CS Fund a diverse, intersectional ecosystem of organizations and strategies, including legal, policy, education, organizing, grassroots power building, narrative/communications, and cultural change.

Occasionally we may make grants outside of our program areas to support particularly innovative social change strategies.

Fighting False Solutions

CS Fund focuses on three emerging and converging technologies.

-Geoengineering: Intentional, large-scale climate manipulation through a range of methods, including Carbon Dioxide Removal and Solar Radiation Management.

-Synthetic Biology: The design, manufacture, and release of artificially created DNA, including gene drives that force genetically engineered traits through populations for either conservation or agricultural purposes.

-Nanotechnology: The creation and commodification of tiny bits of matter (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter), especially in consumer products, which presents novel toxicity risks to human health and the environment.

Rights and Governance

This program is dedicated to securing the constitutional rights and democratic governance needed for movements for justice to succeed.

-Dissent: Protecting and advancing the right to protest.

-Open Government:Making the federal government more transparent, effective, and accountable.

-Rule of Law: Ensuring that US national security policies respect constitutional rights, domestic laws, and international treaties.

-Constitution and Courts: Building a progressive legal movement to counter conservative and corporate influence.

-Trade: Making the rules of global commerce more democratic, just, and sustainable.

Food Sovereignty

CS Fund’s grantmaking is grounded in traditional agricultural knowledge and agroecological practices, and focuses on three cornerstones of agrobiodiversity and food system resilience.

-Seeds: Preserving native and traditional seeds.

-Soils: Building healthy and fertile soils.

-Pollinators:Protecting and restoring the populations and diversity of native pollinators.

Due to our limited capacity and budget, we are able to support only a relatively small number of initiatives and are not accepting unsolicited proposals at this time.

However, if your project or initiative is in alignment with our strategy and approach, and is something we ought to know about, we invite you to share your contact info and a brief overview of your work. While we cannot guarantee a response to every inquiry, we review submissions periodically and if there is a fit and capacity, a Program Director will contact you.