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For many New Yorkers, the choices don’t feel like choices. Double up with another family to stay in your apartment. Send the kids to a school more dangerous than the street. Join the army or stay unemployed.
The barriers to opportunity are many. And their root causes intertwine. Institutionalized racism. Gender discrimination. Economic injustice. A turning away from peace.
Where does effective and enduring social change begin?
North Star Fund believes the primary place is among the people who are most affected—the grassroots. North Star Fund provides resources to the creative risk-takers who are building individual and community power to achieve social justice for all New Yorkers.
Our Programs
Regular Grants
Activist-led seed grants to New York's most effective emerging groups have been the core of North Star Fund's program. General operating grants of $5,000 and $10,000 are awarded during two grant cycles each year (Spring and Fall). The grant amount is determined by a number of factors, including the organization's budget, accomplishments, and need.
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Technical Assistance
More than funding, North Star Fund provides skills development through workshops in grassroots fundraising, board development, volunteer management, working with media.
Training the Next Generation
Every summer, North Star Fund collaborates with the New York Foundation to bring together students from diverse backgrounds and match them with grantee groups to learn the basics skills of grassroots community organizing. The program is called SEYCO, which stands for Summer Employment for Youth in Community Organizing. SEYCO is building a pipeline for a new generation of activists.
Rapid Response Grants
Small grants of up to $2,000 are available throughout the year to community-based organizations that are responding quickly to unexpected political, social or economic events. These funds enable the groups to organize strategic events or initiatives that could not have been anticipated in their regular program work.
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