Funding Amount

$400,000 annually (2021 baseline)

Deadline

Rolling / Open

Grant Type

foundation

Overview

Capacity Building Support

Funder: Groundswell Action Fund (501(c)(4))

Geographic Scope: Nationwide, United States

Focus Areas:
Capacity-building support for organizations conducting year-round electoral organizing, focused on:

  • Data, digital, and technology infrastructure

  • Media amplification

  • Political education

  • Legal compliance and 501(c)(4) strategy

  • Electoral planning and long-term strategy development

  • Leadership lifting for women of color, transgender, and gender-expansive people of color
  • Program Description:
    Groundswell Action Fund stands in the gap for organizations by providing robust infrastructure support to build their capacity. The funder recognizes that year-round organizing creates stress on organizational staff and infrastructure, and thus provides optional capacity-building offerings. All capacity-building offerings are voluntary and not mandatory for grantee partners—there are no one-size-fits-all approaches.

    Services Provided:

  • Data, legal, and compliance coaching

  • Communications training

  • Digital security training

  • Ballot issue campaign strategy

  • 501(c)(4) startup infrastructure support
  • Historical Context:

  • 2020: $1.5 million distributed as unanticipated income to ensure all grantees received renewal funding and additional capacity-building support

  • 2021: $400,000 dedicated to capacity-building support to grantees
  • Blueprint Goals (2020-2025):

  • Provide $5 million in direct capacity-building support to the field

  • Support 15 WOC grantee leaders in developing advanced data and analytics expertise

  • Ensure 30 organizational leaders have advanced legal understanding of 501(c)(4) strategies
  • Eligibility:

  • Groundswell Action Fund grantee organizations

  • 501(c)(4) organizations led by or centering women of color and transgender/gender-expansive people of color
  • Contact Information:

  • Phone: 510.444.5900

  • Email: info@groundswellactionfund.org

  • Mailing Address: 548 Market Street #49734, San Francisco, California 94104
  • Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    nonprofitscapacity-buildingwomenbipoclgbtq

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