Frontline Solutions

Applications due this month! Just a few weeks left to apply! If you’re a North Carolina-based organization working toward harm reduction or overdose prevention for Black, Indigenous and Latine people don’t miss your chance to apply for a year-long grant of $25K or $50K, with total funding available set at 1M. Check out the RFP and apply before Jan. 31, 2025. If you've already submitted, you can still access your applications! Visit bit.ly/NCPOP1 to apply.

Have you checked out our End-of-Year highlights? We spill all the details on the projects that energized us and how we contributed to the field. Get into it 👉🏾 https://lnkd.in/e9PvwPrY

We have drawn from our 20 years of experience to design programs like the Elevate Initiative, a partnership between Frontline Solutions and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that funds organizations doing on-the-ground work to remove structural barriers and accelerate economic mobility for communities of color. Here are 5 lessons we've learned over the last three years of designing and facilitating this community of practice and learning opportunities alongside and for the Elevate grantees. Download the full report here: https://lnkd.in/eUyrjZgu

As Frontline approaches its 20th Anniversary, our team has been actively reflecting on this legacy and how it will continue to shape our future. 📝✍🏾In her year-end letter, our CEO Melissa DeShields (she/her) DeShields reflects on our history, the unprecedented times ahead, and the ways Frontline is preparing to weather the storm learning from/drawing from our 20 years of moving through the philanthropic and social change field. https://lnkd.in/e7kYFZUb

Our request for proposal for North Carolina Community-Powered Overdose Prevention in partnership with Vital Strategies is live! If you’re a North Carolina-based organization working toward harm reduction or overdose prevention for Black, Indigenous and Latine people don’t miss your chance to apply for a year-long grant of $25K or $50K, with total funding available set at 1M. Check out the RFP and apply before Jan. 31, 2025. If you've already submitted, you can still access your applications! Visit bit.ly/NCPOP1 to apply.

As Frontline approaches its 20th Anniversary, our team has been actively reflecting on this legacy and how it will continue to shape our future. 📝✍🏾In her year-end letter, our CEO Melissa DeShields (she/her) DeShields reflects on our history, the unprecedented times ahead, and the ways Frontline is preparing to weather the storm drawing from our 20 years of moving through the philanthropic and social change field. https://lnkd.in/e7kYFZUb

Over the last two decades we have been supporting organizations to learn, imagine, and implement their boldest visions. We are honored to have partnered with the New Breath Foundation on their new strategic framework. We're excited to see their strategic focus areas, which include shaping more inclusive AANHPI narratives, organizational sustainability, and direct grantmaking, in action. https://lnkd.in/dRRdJzSu

Check out the final video in our series highlighting Elevate grantees! 📹 We wanted to hear from grantees who are working toward economic justice on what they perceive as barriers to achieving justice & liberation through their work. We asked them what philanthropy can do to best support them and organizations doing similar work. Here’s what they shared! The First 72+, The Bambi Fund, Custom Collaborative, Encuentro NM, Gullah Farmers Cooperative Association, Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity.

We wanted to hear from Elevate grantees who are working toward economic justice on what they perceive as barriers to achieving their missions of justice & liberation through their work. We asked them what philanthropy can do to best support them and organizations doing similar work. Here’s what they shared! FreshGreens Market, Encuentro NM, OURSPACE WORLD INC, Pupusas For Education & AnyxMeans

Our request for proposal for North Carolina Community-Powered Overdose Prevention in partnership with Vital Strategies is live! If you’re a North Carolina-based organization working toward harm reduction or overdose prevention for Black, Indigenous and Latine people don’t miss your chance to apply for a year-long grant of $25K or $50K, with total funding available set at $500K. Check out the RFP and apply before Jan. 31, 2025. If you've already submitted, you can still access your applications! Visit bit.ly/NCPOP1 to apply.