Seeding Justice: Rapid Response Grants

Overview

_Note: This grant opportunity is currently closed_

About Seeding Justice

We build collective power by transforming philanthropy and funding movements, in the pursuit of justice and liberation for all communities.

Our Values

* Community: We center our communities in our work and are guided by their wisdom, knowledge, and priorities in all that we do. We see, hear, understand, and value our relationships and each other. We build power together and take collective action.
* Confidence: We embrace the power we hold to support and resource our communities, and to challenge systems of oppression.
* Justice: We are committed to healing injustice as we reimagine and transform systems in the process.
* Transformation: We reject status-quo philanthropic models that are extractive, unaccountable, and undemocratic. We commit to work over generations as we challenge and transform philanthropy, and redefine who has power within it.
* Accountability: We are committed to being responsive to our community and to being a nimble and consistent partner in the movement, grounded in relational and personal connections.

We envision a world of imagination, joy, and abundance where everyone has enough, and no one has too much; where every living being is truly free.

We fund grassroots movements working to dismantle injustices that have harmed our communities and planet for far too long. We support emerging organizations and change makers on the frontlines fighting for social, racial gender, disability, economic, and environmental justice.

We center the wisdom and agency of our communities most impacted by injustice in order to upend broken systems that hoard and consolidate power and wealth.

We work to transform philanthropy—from top-down and extractive to justice-driven and regenerative.

About Rapid Response Grants

Our Rapid Response grants provide mission aligned organizations with quickly deployed small grants to respond to emergencies and opportunities. Currently, grants of up to $5,000 are available.
Funding can be used for immediate and critical needs. For example, organizing community gatherings/meetings in response to events; unexpected challenges within the organization, or unique and timely opportunities. No part of these funds may be used to support or oppose any political party or candidate for public office. Funds must be used for charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* In order to be eligible for Rapid Response funding, groups must:
* Be a mission-aligned organization whose work benefit those who call Oregon home; and
* Have 501(c)(3) tax exemption, be a Tribal Nation or have a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor.
* Funding can be used for immediate and critical needs. For example, organizing community gatherings/meetings in response to events; unexpected challenges within the organization, or unique and timely opportunities.
* No part of these funds may be used to support or oppose any political party or candidate for public office. Funds must be used for charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes.

Ineligibility

* Individuals or businesses (unless they’re fiscally sponsored)
* Animal welfare organizations
* Capital campaigns (i.e. construction projects, building purchase or renovation, land acquisitions, etc.)
* Cooperatives, health clinics, or schools
* Direct services (i.e. social services, food pantries, wraparound services, health services, etc.)
* Organizations that require participants in their programs to be faith or religiously affiliated
* Personal hobby, mutual benefit, and for-profit groups
* Previously funded groups that have overdue grant reports
* Scholarships
* Unions or direct labor organizing
* Work prohibited by the IRS, including:
* Illegal activities
* Partisan activity that supports or opposes specific political parties and/or candidates for public office
* Work that has already happened or will be completed before the grant would be received