Ways You Can Support GCF
- Host a fundraising house party.
- Organize a funder's briefing or community event.
- Invite a GCF speaker to your next gathering.
Values We Support
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Community-Led Work
Organizations grounded in the communities in which they work and led by people of color and/or constituencies historically disenfranchised due to race, class, gender, nationality and/or immigration status.
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Movement Building
Strategies, including but not limited to community education, grassroots organizing, advocacy, policy development, media work, litigation and public interest education.
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Regional Approach
Building of community-level, regional power that can inform and affect local, regional and national policy.
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Multi-Issue Approach
Commitment to addressing the holistic needs of recovery as outlined below.
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Geographic Scope of Funding
Issue Areas We Support
- Right of Return and Right to Stay
- Ecological Health
- Environmental Justice and Health
- Just and Sustainable Rebuilding
- Worker Rights
- Cultural Arts
- Youth and Education
Strategies We Support
The Fund supports projects that strengthen and amplify local organizing, social justice concerns and movement-building, and that address the underlying causes that contributed to the severity of the disasters in the Gulf Coast.
Special attention is given to projects that address one or more of the following:
- Equity & Movement Building
- Amplifying New Voices
- Influencing Public Policy & Working with Governments
- Shared Learnings
- Collective Advocacy and Education
- Networking & Collaboration
- Leadership Development
- Right to Self Determination
- Sustainable Human and Community-Based Development
- Accountability
- Empowerment of Women
- Civic Engagement
- Mental Wellness – in a manner that is culturally-sensitive, innovative, and collaborative
- Resilience & Revitalization – helping the most vulnerable people and ecosystems recover
To learn more about our grantees visit: Our Grantees
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