Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice Accepting Applications for Annual Grant

The Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice is accepting applications for its annual grant period. Applications will be accepted between September 1st, 2017, and September 30, 2017. The Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice was established in 2013 to carry on the life work of Richard E. Fallow who fought for Labor and Economic Justice; Environmental Sustainability; and Democracy and Human Rights. Each year the Endowment will issue a grant in one of these categories. The endowment is administered by the Community Foundation of the Great River Bend and managed by Progressive Action for the Common Good. Applicants can download materials to apply for the grant at the PACG Website: http://qcprogressiveaction.org/ or on the Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice Facebook page at https:/www.facebook.com/FallowFund. You may also send an email to FallowFund@gmail.com to request application materials. Criteria for grant applicants: ● Their work must serve the Quad Cities and immediate surrounding areas ● It must be an organization and not an individual ● It must fit under one of the three categories of serving Labor/Economic Justice, Environmental Sustainability, and Democracy/Human Rights ● With some exceptions, the organization has to be locally chartered and not part of a national organization with access to resources that local groups do not have ● The grant will not be available to partisan organizations Once all grant applications are received, beginning October 24th, 2017, a grant selection committee will evaluate all applications and make their decision no later than October 31st.. Two grants were awarded in 2016 to the Palomares Social Justice Center of Moline, Illinois, and the Safer Foundation of the Quad Cities. For more information: 563-676-7580 / fallowfund@gmail.com