The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation aims to support and empower communities by making small grants to local, community-based Vermont non-profit programs and community celebrations. It particularly focuses on uplifting under-served populations and addressing fundamental human needs, with a commitment to community service and the enhancement of a strong volunteer base.
The National Grassroots Organizing Program offers two-year flexible, general operating support grants of up to $30,000 per year, primarily aimed at non-profit grassroots constituent-led organizations throughout the United States and its territories, excluding Vermont. These organizations should be dedicated to creating broad systems change through community organizing campaigns and movement-building efforts. The program prioritizes groups that are led by and focus on the leadership of Black communities, Indigenous communities, and communities of color, working with anti-oppression values to dismantle systems of oppression and white supremacy. The grant supports a wide range of organizing strategies such as community outreach, leadership development, empowerment and decision-making by constituents, popular education, root cause analysis, power analysis, campaign development, mobilization of constituents and allies, coalition building, and non-violent direct action.