The Fund for Nonviolence, founded in 1997, is a non-endowed private foundation based in Santa Cruz, California. We currently have three primary grantmaking programs operating under the foundation’s overarching lenses of dismantling structural racism, challenging state violence, and promoting active nonviolence.
Main program areas:
FNV also supports a set of continuing grantees through its Legacy Fund and is growing an Opportunity Fund to respond to urgent needs in additional areas.
Universal justice and peace are essential conditions for realizing individual and collective human potential. Violence is a dehumanizing obstacle to human potential. We recognize that violence can be direct or indirect, overt or built into social structures. Moreover, all forms of violence are interdependent and are best addressed in relation to one another.
By nonviolence, we mean a process of change that reflects today the new relations/new society that we seek to create in the future. This future is one of justice and peace, inseparable and for everyone. For us, the practice of nonviolence recognizes the interconnectedness of all beings, acknowledges the humanity of any opponent, and honors the spiritual dimension of human experience.
We focus on social justice for marginalized communities and, in particular, on elevating the voices and leadership of people from those communities.
Because we believe that how we do our work fundamentally influences the results, we seek and encourage organizations that not only further our programs’ missions and goals but also:
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