Community Action Fund

The Community Action Fund (CAF) provides modest, urgent response funding to direct action and frontline organizing across Turtle Island (North America) and related Island Nations.

Geographic Scope: United States, Mexico, Canada, Borikén/Puerto Rico, and U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Focus Areas:

• Community organizing
• Amplification of community voices
• Climate justice and racial equity efforts
• Challenging the extractive industry
• Accelerating the just energy transition in Indigenous communities
• Healing justice work within the movement
• Training the next generation of community organizers
• Defense, development, and decolonization of Indigenous peoples and the planet

Eligibility:

• Frontline, grassroots and community-based efforts
• Groups and individuals most impacted by local challenges
• Indigenous activists and organizers

Funding Amount: $500,000 available in 2023, with grants averaging $15,000 and ranging up to $30,000.

Background: Launched April 17, 2023. Open April 17 - October 31st, 5:00 p.m. CT on an ongoing basis as funds are available.

Application Process

1. Visit the Community Action Fund Website
2. Complete online grant portal
3. Submit application by deadline

Application Period: April 17 - October 31st, 5:00 p.m. CT (ongoing as funds available)

Materials Required: Details not specified in provided content.