FUNDERS, AFFINITY GROUPS, AND FUNDERS COLLABORATIVES
Get connected with these funders, affinity groups, and funder collaboratives that are supporting organizing at the intersection of police accountability and racial justice. To get connected directly with NFG and your funder colleagues, contact us.
AFFINITY GROUPS AND FUNDER COLLABORATIVES
Grantmakers for Girls of Color
Fostering Shared Learning and Collaboration. Grantmakers for Girls of Color brings together the latest research, data, news, and insights to promote collective strategizing and partnership across philanthropy. This growing collection of resources captures new knowledge [...]
Criminal Justice Initiative
The Criminal Justice Initiative (CJI) is a cross-class funding circle made up of community organizers and activist donors. Together we identify, fund, and nurture grassroots activism led by formerly incarcerated people working to transform the criminal justice system in the United States.
Solidaire
Solidaire is a community of people with wealth, aligning their resources with movements that promote dignity, justice, and equality.
Bay Area Justice Funders Network
The Bay Area Justice Funders Network (BAJFN) is alliance of funders working to advance a justice agenda and strengthen grantmaking for social justice movements in the Bay Area and beyond.
Bolder Giving
Bolder Giving's mission is to inspire and support people to give at their full lifetime potential.
Women Donors Network
Women Donors Network is a community with a purpose -- connecting, learning, and taking action together to promote a more just, equitable, and sustainable world.
Resource Generation
Resource Generation organizes young people with wealth and class privilege in the U.S. to become transformative leaders working towards the equitable distribution of wealth, land and power.
The Security & Rights Collaborative (SRC)
The SRC makes strategic grants to protect and restore the civil rights of individuals whose communities have been targeted for profiling, surveillance, hate crimes and discrimination in the post-9/11 security environment of the United States.
The Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE)
The Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) is a multiyear initiative intended to increase the amount and effectiveness of resources aimed at combating institutional and structural racism in communities through capacity building, education and convening of grantmakers and grantseekers.
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
NCRP promotes philanthropy that serves the public good, is responsive to people and communities with the least wealth and opportunity, and is held accountable to the highest standards of integrity and openness.
Minnesota Philanthropy Partners
We are renewing our commitment to fostering racial equity. The board and staff of The Saint Paul Foundation and Minnesota Community Foundation, Minnesota Philanthropy Partners affiliates, have adopted a new racial equity framework to guide us forward in this work.
Funders for LGBTQ Issues
Funders for LGBTQ Issues seeks to mobilize philanthropic resources that enhance the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, promote equity, and advance racial, economic and gender justice. We seek to accomplish our mission by...
The Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP)
The Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP) exists to promote civic participation as a key to making our democracy work. FCCP serves leaders in the philanthropic community working to further this vision with heightened attention to issues of equity and historically disenfranchised and underrepresented communities. FCCP's members support non-partisan efforts to engage voters, eliminate structural barriers to voting, advance reforms to improve government and electoral systems, and inspire public involvement in civic life.
Executive Alliance
The Executives’ Alliance is a national philanthropic alliance that will “evaluate promising approaches, advocate for effective public policy and systems change, and invest in young men as assets for America’s future.”
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
AAPIP leverages resources for our communities to develop their capacity to meet their needs and solve problems. To achieve these goals, AAPIP uses two key strategies: (1) to advocate for more philanthropic resources from institutions and (2) to build philanthropy within our communities. These two strategies are implemented through our targeted campaigns and innovative programs.
ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities
ABFE is a membership-based philanthropic organization that advocates for responsive and transformative investments in Black communities. Partnering with foundations, nonprofits and individuals, ABFE provides its members with professional development and technical assistance resources that further the philanthropic sector’s connection and responsiveness to issues of equality, diversity and inclusion.
FUNDERS
Ford Foundation
Since the foundation was established in 1936, we have been working to improve people’s lives and address social justice issues across the United States. Our grantees today follow in the footsteps of those who blazed trails in civil rights, women’s rights, education reform, public interest media, diversity in the arts and voter engagement.
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Their mission is based is on an enduring commitment to feminism, progressive social change and an end to all forms of exploitation and discrimination.
Arca Foundation
The Arca Foundation believes that access to knowledge, vigorous public education and citizen engagement are essential to democracy. However, there exist structures and private interests that serve to limit the transparency of our government, stifle public debate on critical issues, and foster an environment where government is not effectively serving the interests of its citizens.