2025 Emergency/Solidarity Grant – The Decarcerate WMass Bailout Project
The Decarcerate WMass Bailout Project (Northampton) received a Solidarity/Emergency grant to support the Western MA Fight Back School (event) on November 16, 2025 at UMass, Springfield
MNF Fall 2025 Grantee – The Traprock Center for Peace and Justice
"The Traprock Center for Peace and Justice thanks the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice for their generous grant that will help finance several projects in Franklin County. The Climate and Democracy Project will present information and local expert contributions...
MNF Fall 2025 Grantee – Redistro
"Redistro is so thankful for the Markham-Nathan Fund's generous support of our operations. Redistro is a mutual aid collective with a focus on building community locally through the redistribution of our shared abundance. This grant will support our goals of community...
Fall 2025 Grantee – Demilitarize Western Massachusetts
"Demilitarize Western Massachusetts is excited to accept a Fall 2025 grant award from the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice. Their generosity will financially sustain our commitment to sounding the alarm on local war profiteers whose purpose of fueling genocide,...
MNF Fall 2025 Grantee – Connecticut River Defenders
"Connecticut River Defenders will focus on increasing contact with, growing and activating constituents and moving the needle on public opinion about the dangers and damage caused by the Northfield Pumped Storage Project. CRD will develop a media and communications...
Our Fall 2025 MNF Grantees
We’re delighted to announce our fall 2025 grantees. All grants were made possible by your donations. 1. Compost Cooperative (Greenfield) ...
MNF Spring 2025 Grantee – Piti Theatre Company
"Valley Playwright Mentoring is a six month mentoring program for teens currently available afterschool in Greenfield and Holyoke where participants create performances and podcasts inspired by stories from their lives. Podcasts and videos from previous years are...
MNF Spring 2025 Grantee – The Nolumbeka Project
"The 12th Annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival: A Celebration of Native American Art, Music, and Cultures will include outstanding presentations by well respected and honored Indigenous performers such as Mohawk elder Tom Porter and Nipmuck flute player and flute...
MNF Spring 2025 Grantee – The Decarcerate Western MA Bailout Project
"The Decarcerate Western MA Bailout Project is grateful to receive a grant from the Markham Nathan Fund in the amount of $4,000. We raise funds publicly to post bail for people held pretrial in Hampshire and Franklin counties and rely on funding from local foundations...
MNF Spring 2025 Grantee – Out Now
"Thanks to the funding from the Markham-Nathan Fund, Out Now will continue to provide popular education/social, support groups for LGBTQIA+ youth ages 22 and under at our office headquarters and beyond. Our groups offer a space where youth are seen, heard, and...
MNF Spring 2025 Grantee – Straw Dog Writers Guild
"Straw Dog Writers Guild and the WriteAngles Conference are committed to supporting underrepresented writers. Whether they be young, queer, low-income, or writers of color, we encourage all writers who strive to make change through their words and in their...
MNF Spring 2025 Grantee – The Shoestring
"With the support of the Markham Nathan Fund, The Shoestring will produce 2-3 in-depth works of environmental journalism for western Mass. The challenges of a changing climate and other environmental issues demand an engaged public, and that public must be...
MNF Spring 2025 Grantee – The Shoestring
"With the support of the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice The Shoestring will produce 2-3 in-depth works of environmental journalism for western Mass. The challenges of a changing climate and other environmental issues demand an engaged public, and that public...
MNF Spring 2025 Grantees
We're delighted to annouce our spring 2025 Grantees. Your donations have made this possible and we're gratefiul. 1. Out Now (Springfield) to support education/social, support groups for LGBTQIA+ youth and further the groups social justice work 2. The Nolumbeka...
2024 MNF Grantees
We are excited to share with you our 2024 grant recipients. Spring 2024 Grantees Nolumbeka Project (Greenfield) to support the 11th Annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival and especially the work of the Youth Ambassadors. Brew & Forge (Greenfield) to sponsor two BIPOC...
MNF Fall 2024 Grantee – Racial Justice Rising
"Racial Justice Rising has received grant funding through the Markham Nathan Fund, and we are so grateful! Our project, Revitalizing Racial Justice Through Community Education and Outreach, will be offering interactive, engaging, and impactful programming in the...
MNF 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...
MNF Fall 2024 Grantee – The Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership
"The Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership prepares social justice leaders and learners to join movement struggles and acquire the skills necessary to organize, educate, and create positive social change. The Truth School offers free classes, online, to...
MNF Fall 2024 Grantee – The Compost Co-operative
"Developed inside the Greenfield Jail in 2017 by incarcerated people and community members to address the interconnected issues of climate catastrophe and mass incarceration, The Compost Co-operative diverts over 190 tons of waste per year from the...
MNF Fall 2024 Grantee – Demilitarize Western Mass
"Demilitarize Western Mass is honored to receive a grant form the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice. Demilitarize Western Mass is a collective of anti war, ant-imperialist, anti-racist, abolitionist activists working to dismantle the military industrial complex...
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MNF Spring 2024 Grantee: Fiery Hope
"Fiery Hope is thrilled to receive a grant from the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice. We applied because we sought support for a special project in which we joined forces with the Sgt. Jacob Garmalo Memorial Fund, named in honor of a young man who grew up in...
Spring 2019/2018 Grantees
Arise for Social Justice, $2500, Springfield, MA “Undoing Racism Workshops” https://www.arisespringfield.org/ The Undoing Racism Organizing Collective of Western MA seeks to “provide opportunities for organizations and community members to develop an analysis around...
2017 Grantees
2017 Name Website AFSC https://www.afsc.org/office/northampton-ma Arise for Social Action http://www.arisespringfield.org/ Casa Latina http://www.casalatinainc.org/ Climate Action Now https://climateactionnowma.org/ Compost Cooperative...
2016 Grantees
2016 Name Website Arise for Social Justice http://www.arisespringfield.org/ Julius Ford Harriet Tubman Healthy Living Community http://www.earthdance.net/jfhthlc Neighbor to Neighbor http://www.n2nma.org/en/ Out Now! http://outnowyouth.org/ Pioneer Valley Workers...