Funding Amount

$15,000 - $30,000

Deadline

Rolling / Open

Grant Type

foundation

Overview

Community Action Fund

Overview: 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, U.S. Virgin Islands)

Focus Areas:

  • Community organizing

  • Amplification of community voices

  • Climate justice and racial equity efforts

  • Challenging the extractive industry

  • Accelerating 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:

  • Groups and individuals most impacted by local challenges

  • Frontline, grassroots, and community-based efforts

  • Indigenous activists and organizers
  • Award Details:

  • $500,000 available in 2023

  • Grants average $15,000 and range up to $30,000

  • Available on ongoing basis as funds are available
  • Organization: NDN Collective - Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power

    Contact: Cabot Petoia, [email protected]

    Phone: +1 (605) 791-3999

    Address: 408 Knollwood Dr., Rapid City, SD 57701

    How to Apply

    Application Process

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

    Application Timeline (2023):

  • Open: April 17, 2023

  • Close: October 31, 2023 at 5:00 PM CT

  • Available on ongoing basis as funds are available
  • Note: Specific narrative questions and required materials not detailed in source material.

    Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    grassrootsnative-americanssocial-justiceenvironmental-justice

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