The Fringe Foundation offers grants from $5,000 to $20,000 to selected partners with the possibility of annual renewal and additional mini-grants.
The Freya Project
Key Criteria
Grantees must have 501(c)(3) status, or must be sponsored by organizations with 501(c)(3) status.
Grantees must have a budget of (or under) $1,000,000.
Grantees must do collective organizing work that expressly challenges inequality.
We encourage candidates who address the root causes of injustice and who appreciate intersections among different forms of inequality.
Applicants should be working within at least two of our funding categories:
Racial Justice
Women's Justice
LGBTQ Justice
Immigrant Justice
Economic & Housing Justice
Civil Rights Justice
Education Justice
Art for Justice
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Partnerships
We seek to partner with organizations that share our commitment to fighting intersecting forms of social inequality through non-sectarian, non-violent, community-based organizing. We are open-minded in our approach. The Fringe has partnered with groups as wide-ranging as the Nashville Freedom School (Education Justice + Economic Justice + Racial Justice) and the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center (Economic & Housing Justice + Racial Justice + Civil Rights Justice) to the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (Immigrant Justice + Racial Justice + Civil Rights Justice) to the Coffee House Press (Art for Justice).
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Why Support Community Organizing
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Community organizations provide generative, grassroots change by and for the people most knowledgeable about and affected by structures of inequality. Only a small portion of funding from major philanthropic bodies goes to small, community organizations.