Funding Opportunities

The Community Organizing Grants Program is an umbrella for PDF’s annual grantmaking docket which consists of three grant programs: the Seeding the Movement Fund (formerly the “Board Docket”, Western Mass Transformation Fund (formerly the Pioneer Valley Community Advised Fund, and The Braiding New Worlds Fund. Any organization that fits PDF’s guidelines is eligible to apply for a grant. PDF currently only funds organizations in the United States, Haiti and Mexico through the Community Organizing Grants docket.

Each year PDF receives hundreds of proposals from grassroots community organizations seeking funding. Through a careful review and interview process, PDF selects those organizations that will have a significant impact in their geographic and social justice focus area, or are working on issues that are not yet recognized by progressive funders.

What We Fund:
- Organizing to Shift Power
- Working to Build a Movement
- Dismantling Oppression
- Creating New Structures

ACF will fund organizations in service to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community through four categories: capacity building, scientific research in the area of deafness and hearing loss, project support, and feasibility planning for capital projects.

Young people will have to live with the impacts of the climate crisis. Because of this, they have both the will and the moral authority to lead on this issue.

We work to support youth climate activists in various ways. We offer material support for actions, which can include funding for consultants, transportation, and equipment. We also support educational and media initiatives, as well as creative projects.

Climate activist and author Naomi Klein has argued that “no is not enough”; we need an affirmative vision of how political and economic life can work for everyone, including non-humans and future generations.

We offer support for projects that help us envision a path to a better future. These may include works of literature, visual and performance art, design (broadly-construed), and more.

Mitigation alone is no longer enough; we will need to draw carbon out of the atmosphere. One of the best ways to do this is by transforming agriculture. Regenerative farming practices draw carbon back into the soil and out of the atmosphere, with the added benefit of providing better livelihoods for more people than centralized industrial agriculture.

Big Agriculture, which relies on mono crops, tilling, pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers, accounts for approximately 9% of GHG emissions. We must begin subsidizing farming practices that help, rather than hurt, ordinary people and the environment.

The voices of Indigenous peoples, both youth and elders, have long been marginalized by a colonial capitalist project grounded in an ideology of white supremacy, which has led us to the brink of climate catastrophe and the sixth great extinction.

Indigenous peoples have been fighting back against this genocidal and ecocidal system for centuries, preserving more sustainable ways of living. We support their ongoing fight for a livable future where all our relations are respected.

We understand that climate change and vulnerability to it grow out of a long and complex history of imperial domination and exploitation, and that climate change intersects with and exacerbates existing injustices.

As such, we aim to highlight the connections between climate change and struggles for racial justice, gender equality, freedom of movement, and self-determination. For example, we encourage projects that highlight the role of climate change and imperial violence in driving immigration.

The foundation seeks to fund broadly the very best proposals across all relevant disciplines and as such focus areas can include basic, pre-clinical, clinical research and clinical care. While there are no strict limits, fellowships are generally intended to support PhD, MD/PhD and MD physician scientists at earlier stages of their careers to enable them to establish/develop independent programs and compelling careers in breast cancer research.