Action for Racial Justice and Equity Fund (ARJEF)
Small grants to grassroots and community-focused organizations advancing racial justice and equity, covering organizing, advocacy, prevention, and human service work.
- Indicative award
- up to $3k (total award)Page states grants of up to $3,000 with 2 awards available in the cycle described. No minimum published.
- Timing
- Periodic callsPeriodic calls · NovNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The cycle shown on SCRA's current-grants page closed November 11, 2024. SCRA states grant opportunities are led by interest groups, councils and committees and 'vary annually', so confirm whether a new ARJEF round is open before planning around it.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicant must be a community-focused or grassroots organization in North America or globally that prioritizes racial justice and centers Black, African, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander and/or Middle Eastern voices. A university is not the applicant; researchers participate as partners to a grantee organization.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- racial justice · community organizing · advocacy · prevention
- Apply at
- https://scra27.org/what-we-do/grants-funding/current-grants/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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