Mary’s Pence invests in women across the United States, Mexico and Central America by funding community initiatives and fostering collaborations to create social change.

Mary's Spence Funds Grassroots Organizations that are:

• Women led — centered on issues women face or on gender justice issues, benefitting and primarily led by cis women, trans women, or non-binary people.

• Community centered — emerging from a need identified within the impacted community, and collaboratively developed by and led by members of that community.

• Working to enact long-term sustainable change at the community level — shifting public opinion about justice issues; forming alliances and collaborations across diverse populations; creating change in unjust structures or policies; or building capacity by building leadership, organizing or other social justice skills.

• Focused on social justice actions — human dignity, the common good, the right to economic security and dignified work, care for the earth, participation, subsidiarity (decisions are made at the most local level possible and involve those most impacted) and nonviolence.

Annual award amounts are a maximum of $7,500. An applicant can receive a grant up to three times.

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Please note: We do not fund businesses or LLCs. Organizations with large government grants or service contracts are ordinarily not eligible.