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Building Organized Communities
This program area seeks to enhance the effectiveness of community organizing so that it can become an increasingly useful tool for poverty alleviation and civic engagement.
Grantmaking is driven by the belief that people in low-income communities can maximize their influence over the decisions affecting their lives by joining with others in strong networks that aim to exert influence at the local, state, regional and national levels.
Funding is made under one objective.
Funding priorities for Building Infrastructure
Grantmaking under this objective focuses on building the basic infrastructure and organizational capacity of community organizing. This funding has fueled growth in the size, sophistication and impact of the major national and regional community organizing networks. These networks now have affiliates in literally hundreds of cities throughout the U.S. and are having increasing impact at the local, regional, state and national levels.
Within this grantmaking area is a complementary cluster of grants designed to sustain our Intermediary Support for Organizing (ISO) program. This longstanding initiative provides support to five intermediaries that build the field of organizing by providing technical assistance and regranting to local community-organizing groups.
We seek strong and effective community-organizing networks at the national and regional levels that foster citizen engagement and positive change in poor communities. We are making grants:
- That support leadership development, research, technical assistance and capacity building for state, regional or national networks of community organizations.
- That develop professional community organizers.
Click here to view the 10 most recent grants for this program area.
We strongly suggest that organizations seeking funding from this program carefully review all program guidelines in this section and our application procedures.