gala

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Join Us for PDF's Inaugural Grassroots Gala!

You’re invited to join us for our first Grassroots Gala to celebrate organizing in the Valley! Help us recognize outstanding social justice organizers and organizations making a significant impact in our communities with the Truth Awards, including a legacy award. Find out more about our new Land Justice Fund.

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Host Committee

Tara Brewster

Zac Chapman
David Halbert

Dr. Steve Jones

Guillermo Quinteros

Lisa Ranghelli

Alexandra Russell

Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa

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appliations open

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PDF's Grant Cycle: APPLY NOW

Our grants support community-based organizations in the U.S., Haiti, and Mexico that are working for social justice. Funding is provided in the following areas: organizing to shift power, working to build a movement, dismantling oppression, and creating new structures. Nonprofit organizations with budgets under $250,000 that are directly engaged in community organizing are eligible to apply.

Have Questions? Email jessa@peacefund.org

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RP Increasing Impact

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Reframing Philanthropy Session: Increasing Impact

With the re-election of former President Trump, donors, organizations, organizers, are taking stock in how to be most effective against potential rollbacks of basic rights and attacks on freedom. Philanthropy has often stood on the sidelines of funding action, advocacy, and organizing. We’ve gathered organizers to share what they expect and what will be most useful, from their perspectives.

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annual report

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Check Out Our FY '24 Annual Report

Our annual report details our work in FY '24 and highlights PDF's dedication to the social justice movement in throughout a time of immense uncertainty in our nation and around the world. We are proud to showcase the work of the grassroots organizations we support, who are making change in their own communities. If you would like to be mailed a copy of the report, email us at peacedevfund@gmail.com

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Seeding the Movement Fund Grantees 2024!

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PDF announced grant awards through their STMF to 19 social justice organizations in every region of the United States, as well as Haiti and Mexico. Each organization received grants of varying amounts for a total of $80,000 granted this spring.

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Quote: 2023 Braiding New Worlds Grantees

"Thanks to your support, we are able to sustain and grow our Fellowship program this year, which provides stipends for 20 LGBTQ+ student activists working at the intersections of gender, race, and disability. We can't wait to share their incredible work with you! with your help, we were also able to host a successful second annual Let Trans Athletes Play, a day of sports and civic action at Danehy Park in Cambridge, Massachusetts."

—Queer Youth Assemble

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The Peace Development Fund is more than a grantmaker: our model of philanthropy involves direct funding, advocacy where appropriate and partnerships built around mutual respect, sharing of resources, and transparency of planning and decision-making. We endeavor to be a key “go-to” foundation on issues of peace, human rights, social justice and environmental protection. We work to counter-balance dominant power structures by moving resources and sharing decision-making with activist groups and communities. Learn more…

FY 2024 Annual Report

Reflections on Peace and Justice Organizing

A short film for PDF’s 40th Anniversary. Produced by Jamal Meneide.

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Blog

Hamilton Hall Then and Now June 11, 2024
written by Lora Wondolowski for the AAPOV Just over fifty-six years ago, students and community members occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University to protest the plans to build a gymnasium… Read more: Hamilton Hall Then and Now
Condemning the UMass Response to Student ProtestMay 10, 2024
written by a current UMASS Student On April 29th, 2024, students of the University of Massachusetts Amherst started their liberation encampment on UMass campus, following the wave of protests and… Read more: Condemning the UMass Response to Student Protest