Grant Eligibility Requirements
Organizations must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible:
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Must be located in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery or Camden counties.
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Must have an organizational and/or a distinct project budget that is less than $150,000.
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Must be tax-exempt, or have a fiscal sponsor that is tax-exempt, or have a pending 501(c)(3) application.
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Must have completed all progress reports from previous Bread & Roses grants. Failure to submit progress reports will disqualify organizations from future funding.
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Must submit a complete application. No exceptions.
Funding criteria:
Bread & Roses provides grants to groups that have a long-term vision and engage strategies that promote social justice, including:
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A focus on organizing and activism (not social service work)
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A clear understanding of the root causes of the problem they are working to resolve
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A strategy that includes collective action by the community and results in concrete outcomes
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A vision that emphasizes changing the systems that create or perpetuate the problem being addressed
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Leadership that is primarily composed of people affected by the problem that is being addressed
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A priority for developing leadership from within the affected community
Additional funding criteria are listed within each fund category.
Bread & Roses grants program does not provide funding for:
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Direct service work/social services
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Research
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Educational programs
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Capital campaigns or building projects
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Scholarships, fellowships, or grants to individuals (except through the Lax Scholarship Fund)
Our grant funds:
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