OVERVIEW: Resist does not have clearly defined funding priorities beyond broadly supporting grassroots and local social justice organizations.
IP TAKE: This approachable funder does not support organizations with operating budgets over $150,000. Instead, it prioritizes grassroots and local outfits that need a leg up. Small social justice groups should not overlook this funder. In order to stand out, make sure your work is intersectional at its core.
The foundation offers general support, multi-year, technical assistance, emergency, and accessibility grants. Resist restricts its multi-year grants to current grantees. While this approach makes support more long-term, it also makes grants more competitive.
PROFILE: Resist’s history is different from most foundations. Its foundation began in 1967 “when the ‘Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority’ was issued to support draft resistance in opposition to the war in Vietnam. The document became central to the “Boston Five” conspiracy trial. The Boston Five—which includes Reverend William Sloan Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Michael Ferber, Marcus Raskin, and Mitchell Goodman—became the five founding members. Other founding members include Grace Paley, Noam Chomsky, Robert Lowell, Barbara Guest, and Allen Ginsberg. Resist “supports people’s movements for justice and liberation” and “believes in grassroots organization, creativity, and power.”
Grants for LGBTQ, Women and Girls, Racial Justice and Indigenous Rights
Resist does not have specific areas of interest. Rather, the foundation focuses broadly on organizations and programs that “work actively against white and Christian supremacy, capitalism, gender, and sexual oppression, and all forms of patriarchy.” It supports groups that operate “within an ecology of social justice organizations” and “are aware of how their work fits into a greater whole.” Resist also prioritizes organizations that “have an intersectional / cross-issue analysis” and “are led by those most affected by structural oppression.”
Important Grant Details:
Grants of up to $4,000 are available for general support, accessibility, and multi-year awards. Resist offers grants for $500 technical assistance and $1,000 emergencies. Resist accepts unsolicited grant applications. It features four application deadlines per year for its accessibility, general support, and multi-year grants. The foundation accepts applications on a rolling basis for emergency and technical assistance. To get a broader sense of the types of organizations Resist supports, explore its searchable grantees list.
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