Organizations must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible:
- Must be located in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery or Camden counties
- Must have an organizational or a distinct project budget that is less than $300,000
- Must be tax-exempt or have a fiscal sponsor that is tax-exempt or have a pending 501(c)3 application
- Must have completed all progress reports from previous Bread & Roses grants. Failure to submit progress reports will disqualify organizations from future funding
- Must submit a complete application
Funding criteria:
Bread & Roses provides grants to groups that have a long-term vision and engage strategies that promote social justice, including:
- A focus on organizing and activism (not social service work)
- A clear understanding of the root causes of the problem they are working to resolve
- A strategy that includes collective action by the community and results in concrete outcomes
- A vision that emphasizes changing the systems that create or perpetuate the problem being addressed
- Leadership that is primarily composed of people affected by the problem that is being addressed
- A priority for developing leadership from within the affected community
Additional funding criteria are listed within each fund category.
Bread & Roses grants program does not provide funding for:
- Direct service work/social services
- Research
- Educational programs
- Capital campaigns or building projects
- Scholarships, fellowships, or grants to individuals (except through the Lax Scholarship Fund)