Monthly rolling deadlines

Across the country, many communities are confronting increasing violence, hate crimes, and anticipating the rollback of decades of hard-fought progress towards racial equity, immigrant rights, women’s rights, and environmental and climate justice.
A group of allied funders are stepping up to help meet some of the growing needs that grassroots social, racial, economic, and environmental justice organizations are articulating during these challenging times through a combination of both aligned and pooled funding. The Still We Rise Fund is designed to be a nimble pooled fund that is facilitating, scaling and accelerating the delivery of responsive funding to a diverse range of community-based organizations across the country.
Priority consideration is given to:
  • Efforts that support emergent strategies that help communities resist in rapidly changing conditions (e.g. immigration raids, hate crimes, media attacks, regressive policy proposals, etc.). This also includes resisting new or amplified threats;
  • Efforts to think strategically or coordinate between groups to build power and move a proactive community defined agenda;
  • Organizations that most clearly demonstrate a membership-led, community-organizing model that is working toward social, racial, economic or environmental policy change in disadvantaged communities through collective action;
    Organizations that operate with a clear racial justice and intersectional framework;
  • Organizations that have a strong group of leaders and board members that represent the community they serve and who are accountable to the community;
  • Organizations that have strong leadership development programs for their members, and also have a concrete plan to grow and to build more power by getting more people involved;
  • Organizations that operate in deep alliance with and whose agenda is rooted in an agenda defined by base-building organizations;
  • Movement-building actions such as convenings, coalition- and base-building, communications, capacity-building, trainings or similar tactics to respond to or move a proactive agenda in rapidly changing conditions;
  • Organizations working in “hard to fund” areas, including the southern US, the “rust belt” and Rocky Mountain States;
  • Organizations that have IRS 501(c)3 tax exempt status or a fiscal sponsor who does.

A typical Still We Rise grant is $5,000, and as the fund grows it may offer a larger range.