About Us
In 2021, Funding For Social Change (FFSC) was founded to support nonprofits and grassroots organizations which are led by and for underserved communities, including people of color, LGBTQ, low-income, disabled, veterans, single parents, and those without access to food, housing, and education. Since then, our collective of grant writers, designers, and consultants has raised over $20 million in grants for over 40 organizations committed to equity and justice in their communities.
Core Services Offerings:
- Grant Readiness Assessments
- Funder Prospect Research
- Proposal Writing
- Grant Management and Reporting
- Program Design
- Impact Evaluation
- Budgeting
- Annual Reports
- Strategic Planning
Grant Writing Capacity-Building Workshops
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Resource-Sharing
We aim to lower the barriers to funding, tapping into the resources of and learning to navigate the Nonprofit Industrial Complex. To do this, we create and share widely free resources such as our funding database, templates, and guides, and we provide sliding scale consulting services.
Remember to take advantage of our FREE social justice grant database and Resource Hub.
Examples of past impact:
- cinéSPEAK (Philadelphia, PA) – Raised $686,000 in 1 year
- Community Movement Builders (Atlanta, GA) – Raised $620,000 in 1 year
- LOUD For Tomorrow (Central Valley, CA) – Raised $1.3 million in 2 years
- Philadelphia Bail Fund (Philadelphia, PA) – Raised $265,000 in 2 months
- Second Harvest of the Big Bend (Tallahassee, FL – Raised $6.3 million in 3 years
- Tallahassee Community Action Committee (Tallahassee, FL) – Raised $97,000 in 6 months
Our Clients
About the Founder
Joa Jin (they/she) is a queer half Korean social entrepreneur, resource mobilizer, and nonprofit consultant. They are the founder of Funding for Social Change, as well as a former core team member of Creating Freedom Movements, board member of Trans & Queer Youth Collective, and core volunteer of Serenity House.
Joa earned their bachelor’s in International Affairs from Florida State University. They have received several awards for their public service efforts and social entrepreneurship, including the Florida State University Profiles of Service Award (2014), Leadership Award of the Year (2014), and Askew School of Public Admin and Policy Neil Crispo Service Award (2015). In 2020, they received a $2,000 grant from the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator program, which was used to start Funding For Social Change. In 2022, Funding For Social Change was awarded a $10,000 grant from Claneil Family Foundation in recognition of its commitment to lowering the barriers to access for grassroots organizations in philanthropy.
Before starting Funding For Social Change, Joa served as a Project Manager for Clinic Nepal, writing grants to solicit funding for community-led development projects, coordinating supporters and volunteers, and spending six months on the ground in Nepal to support project implementation and evaluation.
Following this experience, Joa stepped into the role of managing an international Florida State University Social Enterprise Competition providing ten $5,000 grants and four $50,000 grants to social entrepreneurs to launch projects in Haiti, Uganda, Nepal, and West Virginia. During this time, they also co-led the seminar course “Social Entrepreneurship and Economic Development,” walking undergraduate students through identifying social issues they are passionate about, developing social enterprise business plans to bring about those visions, and pitching to funders.
Growing up in the Deep South and rural north Florida, Joa cares deeply about bringing resources to this area. Much of their advocacy and organizing work has focused on ending mass incarceration (eliminating cash bail and modern day slavery, decriminalizing poverty, and reducing felon disenfranchisement); racial justice (Black, Indigenous, and collective liberation movement work); LGBTQ justice (banning conversion therapy, advocating for queer and trans youth, and increasing access to gender-affirming care); reproductive justice (related to increasing funding for abortion as part of comprehensive healthcare); environmental justice (protecting water, land, and soil from being exploited for profit); and mental health (especially related to queer and trans youth, drug use, and harm reduction).