Community leaders connect at a Shaping the Future gathering in Ferndale, Washington.
Applications for Targeted Support Funds are now closed. If you have questions about the application period, please email targetedsupport@inatai.org.
At Inatai Foundation, we know that our grant-funded organizations have big goals for their work but don’t always have the resources or capacity to act. Inatai has supported grantee organizations through funding to gain skills, knowledge, and to build infrastructure to fulfill their aspirations for greater impact and to meet their communities’ urgent needs.
Through this work, I have learned how much our grantee organizations can achieve with just an extra boost of support. I have also seen how strenuous grant application processes can be, especially for smaller, people of color run organizations with limited staff and resources. That is why we launched a new process for making additional funding available for organizations to take their work to the next level.
Three funding streams, one application.
This new process was an open invitation for organizations to submit one application to be considered for a grant from three specific funding areas:
- Campaigns, Litigation, Issues, & Policy
- Emerging Opportunities*
- Transformational Capacity Building*
* These grants are typically for current grantees. Organizations without existing grants were considered if there is a strong alignment on collective community-power building, racial justice, and equity.
Together, they are our Targeted Support Funds. Each of these areas were designed to support organizations in growing their capacity to build community power, so we consolidated the application process.
Learn more about these funds
Watch theses videos to learn more about the type of campaigns, capacity-building, and power-building activities we fund, including past examples of work we’ve supported.
Karen Cunningham is the Portfolio Director of Strategy and Impact. Karen develops and nurtures relationships with community members and organizations across Washington state, connecting those doing important work in their communities to the foundation’s resources. She arrives to the organization by way of the Yakama Nation, of which she’s an enrolled member and previously served as economic development director.
