Tzedek's Grantmaking Alignment Checklist - Tzedek Social Justice Fund

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The Grant Checklist is built upon and operationalizes the Tzedek Fund’s mission statement, key focal areas, and strategic plan. This tool is used across Tzedek’s grantmaking to gauge alignment and categorize our funding work for evaluation. In order to be eligible for grantmaking, organizations and individuals should meet one or more criteria for mission alignment, focal area alignment, impacted leadership alignment, and Asheville impact, along with all of the values alignment criteria.

MISSION ALIGNMENT

In order to be eligible for grantmaking, organizations and individuals should meet one or more systems change or community healing criteria. We resource and partner with organizations, initiatives, and collaboratives who address and leaders who have addressed, root causes of racial, LGBTQ, and anti-Jewish injustice and engage in systems change work by:

Shift Policies. Changing policies, institutional practices, and laws that have a potential significant impact on the lives and experiences of LGBTQ, BIPOC, and/or Jewish people
Alternative Models. Innovating alternative models and systems (education, finance, housing, etc.) to meet the basic needs of LGBTQ, BIPOC, and Jewish people
Redistribute, Innovate. Redistributing and allocating money and other resources to LGBTQ, BIPOC, and Jewish communities and innovating philanthropic practices to move resources
Activate, Mobilize. Activating and mobilizing Jewish, BIPOC, LGBTQ communities, and allies to organize and advocate for collective liberation along with fighting the impact and legacy of systems of injustice.

We resource and partner with organizations, initiatives, and collaboratives who address and leaders who have addressed, community healing by:

Immediate Needs. Meeting the immediate needs that arise because of LGBTQ inequality, racial inequality, and antisemitism through direct service provision and the redistribution of resources
Practices, Spaces. Creating self-defining healing-informed practices, spaces, and strategies to support collective safety, sustainability, and wellbeing of LGBTQ, BIPOC, and Jewish people
Affirm, Heal Harms. Creating self-defining spaces and affirming opportunities designed to heal the harms of historical trauma and injustice from systems of oppression experienced by LGBTQ, BIPOC, and Jewish people
Direct Heal, Networks. Providing direct healing work and/or the creation of community-specific healer networks
Addressing Conflict. Addressing conflict and struggle in transformative ways that help people move closer together, rather than further apart

FOCAL AREA ALIGNMENT

In order to be eligible for grantmaking, organizations and individuals must meet one or more of the focal area criteria. We resource and partner with organizations, initiatives, and collaboratives who focus on and individuals who have focused on, dismantling one or more system of injustice including:

White nationalism
Antisemitism
Homophobia or heterosexism
Transphobia
White supremacy or racism
Xenophobia

IMPACTED LEADERSHIP ALIGNMENT

In order to be eligible for grantmaking, organizations and individuals must meet one or more of the impacted leadership criteria. We resource and partner with organizations who:

Supports: Recruit, retain, and support BIPOC, LGBTQ, and/or Jewish leaders
Leads & Serves: BIPOC, LGBTQ, and/or Jewish people lead the work that serves and impacts BIPOC, LGBTQ, and Jewish communities

We resource and partner with individuals who have:

Used the experience and wisdom gained as a BIPOC, LGBTQ, or Jewish person directly impacted by systems of injustice to inform and shape their work.

ASHEVILLE IMPACT ALIGNMENT

In order to be eligible for grantmaking, organizations and individuals must meet one or more of the Asheville impact criteria. We are an Asheville, NC based fund that focuses on transforming the place we live and work. We resource and partner with:

Local organizations whose work centers on and leaders whose work has centered on, Asheville and the surrounding area (a 30 mile radius from downtown Asheville)
Regional organizations that support Asheville-based efforts for social change through Asheville-based chapters, organizers, or active partnerships
Regional and national organizations that significantly impact the lives of people in the Asheville area through systems change work such as policy and legal change.

VALUES ALIGNMENT

In order to be eligible for grantmaking, organizations and individuals must meet all of the following values criteria. We resource and partner with organizations whose work reflects, and with leaders whose work has reflected, all of the following organizational values and practices:

Community engagement by grounding their work in showing up and engaging in conversation with wide-ranging stakeholders.
Ongoing learning by learning as they work and allowing their analysis to evolve and grow
Humility by demonstrating deep openness to others’ experiences.
Bridge building by looking for opportunities for connection and collaboration.
Relationship building by valuing people’s whole selves
Systems thinking and out of the box strategy by working to address root causes and/or taking risks to make change
Prioritizing impacted and grassroots leadership by working to center and activate people directly impacted by systems of injustice