Deadline: Ongoing
The Public Welfare Foundation is inviting organizations that are putting their efforts to advance justice and opportunity for people in need.
The foundation’s core values are:
- racial equality,
- economic well-being,
- fundamental fairness
The Foundation’s first grant was made in 1948 – 28 sewing machines for an organization of Jamaican women, so that the island’s poor children could be clothed and sent to school.
Focus Programs
- Criminal Justice-The Foundation’s Criminal Justice Program supports groups working to end over incarceration of adult offenders in the United States, also aiming to reduce racial disparity.
- Juvenile Justice-The Foundation’s Juvenile Justice Program supports groups working to end the criminalization and over incarceration of youth in the United States.
- Workers’ Rights-The Foundation’s Workers’ Rights Program supports policy and system reforms to improve the lives of low-wage working people in the United States, with a focus on securing their basic legal rights to safe, healthy, and fair conditions at work.
- Civil Legal Aid-Civil legal aid helps people to overcome the pressing legal problems of everyday life — home foreclosures; evictions and landlord tenant disputes; divorce and child custody cases; domestic violence; unfair employment and wage claims; denial of government benefits, such as food stamps and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); or denial of health insurance.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations working in the United States are eligible to apply for funding.
How to Apply
- The application procedure consists of two phases
- Letter of Inquiry(LOI)
- Full Proposals
- Only LOIs will be submitted first and the selected applicants will be invited to submit the full proposals.
- Applicants must submit letters of inquiry through the Foundation’s online application system.
Note: Foundation does not fund individuals, scholarships, direct services, or international projects.
For more information, please visit Public Welfare Foundation.
