The Resource Grab Bag
Please share opportunities or resources you think might interest WRAP’s network of Resource Mobilizers (e.g., funding, training, scholarships, etc.). Aligned opportunities will be listed here and may also be promoted via communications with our network.
2025 Small Grants Fund | RISE Together Fund
RISE Together Fund (RTF), an initiative of Proteus Fund, is announcing an open call for inquiries for our 2025 Small Grants Fund to support U.S.-based Black, African, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian (BAMEMSA) communities and organizations. The maximum request for an inquiry is $25,000, with an average grant size of $15,000. RTF will review inquiries on a rolling basis until funds are depleted. RTF has an approximate budget of $500,000 to allocate to small grants through this open call.
Application due Friday, May 2, at 5pm EST.
GOOD TROUBLE MINI GRANT | NQAPIA
National Queer Asian Pacific Islanders Alliance (NQAPIA) just launched its Southern Regional Mini-Grant Program at their Southern Convening in Dallas!
Are you part of a grassroots group uplifting LGBTQ+ AANHPI folks in the South? You could receive up to $1,000 to support your summer event, gathering, workshop, or healing space.
💥 Quick, low-barrier app (~15 mins)
📅 Apply by April 30, 2025
📍 For events between June–August
Click here to learn more and apply.
Until She’s Free | Circle for Justice Innovations
Launched by Circle for Justice Innovations (CJI) in 2020, the Until She’s Free is a necessary, strategic, and timely response to this growing crisis. Until She’s Free is an innovative, participatory grantmaking circle comprised of community organizers, many of whom have experienced incarceration, working alongside donors and donor activists.
Until She’s Free is a grantmaking initiative strictly supporting women-led organizations addressing state-sanctioned violence against women and girls, including trans women and trans girls, and gender-nonconforming people, and their criminalization and subsequent incarceration, while also elevating their leadership in bringing about foundational change.
Take the Eligibility Quiz by Tuesday, May 6
Apply to the grant by Monday, May 12
SAFE Grant | Borealis Philanthropy
SAFE (Security, Action, and Freedom for Everyone) is a rapid response funding mechanism launched by Borealis Philanthropy, designed to provide flexible, emergency funding to grassroots organizations facing urgent threats to democracy, justice, and safety. SAFE grants range from $5,000 to $50,000 for organizations needing immediate financial support for operational security and crisis response.
SAFE applicants are welcome and encouraged to apply for funding in partnership with other organizations/individuals engaged in the same work to form a consortium. All funding must be used for grants implemented in the US. Borealis is committed to increasing access whenever possible. Please email safe@borealisphilanthropy.org if you would prefer a call to fill out this application.
Systems for Action | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 2025 Community-Led Systems Research to Address Systemic Racism Call for Proposals (CFP) will provide funding for a new cohort of community-led pilot studies to produce new, actionable evidence about how to help medical, social, and public health systems work together to address forms of systemic racism.
This CFP focuses specifically on systems alignment (SA) interventions that have the potential to dismantle or disrupt the health effects of systemic racism and to positively affect the health and wellbeing of communities that experience systemic racism. S4A prioritizes SA interventions that, if successful, can be rapidly replicated and spread to many communities and contexts across the U.S. in order to achieve broad national impact.
Community Power Grantmaking | IF: Foundation for Radical Possibilities
IF Foundation is funding applications: (1) whose work is aligned with one or more of IFs IDs: innovation, disruption and systems change. (2) organizations with commitments to racial justice (3) 501(c)(3)s or fiscally sponsored projects (4) located in DC, Prince George, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Northern Virginia, National organizations and academic institutions may apply in partnership with a community-based nonprofit group. (5) Black people and people of the global majority led and centered. Grants awards of $75,000 yearly for 3-years.
Application due Monday, June 9, at 5pm EST
Movement Bank Grants | Resist
Resist’s 2025 Movement’s Bank Grant Cycle application opens April 3rd, 2025. The Movement’s Bank is an experiment in Resist’s regular grant cycle to make it more accessible with fewer obstacles.
Applications for a $5,000-$10,000 grant will be considered on a first come first serve basis by our grantmaking panel each month until our bank is empty.
The deadline for monthly submission is the last Friday of every month at midnight EST and applications open on the first Monday of each month. Decisions are then announced within a week of monthly closing. Applications open on the first Monday of each month.
Qualifications: Must meet all grantee requirements:
Budget under $150k
501c3 or fiscally sponsored
Based in U.S. & territories
Led by those most impacted by intersecting systems of oppression
Award Amounts: $5,000 – $10,000.00
Action for Transformation Fund | Transgender Law Center
From anti-trans legislation to targeted violence and resource scarcity, trans communities are under attack. As always, we are seeing our communities continue to meet this moment with creativity, care, and collective power.
To meet this moment, Transgender Law Center has recommitted a new $1M in funding to expand the Action for Transformation Fund.
$10,000 grants on average
Rolling applications
Fast turnaround (decisions within 30–60 days)
Accessible application (video, phone, or written—in English or Spanish)
Nathan Cummings Foundation
The Nathan Cummings Foundation is currently offering two types of funding opportunities: grants and program-related investments (PRIs). Both grant and PRI proposals must align with our interconnected goals of racial, economic, and/or environmental justice (REEJ). Proposals that align and intersect with REEJ and our place-based initiatives, which include the US South, are also encouraged.
Most of Nathan Cummings grants range from about $50,000 – $250,000. They anticipate most PRIs will range from $250,000 to $750,000, typically to be repaid within three to seven years.
Rapid Response Grants | North Star Fund
Rapid response funding is one of North Star Fund’s strategies for meeting the moment. We know there are urgent, immediate needs—and we’ve allocated more than ever before to our rapid response fund. So far this fiscal year, North Star Fund has provided 56 rapid response grants totaling $277,500. We recently increased our fund to $400,000 to meet the skyrocketing demand—and we have no intention of slowing down.
Emergent Fund
Emergent Fund is a rolling, monthly rapid response and emergent organizing grant for movement and frontline communities responding to urgent and specific unanticipated crises or opportunities to build power.
Grant deadline: Every 3rd Thursday each month at 5pm PST / 8pm EST.
The Emergent Fund accepts proposals on JustFund, an innovative grants platform that connects funders and grassroots organizations:
Visit www.justfund.us to log in or register for an account.
Please note that registrations require 48 business hours for approval. We encourage applicants to register as early as possible.
For questions about how to submit your proposal, please refer to JustFund’s Help Center or contact info@justfund.us.
Vilcek Foundation
The Vilcek Foundation invites applications for grants to support nonprofit organizations that work with immigrant artists and communities, and that promote diversity in the arts, sciences, education, and humanities. A portion of the foundation’s grants are identified and initiated directly by the Vilcek Foundation.
Grant applications are accepted year-round. The current open call cycle for grant applications extends until June 30, 2025. The Vilcek Foundation will notify applicants of their application status after June 30, 2025. If you have questions regarding the Vilcek Foundation’s grantmaking, please contact grants@vilcek.org.
NEW MOON FUND
New Moon is a nonprofit organization looking to fund the good work our community members are doing to advance the rights and welfare of people in the sex trade. To that end, we invite US-based organizations (or fiscally sponsored projects) to apply for a microgrant of $1,000. New Moon will distribute up to five $1,000 grants each month.
2025 Emerging Justice Fund | Social Justice Fund Northwest
Social Justice Fund NW is a foundation working at the frontlines of social change. We leverage the resources of our members to foster significant, long-term social justice solutions throughout Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Its Emerging Justice Fund will move unrestricted funds to resource grassroots organizing for communities that have been and continue to be targeted by Federal, State and Local policies.
Deadline: Rolling throughout 2025, decisions made every other month starting in February.
Laboratorio de Sanación: Un Espacio para Soñar y Construir la Sanación Colectiva
Intercambios is launching a 6-month virtual space called Laboratorio de Sanación: Un Espacio para Soñar y Construir la Sanación Colectiva (Healing Lab: A Space to Dream and Build Collective Healing). It’s fully held in Spanish, created for Spanish-speaking and Spanglish-speaking cultural and social leaders who are holding, dreaming, and imagining new ways of healing in their communities.
Over six months, participants will explore their own visions of healing, connect with others across geographies, and design a project rooted in their personal, organizational, or community journey. This lab is for those navigating leadership, care work, and collective memory from lived experience.
The Lab includes:
– 2 live group sessions per month
– Individual coaching check-ins
– A supportive WhatsApp-based community
– Healing resources and practices
– Guest facilitators rooted in culturally grounded healing
– Design + support of a personal or community healing project
Start date: June 2, 2025
All sessions are virtual
Language: Spanish / Spanglish
You can explore more details or share with your network here.
Start a Worker Co-op class curriculum
MadWorc is excited to announce that its Start a Worker Co-op class curriculum is published and available for free to anyone who is interested. This course was created for trade school students but is relevant to anyone interested in worker cooperatives. The curriculum includes a guide to teaching the course, a syllabus, handouts, and activities.
The curriculum is set up to be used either for one 12-week class, or for a four-week class and an eight-week class, and does not assume any previous experience with worker cooperatives.
Rapid response support
Vision Change Win (VCW) offers free of charge virtual rapid response support to social justice movements, organizations, and leaders dealing with urgent community safety incidents. We match organizers and movement groups in need with skilled safety practitioners to support them with their safety needs. All of our practitioners have between 10-40 years of experience. We offer up to three free consultation sessions per request. Our community safety support covers a variety of community safety topics such as:
Organizational safety
Personal/home safety
Action/event safety
Digital security
Electoral Safety
Due to the rise in violence related to the upcoming election, we'd like to highlight how we offer electoral safety support. If you’re an organization, group, or movement leader that does electoral organizing or are impacted by the elections—reach out to us!
North star funding opportunities
If you’re part of a movement organization, North Star Fund has grants available! They are inviting groups new to North Star Fund to apply for Hudson Valley Organizing grants, NYC Organizing grants, and Let Us Breathe Fund grants. Register for a How to Apply Workshop to learn more.
Current grantees do not need to reapply in this cycle—however, if you're a current grantee and your organization is eligible for a Let Us Breathe Fund grant and is not receiving one, they encourage you to apply.
Ben & Jerry's Foundation: Grassroots Organizing National Grant Program
Ben & Jerry’s National Grassroots Organizing Program (NGO) offers two-year unrestricted, general operating support grants of up to $30,000 per year, with an average grant size of $20,000 per year, to small (budgets under $350,000), constituent-led grassroots organizations throughout the United States and its territories.
Ben & Jerry's Foundation’s goal is to further racial equity and social and environmental justice by supporting organizations working at the community level to dismantle discriminatory systems to make way for a more just and inclusive society for all.
Applications for 2025 are open. Learn more and apply here.
