Emergent Fund imagines a world where frontline communities are trusted and resourced to turn catalytic moments into opportunities to rise, organize, and build liberated futures.
We provide monthly, open-access, low-barrier, no-reporting grants to impacted communities for rapid response and emergent organizing.
Emergent Fund builds movement power by moving resources with purpose, organizing philanthropy toward justice, and cultivating deep, trust-based relationships. Our work grows the funding, sustainability, and autonomy that our communities need to win.
As a nationally recognized philanthropy culture leader, Emergent Fund challenges power in who we fund as well as with how we fund. Our grant decision-makers come from directly impacted communities committed to building movement and transforming crisis into change. We know that the experts are, definitively, directly impacted communities themselves.
