Resist
/OVERVIEW: Resist does not have clearly defined funding priorities beyond broadly supporting grassroots and local social justice organizations.
IP TAKE: This approachable funder does not support organizations with operating budgets over $150,000. Instead, it prioritizes grassroots and local outfits that need a leg up. Small social justice groups should not overlook this funder. In order to stand out, make sure your work is intersectional at its core.
The foundation offers general support, multi-year, technical assistance, emergency, and accessibility grants. Resist restricts its multi-year grants to current grantees. This funder paused grantmaking in late 2023.
PROFILE: Resist’s history is different from most foundations. Its foundation began in 1967 “when the ‘Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority’ was issued to support draft resistance in opposition to the war in Vietnam. The document became central to the “Boston Five” conspiracy trial. The Boston Five—which includes Reverend William Sloan Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Michael Ferber, Marcus Raskin, and Mitchell Goodman—became the five founding members. Other founding members include Grace Paley, Noam Chomsky, Robert Lowell, Barbara Guest, and Allen Ginsberg.
Resist’s mission is to ““redistribute resources back to frontline communities at the forefront of change while amplifying their stories of building a better world.”
Grants for LGBTQ, Women and Girls, Immigrants and Refugees, Racial Justice, Indigenous Rights and Criminal Justice Reform
Resist does not have specific areas of interest. Rather, the foundation focuses broadly on organizations and programs that “work actively against white and Christian supremacy, capitalism, gender, and sexual oppression, and all forms of patriarchy.” The foundation aims to operate “within an ecology of social justice organizations” and to remain “aware of how their work fits into a greater whole.” Resist also prioritizes organizations that “have an intersectional / cross-issue analysis” and “are led by those most affected by structural oppression.”
Past Resist grantees include the Philadelphia Area Immigrant Collective, the Breathe Network, Tranzmission Inc., Sistories and the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement.
Important Grant Details:
Grants are awarded in amount of up to $4,000.
Resists offers general operating support, accessibility and multi-year grants.
Grants of $500 are available for technical assistance.
The foundation awards $1,000 emergency grants.
In past years, Resists has accepted grant applications for four annual grantmaking cycles, but applications for technical assistance and emergency grants are accepted on an ongoing basis.
To get a broader sense of the types of organizations Resist supports, explore its searchable grantees list.
Resist paused grantmaking in 2023, and it is unclear when grantmaking will resume. Check back for updates about new grantmaking opportunities.
Resist does not provide general contact information but provides email addresses for its staff members on its website.
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