North Star News
Jackie Mann: Why I Give
My career as a psychotherapist helped me see that change only happens in a meaningful way when people create it themselves and are personally involved in opposing structures that oppress them. That experience informed the genesis of my own...
Fall 2010 Cycle Now Open
All of us at North Star Fund are proud and excited to launch our new grantmaking program - a comprehensive strategy that works with groups at every stage of their development, from start-up to seasoned. North Star Fund developed...
NYC Venture Philanthropy Fund RFP
Each year, the NYC Venture Philanthropy Fund offers a grant to an innovative, start-up nonprofit that is addressing a major social problem facing New York City. VPF members vote to determine the area of focus for each year's grant....
Spring 2010 Grants Announced
For our spring grant cycle, we awarded $250,000 to 26 groups. Eight of those are first-time grantees: Bronx News Network, Brooklyn Movement Center, Right to the City NYC, Committee for Transit Workers' Rights, Jahajee Sisters, New York City Community...
Greening Western Queens Fund Request for Proposals
North Star Fund is proud to announce the release of the RFP for the Greening Western Queens Fund. The Greening Western Queens Fund is a new $7.9 million initiative to invest in energy-efficiency and environmental projects in the Western...
Webinar on Lessons from 2010 Proxy Votes
It's been an extraordinary year for shareholder activists concerned about social and environmental issues. Register now and get the insider scoop on key shareholder campaigns that include new shareholder resolutions on environmental health and water scarcity, sexual orientation and...
Elise Boddie: Why I Give
For over thirty years, North Star has been investing in community organizations that are creating positive, sustainable change on the ground, where it matters most. It carries out its investment through an activist-led grantmaking process. Although I now teach...
United States Social Forum Travel Grants
North Star Fund is pleased to announced that we awarded United States Social Forum travel grants to 36 organizations. In total, we awarded $30,000 to 13 organizations. The groups used these funds for support members and leaders of grassroots...
Women on the Rise Telling HerStory
From the 2010 Community Gala Program Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH) is being recognized [with the North Star Fund Frederick Douglass Award] for its achievements in empowering currently and formerly incarcerated women to bring about changes in...
New Grantmaking Vision and Guidelines
What have we learned from thirty years of funding the most courageous and innovative grassroots leaders and organizers? How do we help more communities to get their voices heard and needs addressed? What do we keep doing? And what...
