Step-by-step Guide for 2012 Phoebus Criminal Justice Initiative grant applications
The deadline to apply for a grant from the Phoebus Criminal Justice Initiative has passed. Please check back for the next cycle in the Fall of 2013.
Members of 2009 grantee organization, Youth Art Self-empowerment Project, meet with an editor from the Philadelphia Daily News at a Bread & Roses workshop.
Step 1: Review the eligibility criteria
The Phoebus Criminal Justice Initiative is a donor-advised fund that provides grants for criminal justice reform activism. Grantees target issues that include (but are not limited to) police accountability, racially biased sentencing policies, growth of the for-profit prison industry, criminalization of youth, and the death penalty. Read more about the fund, including past grantees, here.
Please review our detailed eligibility requirements here to make sure your organization qualifies for a grant.
Step 2: Submit your application by 5:00pm on the deadline date. Incomplete and late applications will not be considered.
You can mail or deliver your application to:
Bread & Roses Community Fund
ATTN: Grants Department
The Philadelphia Building
1315 Walnut St, Suite 1300
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Download an application: Microsoft Word version
Download an application: PDF version
No emails or faxes will be accepted.
Step 3: Interviews
All applicants who submit on-time and complete grant applications will meet with members of the Phoebus Criminal Justice Initiative committee for an interview. You'll find out after the New Year if you'll be interviewed and when.
Questions? Send an email to grants@breadrosesfund.org.
