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Grantmaking

Supporting Racial, Gender and Climate Justice

Solidaire’s members move money to the frontlines of social change movements in order to fund urgent needs, support bold and innovative ideas that others may not fund, and help build long-term infrastructure for the movement. Through our grantmaking and funding, Solidaire seeks to achieve five goals:  

  • Protect movements immediately as movement leaders and their organizations face a heightened risk of violence and state repression, alongside the considerable stresses and harms of fighting racism 24-7. 
  • Resource movement infrastructure by funding legal, communications, technology,  financial, organizational development, healing, cultural work, and leadership development to sustain and support our movements for the long term. 
  • Support resistance through funding organizations and activities that are focused directly on dismantling and disrupting extractive, exploitative, and oppressive systems steeped in structural racism. 
  • Fund imagination and futures by investing deeply in the work of envisioning and creating new institutions, deeply democractic governance structures, and decolonized systems that recognize and respect the dignity of all oppressed peoples.
  • Liberate wealth to support Black liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty by calling on philanthropy to liberate capital and wealth in new ways and build durable power for grassroots and movement leaders.

Questions? See our 2021 Grantmaking FAQ here.

Missed our 2021 Grantmaking Opportunities Webinar? Watch the video recording here. 

GRANTMAKING AREAS

These goals are met through the following grantmaking areas:

Movement Infrastructure Fund

The Movement Infrastructure Fund will provide long-term scaffolding for movement formations and organizations

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Black Liberation Pooled Fund

The Black Liberation Pooled Fund invests in a robust ecosystem of Black-led social change organizations.

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Social Justice Funds Portfolio

We have partnered with nine incredible movement-aligned funds and provide general operating support grants so that they have the flexibility to move the resources as they see fit.

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Application process

Currently, at Solidaire we are focused on multi-year grantmaking and the importance of continued support for our current grantees. We expect the soonest new grant cycle to start at the earliest 2025. If you would like to be added to our mailing list to be notified when our grant cycles open, please enter your email here:

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