Funding Opportunities

This program helps eligible communities prepare, or recover from, an emergency that threatens the availability of safe, reliable drinking water.

Implementation grants are awarded to support the one-time third-party start-up costs for Sustained Collaborations. Implementation grants may be used to pay for the costs of lawyers, accountants, and consultants, lease-breaking, moving costs, technology integration, severance, collateral materials (new business cards, signs, etc.), and other one-time costs for activities necessary to complete the transactions. Grants may not be used to cover staff time.

Exploration grants are available to support the one-time third-party costs associated with exploring the feasibility of a proposed transaction. Exploration grants may be used to pay for external facilitators, consultants, offsite meetings for relevant Board members and staff, etc. Grants may not be used to cover staff time.

Seed grants fund the organizations to convene key parties and/or retain outside experts to educate those parties on the general technical and logistical aspects of collaboration. Seed grants may also be awarded to provide consulting expertise to an organization’s leadership through the process of defining ideal collaboration partners, creating a target list and approaching partners for opportunities. These grants will not exceed $2,500, but will be eligible to cover up to 100% of the associated costs Arizona Together for Impact will make these grants only in situations that it believes are reasonably likely to lead to a follow-on exploration grant (see below).

This grant provides resources for keeping boater sewage from California waterways.

The Pumpout Facility Grant Program funds the construction of pumpout and dump stations on California's waterways.

Thomas Jefferson observed that "the ground of liberty is won by inches." The Norman Foundation seeks to help win some of those precious inches. We support efforts that strengthen the ability of communities to determine their own economic, environmental and social well-being, and that help people control those forces that affect their lives. These efforts may:

promote economic justice and development through community organizing, coalition building and policy reform efforts;
work to prevent the disposal of toxics in communities, and to link environmental issues with economic and social justice;
link community-based economic and environmental justice organizing to national and international reform efforts.

We will consider the following in evaluating grant proposals:

Does the project arise the hopes and efforts of those whose survival, well-being and liberation are directly at stake?
Does it further ethnic, gender and other forms of equity?
Is it rooted in organized, practical undertakings?
Is it likely to achieve systemic change?

Within the U.S., Sony focuses the majority of its charitable giving on art, culture, technology and the environment, with a particular emphasis on education in each of those areas. While support in other areas may also be considered, the Company seeks to apply its financial, technological and human resources to the encouragement of the creative, artistic, technical and scientific skills required of tomorrow's workforce.

The Story of Stuff Project established the Grassroots Grants Program in 2017 to support small organizations and groups organizing against water privatization and plastic pollution in the United States. Since we launched, we have supported over 70 grassroots groups with nearly $200,000 in funding. We prioritize BIPOC-led and serving groups focused on water privatization, plastic pollution, and other environmental justice focus areas.

The Bob Barker Foundation funds organizations that are well-managed, have financial and fundraising plans, engage in strategic planning, and have strong leadership and engaged governance. Your organization must meet the following requirements to receive consideration for funding:

Your organization’s work must result in reducing recidivism.

Your organization must work with a minimum of 100 incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals annually.

Your organization must have a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status or be a governmental, educational or research institution with tax-exempt status.

Your methods must be “Evidence-Based” or use “Best Practices.”

De Colores Rapid Response Fund (RRF) has been established at PDF in honor of retired Development Officer, Ray Santiago. In his many years working in the farmworker movement, “De Colores,” a traditional Mexican folk song that celebrates nature and diversity, was and still is one of Ray’s favorite tunes. It is a great example of solidarity.

Ray recalls, “If I remember correctly, the song came to the Americas from Spain back in the 16th or 17th century. The song became very popular within the Latino community for special celebrations and occasions. It became the anthem of the United Farm Workers in California in the early 1960s. In time, it became the anthem of the larger farmworker movement, including the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) in the Midwest, Florida and Texas. We would cross arms and sing it at rallies and picket lines. It’s a very uplifting song and always brought comfort to me.”

De Colores RRF is looking to impact positive, dynamic-shifting opportunities, rather than provide emergency response for humanitarian crises or technical assistance. It is designed to make funds available for quick, short-term delivery to hot spots of opportunity for organizing in marginalized urban and rural communities.