Fund for a Just Society Grant

The Fund for a Just Society Grant, offered by the Unitarian Universalist Association, supports nonprofit organizations that focus on social and economic justice through community organizing. This grant prioritizes innovative projects that seek systemic change and empower disenfranchised communities. Eligible organizations must operate with an annual budget under $500,000 and demonstrate a clear campaign for change. This funding aims to foster a more just society by addressing root causes and enhancing visibility for Unitarian Universalist principles.

NOTE: Applicants will need to pass an Eligibility Quiz on the platform before they are granted access to the application.
The Unitarian Universalist Funding Program (UUFP) is a denominational grantmaking program of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Inspired by the richness and diversity of our liberal religious tradition, the mission of the UUFP is to promote the influence of Unitarian Universalist principles through grantmaking.
Grants are made that:
Makes grants to nonprofit organizations addressing issues of social and economic justice. Grants are given to projects that use community organizing to bring about systemic change.
Funding Priorities
Priority is given to active, specific campaigns to create change in the economic, social, and political structures that affect their lives. We expect the organization’s infrastructure, including leadership, membership and systems of accountability to be developed by the time of the application. We welcome projects that are less likely to receive conventional funding because of the innovative or challenging nature of the work, the economic and social status of the constituency, or the geographic location of the work. Please be concrete; spell out your plans.

Eligibility

Grants are made to non-Unitarian Universalist groups in the U.S. and Canada that meet all 4 of the following criteria::

• uses community organizing to bring about systemic change* leading to a more just society; and
• mobilizes those who have been disenfranchised and excluded from resources, power and the right to self-determination; and
• has an active focused campaign to create systemic change; and

has an annual operating budget under $500,000. (It is fine if your fiscal sponsor has a larger budget.)*Systemic change organizing:Aims at root causes, not symptoms.
Builds collective responses, not individual solutions, to problems.
Changes attitudes, behaviour, laws, policies, and institutions the better to reflect values of inclusion, fairness, and diversity.
Insists on accountability and responsiveness in such institutions as government, large corporations, and universities.
Expands democracy by involving those closest to social problems in determining their solution.We consider funding films, publications, or curricula only if they are an integral part of a strategy of collective action for social change.

Ineligibility

We do not accept proposals from organizations with annual operating budgets that are over $500,000.It is fine if your fiscal sponsor has a larger budget.We do not fund social services, educational programs, or advocacy-only projects. We do not make grants for training to individuals that is not connected to a campaign for justice. Grants are not given for re-granting, equipment, capital campaigns, politically partisan efforts, educational institutions, medical or scientific research, or cultural programs. Grants are not made to individuals.