Feminist and LGBTQI movements in the US Southeast are facing major challenges: a racist system of overpolicing, criminalization, mass incarceration, pervasive economic exploitation, white nationalism, religious conservatism, as well as climate change and environmental disasters. Rooted in diverse communities, movements are facing these challenges with vision and a collaborative spirit, working to fundamentally shift power imbalances and create a just, sustainable South. Our US Southeast strategy aims to support the work of organizations and leaders that are building a strong, diverse social justice ecosystem across the region. This strategy was created to fill funding gaps and increase philanthropic engagement in the US Southeast, and to elevate intersectional antiracist feminist activism and leadership, LGBTQI organizing, and cross-issue advocacy and activism. 

We provide multi-year general operating support and restricted grants to organizations; additional, dedicated grants to support holistic safety and collective care, strategic communications, research, organizational sustainability, and other specific efforts, as requested by grantee partners; and grants to feminist and community funds and donor collaboratives. We make grants four times per year: March, June, September, and November. Proposal invitations are extended two months prior to the grant approval dates.