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An open information session on RESIST!
Wednesday Jul 8, 7:30PM @ Red Emma's
Did you know that your project might be eligible for an activist-oriented community micro-grant? Come on out to Red Emma's on July 8 to find out how you can apply for - and maybe even get - a grant designed especially for grassroots community activism. Robin Carton, the director of grantmaking at the RESIST foundation, will speak on funding, education, and community activism, and talk over the details of applying for activism grants. RESIST, in case you don't know, is a radical grantmaking foundation based on Boston that's been funding grassroots organizations and making activist projects possible since 1967! It's a fantastic resource for anyone working on community organizing, both in terms of getting funding and thinking through the ways to support a grassroots project. The event is organized and sponsored by the newly-revamped Research Associates Foundation, a Baltimore-based activist non-profit that founded the Progressive Action Center many years ago, and that's now starting a Baltimore-specific community micro-grants program to fund and facilitate activist projects in our city! Come on our and find out more about the new RAF grants, and the RESIST grants - two possible sources of funding in one night, how could you go wrong?!
From the RESIST Website:
RESIST funds activist organizing and education work within movements for social change.
RESIST began in 1967 with a “call to resist illegitimate authority,” in support of draft resistance and in opposition to the Vietnam War. That history sustains us as our movement evolves and as our concerns broaden and deepen. We remember what it is like to move forward and beat the odds.
As a foundation, RESIST is unique because we are part of the movements we fund. We do the work individual donors don't have time to do: reaching out to activist organizations and researching their campaigns and projects. We operate on a national scale and know the big picture, and we challenge grantees to connnect their own issues with the concerns of other activists. Our frequent funding cycle means we can respond to time-sensitive organizing campaigns.
The Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft in San Diego, California writes, “RESIST has helped us to continue doing counter-militarism work in one of the most militarized communities in the world.”
The Rural Organizing Project in Scappoose, Oregon, tells us, “We are thrilled with the new computer system RESIST helped to fund. Our struggles with the Radical Right will continue, but now we have the equipment to struggle more effectively.”
RESIST is more than a foundation. We're also a resource center, providing grassroots organizations with technical assistance and information about other funding sources. Finding Funding: A Beginner's Guide to Foundation Research gives progressive activists a quick entry-point for grant-writing. Resist also publishes a highly respected Newsletter.
When you make a contribution to RESIST, you'll receive our Newsletter. Each issue takes a thoughtful look at a political topic related to our grant giving. One donor writes, “I cannot tell you how much more promising the world seems the day your newsletter comes.”
About Robin Carton:
Robin Carton, a staff and Board member of RESIST, has a background in both grassroots political organizing and law. For 10 years she worked in the fields of child care and education, focusing on working conditions for staff and economic justice issues. Robin was also a litigator involved in civil rights and plaintiff-side employment law struggles. In 1995, Robin joined the staff of RESIST as the Grant and Fiscal Manager. She has been a Commissioner on the Somerville Human Rights Commission, a Board member of the Boston Women's Fund, and the Open Center for Children. In addition to her work with RESIST, Robin has taught graduate seminars for Wheelock College on financial and legal management issues in child care.
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