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NoVo Foundation, Radical Hope Fund: https://novofoundation.org/radicalhope/

Countries: GLOBAL

Application language: English

Grant size: Total Project Budgets should be at least $250,000 per year. In the case of a single organization, project budgets should not exceed 33 percent of the organization’s total annual budget. In the case of some newly formed initiatives/coalitions/campaigns, the project budget may be the same as the total budget of the collaboration, but should not exceed 33 percent of the total combined organizational budgets.

Deadline: 04 October!!

 

The Radical Hope Fund is a $20 million, four-year commitment to support bold and transformative social justice work across the globe.

The fund is designed to complement and deepen NoVo’s current work by encouraging new partnerships, collaboration and creativity. Beginning today, the foundation is inviting letters of inquiry from projects anywhere in the world, including from current grantee partners.

 

Like all of NoVo’s work, the fund will be grounded in the belief that meaningful change happens from the community level up—informed by lived experience, powered by movement building and activism, and guided by the leadership of marginalized people as the best experts of their own lives and futures.

 

The Radical Hope Fund seeks to support efforts that are bold and imaginative, focused on building movements that can advance change over the long term, with efforts that will springboard us forward in this moment of both crisis and opportunity. This means that we must engage in strategies that are adaptive and that aim for transformation rather than solely incremental change.

In the spirit of boldness and imagination, the Radical Hope Fund will focus on supporting the following essential strategies for change:

  • Bringing communities together for cross-issue, cross-sectoral organizing that centers feminist leadership, including but not limited to policy advocacy campaigns
  • Global solidarity and transnational movement-building connecting issues and movements that are aligned in their purpose and vision
  • Leveraging the power of media, culture, and the arts to engage in storytelling and share ideas, moving hearts and minds for change, including creating new strategic platforms and collaboration between artists/culture-makers and movement organizations
  • Seeding experiments in building new structures and systems to propel us into a world that is oriented around interdependence, mutuality, and love rather than domination and extraction, with an emphasis on cultivating local, community-driven solutions

GLOBAL CALL FOR LETTERS OF INQUIRY

To gain a broader awareness of work happening across the world, NoVo is accepting Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) that align with the goals of this Fund, prioritizing groups and collaborative efforts in accordance with the following guiding principles:

  • Seizing the opportunity to be bold, creative, and risk-taking in a way that expands our notions of what is possible
  • Demonstrating sharp strategic approach, with particular focus on organizing and building power that centers feminist leadership, especially the leadership of girls and women (cis-, trans-, and gender non-conforming) of color
  • Building organizational capacity to go the distance with alliances, coalitions, and networks, and reach across issues, sectors, and other traditional divisions in our movements
  • Holding a national and global perspective that connects movements and defies the false nationalism both being touted by the current U.S. administration and on the rise globally
  • Adopting a proactive stance that keeps a view of the horizon and building a foundation for the future, even as we do defensive and resistance work
  • Reexamining how we show up to do the work of social justice and experimenting with ways of doing/being that center our humanity, interrupting movement habits in favor of practices that will sustain leaders and movements in the long run
  • Bolstering security and adaptation of groups that amplify the voices of targeted communities and/or challenge the normalization of white supremacy, xenophobia, and misogyny

ELIGIBILITY

  • Not limited to any single issue or geographic area. Within the United States, efforts based in under-resourced parts of the country are encouraged to apply.
  • Registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, 501(c)(3) equivalent organizations outside of the U.S., or any initiatives/groups/collaborations with a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, including current NoVo grantee partners, are welcome to submit a Letter of Inquiry. At this time, we are unable to directly support individuals or other formations outside of nonprofit organizations.
  • Funding will be allocated primarily as project support rather than core support to affirm organizations’ and collaborative efforts’ interest in being bolder and trying ventures that they otherwise would not be able to without dedicated funding.
  • Current NoVo grantees are eligible to apply, but are encouraged to consider how this project support will enable them to engage in creative collaborations, bold new campaigns, or strategic experiments.
  • Projects may produce immediate results on a 1- or 2-year timespan, but most grants will support reaching project goals over the next four years.
  • Projects may include a planning phase, particularly if newly emerging collaborations/alliances are key to the project objectives.

LOIs should be submitted via NoVo Foundation online submission form only by 12:00pm Eastern time (UTC -4) on Wednesday, October 4, 2017. LOIs will not be accepted by mail or email.