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Fund for Southern
Communities' next grant deadline is a month away - September 1, 2015!
The Fund provide grants to progressive grassroots
social change organizations working in North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia. The Fund invites applications from organizations:
- fighting discrimination based on race, sex, age,
religion, economic status, sexual orientation, ethnic background,
or physical and mental disabilities;
- advocating for the rights of workers;
- promoting self-determination in low-income and
disenfranchised communities;
- protecting the environment;
- promoting and/or creating non-traditional arts and
media;
- promoting peace.
All proposals are due no later than September 1, 2015. Complete applications must be in the
FSC office by 5:00 pm EST September 1, 2015 (no exceptions).
To download the most recent Grant Application and
information about eligibility and other important criteria, please
click here. It is
highly recommened for new applicants to contact our office prior to to
submitting an application.
Faxes and Electronic Proposals will NOT
be accepted. FSC DOES NOT fund
direct social services.
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Founded in 2009, the mission of WomenNC is to lead North
Carolina's youth in the elimination of injustices against women and
girls both at home and around the world. WomenNC was awarded $5,000 from FSC in support of
the organization hiring its first Executive Director.
Since its
inception, WomenNC has trained 30 fellows who continue to expand women’s
rights advocacy networks in North Carolina, the United States, and
globally; serving as a voice for their generation about WomenNC, and to
promote best practice solutions and collaboration.
Our organization
also serves the North Carolina Triangle and Triad Regions through:
- Leadership development training for board of directors, volunteers, college and high
school youth
- Advocacy for public policy
change
- Convening agencies and corporations to identify and develop positive policy and systems
change
WomenNC’s work is changing individuals and communities;
annually we educate and initiate dialogue with diverse audiences of
more than 8,000. To learn more, please visit WomenNC at http://www.womennc.org.
WomenNC Board of Directors 2015-16
WomenNC Advocacy Event, Raleigh,
NC, February 2015
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The week-long, family-friendly event combines
performances, learning exchanges, late-night cabarets, visual art
installations, ROOTS business meetings, and networking
opportunities.
It is here that we build community, try out new ideas,
share our work, think critically about our processes, move the
conversation on art, activism, and community forward, and strengthen
our alliances with the movements that are changing the South.
2015’s focus on Transformation
is the second theme of our three-year A Call to Action initiative.
During each year of this cycle, we investigate our work as artists and
cultural organizers through a core element of arts activism: Aesthetics
in 2014, Transformation in 2015, and Emergence/Organizing in 2016. This
year, we’ll be reflecting on Transformation through three sub-themes:
immigration, environment & economy, and cultural equity (with a
focus on #blacklivesmatter).
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The Movement for Black Lives
The weekend of July 24-26 hundreds came
together at Cleveland State University to attend the first major
convening for The Movement for Black Lives.
Photo: Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
The Movement for
Black Lives National Convening—#M4BL—was sponsored by a
number of local and national groups: Black Lives Matter, BYP100,
Ferguson Action, Cleveland Action, Million Hoodies, Ohio Student
Association, Organization for Black Struggle, Project South and
Southerners on a New Ground.
Color
Lines reported, "Most panels, plenaries and workshops centered
on how to understand, react to, organize against and eliminate
racialized police and extrajudicial violence. Family members of black
people killed by state sanctioned violence were on hand to share their
experiences; among them was Michael Brown Sr., Gwen Carr, mother of
Eric Garner, Amberly Carter, cousin of Emmett Till, Tracy Martin,
Trayvon’s dad, and Martinez Sutton, brother of Rekia Boyd. M4BL
also included programming about intersecting issues including systemic
racism, immigration HIV/AIDS, workers’ rights, reproductive justice,
the 2016 presidential election and police divestment. How-tos aimed to teach
participants self defense, first aid, self care and basic
organizing. And M4BL had a robust roster of panels and
workshops about LGBTQ survival, identity and culture."
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