US: Clif Family Foundation Open Call Grant Program ($5,000 – $50,000)

Deadline: 01-Mar-2025

The Clif Family Foundation is pleased to announce the Open Call Grant Program to support general operating cost or specific projects.

Priorities

• Regenerative and Organic Farming
  • Accelerate the adoption of regenerative farming practices, including organic, climate-resilient, equitable, and agroecological approaches.
• Food Production Workers’ Health and Safety
  • Amplify efforts to secure healthy, safe, just, and empowering working and living conditions for food production workers.
• Climate Justice
  • Expand community-centered solutions to climate change that build resilience and empower those who have been historically marginalized.
• Healthy Food Access
  • Advance food systems’ changes that make healthy and sustainably produced food accessible, affordable, and culturally appropriate.
• Inclusive Outdoor Access
  • Catalyze solutions that expand access to safe places to enable healthy physical activity and improve mental health.
• Indoors and Outdoors Safe from Pollution
  • Promote preventative health approaches by identifying and eliminating toxics from the air, water, soil, and human-made materials.

Funding Information

• Typical grants range from $5,000 – $50,000 and last for one year.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be registered as (or fiscally sponsored by) a 501(c)3 organization.
• Priority is given to applicants that:
  • Advance the strategic priorities and align with the values
  • Focus their work primarily in the United States and its organized incorporated territories
  • Demonstrate strong community ties
  • Have operating budgets under $3MM
  • Operate at the grassroots level to implement change at the local, state or national stage

Ineligibility Criteria

• Areas not funded
  • Capital construction
  • (construction, demolition, renovation, or renewal of a public building)
  • Deficit funding
  • Endowments
  • Faith-based or religious organizations
  • Fundraising events (e.g., fun run, challenges, annual gala)
  • Individuals
  • Local and state public sector or government agencies

For more information, visit Clif Family Foundation.