Urgent Action Grants

Nontraditional Participatory grantmaking

Rapid grants for grassroots Hawaiʻi organizations responding to an unforeseen crisis or a critical organizing moment. Decisions are made by a grantmaking committee of fellow social-justice organizers, not professional program officers.

Indicative award

up to $8k (total award)Page states Urgent Action Grants are up to $5,000, with up to $7,500 for organizations addressing needs in Maui Komohana; requests should reflect actual documented need. The fund's grantee pages also describe a two-year $15,000 Kāmau sustained-support grant, but no separate application page for it w

Timing

Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Urgent Action Grants are framed as a response to unforeseen crises rather than a fixed cycle; the page names no open deadline. The fund separately runs a Spring grant cycle.

Who can apply

Community organisation, Practitioner

Eligibility

Grassroots social-justice groups in Hawaiʻi; must be a 501(c)(3) or work through a fiscal sponsor. Individuals are not funded, and a university cannot be the applicant — a researcher's route is as a partner to a community grantee. Ongoing program funding, one-time events and budget relief are excluded.

SSWR clusters

Topics

community organizing · native hawaiian communities · mutual aid · disaster response · social justice

Apply at

https://hawaiipeoplesfund.org/apply-for-a-grant/

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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Urgent Action Grants

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