Grantee: Met Council on Housing
Grantee Resources
Grantee Support from North Star Fund
Event Amplification: Do you have news or an upcoming event you want us to amplify? Complete this form.
Job Opportunities: Is your organization hiring? Submit job opportunities here and we’ll share them in our newsletters.
Newsletters: Sign up for our e-newsletter to receive information, resources and workshops to support social justice organizing. If your organization wants additional people to receive our grantee-specific newsletter, please write to grants@northstarfund.org.
Photography: Need a photographer? North Star Fund grantees can request a photographer to take pics of one event per year.
Rapid Response Grants: North Star Fund makes rapid response grants available to support grassroots groups with timely organizing, activism and strategic convening in response to emergent issues. Learn more here.
Meet with Staff: Is there another way we can support you? Let’s meet! Make an appointment with us using Calendly (Hudson Valley, Let Us Breathe or New York City).
Capacity Building & Leadership Programs
North Star Fund strengthens the leadership of grassroots organizers. Through events, trainings and workshops, one-on-one support, and sharing resources, we help organizations and leaders build their capacity to effect social change.
We’re a member of the New York City Capacity Building Collaborative, which offers periodic trainings for our grantees at no cost.
Communications Resources
Pre-pandemic, North Star Fund hosted lunches that focused on different communications skills for grantees. Here are summaries and materials from previous Lunch & Learns:
Additional Resources
Afrilingual is a co-op that provides interpretation, translation and transcription services in 10+ African languages, English and French.
Algarabia Language Co-op provides language classes and Spanish interpretation and translation services.
Candid. Learning provides resources to support your organization’s fundraising and sustainability, including:
- Introduction to Finding Grants
- Introduction to Proposal Writing
- What is fiscal sponsorship? How do I find a fiscal sponsor?
Chuffed Crowdfunding Academy
This site offers tips, case studies, videos and lessons from thousands of successful social cause crowdfunding campaigns.
Directory of Capacity-Builders
Use this resource from the New York City Capacity Building Funders’ Collaborative to find people with experience supporting grassroots organizing in NYC.
Directory of Philanthropic Organizations
Use this directory by Philanthropy New York to research philanthropic organizations.
Fun with Financials
Fun with Financials teaches nonprofit organizations practices that support informed financial decisions. They also work with foundations to align philanthropic processes to support a culture shift toward financial health. They make nonprofit finance engaging while holding a larger vision of change.
Get in Formation: A Community Safety Toolkit
This toolkit by Vision Change Win is a collection of security and safety practices they have been building and learning for years from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color movements within the U.S. It focuses on verbal de-escalation, office and organizational safety, and security for events and actions.
How Unions and 501c3 Organizations Can Maximize Their Power to Make Policy Change
This fact sheet by Alliance for Justice answers frequently asked questions and addresses misconceptions about lobbying and advocacy for nonprofits.
ioby.org
Through this neighborhood-based crowdfunding website, you can raise tax-deductible contributions and access other types of support.
A Nonprofit Guide to Teaming Up with Volunteers
This Taproot Foundation webinar addresses nonprofit challenges that can be tackled with volunteer support, best practices for designing and managing projects, and how you can connect with virtual volunteers.
Organizations that Provide Fiscal Sponsorship
North Star Fund created this working list of organizations that offer fiscal sponsorship services.
6 Quick Tips for Designing Inclusive Forms
This article by Trina Moore Pervall provides tips on designing inclusive forms that your organization can consider when gathering information. Inclusive form design means ensuring form labels and input options respect privacy and the wide range of social identities.