The Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) continues to assemble resources from foundations for a GARE Core Members Implementation and Innovation Fund. The Fund provides flexible resources for local government to seed projects that are focused on eliminating structural racism. Projects selected for funding will work across institutions and further partnerships with communities. This grant cycle is focused on jurisdictions working in the state of North Carolina, thanks to the support of the Z Smith Reynolds Foundation.
Priorities for the Fund
The Fund will prioritize supporting projects that:
- Incorporate a structural analysis of racism in development and implementation of the proposed activity
- Build on, align, and further work that has and is being done to advance racial equity / eliminate racial inequities in community outcomes, and eliminate structural racism.
- Model accountable practices and relationships between participants, leadership, and partners involved
- Center the experiences and leadership of communities most impacted by structural racial inequities
- Leverage opportunities that are likely to have the greatest impact
- Produce processes and tools that can be shared and are sustainable
- Feature open and transparent communication
Potential activities that the Fund will support
- Capacity building of partnerships with community-based organizations or grassroots groups focused on advancing racial equity.
- Efforts that connect government to community-centered initiatives.
- Community-based research that sharpens the delivery of government investments for racial equity
- Authentic partnerships between community and institutions
- The Fund will reward the taking of risks and experimentation to try things that have the potential to influence systems.
- Level of Grants: Requests will be considered up to $20,000.
The upcoming deadline for submissions will be March 29, 2019 for April 17, 2019 notification
Examples of potential projects
- Capacity building of partnerships with community-based organizations or grassroots groups focused on advancing racial equity.
- Efforts that connect government to community-centered initiatives.
- Community-based research that sharpens the delivery of government investments for racial equity
- Authentic partnerships between community and institutions
The Fund will reward the taking of risks and experimentation to try things that have the potential to influence systems.
Proposals Proposals should include responses to the following (maximum scores per response as indicated in parentheses):
- A description of the project, including the anticipated outcomes and results (20 points)
- A description of how the project is anticipated to impact structural racism (25 points)
- Description of how the project centers the experience and leadership of communities most impacted. (30 points)
- A list of partners and their roles (10 points)
- A total budget for the project, including identification of items to be funded by the Implementation and Innovation resource (5 points)
- Contact information for the project lead
- Three (3) references, including one from a governmental source and two from community-based partners (10 points)
Entire proposal should be no more than three pages (if you are going a little bit over, don’t worry about adjusting the font size or margins!). If there is background information you would like reviewers to have access to, please include links in your application narrative. Reviewers will read this additional background information as time allows, so make sure all critical information in support of your application is included in the 3 pages of your proposal.
Applications should be submitted to innovation@raceforward.org Questions should be directed to GARE South Region Project Manager Shawna Davie at sdavie@raceforward.org with subject line: North Carolina Innovation.