Emergent Fund

Emergent Fund is sponsored by Emergent Fund. The Emergent Fund provides rapid-response grants for frontline Black, Indigenous, and people of color-led organizations. It focuses on grassroots organizing, direct action, and power-building to combat discrimination and promote social and economic justice.

This fund supports community-based organizations addressing systemic barriers in communities of color across the U.S. and is suitable for Black-led nonprofits working on racial equity and social justice.

Resourcing frontline Communities Emergent Fund imagines a world where frontline communities are trusted and resourced to turn catalytic moments into opportunities to rise, organize, and build liberated futures. We provide monthly, open-access, low-barrier, no-reporting grants to impacted communities for rapid response and emergent organizing.

Emergent Fund builds movement power by moving resources with purpose, organizing philanthropy toward justice, and cultivating deep, trust-based relationships. Our work grows the funding, sustainability, and autonomy that our communities need to win. As a nationally recognized philanthropy culture leader, Emergent Fund challenges power in who we fund as well as with how we fund.

Our grant decision-makers come from directly impacted communities committed to building movement and transforming crisis into change. We know that the experts are, definitively, directly impacted communities themselves. We fortify intersectional grassroots movements by moving resources in real time, organizing philanthropy, and building capacity for lasting change.

Every quarter we send emails with the latest updates on grant opportunities, organizational resources, and opportunities to support our work and our grantees!