Neo Philanthropy Inc

This fund supports the growing field of education organizing through grants and technical assistance to community organizations working to ensure that parents and students have a strong voice in shaping the policies that their public schools. Visit http://www.communitiesforpubliceducationreform.org for more information

This fund promotes a strongly-aligned and effective national immigrant rights field working to advance immigration reform, immigrant civic engagement and integration, and civil liberties and human rights. Grants are awarded to support a coherent infrastructure of effective local, state, and regional organizations; provide multi-year capacity-building funding and peer-learning opportunities to benefit anchor organizations; build the communications capacities of key grantees; commissioning research to identify strategic funding opportunities; sponsoring in-person, telephonic, and webinar briefings for funders; and operate as a 'link tank' to coordinate with other grantmakers and grantee networks

This programs supports affirmative action and other efforts to promote full inclusion of people of color and women in society, consistent with the core democratic values of the U.S. Visit http://www.fulfillingthedreamfund.org for more information

This fund seeks to promote human-rights organizing and advocacy in the U.S., and to increase awareness of and support for this work among its own members and other donor partners. Grants will be awarded in four categories: human rights training and education (expanding the organizational capacity of human rights training providers; providing issue-specific training in multiple issue areas; and addressing specialized training needs across different kinds of human rights advocates); regional and national networks (increasing the inclusiveness and cohesion of the U.S. rights movement, and promoting the transfer of skills and experience between the wide ranges of groups in this field); communications and messaging (increasing knowledge about and awareness of human rights in the U.S.); and strategic thinking and advocacy (supporting campaigns that meaningfully reference universal human rights norms and involve the participation of communities suffering human rights abuse). Visit http://www.ushumanrightsfund.org for more information

This award recognizes and honors ordinary people who commit extraordinary acts of courage on behalf of immigrants and refugees, who demonstrate a deep sense of shared humanity, and who work to overcome fear to create significant impact. Fifteen awards of $5,000 each will be made available to people who have exposed themselves to considerable risk, whether physical, professional, economic, or social, and whose stories have moved others to action or awareness.

Through 12 funds, including the Four Freedoms Fund and State Infrastructure Fund, NEO has designed and led large-scale collaborative grantmaking funds, connecting donors with aligned values to support work they could not fund as effectively on their own. NEO has helped a wide range of funders increase the impact of their grantmaking through our collaborative funds. NEO collaboratives awarded more than 2,500 grants totaling some $200 million to nearly 600 grantees across 44 states between 2006 and 2016. Our collaborative funds allow donors to join forces with other likeminded colleagues for a wider and more immediate impact. They are a platform for donors passionate about an underserved issue to rally other donors, expanding the overall funding pool. With expanded funds, we can invest in long-term capacity building resources for grantees, such as fundraising coaching, organizational management and communications training, to build a field into a truly successful and coordinated movement. Because of NEO’s deep relationships with groups on the ground, our donors can more directly connect with potential grantees and efficiently engage in cutting edge and innovative grantmaking with like-minded colleagues.

As a fiscal sponsor, NEO acts as an umbrella organization for an individual or project’s charitable work, and accepts and administers funds on its behalf. Fiscal sponsorship at NEO gives groups a non-profit “home” and allows them to focus on their programmatic work while NEO manages the financial, HR and legal elements, giving the projects the room they need to make a significant impact on the world. We see ourselves as partners with the organizations we support and our interactions with our projects go far beyond the transactional. NEO’s fiscally sponsored projects have access to an entire team of highly experienced professionals and an array of services provided at a lower or more flexible cost than would be possible for these projects on their own. All fiscally sponsored projects at NEO have a mission-aligned focus on social justice and social change. We are nimble, flexible and bring significant value-added skills and resources to each project.

NEO offers donors a range of ways to work with us – through donor advised funds, pooled funds, specialized grant programs and initiatives. All of these are customized programs that allow our donors to minimize their administrative costs in order to maximize their impact. They also get to leverage the expertise and depth of NEO’s senior staff, as well as gain access and benefit from our extensive networks in the philanthropic and grantee communities.