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Fund For Nonviolence
Category: Violence/Law/Criminal Justice
DescriptionThe Fund cultivates and supports community-based efforts to bring about social change with the goal of moving humanity toward a more just and compassionate coexistence. The Fund recognizes that violence can be direct or indirect, overt or built into social structures. It believes that all forms of violence are interdependent and best addressed in relation to one another. Grants are awarded to organizations that reflect the spirit of nonviolence in their organizational relations, structure, and process; those that focus on structural changes to root causes of injustice; and those that demonstrate a capacity to reflect on their experience and adapt to lessons and insight. The Foundation also focuses on proposals that have a gender perspective, address the role of women within the organization, and provide an analysis regarding the implication and impact of the work on women. Also of interest are proposals that value the active involvement of the constituencies most impacted by the violence and social injustice being addressed. Two areas of funding interest are prisons and Latin America. The mission of the prison program is to support movements to foster political and social change that ends the use of incarceration as a solution to social and economic problems and ensures human rights protections of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. Movements that redirect human and financial resources away from funding incarceration and toward effective solutions to social and economic problems and those that challenge the race, class, and gender biases in the current system are priorities. Latin America grants are by invitation only. Letters of inquiry can be submitted at any time preferably by March 15, 2009.
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