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Information
& Grant Deadlines
Haymarket's
now has one annual grants cycle for sustaining grants, for
all 6 New England States:
- Connecticut
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
Deadline: December 1st
Please check this site in September,
2008 for updated grants information and materials for our
next funding cycle.
Haymarket
makes Sustaining Grants from $5,000-$15,000/year for grassroots,
social change organizations that meet our funding criteria
and priorities. We fund both start-up groups and groups
that are more established.
If your group has not been funded during the past 3 years
you must:
1.
Read the Grant Information Packet to evaluate whether your
request meets Haymarket's criteria and goals.
2.
Call and speak with a staff person about your request.
We will send you an application if we feel your work meets
Haymarket's basic criteria. Receiving an application
does NOT guarantee funding.
How
to Apply for a
Haymarket Urgent Response Grant
Haymarket
makes Urgent Response grants of up to $1,000/year to help
grassroots, social change organizations respond quickly to
unforeseen crises or opportunities that critically affect
their organization and constituency.
This is not a small grants program. Grants are NOT
to be used for ongoing program work (including expenses the
organization should have anticipated), for financial crises
or funding shortfalls, or because the group missed a funding
deadline.
Urgent Response grants are available on an ongoing basis.
All Urgent Response applicants must first read Haymarket's
Grant Information Packet. Click
here to download.
Once you have read through the Grant Information Packet, you
must call and speak with a staff person about your request.
We will send you an application if we feel your request
meets the basic criteria for urgent response grants.
Information
about scholarships for Undoing Racism trainings
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Grant Making Strategy & Criteria
Haymarket
believes that community organizing is the most effective strategy
for achieving our vision of an equitable, peaceful and humane world.
By organizing, we mean efforts led by those most affected by injustice
that focus on two things: the root causes of the problems facing
them and changing the institutions and structures of power that
keep injustice in place .
We do not fund services, which provide for the basic needs of individuals,
self-help programs, or advocacy work unless they are part of an
organizing strategy. We at Haymarket also believe that, for real
change to occur, organizing must be anti-racist and must recognize
the intersection of racism and other forms of oppression.
We pay special attention to race because we understand that, in
the United States, racism has divided all social change movements
and has limited the effectiveness of our organizing work.
Haymarket currently offers two kinds of grants – Sustaining
Grants and Urgent Response Grants
-- for social justice organizing work happening in the New England
region (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, Vermont or more than one state).
We are committed to supporting both urban and rural organizing across
the region, and to funding start up and emerging organizations as
well as groups that have a long history of grassroots organizing.
We make grants for both general operating support and project work.
We look at community organizing broadly and fund groups that focus
on the root causes of the problems they are facing, with strong
constituency leadership and accountability, antiracist and anti-oppression
values and practice, and a commitment to movement building.
We will consider funding cultural work and resources for organizing
(such as workshops, conferences and media work) that are part of
an ongoing community organizing effort or are accountable to social
change movements. (See funding criteria section for more details)
Funding Criteria
We evaluate all applications for funding according to the following
criteria:
1. Self-determination and Accountability – Is the organization or
project led by and accountable to their constituency or community?
Do constituents have real leadership and voice in all aspects of
the organization?
2. Leadership development– Is the group strengthening the skills
and experience of their constituency in all aspects of their work?
How is leadership development built into their process?
3. Anti-racism and anti-oppression values and practice-- Does the
organization understand racism and is it working to develop anti-racist
vision, values and practice, both internally and externally in the
community? Do they understand how racism impacts their constituency
and the issues they are facing? How are they struggling to address
this? Do they understand other areas of oppression and how they
intersect with racism?
4. Organizing for Systemic Change-- Does the group understand the
underlying causes of the problems they are addressing and do they
have plans and strategies which address these root causes? Is the
group working to create systemic change – that is, are they working
to change the culture, institutions and/or structures of power in
their community?
5. Movement building– Is the organization building relationships
and unity with other groups working on issues both similar and different
to theirs? Is the group able to see its work as part of a larger
whole?
6. Diversified funding base-- Is the group working to build a strong,
diverse and sustainable funding base in their community?
7. Limited access to traditional funding– Haymarket is committed
to funding groups that, because of their analysis and vision, have
limited access to traditional funding sources (such as government
and corporate funding). We have a history of funding start-ups and
smaller, grassroots organizations across the region.
Please note that we do not fund groups with
budgets over $350,000.
Tax Exempt Status
You do not have to have 501(c)(3) tax exempt
status from the IRS or a fiscal sponsor in order to get a grant
from Haymarket. You can apply if your work falls within what the
IRS defines as charitable or educational tax exempt activities.
What We Do Not Fund
1. Groups primarily providing direct services
that focus on meeting people's basic needs or that focus primarily
on individual empowerment or self-help. Social service organizations
can apply for a project-specific organizing grant if it fits Haymarket's
criteria.
2. Publications reports, workshops, classes, conferences, media
events, arts or theater productions unless they are part of an ongoing
community organizing effort or are accountable to social change
movements.
3. Groups based outside of New England (unless they have a strong
base in New England which holds them accountable) or work focused
outside of New England.
4. Legal or research expenses unless they are part of an overall
organizing strategy.
5. Capital campaigns or endowment drives.
6. Individuals or individual projects (such as graduate research,
fellowships or scholarships).
7. Projects sponsored by a government agency. For example, Haymarket
would not fund a project led by a school district. We would, however,
consider funding a project led by parents and students working to
hold a school accountable for inequitable treatment of children
of color.
8. Organizations with budgets over $350,000.
9. Small business, alternative businesses or business associations.
10. Other foundations.
11. Electoral work that promotes specific candidates.
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TRANSFORMATIONS:
Haymarket's Celebration of the Leadership of
Patricia Maher
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Important Grant Information:
Haymarket
now has one annual grants cycle,
and one Combined Grantmaking Panel for which makes decisions
on grants from all 6 New England states:
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
The deadline for sustaining grants is usually December 1st
of each year.
Go to GRANTS & DEADLINES page for
updated information.
Urgent Response grants will continue to be considered on a
rolling basis.
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