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2025-2026 Funding Opportunity Announcement Apply on Maine Initiatives' Application Portal 2025-2026 Giving Project: How to Apply pdf The Giving Project Fund for Community Organizing The Giving Project Fund for Community Organizing is a participatory grantmaking program that provides unrestricted, general operating support to community organizing groups advancing justice (economic, environmental, racial, and social) and tribal sovereignty in Maine, unceded Wabanaki Territory.
Fundraising and grantmaking decisions are made by a donor organizing cohort, a cross-class, multiracial, multigenerational group of approximately 20 people who commit to a 6-month program to deepen their political understanding, build relationships, gain fundraising and mutual aid experience, and resource vital community organizing efforts across our state.
Niweskok: From the Stars to Seeds Southern Maine Workers Center We believe in self-resourcing, community-led movements to build power. The purpose of the Giving Project Fund for Community Organizing is to resource social change movements and organizing efforts by shifting money to community organizing groups advancing social, economic, environmental, and racial justice & tribal sovereignty in Maine, unceded Wabanaki Territory.
We focus on community organizing because we believe that lasting change comes from the bottom up, affecting not just political and economic systems but also the culture of communities. Community organizing involves the most people, allowing for the greatest diversity and number of perspectives to be expressed. Community organizing is the exercise of democracy in action.
We need to build our skills and infrastructure to fund our own movements. Through the Giving Project, a cross-class, multi-racial, multi-generational cohort of community members convene regularly over six months for engaged learning and training to collectively mobilize resources to support community organizing. These donor-organizers raise funds through their networks for the Giving Project Fund and then make the grant award decisions.
The national Giving Project Network includes the Bread and Roses Community Fund in Philadelphia, the Chinook Fund in Denver, the Crossroads Fund in Chicago, Hawaii People’s Fund in Honolulu, Headwaters Foundation for Justice in Minneapolis, and the North Star Fund in New York City.
Grant Amount & Funding Levels The 2025-2026 Giving Project Fund for Community Organizing provides 1 year of unrestricted, general operating support of $20,000 to at least 5 community organizing groups. Grant awards will be disbursed in March of 2026.
Funding Priorities: In response to the continuing impact of structural racism and colonization, the Giving Project Fund prioritizes funding for community organizing groups focused on Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty, and more generally, frontline groups led-by and -serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities.
Groups organizing in the LGBTQ+, working class, rural, and other historically targeted and marginalized communities are encouraged to apply.
To be eligible for the 2025-2026 Giving Project Fund for Community Organizing, applicant organizations must: Use community organizing as a core strategy to advance equity and justice; Have annual operating expenses for the most recently completed fiscal year, including administrative and programming expenses, of under $1,000,000; and Are a Maine-based organization or group or a coalition/alliance of groups, working exclusively or primarily in Maine communities (we do not fund individual or for profit entities).
If your organization is a nonprofit with a 501(c)(3) designation from the IRS, you may apply. If your organization is fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, you may apply. If your group is - or is sponsored by - a Wabanaki Tribal government you may apply without additional IRS designation.
Applications to the 2025-2026 Giving Project Fund closed on November 5, 2025. Grant awards will be announced in March 2026. Any questions?
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Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Maine-based community organizing groups (501(c)(3), fiscally sponsored, or Wabanaki tribal groups) with budgets under $1 million. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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