Events

Celebration of Life for life long activist and PDF Board member Ali Elissa.

Are you interested in getting more grant funding for your organization? This webinar will give you a broad overview of basic terms and concepts in philanthropy and you will walk away with concrete next steps for starting your grantseeking journey. Register Here.  1PM ET/ 10AM PT

Today we kick-off Grassroots Funding Week by focusing on five organizations under the banner of "Taking Back Our Bodies" and encourage you to support one or all of these awesome organizations: Monday April 15th: Taking Back Our Bodies Asian American, Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian Lactation Collaborative of CA- Cucamonga, CA Dignity Power- Orlando, FL La Colectiva- Benito […]

Every year following the Community Organizing Grant cycle, the Peace Development Fund invites grant recipients to participate in Grassroots Funding Week, a week-long crowdfunding campaign, in order to raise additional funds. Through this campaign, not only are we able to increase funding for our grantees, but we are able to help them build essential fundraising skills that can be […]

Today for Grassroots Funding Week PDF is hosting a collaborative crowdfunding campaign with three organizations under the banner of "Building a Just Economy." All of these organizations are working on multiple levels, providing immediate support, creating new structures, shifting power, and building a movement for economic justice. Your support and solidarity to create a more […]

Our Community Organizing Grant partners are organizing for Environmental Justice. They are challenging powerful corporations, protecting their local waterways, healing their lands and their communities, and ensuring a sustainable environment for generations to come. Wednesday May 17th: Organizing for Our Planet Center for Social Sustainable Systems (CESOSS)- Albuquerque, NM Communities for Clean Water- Taos, NM 

Today PDF's focus is at the grassroots level, raising additional funds for Community Organizing Grants partners who on the ground - from Haiti to Montana, to our own backyard here in the Pioneer Valley- are building community resilience in the face of health care inequities, climate change, and food insecurity. Today for Grassroots Funding Week […]

While millions of people demonstrated in the historic moment of the summer of 2020, grassroots organizations and PDF's grant partners continue to be at the forefront of the movement for racial justice - whether it's fighting for education justice, ending qualified immunity, or for criminal justice reform. Today, PDF is hosting a grassroots fundraiser for […]

The Peace Development Fund and Four Phantoms Brewing Company invite you to join us for our first ever Drag Bingo night! Proceeds support PDF’s social justice organizing grants in the Valley, including support of LGBTQ+ groups. Bingo starts at 7:00 pm and is $20 for 10 rounds. Magnolia Masquerade will host and perform.  Fabulous prizes […]

A Celebration of Native American Art, Music & Cultures, Saturday, August 5, 10 am – 7 pm, Sunday, August 6, 10 am to 5 pm. Unity Park, Turners Falls, MA. Free and open to all. EVENTS & VIDEOS – Nolumbeka Project

Sunday, September 17th at 11 a.m. This year’s parade will part from between Main and Wason Ave and will march through downtown ending where Boland Way and Main Street join. Where to watch the Parade? Join us with your family setting up your chair or standing anywhere on Main Street's sidewalks from Wason Ave to […]

We invite you to join us for a new series that is informative and interactive offering opportunities to engage, learn, and network with each other.  The series reframes philanthropy through a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive lens to foster new ways of being catalysts for social change in our own communities and around the country.  […]