AEPOCH Fund
See below for short descriptions of our various funding streams. Most grants have been $5,000 to $20,000. By partnering with other funders, we have also been able to make a number of larger collaborative grants.
Please note that currently, all grantmaking is done by invitation only. We do not accept unsolicited proposals.
If you feel that your work is a strong fit for our funding priorities and you want to let us know, we welcome you to use this reply form to tell us briefly about your work.
- The AEPOCH Arts Fund
- provides grants to creative projects and organizations that engage in achievable strategies to generate personal, social and political awareness and change. The Fund supports activities that blur the boundaries between artistic activity and social change and grants are made primarily to people and projects that have difficulties in being funded or "valued" in a traditional sense, including underrepresented individuals, and projects with little or no funding history.
- Examples of Recent Grants - AEPOCH Arts Fund
- Community Healing Fund
- partners in meaningful ways with communities that embrace healing, growth, and transformation in the face of sustained trauma. We make grants to 1) strengthen existing healing and cultural practices that address the impact of trauma on individuals and communities, 2) support the experimentation, innovation, and emergence of new practices, 3) foster new models of community organizing and movement building that embrace healing, sustainability, and systemic change, and 4) honor and sustain healers, artists, and activists who are engaged in community healing work, 5) document and disseminate new learning, innovative practices, and emerging models that address community healing and transformation.
- Examples of Recent Grants - Community Healing Fund
- Sustainability & Social Justice Fund
- provides grants to organizations and movements that are catalyzing viable alternatives to current systems of inequality, violence and environmental degradation. We emphasize support for cross-issue, cross-sector strategies and organizations led by young people, people of color, people with disabilities and others who have less access to mainstream sources of funding.
- Examples of Recent Grants - Sustainability & Social Justice Fund
- Coaching Fund
- Coaching is a powerful leadership development tool that has mostly been available to affluent individuals and mainstream non-profit organizations. The primary purpose of the Coaching Fund is to make high-quality, low-cost coaching available to people who are doing work aligned with AEPOCH's mission and interests. Through the Coaching Fund, AEPOCH covers up to 80% of the costs for one-on-one leadership coaching from selected providers for up to six months per client.
- Flow Funds
- AEPOCH distributes a portion of its grants through Flow Funds, in which community advisors make recommendations for small grants from a fund designated for a specific purpose. Each Flow Fund process draws on the wisdom and collective life experiences of its advisors in selecting the fund recipients. The funds are distributed in a simple way - planting seeds that may have a ripple effect far beyond the initial gifts. Most Flow Fund grants range between $500 and $2,500.
- Healing Arts Flow Fund - Grants Awarded
- Black & Green Food Justice Fund - Grants Awarded
- Closer Walk Fund - Grants Awarded
- Ecology & Justice Flow Fund
- Gwekaanimad Flow Fund
- Infinite Imagination Fund
