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After a one year hiatus we are finally back! Over the course of the last year, Freedonia used our downtime to make some big changes and we are excited to share those with you. We have a fancy and more user-friendly new website; we refreshed our application process and improved the forms; and most excitingly, we have revamped our granting structure and made the decision to expand our reach.
We will now accept applications for projects based anywhere in Canada (rather than just Ontario and British Columbia), and we are increasing the amount of funding provided by our grants. The world is as bad as it has ever been and we want to see what can happen when folks have more resources to make their projects happen.
For the next two years Freedonia will be piloting a new grant structure and offering a small number of larger-sized grants of up to $20,000. We will continue to offer two categories of grants, however, under our new granting structure small grants (previously $0-$2,000) will now be $2,000-$8,000 and large grants (previously $2,001-$5000) will now be $8,001-$20,000.
As bleak as things may seem, the possibilities for taking action are always present (even if they are evolving) and we want to help make things happen. We invite organizations, groups, and projects that embody the values of Freedonia to apply. We support organizing that is oriented towards anti-authoritarian social change, and prioritize funding projects that are committed to taking action outside of institutional channels and unlikely to get funding elsewhere.
At this moment, we are particularly enthusiastic to fund projects related to movement infrastructure broadly defined (i.e. including but not limited to material infrastructure). We want to support initiatives that build collective capacity; strengthen people’s long-term ability to organize; and expand the terrain of struggle.