Mart?n-Bar? (Ignacio) Fund Grant

Posted by on May 15, 2004

Program Number: 75581
Title: Grants Program

Sponsor: Mart?n-Bar? (Ignacio) Fund

SYNOPSIS: The sponsor provides grants to support progressive, grassroots groups throughout the world who are challenging institutional repression and confronting the mental health consequences of violence and injustice in their communities.

Deadline(s): 09/01/2004
Contact:
P.O. Box Box 2122
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
E-mail: apply@martinbarofund.org

Program URL: <a href="http://www.martinbarofund.org/contact/applying.htm">http://www.martinbarofund.org/contact/applying.htm</a>

Fax: 617-469-3379

DEADLINE NOTE
Applicants must first submit a one to two page letter of interest after May 1 and before September 1, 2004. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full applications. Full applications are due March 15, 2005.

Funding Limit: $7,000 MAXIMUM
OBJECTIVES: The sponsor has a strong preference for projects which are developing innovative and progressive ways to deal with the mental health consequences of violence and political repression. The sponsor prefers to support grassroots, community-based projects which focus on the needs and concerns of the community as well as of the individual. The sponsor is especially interested in supporting groups located in regions harmed by U.S. policies and/or addressing problems created or aggravated by those policies.

FUNDING
Grants are usually no more than US$7,000. Almost all of the projects the sponsor funds are outside the United States.