Opportunity Fund
Very small monthly grants for an emerging issue or situation outside a group's ongoing work. Bread & Roses distributes through a community funding model in which people doing the work and affected by injustice make the decisions.
- Indicative award
- up to $1k (total award)Up to $1,000 per grant. No minimum published.
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, DecNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Monthly deadlines at 5:00 p.m. on the 1st of each month, or the first business day if the 1st falls on a weekend or holiday; the page lists 2026 dates running from January 5 through December 1. Applications via Submittable.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicant must meet Bread & Roses' basic eligibility, be focused on community organizing and activism with leadership primarily composed of people affected by the issue, and face an emerging issue or situation that is not part of ongoing work. Cannot have received an Opportunity Fund grant in the previous 12 months. The fund's stated geography is the Philadelphia region.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- community organizing · emergent opportunities · philadelphia region
- Apply at
- https://breadrosesfund.org/apply-for-funding/opportunity-fund/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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