Participatory
Grant-Making
Resources do not belong to us. They belong to the communities and movements we serve.
Frontline movements are our organizational compass and we are accountable to them and their needs.
As a result, our grants are decided on by former grantees who have received unanimous funding from Resist in the past. This grant panel consists of panelists who are paid to read applications every cycle and bring their specialized knowledge, experiences, and expertise to fund future grantees. By redistributing in this way, we affirm that resources do not belong to us but to the communities and movements we serve.
Cessilye Smith
Lilia Rosas
Milton X. Trujillo
Ohenewaa Nkrumah
Our commitment has always been to move money to the movements that resist.
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Our grant-making framework is rooted in grantee-led review processes, application accessibility, and consensus facilitation. In 2024, Resist deepened our impact by nearly tripling grant amounts for our Regular Grant Cycle, consolidating our application process, and responding to urgent frontline funding needs actively resisting genocide. In the past five years, Resist has distributed over $4 million dollars through our regular grant cycle.
No Strings Attached
Funding
Our work challenges conventional philanthropic models by demonstrating alternatives to capitalist giving frameworks and a commitment to fund those furthest away from resources. We give expansively and require no additional reporting. We desire to minimize the workload on our grantees and free up their capacity.
Rapid Response Funding
Our rapid response fund prioritizes moving resources to communities to meet their urgent needs. In the past 5 years, Resist has moved over $325,000 using this fund. We believe it is critical to have easily accessible resources with minimal decision-making processes.
Radical Strategies Funding
All of our grantees have budgets under $150,000 and represent frontline leadership. Our grantee community is representative of organizers, creatives, healers, intellectuals, and changemakers who boldly push our movements forward. Our grantees often represent those too bold and too honest for conventional funders.
