Grassroots Organizing National Grant Program

The National Grassroots Organizing Program (NGO) offers two-year flexible, general operating support grants of up to $30,000 per year, with an average grant size of $20,000 per year, to small, non-profit grassroots constituent-led grassroots organizations throughout the United States and its territories.

The focus of the NGO program is to support grassroots activists working in their communities to achieve clearly defined social and environmental justice objectives. We are inspired by the Civil Rights legend John Lewis’ admonition: “Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.”

While we recognize the importance of direct service programs for those impacted by poverty and inequity, our priority is to support grassroots organizing activities that address the causes of those inequities. Therefore, we will not consider requests to support direct services to individuals.