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Capacity building grants for grassroots gender
& reproductive justice organizations to own their work
The Own Our Power Fund makes grants for grassroots organizations to:
  • Support communities most impacted to lead the work;
  • Develop sustainable revenue models and fundraising strategies; and
  • Harness the power of self-representation through community-led research, storytelling or communications.

own our power fund details & application instructions

What is the Own Our Power Fund? The Own Our Power Fund makes one and two-year capacity-building grants of up to $25,000 for projects that seek to increase the agency communities have over their organizations by supporting leadership, sustainability, and self-representation. 
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Types of projects this fund supports:
Leadership -- support communities most impacted to lead the work
  • Executive leadership transitions that intentionally shift leadership to a member or members of the community.
  • Support for new leaders who come from the community to receive coaching, skills-building, or training.
 Sustainability -- develop sustainable revenue models and fundraising strategies​
  • Transforming the model of the organization to be more sustainable.
  • Mergers or other efforts that pool resources between organizations.
  • Building grassroots fundraising capacity.
Self-Representation -- harness the power of communities telling their own stories
  • Participatory research projects that train and empower community members to conduct their own research.
  • Projects that allow community members to harness the power of storytelling.
  • Building out strategic communications capacity.
This fund does not make grants to support general operating, legislative advocacy, start-up expenses, or capital campaigns.
Who can apply?
  1. Grassroots organizations with an annual budget of up to $200,000 USD that are a 501(c)3 or are fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)3 organization.
  2. Organizations that are committed to building the power and leadership of young people under 35 to achieve structural change.
  3. Organizations that are currently led by or transitioning leadership to young women, trans, queer, gender non-conforming, and intersex youth of color, and low-income youth.
  4. Organizations that address the root causes of oppression and use an intersectional approach to gender justice.
  5. Priority will be given to organizations that focus on communities, issue areas, and regions that are philanthropically under-resourced.
Not sure what gender justice is? Click here to get a sense of how we define it.
The Own Our Power Fund is not currently accepting applications. Please sign up for our newsletter to find out when we have new grant opportunities available!