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Here’s the latest in news and updates from North Star Fund, including previous and upcoming grants, our current programming and our work to change philanthropy. Be sure to sign up for email or follow us on social media if you want to get our news delivered directly to you.
Our Spring/Summer 2019 NYC Grassroots Action Grants
We're pleased to announce our latest grants in New York City! Through the leadership of our New York City Community Funding Committee, North Star Fund awarded $350,000 in grants to 31 organizations. This docket includes Catalyst grants (for start-ups) and these...
“How will we build an equitable economy in New York?” Recap
This past Monday night's Equitable Economy roundtable was a powerful evening of conversation. We heard about current strategies and campaigns that go to the heart of building alternative institutions that build the wealth and power of people, and not corporations. As...
2019 Giving Project Grants
At North Star Fund, we believe in our collective power to transform New York by supporting grassroots organizing led by communities most impacted by injustice. Our 2018-2019 People Power Giving Project brought together over 20 New Yorkers from a wide range of...
Rapid response: Protecting street vendors across the city
North Star Fund made a Rapid Response grant of $5,000 to the Street Vendor Project for training and mobilization in preparation for a March hearing of a bill that would increase the number of vending permits in New York City. What is the Street Vendor Project? There...
Our Fall 2018-Winter 2019 New York City Grassroots Action Grants
We're pleased to announce these latest Grassroots Action grants! Our Grassroots Action grants are our largest category, and they represent our biggest investment in people-powered organizing. These grants reflect our commitment to sustain existing New York City...
Our Fall 2018-Winter 2019 New York City Catalyst Grants
We're proud to share our fall 2018/winter 2019 Catalyst grantees! Catalyst grants fund start-up organizations and are an important element of how we keep expanding and deepening New York's movements for justice. These grants support new leaders and, in some cases, new...
Highlights from “New Year’s Revolutions Giving Plan” 2019 Workshop
Thank you to the 20 people who joined us in the Betty Kapetanakis conference room for our January 2019 in-person workshop on how to create a giving plan. Over the evening, long-time North Star Fund leaders Helen Stillman and Kofo Anifalaje covered a lot of ground...
Grantee Victory Round-Up: 2018-2019 Victories for Local Organizing
North Star Fund has dozens of grantees running campaigns on issues affecting hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. We share up-to-date news of grantee progress and victories on our Facebook page and on Twitter. Then periodically we publish round-ups of victories here...
Late 2018 Rapid Response Grants
North Star Fund makes Rapid Response grants year-round to support organizing and activism in response to urgent threats or breaking opportunities for organizing. Most of these grants go to organizations that have received grants through our other programs, enabling...
Rapid Response: Fighting back against Amazon’s HQ2
In late December 2018, North Star Fund made a $5,000 Rapid Response grant to CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities (CAAAV) for building power against Amazon's planned corporate headquarters (HQ2) in Long Island City. CAAAV CAAAV works to build grassroots community power...
Rapid Response: Getting ready to fight for housing justice
North Star Fund made a Rapid Response grant of $5,000 to Upstate/Downstate Housing Alliance's statewide retreat to build momentum for an expansive, inspiring, and successful rent law fight in 2019. Who is the Upstate/Downstate Housing Alliance? From Rochester to...
Seeding Power Fellowship Announcement
On December 4th, 2018, Community Food Funders (CFF) announced the new Seeding Power Fellowship at a funder briefing hosted by Surdna Foundation and co-sponsored by Philanthropy New York and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF). 40 people attended...
Year-End Power-Up Recap
Thanks so much for all of you who joined us for our Year-End Power-Up on December 4, 2018 at the LGBTQ Center of New York. We came together to mix and mingle and to share our plans for 2019 -- our fortieth anniversary year! Director Jennifer Ching welcomed over 100...
We spent an evening in Kingston #DecolonizingWealth
Thanks to all the people who joined us for a great evening in Kingston with Edgar Villanueva and Sachem Hawkstorm about the concepts in Edgar's new book, "Decolonizing Wealth." The December 1, 2018 program centered around how Native activism and teaching about wealth...
Rapid Response: Supporting Families Fighting Immigration Detention
North Star Fund made a $2,500 Rapid Response grant to Families for Freedom for an emergency campaign to reinstate FFF's hotline in detention centers. Families For Freedom Families for Freedom (FFF) is a New York-based multi-ethnic human rights organization by and for...