of pretrial detention policies and practices; 3) Develop and promote innovative strategies to reduce the overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities in the criminal justice process. 

Juvenile Justice: Supports groups working to end the criminalization and over-incarceration of youth in the United States.  In particular, the program makes grants to groups that are working to advance systems reforms that will: 1) Reduce youth incarceration rates in the juvenile justice system (through policies that, for example, limit the use of incarceration, expand the use of community-based alternatives to incarceration, reduce lengths of stay, and/or decriminalize minor misbehaviors or otherwise divert youth from the juvenile court system); 2) End the practice of trying, sentencing, and incarcerating youth as adults; and 3) Promote more fair and equitable treatment of youth of color by the juvenile justice system. 

Workers’ Rights: Supports groups seeking policy and system reforms to improve the lives of low-wage working people, with a focus on securing their basic legal rights to safe, healthy, and fair conditions at work. Specifically, the program makes grants to groups seeking reforms that will do the following:  1) Make Work Safe and Healthy– by preventing illness, injury, and death on the job, and improving workers’ compensation; 2) Make Work Pay– by empowering workers to hold low-road employers accountable for wage theft, misclassification, and contingent work abuse, particularly through policies that create or improve private rights of action and fee-shifting; and 3) Build Workers’ Advocacy Power– by improving the ability of low-wage workers to act collectively for policy and system reform.  Additionally, the Program supports investigative journalism, national broadcast news coverage, and other high-profile media and public education about workers’ rights issues.

Mission/Giving Statement: The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society.

Grantmaking Program Areas:  Education & Learning; Family Economic Security; Food, Health & Well-Being; Community & Civic Engagement; Racial Equity

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Education & Learning: To ensure that all children get the development and education they need as a foundation for independence and success, WKKF Foundation seeks opportunities to invest in early child development (prenatal to age eight), leading to reading proficiency by third grade, high school graduation, and pathways to meaningful employment.

Family Economic Security: The primary needs of the family must be addressed to create pathways out of poverty for children.  WKKF supports programs that increase family stability, foster quality jobs, careers and entrepreneurship, and promote secondary achievement and financial independence.  WKKF supports strategies that increase income, assets, and aspirations of vulnerable children and their families and reduce disparities based on class, gender and race. 

Food, Health & Well-Being: Children need nutrition, stimulations, healthy living conditions and access to quality health care.  WKKF is helping many of them get all four, by funding organizations that improve birth outcomes and first food experiences, create access to healthy foods, improve health services, and educate families and communities about the inter-related factors that determine well-being.  WKKF especially focuses on children who are disadvantaged by multiple societal factors, a disproportionate percentage of whom are children of color.  The Foundation supports innovative, place-based efforts to address the social determinants of health (SDoH) through local leadership, policy and advocacy. 

Community & Civic Engagement: WKKF believes that people have the inherent capacity to solve their own problems and that social transformation is within the reach of all communities.  WKKF partners with those committed to inclusion, impact, and innovation in solving public problems.  WKKF seeks engagement through dialogue, leadership development, collaboration, and new models of organizing.  WKKF amplifies voices, and supports the civic and philanthropic infrastructures that help propel vulnerable children and communities forward.  By partnering with diverse communities, WKKF supports new solutions tailored to meet the needs of children and families who are most vulnerable.

Racial Equity:  WKKF believes that all children should have equal access to opportunity.  To make this vision a reality, WKKF directs its grants and resources to support racial healing and to remove systemic barriers that hold some children back.  WKKF invests in community and national organizations whose innovative and effective programs foster racial healing.  And through action-oriented research and public policy work, WKKF is helping translate insights into new strategies and sustainable solutions.

Type of Funding/Funding Restrictions: WKKF intentionally places vulnerable children and their families at the center of everything it does and it wants the organizations and policies it supports to surround them with integrated programs that address the comprehensive needs of children, their families and communities.

In general, WKKF does not provide funding for operational phases of established programs, capital requests, equipment, conferences and workshops, films, television and/or radio programs, endowments, development campaigns, or research/studies unless they are an integral part of a larger program budget being considered for funding.

Application Instructions: WKKF's website provides information regarding their various program's framework.  If you believe your idea fits within this framework, please use their online application, which is how all requests for funding must be submitted.  WKKF does not have any submission deadlines.  Grant applications are accepted throughout the year and are reveiwed at its headquarters.

WKKF preferred method for grant submissions is the its online application at www.wkkf.org/ApplyOnline. Grant applicants who are not able to apply electronically may submit their grant request via regular mail. For additional information and instructions in sending a grant submission via regular mail, please call the Central Proposal Processing Office at (269) 968-1611 during the WKKF's regular business hours. WKKF will give prompt consideration to all pre-proposal submissions. The initial review may take up to three months to complete. If the proposed project falls within WKKF's priorities and available resources, applicants may be asked to develop a more detailed proposal. Letters not submitted online should be directed to the Supervisor of Proposal Processing at the address provided below.