We know philanthropy can be different
It can be transformative and community led. It can be about activist donors joining a movement, and moving their wealth to the frontlines of organizing and collective change. It can be about supporting community-based organizations in coming together, building their infrastructure, and effecting long-lasting change.
We know philanthropy can be different
It can be transformative and community led. It can be about activist donors joining a movement, and moving their wealth to the frontlines of organizing and collective change. It can be about supporting community-based organizations in coming together, building their infrastructure, and effecting long-lasting change.
Seeding Justice is taking a different approach (FPO)
Our programs are based on trust, relationships, and true partnership, and founded on the belief that the communities most impacted are the ones best equipped to solve the issues they face.
We believe philanthropy should seek deep, systemic, and long-lasting change—not charity.
Philanthropy has had a troubled history in our country, putting donors and wealth holders above communities and failing to be accountable to the people it’s supposed to serve. Seeding Justice is taking a different approach: we believe philanthropy should be transparent and people-led. It should focus on over-resourcing the communities that have been and continue to be marginalized and that—despite it all—continue to resiliently thrive.
We believe philanthropy should seek deep, systemic, and long-lasting change—not charity.
Philanthropy has had a troubled history in our country, putting donors and wealth holders above communities and failing to be accountable to the people it’s supposed to serve. Seeding Justice is taking a different approach: we believe philanthropy should be transparent and people-led. It should focus on over-resourcing the communities that have been and continue to be marginalized and that—despite it all—continue to resiliently thrive.
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Our approach to resourcing our communities
At Seeding Justice, we work to not only shift wealth, but also power by…
- Funding groups and projects that are actively working to challenge White Supremacist, capitalist, and patriarchal systems.
- Funding primarily emergent, small, and grassroots organizations and groups that don’t have access to traditional sources of wealth.
- Using a participatory grantmaking process—the folks making funding decisions are organizers, activists, and cultural workers from different parts of the state who have lived and professional experience in the issues we support. We simply facilitate the process and support the decision makers in their work.
- Actively seeking applicants from the communities that are most under-resourced, working with them to strengthen their applications. We also connect them with other funders, and provide resources so they build capacity and sustain their work.
- Making ourselves available to share knowledge, receive feedback, or discuss the ways in which our movements can navigate and push back against the status quo.
Open Opportunities
there are no open opportunities at this time
In 1986, MRG made critical seed funding to Black United Fund of Oregon. Throughout MRG’s history we have provided seed and/or critical early funding to: Black United Front, Ebone Eyes, Coalition of Black Men, Brother to Brother, Sisters in Action, Eugene/Springfield NAACP, International Center for Traditional Childbearing and PFLAG Portland Black Chapter.
The federal government re-recognizes the Klamath Tribe after Klamath tribal sovereignty was terminated in 1954 by the federal government. MRG made multiple grants to Klamath Tribe groups in Chiloquin and Klamath Falls as tribal members organized to regain federally recognized sovereignty. Recent grants to the Confederated Tribes of the Lower Rogue have helped members preserve the Tututni language and Komemma Cultural Protection Association has helped preserve the Kalapuya culture.