Funding serves as a barrier for many kind initiatives. Explore the resources below to find funding for your kind idea.

Introducing the Grant Guru…

Jennifer Yarbrough offers educational videos and classes focused on fundraising, specifically grants.

Explore the basics of fundraising…

Global Changemaking is an empowers youth to create positive change. They offer educational resources on fundraising basics.

Meet a kind leader and fundraising expert…

Velina of ACTUM Giving! She provides insight into fundraising on digital platforms.

Find the right grant for you!

Grants are quite popular. Here are some grants available to support kind projects for all ages.

Grants 101:

  • Know your history, facts, and stats. Competitive grant applications know their organizations inside and out and have statistics and numbers ready to back up their impact. Do your research.

  • You gotta be official: have your Employee Identification Number and tax documents ready for submission.

  • Ask yourself these questions before going down the grant rabbit hole.

  • Prepare yourself mentally for what it actually means to submit a grant… This website provides an overview of grant components

  • Lastly, check here for insight on how to search for grants.

  • United Way is a national nonprofit that helps direct funds to smaller, local nonprofits. They also happen to offer grants to community organizers and students finding kind! Check with your city’s United Way to see available grants.

  • Campaign Nonviolence supports young changemakers in their journey to promote nonviolence in their communities. Anyone 12-23 can receive a grant for an idea that provides a creative solution that addresses violence in their community. These projects can be creative, artistic, out-of-the-box ideas. Ideally, they advance a nonviolent solution or alternative to the problem. Grants are at maximum $1,000. More information can be found here.

  • Guicci is buying into supporting a kind future by offering up to $50,000 to grass-roots organizations making impact locally. They are looking for organizations that are impacting critical social impact areas including social justice and equity, arts and culture, health equity and wellness, and education. More information can be found here.

  • The EPA is offering grant programs focused on supporting disadvantaged communities through projects that reduce pollution, increase community climate resilience, and build community capacity to address environmental and climate justice challenges. Recipients must be a partnership between two community-based non-profits or a federally-recognized tribe, local government, or institution of higher education. More information can be found here.

  • This grant will be awarded to young people aged 14-25 in the UK to trial their entreprenuerial ventures, community projects, and social enterprise ideas! More information can be found here.

  • Global Changemakers works to support youth-led development projects and one of the ways they do so is by offering grants that create measurable, positive change in communities and help to foster positive attiudes and behaviors in society. More information can be found here.