Thank you for attending our gala

Thank You for Your Support of our
Grassroots Gala!

Our gala recognized outstanding social justice organizers and organizations making a significant impact in our communities with the Truth Awards. Congratulations to Aramis Sundiata, Springfield No One Leaves, and Paul Haible; our award recipients!
Thank you to our sponsors:
Access Strategies Fund
Beveridge Family Foundation
Cypress Fund
Dean's Beans Organic Coffee
Greenfield Savings Bank
Krupp Family Foundation
Peoples Bank

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Grant Applications Now Open!

Accepting applications until January 31, 2026.

Our small grants provide between $3,000 and $7,000 for community organizing projects in the US, Mexico, and Haiti. Applicants can apply to one of our three community organizing funds: Seeding the Movement, Braiding New Worlds, or the Western Mass Transformation Fund.

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Drag Bingo is Back! And It's Going to be Wicked...

Join us on Friday November 21st at Four Phantoms Brewing Co in Greenfield MA for a ~Wicked~ night of Drag Bingo! Proceeds support the Western Massachusetts Transformation Fund. $20 for 10 rounds, winners each round! 7:00-9:00PM

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spring '25 newsletter

Fall Newsletter 2025: Rapid Responses to Crises

Discover how PDF is prioritizing vulnerable groups, shifting its rapid response fund, and building collaborations to support grassroots partners during these uncertain times. If you would like to be mailed a copy of the newsletter, email us at peacedevfund@gmail.com

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Grantee Testimonial

“With financial support from PDF, we organized large-scale teach-ins and demonstrations alongside labor unions, trade-displaced workers, diaspora communities, international solidarity activists, digital privacy activists, public health groups, and climate activists to halt a trade deal that would have had disastrous impacts on jobs, wages, labor rights, climate action, consumer privacy and monopoly power” -Julie Bouanna, Executive Director, Washington Fair Trade Education Coalition

The Peace Development Fund is more than a grantmaker: our model of philanthropy involves direct funding, advocacy where appropriate and partnerships built around mutual respect, sharing of resources, and transparency of planning and decision-making. We endeavor to be a key “go-to” foundation on issues of peace, human rights, social justice and environmental protection. We work to counter-balance dominant power structures by moving resources and sharing decision-making with activist groups and communities. Learn more…

FY 2024 Annual Report

Land Justice Fund 2025

We are thrilled to announce our Land Justice Fund, honoring the work of our former ED Paul Haible!

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Blog

A Purposeful Life: Honoring Ruby MaddoxJune 19, 2025
Two years ago, I was looking for a trainer to work with the board of the Peace Development Fund on an organizational analysis when they were in town for their… Read more: A Purposeful Life: Honoring Ruby Maddox
Resisting Together; Lead Article in Spring NewsletterMay 30, 2025
The attacks on our communities, non-profits, civil society, and our democracy has hit us at a dizzying pace over the last two months. It has been hard to process and… Read more: Resisting Together; Lead Article in Spring Newsletter