Open Opportunity: Rapid Response Fund Apply
You're invited to explore Groundswell Fund’s 2022 Impact Report to learn about the fantastic work our grantee partners. Due to a vast network of supporters, we’re able to redirect significant resources to the boldest, most innovative, intersectional organizing led by women of color – particularly those who are Black, Indigenous, transgender, and gender-expansive.
As we mark Black August and Black Philanthropy Month, Groundswell is committed to amplifying the urgency for philanthropy to respond to the number of attacks on progressive policies that support Black folks’ opportunity, safety, and rights in this country.
We are a channel into which individual donors and foundations can pour resources to reach vital work at the grassroots.
Uses donor outreach and matching grants to leverage and direct new resources to organizations that are led by women of color, low-income women, and transgender people and building an organized grassroots base of support for reproductive justice
Supports midwives, doulas, and birthworkers of color leading innovative direct service delivery, advocacy, and organizing efforts to make high-quality midwifery and doula care and training accessible to communities of color and low-income communities.
The Rapid Response Fund provides the philanthropic community with a vehicle for deploying resources quickly and strategically to Reproductive Justice and social justice organizations during unexpected and critical campaign fights and key opportunities.
A joint project of Groundswell Fund and Groundswell Action Fund, the Liberation Fund supports the strongest grassroots organizing efforts led by women of color and transgender people of color across social justice sectors.
Groundswell Fund Builds Beyond with Adaptive Design Groundswell Fund invests in capacity-building across the movement and throughout the whole organization.
The Black Trans Fund is the first US-based national fund in the country dedicated to uplifting, resourcing, and building the capacity of Black trans social justice leaders.
You have to remember that pregnancy does not need to be pathologized. It is not a sickness.Angela Doyinsola Aina, Executive Director
Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Birth Justice Fund grantee
Atlanta, GA