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Friday, October 8, 2010

Appalachian Community Fund - up to $10K- Deadline November 5, 2010

The Appalachian Community Fund provides funding to nonprofit organizations working on community organizing and social change in the central region of Appalachia (east Tennessee, eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia, and all of West Virginia). Grants are made from the ACF's General Fund Program each year to community-based organizations working to address underlying causes of economic and social distress in the region.


To be eligible, the applicant organizations must have 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status or a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor. The organization or project must be located in the Appalachian counties of Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, or West Virginia. (Organizations based outside the region must include a specific workplan for the Appalachian portion of the work with their proposals.) The organization or project must show evidence of working for social change through one or more of the following: 1) organizing and action led by people working to control their own lives; 2) educating communities about the root causes of oppression and injustice; 3) eliminating barriers to full participation in society (i.e., racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, ageism, ableism, and exclusion from decision-making processes); 4) focusing on efforts to change cultural, social, political, and economic systems and institutions that accommodate and perpetuate social injustice; 5) creating and modeling democratic cultural, social, political, and economic systems; 6) connecting local issues with national and global concerns; and 7) networking, collaborating, and cooperating with other change agents working toward similar goals.

Funding may be used for general support as well as for programs and projects. Grants are awarded in the categories of emerging/seed monies (up to $5,000 each for groups in earlier stages of development) and movement building (up to $10,000 each for more established groups).

The application and guidelines for the 2011 General Fund will be made available at the ACF Web site.

Link to RFP: http://www.appalachiancommunityfund.org/html/generalfund.html