How to Apply

2009 RFP

We are pleased to invite proposals for financial grants of up to $10,000 for our Fall 2009 Reproductive Health and Justice Initiative Grant Cycle. Full proposals are to be received by November 9, 2009 via email or postal mail only.

This grant opportunity is focused on issues of Reproductive Health and Justice. Support is for nonprofit projects, organizations and collaborations that are doing a range of community-based work to achieve gender, racial, economic and social justice and who are also using a range of strategies that expand Reproductive and Health, Rights and Justice for their constituencies.

In addition to reaching out to organizations that explicitly locate themselves within the Reproductive Justice movement, Third Wave also encourages applications from organizations that have not historically identified with Reproductive Health and Rights movements.

Please help spread the word to those building justice based on the intersection of issues affecting reproductive and sexual health and rights of people of color, low-income folks, immigrants, young mothers, sex workers and others!

As a national feminist activist foundation, Third Wave supports grassroots projects and organizations led by and for young women and transgender youth. Through grantmaking, leadership development and philanthropic advocacy we promote strategies that expand and amplify feminist youth-led efforts and leadership capacity, facilitate in-depth dialogue to promote effective alignment of resources in the field, and advance the role of philanthropy as a tool for transformative social change.

Funding Priorities

Reproductive Justice is an expansive field and framework that includes physical, mental, spiritual, political, environmental, economic, and social aspects across one’s lifespan and with issues affecting the body, sexuality and reproduction.

This RFP is focused on prioritizing reproductive justice work:

•that benefits, is developed and led by young women and/or transgender individuals between the ages of 15 and 30
•incorporates a vision and goals that build upon or expand reproductive health and justice
•is community-based, with an emphasis on people of color, differently-abled individuals, immigrants, lesbian, gay and bisexual people, low-income individuals, sex workers, and people in rural areas
•builds opportunities to create work and a world that is sustainable, safe and just
•equalizes and expands opportunities for everyone to participate within society

Third Wave is interested in proposals that build capacity, promote sustainability, support collaboration and address the effects that the current economic downturn is having on our society, particularly on our key constituencies (listed above), with regard to Reproductive Health and Justice issues in their communities.

In addition to requesting proposals from organizations that explicitly locate themselves within the Reproductive Justice movement, Third Wave also encourages applications from organizations that have not historically identified with Reproductive Health and Rights movements.

Funding Guidelines and Restrictions

Please note that, given our strategic focus, discretionary grants do not fund:

  • Individuals
  • National organizations or their chapters or programs, intermediaries or subsidiaries
  • Organizations outside of the United States
  • Organizations with budgets exceeding $500,000
  • More than one grant application per organization per year
  • Any one organization more than once per calendar year,

with the potential exception of collaborative, multi-partner projects.

How To

Download an application form for further guidelines.

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