Giving Projects

Giving Projects are an innovative, participatory model of funding social change and building community. Each Project is made up of a diverse group of people at all income levels, each of whom makes a donation of an amount that is meaningful to them, develop and improve their skills as donor organizers and grassroots fundraisers, and work together to strategically support underfunded social justice organizing in the Northwest.

About Giving Projects

Sign up for a Giving Project! Join a Social Justice Fund Giving Project -- An innovative new model of funding social change, community building, and leadership development.

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Portland Giving Project

This Giving Project will be based in the Portland area for the first time and will bring people together to learn about and fund some of the most inspiring social justice organizing throughout the NorthWest.

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Economic Justice Giving Project

“Occupy” protesters across the US (and the world) declare, “We are the 99%!” Conservative candidates accuse their opponents of “class warfare.” The bad news is that the wealth gap between the rich and poor, and between people of color and in white people, is growing faster than it has in generations, but the good news is that Americans are talking about class more than we have in decades.

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Criminal Justice Giving Project

From racial profiling and police brutality, to racial disparities in drug laws, to the school to prison pipeline, to the increasing criminalization of immigrants and youth, the criminal justice system disproportionately targets people of color and poor people. We will examine the intersections of race and class in the systems that criminalize these communities and in our own lives, learn about organizing for long-term solutions to these inequalities, and make grants in this severely underfunded area.

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Civic Action Giving Project

The 2011-12 Civic Action Giving Project, a partnership with the Win/Win Network, funds community organizing that increases the political power of people of color in Washington State.

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Environmental Justice Giving Project

Based in Seattle, the 2012 Environmental Justice Giving Project (EJGP) is open to anyone and funded environmental justice organizing across the Northwest.

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LGBTQ Giving Project

Based in Seattle, the 2011 LGBTQ Giving Project is open to anyone who identified as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Transgender, Genderqueer, or Queer. The project funds critical LGBTQ organizing often overlooked by mainstream funders.

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Montana Giving Project

Participants in the 2011 Montana Giving Project will build relationships and engage in open dialogue within the progressive community, learn together about the history, present, and potential of the social justice movement in Montana, and fund this critical work.

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Next Generation Giving Project

This is the second joint project SJF has facilitated with Resource Generation. Resource Generation organizes young people with financial wealth to leverage resources and privilege for social change. The Seattle chapter is working with SJF to form a group of cross-class people under 40 years old to raise at least $100,000 and grant it to social change organizations in the Northwest.

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