Events

Springfield Puerto Rican Pride Parade

Sunday, September 17th at 11 a.m. This year’s parade will part from between Main and Wason Ave and will march through downtown ending where Boland Way and Main Street join. Where to watch the Parade? Join us with your family setting up your chair or standing anywhere on Main Street's sidewalks from Wason Ave to […]

Reframing Philanthropy: First Installment Equitable Philanthropy

We invite you to join us for a new series that is informative and interactive offering opportunities to engage, learn, and network with each other.  The series reframes philanthropy through a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive lens to foster new ways of being catalysts for social change in our own communities and around the country.  […]

Drag Bingo at Four Phantoms!

Four Phantoms Brewing Greenfield MA 301 Wells St, Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States

Join us for our next Drag Bingo Night! Fabulous prizes from local businesses! Come even if you don't play! Hosted by Tytannia. Register Now! These events sell out!

$20

Community Organizing Grant Applications Open

The Community Organizing Grants program contains PDF’s annual grantmaking docket which consists of four grant programs: the Seeding the Movement Fund, Pioneer Valley Community Advised Fund, The Braiding New Worlds Fund and the De Colores Rapid Response Fund. Any organization that fits PDF’s guidelines is eligible to apply for a grant. PDF currently only funds organizations in the United […]

Giving Tuesday: Hope for our Future

This year #Giving Tuesday is on November 28th.  The event is a antidote to Black Friday commercialism that inspires personal philanthropy and encourages charitable giving during the holiday season. Please consider paying it forward in support of Peace Development Fund's youth-led Braiding New World Fund.  All donations to PDF will support grants to organizations led […]

Community Organizing Grants Office Hour

Are you interested in applying for funding through the Peace Development Fund? Before you start your application, come ask us any questions you may have! Note: This is open to the public 

Community Organizing Grants Office Hour

Are you interested in applying for funding through the Peace Development Fund? Before you start your application, come ask us any questions you may have! Note: This is open to the public 

Reframing Philanthropy Session Two: The Solidarity Economy

Featured Speaker: Aaron Tanka, Executive Director of Boston based Center for Economic Democracy. Join us for a discussion about the solidarity economy, and the role of donors within it. Solidarity economies redistribute power and resources to those who have been most affected by various oppressive systems — and aim to meet immediate material needs of […]

Free

Drag Bingo for Social Justice

301 Wells St Greenfield, MA 301 Wells St, Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States

The Peace Development Fund and Four Phantoms Brewing invite you to join us for our next Drag Bingo Night! Proceeds support PDF’s social justice organizing grants in the Valley, including support of LGBTQ+ groups. Bingo starts at 7:00 pm and is $20 for 10 rounds. Tytannia will host and perform. Fabulous prizes from local businesses. Come […]

$20.

Reframing Philanthropy 3: Indigenous land Back Initiatives

Join us for a discussion about the Land Back Movement and how PDF has helped donors get Indigenous lands back into Indigenous hands.  This movement has existed for generations with a long legacy of organizing.  We’ll share our experiences, best practices, and the challenges that we encountered. How can this process deepen relationships with organizing […]

March Drag Bingo Nite! Hosted by Tytannia Lockheart

Four Phantoms Brewing Greenfield MA 301 Wells St, Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States

The Peace Development Fund and Four Phantoms Brewing invite you to join us for our next Drag Bingo Night! Proceeds support PDF’s social justice organizing grants in the Valley, including support of LGBTQ+ groups. Bingo starts at 7:00 pm and is $20 for 10 rounds. Tytannia will host and perform. Fabulous prizes from local businesses. Come […]

$20

Spring House Party

Pioneer Valley Workers Center 20 Hampton Ave, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States

Join PDF and the Pioneer Valley Workers Center for our annual spring house party! Hear from local grant partners UMASS Dissenters and Generation Ratify*.