Foundation Resources

Funding Advocacy: Challenges and Opportunities of Social Justice Philanthropy
Speech given by Linda Shoemaker for the Colorado Association of Foundations, July 22, 2005. [download]

Web Resources

Bamboo Fund
The Bamboo Fund was created in 2003 to provide substantial grants for social justice organizing groups in the Denver/Boulder Metro area. Primarily organizations working for structural and systemic change, work that seeks to alter the power dynamics of society, efforts that eventually lead to long-term change.
http://www.bamboofund.org/

Chinook Fund
The Chinook Fund is committed to the transformation of society into one that promotes social justice and freedom from oppression, including but not limited to: racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, ageism, and ableism.
http://www.chinookfund.org/

Funding Exchange
A network of social justice foundations throughout the United States with a national office in New York City, committed to Change, not Charity.
http://www.fex.org/

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
NCRP is an independent nonprofit working to strengthen the nonprofit sector and improve its ability to represent and serve individuals politically, economically, or socially disadvantaged, by promoting greater philanthropic openness and accountability.
http://www.ncrp.org/

Community Resource Center
The Community Resource Center provides opportunities, tools and strategies for Colorado nonprofit organizations and community groups to achieve a more just society.
http://www.crcamerica.org/

The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County
The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County exists to improve the quality of life in Boulder County, now and forever, and to encourage an ethic of philanthropy.
http://www.commfound.org/

Also see Culture of Giving, a program of the Community Foundation:
http://www.cultureofgiving.org/