Opportunity Fund
A rapid-response fund with monthly deadlines for special projects or emergencies falling outside a group's ongoing work — demonstrations, coalition efforts, conferences and forums responding to emerging issues. Because grant decisions across Bread & Roses sit with community members rather than staff or professional program officers, this is a genuinely participatory small-grant route, useful for convening costs, community forums and quick-turn documentation alongside a research partner.
- Indicative award
- up to $1k (total award)The page states grants of up to $1,000; no minimum is 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.Deadlines fall on the 1st of each month (or the first business day) at 5:00 p.m., with twelve dates listed for 2026. Individual future dates are not reproduced here because the page presents them as a recurring monthly schedule.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicant must be a group focused on organizing and activism rather than social service delivery, with leadership primarily composed of people affected by the issues addressed and a community-based collective-action strategy. Groups that received an Opportunity Fund grant within the past 12 months are ineligible. A university is not the applicant — the organizing group holds the grant.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- rapid response · community organizing · convening support
- Apply at
- https://breadrosesfund.org/grants-scholarships/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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