The Muste Institute supports several active grantmaking programs promoting nonviolent action for social justice in the United States and around the world:
Our Social Justice Fund makes grants for grassroots activist projects in the US and around the world, giving priority to those with small budgets and little access to more mainstream funding sources. We are especially interested in funding efforts to:
Our Social Justice Fund makes grants for grassroots activist projects in the US and around the world, giving priority to those with small budgets and little access to more mainstream funding sources. We are especially interested in funding efforts to:
- stop war and militarism
- abolish the death penalty
- support labor organizing
- defend immigrant rights
- oppose prison injustice
- expose the dangers of nuclear weapons and nuclear power
The Social Justice Fund's priority is to support:
- direct grassroots activism and organizing
- groups with diverse, representative and democratic leadership structures
- groups which have or can obtain sufficient economic and in kind support from a diversity of sources to carry out their regular work, but need additional support to carry out a project or build capacity
The Muste Institute's Social Justice Fund considers proposals:
- for new projects or campaigns, or efforts to expand existing work
- for ongoing projects or campaigns
- for capacity building, leadership development, and resource sustainability
- for projects with expense budgets under $50,000
- for projects which are local, regional, national or global in scope
- from groups located anywhere in the world
- from grassroots organizations with annual expenses of less than $500,000
- from groups with limited access to more mainstream funding sources
- from groups that may be unincorporated or incorporated*
- from groups with or without 501(c)3 status or a fiscal sponsor*
- from groups which have not received Social Justice Fund grants from us in at least twoyears**
Moreinfo: https://ajmuste.org/programs
