Strategic Response Mechanism (SRM)
Funding Amount
Up to $100,000
Deadline
Rolling (quarterly review)
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Rolling — applications accepted year-round
- Tracked since
- April 2026
Source: the cycle recorded on this listing. Confirm dates with the funder.
Overview
RRI's Strategic Response Mechanism is designed to fund timely advocacy, capacity building, and convening opportunities in a wide range of low to middle income countries.
Key Features:
- Grants can be channeled quickly within weeks to take advantage of urgent and strategic opportunities
- Focuses on substantively increasing funding for local organizations and initiatives
Target Beneficiaries:
- Indigenous Peoples
- Local communities
- Afro-descendant Peoples
Geographic Scope: Low to middle income countries
Focus Areas:
- Timely advocacy
- Capacity building
- Convening opportunities
- Strengthening communities' territorial governance and management
- Advancing gender justice
- Fighting criminalization and rollback of rights
- Establishing an enabling legal environment for securing rights
Contact Information:
- United States: 2445 M Street, NW, Suite 520, Washington, DC 20037
- Phone: +1 202 470 3900
- Email: [email protected]
- Canada: 401-417 Rue Saint-Pierre, Montréal, QC H2Y 2M4
What Rights and Resources Institute Inc actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 2
- Total given
- $478K
- Median grant
- $239K
- Range
- $11K–$466K
- By dollars: New York 98%, District of Columbia 2%. Top recipient cities: Brooklyn, NY; Washington, DC.
Example grants
Rainforest Foundation US · Brooklyn, NY
Strengthening governance of the global alliance of territoirial communities
$466K
Environmental Law Institute · Washington, DC
Research
$11K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Environmental justice
- Human rights
- Capacity building
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