HOW TO APPLY

Emergent Fund is a rolling, monthly rapid response and emergent organizing grant for movement and frontline communities responding to urgent and specific unanticipated crises or opportunities to build power.

GRANT DEADLINE: EVERY 3RD THURSDAY EACH MONTH AT 5:00 P.M. PST / 8:00 P.M. EST.

*Emergent Fund annually pauses its grant cycles during the months of December and August.

Emergent Fund accepts prescreens for grant proposals on Good Grants.

We will review your prescreen and if your work is aligned with our grant making criteria, a member of our Movement Building Team will reach out to you via email with information about next steps in the application process. 

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For questions about how to submit your prescreen, please contact info@emergentfund.net.


MONTHLY GRANT CRITERIA

*Organizations must have 501c3 or 501c4 tax status, or a fiscal sponsor in order to be eligible and to receive grants.

The Emergent Fund (501c3) and our sibling Emergent Action Fund (501c4) are respectively fiscally sponsored by The Amalgamated Charitable Foundation (c3) and Organize Action (c4). All initial grant award offers are followed by required legal and fiscal due diligence as best practice. Emergent Fund and Emergent Action Fund will ultimately be unable to issue grants if the applicant does not have a currently active 501c3, 501c4, or fiscal sponsor.

Emergent Fund Rapid Response Grants Are Not Designed for…

  • Applying on an annual or monthly basis for ongoing general operating support or supplemental funding to address budget shortfalls (including back-to-back, repeated proposals)

  • Government or State Agencies, Universities

  • Charity, Direct Services/Community Programming without an organizing foundation

  • Religious institutions and affiliated programs

  • International work or work based outside of the United States and U.S. Occupied “Territories”

  • For-profit Business, Social Enterprise, Start-Up Costs, Capital-Raising campaigns

  • Individuals (activists, consultants)

  • Work or entities that promote or collude with systems of oppression and harm, that lack sound power analysis or understanding of collective liberation

Some Advisory Council Considerations During Grant-Making

  • Time-Sensitive

  • Directly-Impacted Leadership

  • Access to Resources

    To learn more about the work we fund, please check out our Frequently Asked Questions page