Maine Initiatives

Calling all community organizers!

Applications are now open for the 2025-2026 Giving Project Fund for Community Organizing. We welcome applications from grassroots organizations that use community organizing to advance justice - economic, environmental, racial, and social - and tribal sovereignty in Maine, unceded Wabanaki Territory.

In particular, we strive to support groups that are constituent-led; seek systems change; invest in collective liberation; have a strong social justice vision; and build people power.

The Fund will provide one (1) year of unrestricted, general operating support of $20,000 to at least five (5) community organizing groups.

Follow the link below to download the Funding Opportunity Announcement and learn more about eligibility requirements, funding priorities, and how to apply. Applications are due November 3rd, 2025. Grants will be awarded in March 2026.

maineinitiatives.org/content/uploads/2026-GP-FOA_Final.pdf

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The Giving Project Fund at Maine Initiatives focuses on community organizing because we believe that lasting change comes from the bottom up, affecting not just political and economic systems, but also the culture of communities. Community organizing involves the most people, allowing for the greatest diversity and number of perspectives to be expressed. Community organizing is democracy in action.

Grantmaking decisions will be made by the 2025-2026 Giving Project donor organizing cohort, a cross-class, multi-racial, multi-generational group of 20 people who convene regularly from September 2025 through March 2026 for shared learning and training to collectively mobilize resources and evaluate applications.

Photo credit: Niweskok, 2025 Giving Project Fund Grantee

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Join a growing coalition of people committed to protecting and advancing justice and equity in Maine, unceded Wabanaki Territory.

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