LAWSON VALENTINE FOUNDATION

Provide long-term support to grassroots community-based organizers and advocates, low wage workers, and other change agents working among people of color, low-income youth, immigrants, refugees and other underserved populations.

Must be a 501(c)(3) public charity or apply through a qualifying fiscal sponsor | No requests from individuals | No religious institutions or activities | No scholarships | No protection of wildlands, wildlife, water conservation or land trusts | No colleges, universities, schools or programs for schools; no camps | No endowments, capital campaigns, deficit financing | No internationally based organizations (international funding only via two partners) | Organizations with annual budgets over $1M are ineligible

LAWSON VALENTINE FOUNDATION

Past grantees

2024

New England Grassroots Environmental Fund

$20,000

Alternatives For Community & Environment

$20,000

Conservation Law Foundation

$20,000

Grassroots International

$20,000

Thousand Currents

$10,000

Seventh Gen Fund For Indigenous People

$10,000

Eastern Woodland Lacrosse

$10,000

The Descendants Project

$10,000

Everyday Democracy

$8,500

Grant programs

Lawson Valentine Foundation Grants

$10.0K–$25.0K

Foundation Details

PRINCETON, NJ

~$5K

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