Annual Grants

Grants of up to $4,000 to Ontario community-based organizations to address social, economic, or political oppression. Funding is intended to increase the capacity and structure of applicant organizations and to support projects that fight for social change. The mission of this fund is to create sustainable financial support for community-based, left, political organizations that challenge and work to change dominant, oppressive structures in the current political, social, and economic system.

The money will be directed towards member-driven, grassroots initiatives or organizations that face difficulty raising funds needed for their work. The Fund is committed to giving a minimum 50% of funding to organizations led by Black and/or Indigenous organizers. The majority of approved applications will be from already existing organizations/projects, with a smaller portion reserved for start-up projects. 

The fund prioritizes the following things:

• Groups that are led by the communities they are organizing; specifically, folks who are most directly affected by oppression.
• Work that seeks to confront the root causes of oppression and not merely find temporary solutions to the conditions that it creates.
• Transformative work that seeks to confront the root causes of oppression rather than just finding temporary solutions
  
• Work that actively confronts power imbalances and seeks to build community power.
  
• Work that cannot get adequate funding from other sources.
• Work taking place across the expanse of Turtle Island now called Canada (Given the Fund's commitment to decolonization, it does not define its work according to colonial borders but instead engage applicants with some flexibility around their geographies).