Opportunity Fund Grants List

FNV is growing an Opportunity Fund to respond to urgent needs in additional areas.

Total Granted 2024 (through August 31): $500,000

Civic Engagement 2024: $450,000
Arizona Coalition for Change

Arizona
$50,000
Support and expand initiatives that focus on civic engagement and leadership development among people of color in Arizona.

Asian American Community Fund of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania
$50,00
Speak the languages of Asian America, work through arts and culture, and build welcoming and culturally informed community spaces to power civic engagement work.

Emancipate NC

North Carolina
$50,00
Work to shift the narrative on racialized mass incarceration through community education, organizing, and nonpartisan voter engagement.

Mothering Justice

Michigan
$50,00
Provide mothers of color with the resources and tools to use their power to make equitable changes in policy. Mothering Justice adds new people to the voter registration rolls, educates voters about election issues, makes sure new and unlikely voters actually cast their ballots, and ensures that misinformation and intimidation don’t inhibit people from voting.

Movement Voter Fund

National
$150,00
Support local nonpartisan grassroots organizations working to build power in Black, Latinx, AAPI, Native, immigrant, Muslim, LGBTQ+, youth, student, working class, rural, and other communities through issue-based community organizing, civic engagement, public education, and community mutual aid.

Pennsylvania Stands Up Institute

Pennsylvania
$50,00
Build a Pennsylvania that works for everyone by organizing for power across race, place, and generation.

SOWEGA Rising

Georgia
$50,00
Mobilize people and resources to improve the well-being, quality of life and political power of marginalized Southwest Georgians.

Additional Opportunity Fund Grants 2024: $50,000
Adalah Justice Project (Fiscal Sponsor: Tides Center)

National
$25,000
Secure a ceasefire in Gaza by continuing to apply pressure on government officials, companies, and institutions that are supporting genocide.

Combatants for Peace (Fiscal Sponsor: American Friends of Combatants for Peace)

Israel / Palestine
$25,000
Support a joint community of Palestinians and Israelis working in solidarity to end the occupation, discrimination, and oppression and envision a future where all people live in peace with justice, dignity, and liberty for all.

Total Granted 2023: $4,000

Dissenters (Fiscal Sponsor: Center for Third World Organizing)

National
$1,500
Provide communications support.

Missouri Justice Coalition

Missouri
$2,500
Support a statewide effort to build a prison advocacy movement.

Total Granted 2022: $100,000

Black Male Initiative (Fiscal Sponsor: The Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda)

Georgia
$25,000

Advocate for and advance effective reforms for Black Men & Youth including in the area of civic engagement/voter empowerment.

Chispa Arizona (Fiscal Sponsor: League of Conservation Voters Education Fund)

Arizona
$25,000

Grow civic engagement of Latinx, BIPOC, and low-income community members.

Rise Together Fund (Fiscal Sponsor: Proteus Fund)

National
$25,000

Invest in Black, African, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (BAMEMSA) justice activism and empower BAMEMSA leaders to work in solidarity to create a just, multiracial, feminist democracy.

We the People Michigan

Michigan
$25,000

Build robust multi-racial, working class organizing infrastructure across the state of Michigan.