Federal Foundation Assistance Monitor

(NOVEMBER DEADLINE) Fund Focuses on Appalachia (TN, KY, VA, WV)

(Deadline: Nov. 14) The Appalachian Community Fund funds community organizing and social change in the central region of Appalachia (East Tennessee, Eastern Kentucky, Southwest Virginia and all of West Virginia).

Grants are given to community-based organizations that address underlying causes of the economic and social distress of the region.

To be eligible, organizations must have a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, or a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor. The organization or project must be in Appalachian counties of Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia or West Virginia. Organizations based outside the region must include a specific work plan for the Appalachian portion of the work with their proposals.

The organization or project must show evidence of working for social change through one or more of the following:

  • Organizing and action led by people working to control their own lives.
  • Educating communities about the root causes of oppression and injustice.
  • Eliminating barriers to full participation in society (i e. racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, ageism, able-ism, and exclusion from decision-making processes).
  • Focusing on efforts to change cultural, social, political, and economic systems and institutions that accommodate and perpetuate social injustice.
  • Creating and modeling democratic cultural, social, political, and economic systems.
  • Connecting local issues with national and global concerns.
  • Networking, collaborating, and cooperating with other change agents working toward similar goals.

General program awards are for general operating or project support for either emerging/seed monies (up to $5,000 for groups in earlier stages of development) or movement building (up to $10,000 for more established groups).

The average grant award last year was $6,500.

Info: For more on the fund, please visit http://www.appalachiancommunityfund.org/

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