Progress Alliance of Washington Grant - Core Grants

Progress Alliance of Washington Grant - Core Grants

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Washington Progress Fund
Amount: US $25,000 - US $100,000
Last Updated: November 19, 2025

Summary

The Progress Alliance of Washington Grant focuses on empowering organizations that build political power, particularly for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities. Through strategic investments, the grant aims to strengthen a diverse and inclusive progressive movement in Washington. The funding prioritizes long-term relationships, impactful policy solutions, and tools that enhance movement capacity. Core Grants are awarded to partners committed to fostering civic engagement and ensuring democracy works for everyone.

Overview

Progress Alliance of Washington Grant We believe the most direct path to achieve a democracy and economy that works for everyone is an effective progressive movement that is working together towards this end. Our approach to investing in Washington's vibrant progressive movement is rooted in three core grantmaking principles: We prioritize long-term power-building over cyclical wins. If a win shortchanges our long-term success in favor of the short-term, it is not a true win. We prioritize organizations who are building power with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities because we believe it is essential to our success to have the leadership of communities traditionally pushed out of the democratic process at the center of our movement. We prioritize deeper, more responsive relationships with our grantees, which means taking on fewer overall investments with higher touch support. What We Fund: Core Investment Areas LeadershipTo drive political change, we need skilled candidates, elected officials, and organizational leaders who are equipped to lead, reflect the diversity of the people they represent, share our values, challenge our assumptions, and champion our issues.CommunicationsTo inspire the public and persuade elected officials, it takes unified, clear, and emotionally compelling stories dominating the public narrative about our vision for the future, how we get there, who benefits, and who stands in our way.PolicyTo create a healthy and just Washington state where economic prosperity is shared and democracy works for everyone, we need smart, high-impact policy solutions that improve people's material lives today, while changing the systems to address the root causes of the issues our communities are facing.Movement CapacityAt the foundation of a successful movement are crucial tools and capacities to support the efficiency and effectiveness of our movement's organization, such as research, polling, data infrastructure, capacity building, coordination support, and more.Organizing & ElectionsTo ensure that our democracy works for all of us, everyone must have the opportunity to participate in civic life.  Mobilizing community members and voters, electing representative leaders to office, and holding our elected officials accountable to the public interest are all critical parts of a healthy democracy. Core Grants Core Grants are for our long-term organizing infrastructure partners who are building explicit political power with a constituency base and contributing to a strong multiracial, cross-class, community-led progressive movement.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. We grant to approximately 20-35 organizations and projects each year, with the majority of our grant funding provided in multi-year commitments to our partners.Explicit political power-building focus and impact and/or explicit focus and impact in developing and providing tools/information/capacity that strengthens the progressive movement in Washington State Transformative long-term impact in at least one of our five core capacity areas Alignment with our Theory of Change and strategic goals Anti-racist in values, execution of work, and impact Clear accountability to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities Centering the leadership and knowledge of BIPOC communities Geographic and tactical diversity to build a cohesive and impactful statewide progressive movement and create the conditions for meaningful political change Emphasis on the progressive movement’s biggest gaps – including tactics, tools, and communities that are under-resourced From a 501(c)3 or a 501(c)4 organization as determined by the IRS, or a project that is fiscally sponsored by such an organization*