Proteus Fund
For The Emergent Fund
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Amount$25,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/27/2018
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The Proteus Fund houses the Emergent Fund, which was created immediately after the 2016 election to quickly move funds to communities facing injustice based on racial, ethnic, religious, and other forms of discrimination. The Emergent Fund recently introduced a new area of focus — providing funding for grassroots organizing by young women, women of color, and other marginalized leaders who are building power to mitigate and prevent harm from climate change. Funding from Hewlett will support work in this area.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.proteusfund.org
Address
15 Research Drive, Suite B, Amherst, MA, 01002, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative: Gender-Just Economy Collaborative Learning Platform
This grant is to the Proteus Fund as the fiscal sponsor for the Transparency and Accountability Initiative. The Proteus Fund connects philanthropy to the frontlines of social justice, striving to advance the interconnected goals of racial, gender, queer, and disability justice, and an inclusive, fully representative democracy. The Transparency and Accountability Initiative is a donor collaborative that coordinates research and exchange among donors focused on good governance for just societies. The grant will support the development of a donor-focused learning community of practice facilitating dialogue between donors about how to advance a gender-just economy through new economic thinking and effective grantmaking approaches. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for the Transparency and Accountability Initiative
The Transparency and Accountability Initiative, hosted by Proteus Fund, is a donor collaborative that coordinates research and exchange among transparency and accountability donors. This grant will continue supporting implementation of the 2020-2024 strategy to increase members’ collective impact by facilitating collective action around four streams of work: (a) data use for accountability, (b) taxation and tax governance, (c) strengthening civic space, and (d) learning for improved grantmaking. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for support of More Equitable Democracy
More Equitable Democracy, a fiscally sponsored project of the Proteus Fund, coordinates with organizations led by people of color that advance proportional representation and other electoral reforms through public education, research, litigation, and policy advocacy at the state and local levels.
