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Find similar grantsThe Barbara McDowell Social Justice Center Grants is sponsored by The Barbara McDowell Social Justice Center. This organization makes grants to organizations that undertake systemic social justice litigation across fifteen issue areas, including access to benefits, children's rights, disability rights, discrimination, domestic violence, environmental justice, healthcare, homelessness, h…
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Grant Application Overview — The Barbara McDowell Social Justice Center grant application overview We work to eradicate systemic injustices through litigation, advocacy, education and grant-making. The Center accepts LOIs from June 1 until June 15, 2026.
Upon review of the LOIs, the Center will notify by July 15, 2026, applicants who will be invited to submit an online Grant Application by August 1, 2026, to be considered by the Center’s Grant Committee. Applications must be for a specific social justice legal case , including the filing of an appeal. The case must have been filed no earlier than October 1, 2025, or be filed no later than December 31, 2026.
Grant funds are to be used only for attorney time charges and litigation expenses related to the specific case for which an organization is applying to be funded. 2. Claim(s) for an individual(s) (unless the case is of significant precedential value beyond the interest of the individual).
The Barbara McDowell Social Justice Center only provides grants to 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations. Each organization may apply for one case only. The application should be submitted by only one organization.
Applicants may apply only on behalf of their own organization. Applicants may be awarded for a grant no more than two consecutive years in a row. Previously funded cases may not be submitted again.
All LOIs and Grant Applications must be submitted using the online forms. Interested applicants should review the Grant Criteria, Application Scoring Criteria, and Reporting and Grant Terms pages of the website before completing and submitting the online forms. Grant applications to the Barbara McDowell Social Justice Center (“Center”) occur in a two-step process: a Letter of Intent (LOI) followed by a Grant Application.
In the first step, nonprofit organizations meeting the eligibility criteria below can submit a LOI to the Center using the online form. After submission online, all LOIs are reviewed by the Center’s Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee selects from the organizations submitting LOIs applicants to proceed to the second step of the process.
In the second step, the selected applicants submit an online Grant Application for review by the Center’s Grant Committee. The Grant Committee reviews the applications and sends a subset of applications to the Center’s Board of Directors for review. The Board of Directors makes the final selection of the Grantees from that subset of applications.
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