Our No Small Change Stories
The Power of Small Giving
You’ve still got a friend in Pennsylvania! Meet the grantees and donors of the Three Rivers Community Foundation (Pittsburgh area) and they’ll show you how they pull together to work for justice. They’re proving that there’s no such thing as small change.
Mac’s Story: Making Grassroots Change with the Chinook Fund
Mac’s a donor with the Chinook Fund in Colorado because she believes in the power of local activists and organizers making the important decisions about their own communities.
25 Years of Social Justice in Appalachia
Appalachian Community Fund has been supporting Social Justice work in Appalachia for the past 25 years. As a part of the FEX Network, ACF provides a sustainable base of resources for grassroots organizations working to promote racial justice, economic justice, LGBT equality, and so much more.
Closing the Achievement Gap – Headwaters Foundation
Crossing Barriers is a grantee of the Headwaters Foundation for Justice, one of 16 member foundations that make grants to local grassroots organizations working for social justice.
Occupy Wall Street, FEX Rapid Response Fund
Through our Rapid Response Fund, FEX has been collecting donations for quick delivery to support the national Occupy Movement.
Daniel Palomino, DREAM Activist
A FEX ally, Daniel Palomino, tells his story of how the AZ Dreamers made a big change.
Changing Perceptions of Undocumented Youth, MRG Grantee
Anne’s film “Papers: Stories from Undocumented Youth” was supported by two donor-advised-fund grants at one of our Northwest member funds, Mckenzie River Gathering.
Alison Goldberg, Resource Generation
We aim to revolutionize giving by cultivating a strong collaboration between donors, local activists, national movement leaders and philanthropists.
People’s Production House, FEX Grantee
As a grantee of FEX, PPH exemplifies how FEX’s approach to grantmaking results in substantive changes in our communities.
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About the No Small Change Campaign
We aim to revolutionize giving. Our 32 years of experience has shown us that every little bit counts; big donors, small donors, it all adds up to creating change. The No Small Change campaign is about sharing the real life stories of organizers, activists, donors and visionaries who are part of the FEX Network and passionate about building vibrant movements for social and economic justice. This is your opportunity to join in and add to this change by supporting the work we do.
About Funding Exchange (FEX)
We are a social justice foundation working toward “Change not Charity”, and serve as the national hub of a network of regionally-based foundations. Started over 30 years ago by young people with wealth, FEX is charting a bright, bold future together with the next generation of multiracial, cross-class donor activists! FEX pioneered an activist-advised model of grantmaking, through which community members sit on grants panels and make funding recommendations in support of grassroots organizations working for social justice; and in many cases permanent institutional support has been established for those organizations. Today, the focus is on developing the network of 16 (and growing!) member funds while also making grants in places not currently served by the network. The work we do ensures our members are best situated to understand what local communities need; which groups are the most effective at creating social change; and how they can help build small grassroots organizations into a larger national social movement.