The Emergent Fund's mission centers on supporting communities under threat by funding their efforts to envision and create the reality they seek post-crisis. The fund aims to empower movements that focus on rapid response and emergent organizing, particularly those led by frontline Black, Indigenous, and people of color. With a commitment to movement values, power-building in marginalized communities, and a transformational approach to crisis, the Emergent Fund operates as a queer women of color-led, participatory grantmaker embodying intersectional, collective liberation values.
The Emergent Fund's grant program is designed to support projects that offer creative, collective responses to crises, viewing these moments as opportunities for visionary organizing. It prioritizes rapid response work that is grounded in movement values, focuses on power-building and organizing, and represents meaningful investments in movement infrastructure. Specifically, the grants support organizing efforts that react dynamically to rapidly changing conditions, aim to disrupt prevailing systems of oppression, and build towards long-term goals of social and economic justice. These efforts include resisting emerging threats, leveraging pivotal moments for systemic change, and fostering community resilience and cultures of care, all with the aim of dismantling, abolishing, and replacing oppressive systems through an intersectional lens of collective liberation.