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. […]
Join us for our next Drag Bingo Night! Fabulous prizes from local businesses! Come even if you don't play! Hosted by Tytannia. Register Now! These events sell out!
The Community Organizing Grants program contains PDF’s annual grantmaking docket which consists of four grant programs: the Seeding the Movement Fund, Pioneer Valley Community Advised Fund, The Braiding New Worlds Fund and the De Colores Rapid Response Fund. Any organization that fits PDF’s guidelines is eligible to apply for a grant. PDF currently only funds organizations in the United […]
This year #Giving Tuesday is on November 28th. The event is a antidote to Black Friday commercialism that inspires personal philanthropy and encourages charitable giving during the holiday season. Please consider paying it forward in support of Peace Development Fund's youth-led Braiding New World Fund. All donations to PDF will support grants to organizations led […]
Are you interested in applying for funding through the Peace Development Fund? Before you start your application, come ask us any questions you may have! Note: This is open to the public
