Who We Serve

Our partners:

• Grassroots groups organizing in their communities;
• Organizations of oppressed and marginalized people;
• Those not served or funded by mainstream philanthropy, both nationally and internationally;
• Those most adversely impacted by systematic forms of injustice and oppression – therefore primarily, but not exclusively, communities of color;
• Intermediaries, coalitions and capacity builders;
• Organizations led by the people most adversely affected by conditions, issues or systems;
• Our inclusive PDF community – donors, grantees, partners.

Principles that guide our work with our partners:

• Support community-based organizations and grassroots groups and their locally-grown leaders, including young people, to articulate their realities, develop their analyses, critical thinking, and strategic action in order to challenge and transform the world around them.
• Strengthen community based and other intermediary capacity building organizations.
• Create, support and enhance opportunities for movement building through networking and alliance building.
• Support international movements and create opportunities to share movement-building strategies across international boundaries.
• Acknowledge and address power and class relationships in our grantmaking, capacity building and within PDF.