MNF Fall 2024 Grantees

Racial Justice Rising, one of our fall 2024 grantees

The MNF provides grants of up to $4000 to small activist organizations in Western Massachusetts that are dedicated to organizing and supporting the poor and powerless for a more just and peaceful world.
Year-round we also offer an emergency grant for up $500 to cover urgent costs that social justice organizations might encounter. Since late summer 2024 MNF now also accepts application for the organizing of urgent social justice events. Grounded in this change we were able to offer an emergency grant for vigil to honor the life of Sonya Massey in Springfield.

We provided seven Fall 2024 Grants.

Many of our grantees are organizations that center on the currently and formerly incarcerated, like The Compost Co-operative in Greenfield, MA. They not only work to reduce food waste but also seek to implement transformative justice solutions to foster equality and the damaging prison system. We gladly support their work to train workers to further remove barriers to employment.

We also provided a grant to Racial Justice Rising (Greenfield, MA) to assist in their work on racial justice. Our grant will help support their Empowering Communities program.

Demilitarize Western Mass also received a fall grant from MNF to support their ongoing peace building efforts and their work related to local weapon manufactures.

MNF also issued a grant to The Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership (Springfield, MA). This organization offers classes that teach movement building and organizing skills to address challenges that oppressed communities face.

MNF realizes the importance of the arts in social justice movements, to maintain them and to build them. Our grants can be offered to organizations that deeply embed social justice work into their work.

Local Access to Valley Arts (LAVA, Greenfield, MA) received a grant from MNF because of their continued efforts to combine a variety of arts with that of social justice work. Their latest effort will feature a variety of local groups in an event that features “Songs of Resistance, Survival, and Hope” (working title).

We also provided a grant to the arts collective Cloudgaze Productions, which consistently works on collaborative efforts in our community. Our fall 2024 grant is targeted for their October 2024 event, “A Happening IV: Leviathan,” an immersive, multidisciplinary arts festival to be held at the Shea Theater.

Lastly, we provided a grant to Eggtooth Productions (Greenfield, MA) that will offer production of “Orlando” by Sarah Ruhl that will be a benefit for the LGBTQIA+ Youth Program at the Academy of Music in Northampton.

MNF solely depends on donations with all contributions going to our grantees.  This means that our community is making our work possible and we’re thankful.

During these times of intense political strive and real fear, MNF continues to steadfastly hold on to the hope that grassroots organizations in our area can bring about real progress and improve people’s lives in our area and beyond. Our work continues.