Organizing and Advocacy Grants Program, Third Wave Foundation

Posted by on February 4, 2005

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Title: Organizing and Advocacy Grants Program
Sponsor: Third Wave Foundation

SYNOPSIS:
The sponsor financially supports organizing and activism work that exists to challenge sexism, racism, homophobia, economic injustice, and other forms of oppression. The sponsor provides grants for both specific projects and general operating support.

Deadline(s): 04/01/2005
E-mail: info@thirdwavefoundation.org

Program URL: <a href="http://www.thirdwavefoundation.org/programs/o_a_fund.PDF">http://www.thirdwavefoundation.org/programs/o_a_fund.PDF</a>
Tel: 212-675-0700
Fax: 212-255-6653

Funding Limit: $5,000 MAXIMUM

OBJECTIVES:
The sponsor accepts proposals for projects which benefit, target, are devised by, and led by women between the ages of fifteen and thirty, with an emphasis on low-income women, differently abled women, women of color, and lesbian and bisexual women.

FUNDING
Grants range in amounts from $100 to $5,000. The sponsor does not give grants to the same project or program for more than two consecutive years and does not give more than three grants to the same program all together.