Open Grant Opportunities

Location: Arizona& Wisconsin

2024 Grant Funding Initial Application

Empower Project has grant funding available for 501(c)(4) partners in Arizona and Wisconsin, for partners interested in taking a more active role in recruiting for our fall 2024 Paid Relational Hubs and supplementing their own organizing efforts.

Process & Timeline

• We will accept applications beginning on March 22, 2024.
• We will begin reviewing grant applications on April 15, 2024
• We will make our decisions in early May and move funding in June 2024.
• Groups who organize in BIPOC communities, young people, and rural communities will be given preference.

These are small grants of $10,000-$100,000 meant to add funding to already planned programs such as, but not limited to, groups with enough organizing capacity and resources that plan to:

• Begin a volunteer relational program early in the summer, and those volunteers could fold in as paid community mobilizers after Labor Day.
• Begin a door knocking program, and recruit potential community mobilizers at the doors later this summer and through the fall.
• Begin a high traffic canvassing program and recruit potential community mobilizers while tabling and attending events throughout the summer.
• Begin an intensive cohort training program for key staff and volunteers on including relational organizing into their programs to generate leads.