Queer Justice Momentum Giving Project Grant

The Queer Justice Momentum Giving Project Grant supports grassroots organizations led by LGBTQIA+ individuals in the Northwest, focusing on combating anti-queer legislation and fostering community resilience. Grants of $40,000 over two years prioritize projects that empower marginalized groups, especially those led by Black, Indigenous, and POC individuals. This initiative aims to create inclusive spaces and promote social justice, ensuring that queer communities can thrive despite ongoing societal challenges.

NOTE: Fund closed for this year 2024. Fund is on 2 year cycles this one will come back in 2025/ 2026.
SJF is pleased to announce the 2022 Queer Justice Momentum Giving Project Grant, open to queer-led grassroots organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and/or Wyoming.
What we will fund
Queer communities need our support NOW, with unrelenting attacks to reproductive justice and widespread surges in trans-antagonistic, anti-queer rhetoric, organizing, and legislation.
The 2022 Queer Justice Momentum Project will support building new and imaginative systems that help achieve a world where queer communities are protected, honored, and thriving. Through this grant, we hope to support organizers in working towards a world where LGBTQIA+ folks, fem(me)s, and gender non-conforming people are able to identify and express their gender and sexual orientation without fear, discrimination or harm, and have the economic, social, and political power and resources to make healthy decisions for themselves, their families, and their communities in all areas of their lives.
This grant will support groups led by LGBTQIA+ individuals, non-binary folks, and fem(me)s who are organizing against heterosexism, transmisogynoir, homophobia, cissexism, and working to build the liberation of groups who have been marginalized because of their sexual and/or gender identity in meaningful ways across Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. We will prioritize funding organizations with Black, Indigenous, and/or POC leadership, and/or who conduct most of their work in rural, small town, and/or reservation communities.
Some examples of organizing work that is eligible for this grant include: Resource mobilization for LGBTQIA+ folksEstablishing queer and nonbinary community spacesReproductive justice organizingLeadership development programs for LGBTQIA+ individuals, nonbinary folks, and fem(me)sFacilitating healing and wellnessDeveloping community restorative justice processesCivic engagementOrganizing against gender based violence
What is a Momentum Giving Project?
The funding from this grant will be raised by an SJF Momentum Giving Project cohort. Momentum Giving Projects are designed to be responsive to the “movement moment” that is happening at the time. We recognize that our grantees are organizing — strengthening communities, training activists, building analysis, developing leaders, making change — all the time. But sometimes, a spark catches. Circumstances come together so that there’s new momentum and focused attention around a particular issue.
What is a Giving Project?
Giving Projects are a unique, participatory model of funding which provides significant financial resources to grassroots organizing for long-term progressive social change. Giving Projects bring together a diverse group of people of varied class identities who are passionate about social change and want to strengthen their skills in fundraising, grantmaking, and community building. Participants work together to deepen their understanding of social justice principles and engage in collective giving and fundraising to support grassroots organizations.
Click here to learn about Social Justice Fund’s Giving Project model.
Funding
Grant amount: Two-year grants of $40,000 ($20,000 per year).

Eligibility

Eligible organizations must meet the following criteria:Nonprofit organizations, tribal agencies, or groups sponsored by a nonprofit organization or tribal agencyThis grant can fund:Organizations with 501(c)3 or 501(c)4 status as determined by the IRSFederally recognized American Indian tribal government or agencyOrganizations that are fiscally sponsored by 501(c)3 or 501(c)4 organizations or by federally recognized tribal governmentsOrganizations that carry out their work in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and/or WyomingAt least 51% of organizational leadership identifying as members of the LGBTQIA+ communitiesOrganizations that work within SJF’s community organizing frameworkOrganizations with leadership of (at least 51% of the) people who are most directly affected by the issues that the organization or project is addressing.