Grant announcements. Awardee announcements.
Social Justice Fund is pleased to announce the awardees of our 2026 Seed Grant cycle! Seed grants will provide small unrestricted funds to new groups who are in the early stages of building their community work but do not yet meet all of SJF’s community organizing criteria, and may not yet qualify for our regular […]
Social Justice Fund Northwest (SJF) is pleased to announce the 2026 Carceral Systems Organizing Grant, open to grassroots organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and/or Wyoming.
Elaine Nonneman, a long-time champion and donor with Social Justice Fund Northwest (SJF), sadly passed away in November 2024. She diligently attended meetings, provided loving feedback, and was a major donor for decades. Beyond her work with SJF, Elaine was a dedicated activist and philanthropist who supported many innovative projects throughout her long career in […]
Social Justice Fund is pleased to announce the round two and three awardees of our 2025 Seed Grant cycles! Seed grants will provide small unrestricted funds to new groups who are in the early stages of building their community work but do not yet meet all of SJF’s community organizing criteria, and may not yet […]
Social Justice Fund is pleased to announce the round one awardees of our 2025 Seed Grant cycles! Seed grants will provide small unrestricted funds to new groups who are in the early stages of building their community work but do not yet meet all of SJF’s community organizing criteria, and may not yet qualify for […]
Social Justice Fund is pleased to announce the awardees of our Immigration Justice Giving Project Grant! The 2025 Immigration Justice Giving Project (IJGP) focused on Immigration Justice and funding movements led by immigrants, refugees, and migrant workers. This year’s giving project cohort exceeded their fundraising goal and raised $300,000 to support community organizing work […]
Social Justice Fund NW (SJF) is pleased to announce the awardees of our Mountain West Organizing Grant! SJF’s grantmaking spans a five-state region: Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Historically, a significant portion of resources have been moved to large urban centers such as Seattle and Portland. The Mountain West Organizing Grant supports community […]
Social Justice Fund is pleased to announce the round five awardees of our Emerging Justice Fund Grant! The Emerging Justice Fund (EJF) moves unrestricted funds to resource grassroots organizing for communities that have been and continue to be targeted by Federal, State, and Local policies. There were five cycles of EJF in 2025, moving a […]
Social Justice Fund is pleased to announce the round four awardees of our Emerging Justice Fund Grant! The Emerging Justice Fund (EJF) moves unrestricted funds to resource grassroots organizing for communities that have been and continue to be targeted by Federal, State, and Local policies. There will be five cycles of EJF in 2025, […]
Social Justice Fund is pleased to announce the round three awardees of our Emerging Justice Fund Grant! The Emerging Justice Fund (EJF) moves unrestricted funds to resource grassroots organizing for communities that have been and continue to be targeted by Federal, State, and Local policies. There will be five cycles of EJF in 2025, […]
Social Justice Fund is pleased to announce the round two awardees of our Emerging Justice Fund Grant! The Emerging Justice Fund (EJF) moves unrestricted funds to resource grassroots organizing for communities that have been and continue to be targeted by Federal, State, and Local policies. There will be five cycles of EJF in 2025, moving a […]
Social Justice Fund is pleased to announce the round one awardees of our Emerging Justice Fund Grant! The Emerging Justice Fund (EJF) moves unrestricted funds to resource grassroots organizing for communities that have been and continue to be targeted by Federal, State, and Local policies. There will be five cycles of EJF in 2025, moving a […]
Social Justice Fund is pleased to announce the awardees of our 2024 Environmental Justice Giving Project! This Giving Project focused on making grants to support organizing work that aims to achieve equitable access to a clean and healthy environment for frontline communities most impacted by the climate crisis, environmental racism, and environmental injustice. The “environment” […]
Social Justice Fund is excited to announce the awardees of our 2024 Base Building cycle! We are proud to partner with these amazing community organizations and encourage you to learn more about them and support their work directly. As a reminder, base building is a community organizing tactic that grows the breadth and depth of […]
Over the past few years, SJF has taken a few weeks at the end of the year to shut down our operations to ensure our staff have time with loved ones, to fill their cups, and to prepare for the year ahead. This year the Social Justice Fund will be on Winter Pause December 16th […]
Social Justice Fund Northwest (SJF) is pleased to announce the 2026 Tenant & Housing Justice Grant, open to grassroots organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and/or Wyoming. Please read the following information carefully before beginning your application. Overview Grant Awards:Two-year grants of maximum $25,000/year Focus: Tenant and housing justice organizing in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, […]
Social Justice Fund Northwest (SJF) is pleased to announce the 2026 Seed Grant, open to grassroots organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and/or Wyoming. Please read the following information carefully before beginning your application. Description Seed Grants will provide small unrestricted funds for grassroots groups developing their community organizing work who do not yet meet […]
Social Justice Fund Northwest (SJF) is pleased to announce the 2026 Emerging Justice Fund Grant, open to grassroots organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and/or Wyoming. Please read the following information carefully before beginning your application. Overview Grant Awards: One-year grant of $10,000 Focus: Organizing around urgent and emerging needs in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington […]
Social Justice Fund (SJF) is pleased to announce the 2025 Mountain West Organizing Grant, open to grassroots organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon (the mountain west region), and/or Wyoming. Please read the following information carefully before beginning your application: Overview Grant Awards: Two-year grants of $25,000 per year, totaling $50,000 per organization. Focus: Mountain West organizing […]
Social Justice Fund (SJF) is pleased to announce the 2025 Immigration Justice Grant, open to grassroots organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and/or Wyoming. This year’s SJF Giving Project is focused on Immigration Justice, funding movements led by immigrants, refugees, and migrant workers most affected by an immigration system built to dehumanize the people caught […]
Social Justice Fund (SJF) is thrilled to launch our 2025 Seed Grant cycles! Seed Grants will provide small unrestricted funds to new groups who are in the early stages of building their community work but do not yet meet all of SJF’s community organizing criteria, and may not yet qualify for our regular grants. If […]
In an effort to continue responding to the needs of our community, organizers, and activists SJF is so excited to launch our new grant cycle, the Emerging Justice Fund! Emerging | /əˈmərjənt/ | adjective – becoming apparent or prominent The Emerging Justice Fund will move unrestricted funds to resource grassroots organizing for communities that have been and continue to be targeted by Federal, State and […]
Serving a five-state region, SJF allocated a significant portion of funding to major urban centers like Seattle and Portland in the past. The 2024 Native-Led Organizing Grant expanded its scope to intentionally include rural, small-town, and reservation organizing communities in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, particularly emphasizing those directed by and supporting LGBTQ+ and 2 Spirit […]
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15) is a time to celebrate the rich cultural contributions of Hispanic and Latinx/e communities across the U.S. In the Pacific Northwest (PNW), you can find a range of events and activities that highlight these cultures. Here are some ideas on how to celebrate: 1. Attend Cultural […]
The photo above is of George Jackson, a Black American activist, author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and cofounder of the Black Guerrilla Family who was slain by prison guards in 1971. SJF will be closed from August 26 to August 30 to honor Black August, a month-long observance dedicated to commemorating Black resistance, […]
THIS CYCLE IS CLOSED. The page will remain up for archival purposes. Thank you! SJF is pleased to announce the 2024 Base Building Grant, open to grassroots organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and/or Wyoming. Key Details: SJF is pleased to announce the 2024 Base Building Grant, open to grassroots organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, […]
In the first week of June, SJF’s Asian staff caucus organized and led an all-staff outing in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID) to honor Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, starting with lunch at Honey Court Seafood which is a staff favorite (honey walnut shrimp, anyone?). We also put together a scavenger […]
The Complexity of Becoming an United States Citizen On the 27th of March 2024 just before 12:30pm I, along with roughly 50 other immigrants, officially became a United States citizen at the immigration office in Tukwila, Washington. A reality that held complexities for me, as the United States has historically been a land of refuge […]
Thank you all for your tremendous patience and support as we’ve officially launched this grant! While the grant was originally intended to open in 2023, by delaying this Giving Project and grant we were truly able to center abundance and wellness in our team and in our community. Details Grant Awards: 2-year grants of $50,000 […]
It’s that time of year again—SJF is going on our month-long pause! Our staff are out of office starting today, Monday, December 18th and will return the week of January 15, 2024. During this time, expect delayed responses from our entire team as we prioritize rest and healing as part of our Black Liberation and […]
SJF will be on pause from December 18-January 12. We adopted this practice as one part of our effort to position Black liberation and wellness as guiding principles for our organization. Our rest is explicitly political, a response to racialized capitalism’s demands on our individual and collective wellbeing to maintain its chokehold on power. But […]
SJF is excited to announce the awardees of our 2023 Reproductive Justice Grant! A panel of five community members from Idaho, Oregon, and Washington came together for a decision-making session to select the awardees. We are so grateful for their labor to fund and support these amazing grassroots organizations. You can read more about the […]
Y’all, in full transparency, the transition into Fall hasn’t been easy for a lot of us. Life has been lifing heavily and at times showing up in unexpected ways this year: some of them beautiful, some of them heartbreaking. It feels like we’ve been saying “these past few years have been hard” for a long […]
Over three years into this pandemic (with the majority of SJF staff still working from home!), it is a rare treat to experience, real-time and multiplied by every face we had the pleasure to greet, the brilliance, humor, dedication, and passion of our community. The SJF staff sends a big THANK YOU to everyone who […]
SJF is thrilled to announce that we’re recruiting for our next Giving Project: the 2024 Environmental Justice Giving Project! The 2024 EJGP is open to anyone living in our five state region (ID, MT, OR, WA, WY) and will take place from January 23-July 14, 2024. All sessions will be online via Zoom. Click here […]
Over the years, SJF and many of our members, grantees, and partner organizations have supported and organized within the decades old movement to free Palestine. It is devastating and demoralizing to organize for so long and still be where we are today. But it’s important to continue to strategize, organize, move money, attend protests, and […]
Applications for this grant closed on October 26, 2023. We will keep this page up for reference. SJF is pleased to announce the 2023 Community Wealth Building Grant! This grant cycle will fund organizing that aims to address economic injustice, build power to transform unjust systems, and overcome barriers to wealth for individuals, families, and […]
Applications for this grant closed on Monday, June 20, 2022. We will keep this page up for reference. SJF is pleased to announce the 2023 Reproductive Justice Grant, open to grassroots organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and/or Wyoming. Please read the following information carefully before beginning your application. Key details: Grant amount: One-year grants […]
SJF’s Rapid Response & Seed Grants are officially open for the year, and will remain open through November or until we have exhausted the funding available for these grants. Rapid Response grants ($3,000) help SJF support organizing in response to urgent situations and Seed grants ($5,000) are for emerging grassroots collectives who might not yet […]
Earlier this month, Social Justice Fund and Potlatch Fund released a joint newsletter announcing the Native Led Organizing Grant, a grantmaking collaboration that supports Native-led community organizing throughout our overlapping five-state region. Our goal is to continue to work together collaboratively for greater impact, supporting the social justice efforts such as MMIWP, LGBTQIA2S+, Environmental Justice, […]
Allow us to reintroduce ourselves! Radical Donors of Color for our Collective Liberation (RDCCL, pronounced like “radical”) is excited to introduce ourselves to the SJF community! We were formerly known as SeaDoC and we are a network of donors of color who function under the umbrella of Social Justice Fund Northwest. We are building a collective, […]
A message from Valériana Chikoti-Bandua & Cleora Hill-Scott: As the Executive Directors of Potlatch Fund and Social Justice Fund NW (SJF) we are proud to announce a new initiative that began in 2022: the Native Led Organizing Grant, a grantmaking collaboration that will support Native-led community organizing throughout our overlapping five-state region. SJF and Potlatch […]
In the spirit of transparency, we want to share an update regarding our recently announced 2023 Environmental Justice Giving Project Grant. We have decided to delay the start of the EJ Giving Project until early 2024. This is a difficult decision as it will mean pushing back the awarding of those grants until the second […]
SJF is excited to announce our slate of funding opportunities for 2023! We want to thank our community of grantees, donor organizers, and supporters for informing our focus areas. Based on community feedback, our strategic plan, and an evaluation of the current political moment, our upcoming funding opportunities will center grassroots reproductive justice efforts, Native-led […]
There are few things more sacred than a small collective of people putting their hearts and minds together to change something for the better with love, fierceness, and dedication. We saw this magic in action in the Queer Justice Momentum Giving Project cohort, an almost entirely queer collective of donor organizers who, over the course […]
Heads up! In one month, SJF will take an organization-wide wellness pause from December 12, 2022 through January 6, 2023. In this period, staff will not be working and we’ll take a break from sharing updates about our work on social media and by email. If you have questions or matters to close out before […]
SJF is excited to celebrate the brilliance, power, and ongoing struggle for sovereignty of the Indigenous peoples of the so-called United States this coming Monday, October 10! Our Seattle office is on occupied Coast Salish territory, specifically that of the Duwamish, Suquamish, and Stillaguamish peoples. Our Portland office is on the occupied territory of the […]
We are thrilled to announce the awardees of the 2022 Rural Community Organizing Grant! These ten grassroots organizations represent powerful movements alive throughout Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, from robust mutual aid networks, Indigenous language and cultural preservation projects, and LGBTQIA+ advocacy to community-led organizing for affordable housing, food, and immigration justice, grassroots mobilization against the […]
On behalf of the SJF board, we are excited to share the news that Interim Executive Director Valériana Chikoti-Bandua Estes has accepted a permanent role as Executive Director at SJF. The new title is effective August 1st. The board’s decision to offer this permanent leadership role took into consideration a few factors. Notably, Valériana received […]
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion in the United States. Reproductive justice organizers have been preparing for this event for over a decade. SJF absolutely condemns this horrifying attack on the humanity, bodily autonomy, and self determination of birthing people. There is so […]
Applications for this grant closed on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. We will keep this page up for reference. SJF is pleased to announce the 2022 Queer Justice Momentum Giving Project Grant, open to queer-led grassroots organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and/or Wyoming. Please read the following information carefully before beginning your application. For more information […]
Over the past few years you’ve heard us talk about the trials and challenges we’ve faced as a community and as an organization. We navigated through turnover, the uprooting and rebuilding work necessary to center Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty, and battled the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, however, marked a turning […]
In January of 2022, freshly returned to work after a month long pause and excited to ring in the new year, SJF announced the second and final round of our Fund 4 the Frontlines Base Building Grants. Now, 5 months later, we are elated to announce the awardees: Creative Justice, Firelands Workers Action/Acción de Trabajadores, Na’ah […]
Hi community! We’re thrilled to announce that our Rapid Response & Seed Grants have officially reopened for the year, and will remain open through November or until we have exhausted the funding available for these grants. First launched six years ago, these small grants help SJF support organizing in response to urgent situations and emerging […]
Applications for this grant closed on Monday, June 20, 2022. We will keep this page up for reference. — SJF is pleased to announce the 2022 Rural Community Organizing Grant, open to grassroots community organizing projects in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. Please read the following information carefully before beginning your application. For more information about this […]
Hello community! Beginning this April (next week!) Social Justice Fund will begin operating on a four day work week, with our virtual office open Monday through Thursday. Reducing working hours is a key part of holistically supporting staff wellness, the central focus of our project to revamp SJF’s HR policies. Underlying this focus is our […]
“When a community organizing campaign wins monetary resources, what do they do with it? How can they allocate those resources back to the communities most impacted in an accountable and democratic way?” Origins In 2015, a group of low-income tenants took a behemoth to court and won. A private developer had purchased two low-income apartment […]
The SJF community mourns the loss of Michaelynn Hawk, an extraordinary community organizer and Native leader from Montana, who passed away on February 3 at the age of 61. Michaelynn was an enrolled member of the Crow tribe. She was the long-time Executive Director of the organization Indian People’s Action (IPA) which worked to empower […]
“We have been givers since the beginning of time… Black collective giving is something that’s inherent in us.” — Tracey Webb of Black Benefactors As a foundation working at the crossroads of wealth and liberation and striving to orient around Black liberation, we must constantly challenge ourselves to think beyond the limitations of “philanthropy.” We […]
SJF is taking an organization-wide wellness pause from December 13 – January 10 to rest, reflect, and spend some much needed time with our loved ones. After nearly two years of the pandemic and other hardships along the way, we know that in order to fully serve the movements we are part of, we must rest. […]
Applications for this grant closed on February 18, 2022. We will keep this page up for reference. These grants of $250,000 ($50,000 a year for five years) will support base building strategies across our region; there will be 10 total grants made. The first round of six grants were awarded in 2020. This second round […]
Over the past year and a half, you’ve heard us mention more than a few times that SJF has been going through a significant transition. A big part of that has been figuring out what kind of leadership structure best embodies our vision for liberation while supporting staff and organizational needs. We’re grateful to have […]
We are SO excited to share our newest storytelling video project, Solidarity Toward Liberation: Three Grantee Stories! Featuring the brilliance of SJF grantees Wa Na Wari, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), and Freedom Project, this video explores the roots of these organizers’ work, how the pandemic has affected them, and the worlds they […]
“What is the audacious vision or goal that will not only help us through these next four years, but really build on the movement that’s already started?” Ubax Gardheere, F4tF Public Phase Committee Member Campaign Origins In 2018, Social Justice Fund NW launched Fund 4 the Frontlines (F4tF), an ambitious fundraising […]
SJF is excited to announce the awardees of the Innovative, Just, & Equitable Housing Momentum Giving Project! These 1-year grants of around $18,000 will support grassroots organizations working to resist housing injustice and create new, innovative, and equitable approaches to housing for their communities. The project’s small-but-mighty cohort came together in March of 2021. Made […]
Note: the deadline has for submitting applications has passed. ——— Due to the origins of this funding, this grant is open to Seattle based groups and organizations Contact: Please review the information below thoroughly. For questions and information, contact Karen Toering Fund Consultant at [email protected]. If you have additional questions, schedule a call with Karen. […]
SJF is thrilled to announce the 12 awardees of the 2020-21 Black Led Organizing Giving Project! From October 2020 to May 2021, the project’s cohort — a group of cross-class, multigenerational Black folks living in Oregon and Western Washington — met to build community, learn together, and gather resources for Black liberation. The project was […]
SJF is thrilled to announce the 9 awardees of the 2020 Forced Migration & Displacement Giving Project (FMDGP)! In October of 2020, the FMDGP cohort came together for the first time: a cross-class, multi-racial, multigenerational group of people, each with personal stakes in the issue at hand. Over the next six months, they worked together […]
We are excited to announce the first six grantees of the 2021 Rapid Response and Seed grants! Grassroots organizers have responded to the crises of the past year (plus a few months) with imagination and power. They’ve connected with their communities, asked people what they need, and dreamed up plans of action rooted in collective […]
These are the names of the eight victims of the Atlanta spa shooting. Rest in power: Park Soon Chung 박순정, age 74 Kim Hyun Jung Grant 김현정, age 51 Kim Sun Cha 김순자, age 69 Yoo Yong Ae 유용애, age 63 Tan Xiaojie 谭小洁, age 49 Feng Daoyou 冯道友, age 44 Delaina Ashley Yaun, age […]
We’re excited to announce that the 2021 Rapid Response & Seed grants are now open for applications! These grants allow us to respond quickly to the political climate, attacks, and opportunities, and to support new and emerging groups. Before applying for either of these grants, read our eligibility criteria here. You can email Shardé Nabors with questions or schedule a […]
We’re excited to announce that Social Justice Fund NW is now recruiting participants for the Innovative, Just, and Equitable Housing Momentum Giving Project, open to Giving Project alumni living in ID, MT, OR, WA, and WY. This project runs from March 10 – June 30, 2021, with all sessions online via Zoom. The priority deadline for […]
Updated 3/4/21: Applications for the Innovative, Just, and Equitable Housing Momentum grant have closed. Open grants will be posted on the Current Grant Opportunities page and on the News + Events section of our website Housing is a human right and yet many are denied this right. The COVID-19 pandemic and its short and long […]
In the past year, COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter uprising have exposed even more plainly the many places where society is failing Black, Indigenous and other people of color. We knew grassroots organizers were thinking and planning beyond the early months to address the long-term impacts on their communities, often stepping up with their […]
For SJF, 2020 has been an intense, confounding, challenging and at times inspiring year. You’ve stuck with us through the best and worst of it, and we appreciate all the support we’ve received — much of which we’ve been able to pass on in the form of grants to grassroots organizations, making 2020 our biggest […]
It’s been nearly four years since we launched our Rapid Response & Seed Grant program in 2016! Last year, we set a goal to increase grantmaking through this program, and with the support of our incredible community, we more than doubled the number of grants made, 34 in total. That’s over $100,000 to resource new […]
The Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) was formed in November of 2016 after the election of Donald Trump, but their work responds to injustice that runs far deeper than the presidency. WAISN protects immigrants and refugees by collecting and analyzing data on ICE’s violent activities, interrupting arrests and deportations, providing free know-your-rights trainings, accompaniment programs, […]
SJF is seeking participants for our 2020-21 giving projects, Black-Led Organizing in Portland and Forced Migration & Displacement in Seattle! ——– 2020-21 Portland Black-Led Organizing Giving Project This project will support community organizing led by and for Black communities and communities of African descent who are working to end anti-Black racism and discrimination, support and […]
In the past four months, COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter uprising have exposed even more plainly the many places where society is failing Black, Indigenous and other people of color. The pandemic has been especially catastrophic for trans folks, people with disabilities, low-income and essential workers, and people living in areas with less access […]
In 2019, twenty-three committed volunteers joined the 2019-2020 Economic Justice Giving Project cohorts in Portland and Seattle, beginning a journey of political education, donor organizing, and grantmaking. Learning at the intersections of race, class, and gender, the two cohorts raised $380,177 to fund vital organizing for economic justice in our region and made two-year grants […]
George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. Ahmaud Arbery. The murders of Black people at the hands of police — and former police, in the case of Mr. Arbery — galvanized demonstrations of grief and rage that spread from Minneapolis across the nation over the past week. Black communities grapple with and fight against the terror of […]
In 2018 Social Justice Fund NW launched the initial phase of Fund 4 the Frontlines, an ambitious major gifts campaign with a singular focus: to level-up our region’s grassroots organizing by resourcing powerful, long term base building for people working at the frontlines of struggle. By January of this year we had raised enough towards […]
With all the turmoil in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, we almost missed the opportunity to announce our most recent slate of Criminal Justice Giving Project grants. Back in early March, a cohort of nine dedicated volunteers completed their 6-month project, making grants of approximately $30,000 each to seven organizations doing incredible work across […]
In mid-March Social Justice Fund NW launched our COVID-19 Crisis Fund to move resources to grantees in our region, helping to offset the impacts of the pandemic on groups that work in the margins to build power. This fund, created through combining SJF general operating funds, foundation grants, and individual gifts, has so far moved […]
Social Justice Fund NW is excited to announce our upcoming Grant Cycles in 2020. As you may know, since early March SJF has been moving rapid grants through our Covid-19 Crisis Fund. With many SJF grantees having received money through that fund we are now transitioning to other, longer-term crisis grants. Meanwhile, our Economic Justice […]
Everyday the effects of the coronavirus pandemic are becoming more severe. Just yesterday here in Washington state the governor announced a “stay at home” order, following other states like Oregon in mandating the closure of non-essential businesses and instructing people to stay put in order to stem the spread of the virus. Since the beginning […]
Request support from the COVID-19 Crisis Fund Donate to the Crisis Fund In response to coronavirus/COVID-19, Social Justice Fund launched an emergency fund to support Social Justice Fund grantees working to respond to the crisis. Initial grants are $3,000 and can support a variety of strategies to meet community needs and support mutual aid. We […]
In light of the recent news regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), we wanted to send an update to our community about steps Social Justice Fund NW is taking as we carefully monitor recommendations from local public health officials and work to better understand the implications. In response to the emergent COVID-19 epidemic, SJF is working to […]
Social Justice Fund NW is proud to announce the grant awards for the Leaderfull Movements Giving Project that wrapped up in December. The Leaderfull Movements project was designed to support organizations that prioritize leadership development as a key part of their overall organizing strategy. This project was unique in that we embarked on a proof of concept structure, […]
Announcing a special grant opportunity: The Fund 4 the Frontlines Base Building Grant. These grants of $250,000 ($50,000 a year for 5 years) will support base building strategies across our region. The first round of 3-6 grants will be made in May 2020; please read this information carefully as it is quite different from our […]
This 2019 Civic Engagement and Strengthening Democracy Grant process took place from July to October. It was the first panel of its kind for a full-length grant since starting Giving Projects, because unlike a Giving Project, the grant committee was not responsible for fundraising. Each committee member was also a member of SJF and engaged […]
On June 3, over 300 people gathered at Washington Hall in Seattle for Social Justice Fund NW’s 40th Anniversary Celebration. It was a historic occasion, marking four decades of grantmaking to grassroots community organizations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. In 1978, SJF was founded by a group of progressive donors and originally named […]
“I have come to understand that hope is active. It’s something that we have to build, piece by piece, everyday. Not just because it feels good… Sometimes the world feels too bleak, walking through the downpour of setbacks and assaults is too much, and hope seems foolish at best and suicidal at worst. But I’ve […]