This is a practical guide was developed by Reimagine Change to support with looking beyond open grant calls and integrating other possible sources for funding. This guide includes tips and tricks for finding opportunities, searching funders, following the money, searching relationships and the spaces funders occupy, examining the people involved, watching where funders are changing direction, looking beyond funders, searching horizontally across your issue, looking outside of philanthropy and less obvious places worth checking.
Access the guide HERE
About the author
Reimagine Change is a collaboration between two long-time colleagues who’ve come together with a shared belief: that support and resourcing for movements and organizers needs to change. They support social change leaders (individuals, groups or movements) organizing across environmental and social justice. Moving beyond conventional, one-size-fits-all approaches, they embrace co-learning, iteration and collaboration, building on collective strengths in ways that can really create lasting change. They understand that change comes in many forms—abrupt, slow, beautiful, messy.
They support movements and organizers with: organizational & strategic planning, fundraising strategy & funder outreach, connecting to aligned partners & networks and spaces for peer exchange and wellbeing support. They support funders with: designing & implementing equitable funding models, application review and decision-making processes, movement mapping & tailored research and practical insight into what movements need.