Akonadi Foundation launches So Love Can Win Rapid Response Grant 2020

Deadline: 15-Sep-2020

Through So Love Can Win, Akonadi Foundation provides rapid-response general support grants to Oakland organizers, storytellers, culture bearers, and healers who seek to ignite and implement a radical collective vision of freedom and justice.

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Funding Information

$470,000 will be available
Rapid-response grants up to $10,000
Larger grants may be made on a case-by-case basis
Priorities

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Akonadi Foundation will prioritize grant support to the following:

Organizations with budgets under $500,000.
Organizations that advance the leadership of women, trans, queer and non-binary communities; immigrant and undocumented communities; and formerly/currently incarcerated people and their families.
Eligibility Criteria

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In order to apply for a 2020 So Love Can Win grant, applicants must:
Be an organization, group, formation or collective
Be based in Oakland
Be committed to dismantling anti-Black racism
Be led by Black, Indigenous, people of color
Demonstrate a history of work with Black, Indigenous, people of color in Oakland
Have 501(c)(3) status or a fiscal sponsor. Akonadi is continuing its partnership with the Social Good Fund, which will waive its normal fiscal sponsorship fees to groups that have been approved for a So Love Can Win grant.
And employ at least one of the following strategies:
Organizing
Base-building organizations who mobilize, support, develop, and build power with their members
Culture
Cultural formations that use culture and art as a tool for collective healing, racial justice movement building, and practices of communal joy.
Healing
Healing justice collectives and organizations providing accessible and relevant healing, wellness and self-care practices using an anti-racist political frame.
Voice
Oakland focused journalism with stories that highlight the racial impact of the pandemic and the anti-racist freedom struggle of Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities and use their platform to promote community leadership, mutual aid, and cultural resilience.
For more information, visit https://akonadi.org/so-love-can-win/