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2025 Community Change Fund Application

2025 Grant Cycle

Collective 365 invites applications from individuals, groups, businesses, and non-profits who are seeking grant funds to support Black and Brown communities in DC, MD, and/or VA with a focus on education, social justice, workforce development, and/or health. In addition to the grant funds, applicants may qualify for capacity building support, if available. Collective 365 is not only committed to invest money, but also time and talent by offering applicants access to a pool of experts that can assist with supporting their work over the next 12 months.


Who can Apply?

  1. If applying as an individual - Must be a person of color

  2. If applying as a group, business or nonprofit - Must be led by leaders of color 

  3. Proposal must serve areas within the District of Columbia, Maryland, and/or Virginia

  4. Programming must support Black & Brown families and communities through education, workforce development, social justice, and/or health. 

  5. Working to build healthy, positive and equitable relationships and collaborations.

  6. Working to create and sustain racial justice. 


How Applicants are Selected

Applicants pay $10-20, complete the application and will be selected through random drawing. 100% of application fees are added to the 2025 grant fund. Applicants will be selected March 2025 and notified by March 31. Payment will be mailed by April 15.


What we Fund

Collective 365 provides unrestricted grant funding. Applicants may use funds for general operating support to celebrate, build-up, and preserve Black and Brown communities.  Our grant funds may be utilized also for indirect costs to deliver these programs, including salaries, benefits, occupancy, overhead, equipment, and supplies, however, grantees may also allocate funds to direct costs. We do not put any restrictions on the percentage of indirect costs.


What we don’t fund are...

  • Political activities or political action committees of any specific political party. Advocacy activity, if any, must be nonpartisan; 

  • Organizations requiring adherence to a particular religious belief or required participation in religious service or activity. A religious organization may act as a fiscal agent, but services may not be restricted to a particular faith community or membership in a particular congregation; 

  • Organizations that deny services, employment, or volunteer involvement on the basis of race, age, ancestry or national origin, sexual orientation, gender, physical or mental disability, or religion.


Application Timeline

The grant application period is open from February 1-March 1, 2025. Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on March 1, 2025. This year’s grant guidelines can be found below. Please review thoroughly before submitting a grant. 


Grant Funding

We expect to make several awards during this grant cycle, ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. Final grant award amounts will be assigned by the Governing Board. Applicants are asked to request a specific award amount in the application. The grant period for this award is 12 months following notification of the grant award.


Please contact collective365info@gmail.com, if you have any questions about the application process.


About the Collective 365

Collective 365 was founded in July 2020 and is a spin-off of a giving circle in that we are seeking people from diverse sectors and identities to invest their talent, time, money, and passion together into their community. The members of the Collective 365 pay a yearly donation, which are used to create community-based grants. Collective 365 utilizes a social justice philanthropy framework. The following are core to our operation: 

  1. Collective 365 focuses on the root causes of economic, racial, and social injustice.

  2. Collective 365 strives to include the people who are impacted by those injustices as leaders and decision-makers.

  3. Collective 365 seeks to make the field of philanthropy more accessible and diverse.

  4. Collective 365 is accountable, transparent, and responsive in our grant-making.


Does your proposal primarily serve Black & Brown individuals or communities in DC, MD, or VA?
yes
no (if no, do not continue with the application)
Please select which status best describes the applicant.
individual
group or organization
business
non profit (501(c)3 status)
If you are applying as an individual, please answer the following: Which best describes the identity you primarily identify as
Asian or Pacific Islander
Biracial or multiracial
Black or African American
Hispanic or Latino/a/x
White
I am not applying as an individual
If you are applying as an organization/group or business, please answer the following: Does 75% of your staff (paid or unpaid) identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color?
If you are applying as an organization/group or business, please answer the following: Does 75% of your board identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color?
Please select which focus areas your proposal is addressing.
Which area does your proposal target?
The maximum grant amount is $10,000. Can your proposal be completed with $10,000?
The proposal does not require more than $10,000
The proposal requires more than $10,000, and we have secured additional funding
The proposal requires more than $10,000, but we have not secured additional funding
Please identify "capacity building" support you would be interested in receiving from Collective 365, if available? Select only three (3):
Application fee (100% of the application fee is added to the 2025 grant fund and is tax deductible) Payment is collected after you click "submit"
10 US$
15 US$
20 US$

Once you click "submit" below, please be prepared to pay with credit card or debit card. Your application is successfully submitted once payment is received. You will not receive a separation confirmation email that your application has been received.


By submitting this application and paying the application fee, the applicant certifies that all information provided is true, accurate, and complete to the best of their knowledge. The applicant acknowledges and agrees to all rules and guidelines of this grant program, including the following terms:


This grant is a one-time award of unrestricted funds. Applicants will be randomly selected. The grant's governing board will review the applications of randomly selected individuals to ensure they meet the established eligibility criteria. Selected applicants will be notified via email and will have 72 hours to respond. Failure to respond within this timeframe will result in forfeiture of the potential award, and other qualified applicants will be selected. Grant recipients will be asked to complete a brief survey 12 months after the funds are disbursed. All application fees are non-refundable and are 100% tax deductible. No refunds will be issued for any reason.

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