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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.

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Giving Tuesday

Speakers for Reframing Philanthropy 3: Indigenous Land Back Initiatives event

Support Land Justice on Giving Tuesday

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PDF has long been a partner with and an advocate for Indigenous Peoples. PDF believes that land governance in the United States must change to recognize and uphold Indigenous rights and responsibilities, and to restore our ecosystems.

The new Land Justice Fund is dedicated to connecting resources to Indigenous, grassroots organizations for programs or initiatives that move or restore lands.

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CLT RP

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Reframing Philanthropy Session: Leveraging Community Land Trusts

CLTs are nonprofit organizations that acquire land and develop affordable housing. Unlike traditional housing models, CLTs separate the ownership of the land from the ownership of the buildings on it. This innovative approach ensures long-term affordability and community control. Hear from Minnie McMahon and Gerrlyn Gacao!

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reviewers

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: APPLY TODAY TO BECOME A REVIEWER

PDF believes people with lived experience organizing communities for social and environmental justice have the expertise needed to guide our grantmaking. Each of our competitive funds has a Review Circle that brings together leaders from the fund’s major grantmaking regions to review and evaluate applications.
We’re looking for volunteers to join Reviewer Circles for our Seeding the Movement and Western Mass Transformation Funds.

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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 f 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 2023 Annual Report

Reflections on Peace and Justice Organizing

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

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