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Date Posted: 10:21:24 04/30/02 Tue
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Sarah
's message, "Fundraising" on 23:50:19 01/28/02 Mon
Dear Potential Grantee,
The Peace Development Fund sets aside a portion of its grants budget each year to meet the unforeseen technical assistance needs and emergency situations of the organizations that we support Requests for funding through the Technical Assistance and Emergency Grant Program (TA/E Program) are accepted on a rolling basis with decisions made generally within three weeks of submission.
All organizations seeking funding through the TA/E Program must fit within PDF’s grant making philosophy, goals, priorities and criteria. PDF’s grant making philosophy, goals and priorities are explained in brief below and may be found in their entirety on our website www.peacedevelopmentfund.org. The specific criteria for the TA/E Program are attached.
PDF believes that peace and justice are integrally linked and neither can be achieved without the other. PDF believes that the change in values needed to establish a more just and peaceful world will come about only if those changes are strongly rooted in communities which value the building of movements for systemic social change across such boundaries as race, class, gender, and sexual orientation . Therefore, the Peace Development Fund makes grants to organizations and projects that recognize that peace will never be enduring unless it is based on justice and upon the understanding and acceptance of both the diversity and unity of the human family and the world we inhabit. PDF seeks to empower those in traditionally marginalized and oppressed communities, especially people of color, to challenge the causes of injustice and lead a movement for social change.
With those beliefs in mind, PDF’s current funding priorities are in the following areas:
Youth
Environmental Justice
Criminal Justice
Community Organizing
Cross-border Organizing (Mexico/Canada/US)
Dismantling Racism
Indigenous Communities
Networking and Alliance Building
PDF’s granting is currently limited geographically to the United States, portions of Latin America and the Caribbean, and Cross-border Organizing (Mexico/Canada/US).
We encourage you to pay close attention to the attached criteria and guidelines for the TA/E Program. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our program making staff at (413) 256-8306.
In Solidarity,
The Technical Assistance/Emergency Grant Committee
Criteria for Technical Assistance & Emergency (TA/E) Funding
All the groups that we support through TA/E funding must fit within PDF’s grantmaking priorities. Requests for general operating or program funds should be directed to our regular grants program. Please also be aware that PDF does not fund:
Individuals
Individual scholarly research
Scholarships
Academic institutions
Social services that are not part of an organizing strategy
Production & distribution of videos, books & magazines, TV or radio programs
Specific Criteria for Technical Assistance Funding
The purpose of the Technical Assistance grants is to enable groups to learn specific skills and develop strategies they need in order to be more effective in their chosen missions. These grants must be used specifically to help staff, board members and key volunteers to strengthen their abilities in any area that results in building capacity for the organization. The list below is a sample of these areas; another area may be suggested by the group applying.
Organizing and leadership skills
Developing strategies and tactics for addressing significant issues
Strengthening an anti-racist or anti-oppressive practices
Fundraising & Grantwriting
Planning & evaluation skills or doing planning & evaluation
Building a strong Board of Directors or Steering Committee
Forming or enhancing alliances, networks and coalitions
Administration or financial management skills
Specific Criteria for Emergency Grants
By emergencies, we mean unanticipated events (political, economic, environmental), crises or natural disasters that threaten your community. Grants are given to support efforts like the planning and implementation of:
Direct actions, rallies, etc.
Public education & outreach, or media strategies
Gatherings to organize those affected by the emergency
Gatherings to build new alliances or coalitions
A public policy or legislative response strategy, including education of policymakers about an issue
Problems that arise from an organization’s lack of good planning and management will not be considered an emergencies.
HOW TO APPLY for Technical Assistance & Emergency Funding
We accept applications for TA/E funding on an ongoing basis (no deadlines). Grants range from $500 to $4,000. Organizations may receive Technical Assistance or Emergency funds once a year, regardless of whether they have submitted requests for or received grants in our other funding programs. Twelve (12) months must pass between the granting of TA/E funds and a new request for TA/E funding.
To apply, submit a letter of up to four (4) pages that answers the seven (7) questions outlined below. Budget pages should be included as attachments:
Technical Assistance Grants
Please provide basic information about your organization, including: a brief statement of its history & activities, number of staff, volunteers, or members, organization structure and decision-making processes.
What does your organization see as the root causes of the inequity or injustice that you are working to transform?
How does your organization address issues of racism in your work, both within your organization itself and in the work that you do for social change?
Please describe the activity for which you are requesting funding. If you are attending a training or conference, what organization is providing, organizing, and/or hosting it? (Please attach a copy of the course description or conference schedule if possible.)
How was this chosen as a priority? What is your follow-up plan for using this to improve your organization?
Please list the individuals who are planning to participate in the activity, including their roles in the organization.
Please include a basic budget for your organization and for the proposed activity. Include any additional sources of funding for this project.
Emergency Grants
Please provide basic information about your organization, including: a brief statement of its history & activities, number of staff, volunteers, or members, organization structure and decision-making processes.
What does your organization see as the root causes of the inequity or injustice that you are working to transform?
How does your organization address issues of racism in your work, both within your organization itself and in the work that you do for social change?
Describe the emergency to which you are responding. What makes this situation an emergency?
Describe your plan to respond to the emergency. What results do you expect to achieve? What is your follow-up plan?
How does your response to the emergency fit in with your organization’s long-term goals, strategies or mission? Or, if your response is aside from the long-term vision of your work, why has your organization chosen to respond to this emergency?
Please include a basic budget for your organization and for the proposed activity. Include any additional sources of funding for this project.
Timeline
You should expect a response within three weeks of when we receive your letter, and are welcome to contact us at any time about the status of your request. We may also contact you by phone for further information before making a final decision on your request.
We accept letters for Technical Assistance and Emergency Grants by mail, email attachment (Microsoft Word documents only), or fax. Send materials to:
Peace Development Fund
TA/E Grant Application
P.O. Box 1280, 44 North Prospect Street
Amherst, MA 01004-1280
Phone: (413) 256-8306
Fax: (413) 256-8871
Email: grants@peacefund.org
www.peacedevelopmentfund.org
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