Our Grant Process
2024 Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice Grant Structure
This year, we will open up a period for accepting grant applications, beginning September 1 and ending October 11, 2024. As the endowment grows to a sufficient amount, we shall issue three grants per year, one in each of the following categories: Labor/Economic Justice, Environmental/Sustainability, and Democracy/Human Rights. But until then, the Grant Committee may choose just one or two organization(s) to receive the grant.
Grant applications must be submitted via email to [email protected]
Applications must be received no later than October 11, 2023.
Criteria for grant applicants:
Grant Selection Process:
Once grants are submitted, after October 11, 2024, a Grant Selection Subcommittee composed of people selected by the Dick Fallow Fund Committee will evaluate all applications. They will develop a rubric for decision making and make their decision by the end of October, 2024. A majority vote of those present – meeting quorum requirements – for the vote constitutes approval or disapproval for the grant.
The recommendation will be forwarded to the PACG Board to ensure that the grant award does not violate their tax-exempt status. PACG reserves the right to reject an applicant if it jeopardizes the integrity or the tax status of PACG. However, the Grant Selection Subcommittee reserves the right to challenge that decision and request reconsideration before the Board. If a grant is not approved by the PACG Board, the Dick Fallow Fund Grant Subcommittee will submit an alternate. If for whatever reason, a grant is not made in any of the categories by December 31 of the granting year, it shall roll over and be made available for applicants in the following year.
The grant award decision will be announced in November and the grant will be awarded at the PACG Holiday Party in December 2024.
Submit any questions to: [email protected]
The application and information about the application process are in the files below.
Read more about the causes Dick Fallow advocated for at the "Honoring Dick Fallow" page.
Renee (Fallow) Conklin, Chair
Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice
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This year, we will open up a period for accepting grant applications, beginning September 1 and ending October 11, 2024. As the endowment grows to a sufficient amount, we shall issue three grants per year, one in each of the following categories: Labor/Economic Justice, Environmental/Sustainability, and Democracy/Human Rights. But until then, the Grant Committee may choose just one or two organization(s) to receive the grant.
Grant applications must be submitted via email to [email protected]
Applications must be received no later than October 11, 2023.
Criteria for grant applicants:
- Its work must serve the Quad Cities and immediate surrounding areas.
- It must be an organization and not an individual.
- It must fit under one of the three categories of serving Labor/Economic Justice, Environment/Sustainability, or Democracy/Human Rights.
- With some exceptions, the organization has to be locally chartered and not part of a national organization with access to resources that local groups do not have.
- The grant will not be available to partisan organizations.
Grant Selection Process:
Once grants are submitted, after October 11, 2024, a Grant Selection Subcommittee composed of people selected by the Dick Fallow Fund Committee will evaluate all applications. They will develop a rubric for decision making and make their decision by the end of October, 2024. A majority vote of those present – meeting quorum requirements – for the vote constitutes approval or disapproval for the grant.
The recommendation will be forwarded to the PACG Board to ensure that the grant award does not violate their tax-exempt status. PACG reserves the right to reject an applicant if it jeopardizes the integrity or the tax status of PACG. However, the Grant Selection Subcommittee reserves the right to challenge that decision and request reconsideration before the Board. If a grant is not approved by the PACG Board, the Dick Fallow Fund Grant Subcommittee will submit an alternate. If for whatever reason, a grant is not made in any of the categories by December 31 of the granting year, it shall roll over and be made available for applicants in the following year.
The grant award decision will be announced in November and the grant will be awarded at the PACG Holiday Party in December 2024.
Submit any questions to: [email protected]
The application and information about the application process are in the files below.
Read more about the causes Dick Fallow advocated for at the "Honoring Dick Fallow" page.
Renee (Fallow) Conklin, Chair
Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice
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Former Grant Recipients:
2023 - Quad Cities Interfaith and Tapestry Farms
2022 - Cafe on Vine
2021 - Clock, Inc and NAMI of Greater Mississippi Valley and Humility Homes & Services
2020 - Quad City Food Forest
2019 - Project Renewal
2018 - TeamCAN Farm to Front Door Program and UUQC Sanctuary Congregation Project
2017 - Guardians of the Prairie and Forest
2015 and 2016 - Palomares Social Justice Center
Project: Continuation of biannual newsletter and the organizing of community services and events such as The Black and Brown Forum and Meet the Police.
2016 - Safer Foundation
Project: Therapeutic services to young men who have been adjudicated, delinquent and face out of home placement; funds will be used for incentive awards to reward positive behavior and motivate continued progress.
2014 - Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa (CWJ)
The CWJ unites low-wage workers across race, ethnicity and immigration status to pursue social and economic justice through education, leadership development, and issue-based organizing. CWJ formed in 2012 response to degrading workplace standards and growing instances of human rights abuses of immigrants and other low- wage workers in the region.
2023 - Quad Cities Interfaith and Tapestry Farms
2022 - Cafe on Vine
2021 - Clock, Inc and NAMI of Greater Mississippi Valley and Humility Homes & Services
2020 - Quad City Food Forest
2019 - Project Renewal
2018 - TeamCAN Farm to Front Door Program and UUQC Sanctuary Congregation Project
2017 - Guardians of the Prairie and Forest
2015 and 2016 - Palomares Social Justice Center
Project: Continuation of biannual newsletter and the organizing of community services and events such as The Black and Brown Forum and Meet the Police.
2016 - Safer Foundation
Project: Therapeutic services to young men who have been adjudicated, delinquent and face out of home placement; funds will be used for incentive awards to reward positive behavior and motivate continued progress.
2014 - Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa (CWJ)
The CWJ unites low-wage workers across race, ethnicity and immigration status to pursue social and economic justice through education, leadership development, and issue-based organizing. CWJ formed in 2012 response to degrading workplace standards and growing instances of human rights abuses of immigrants and other low- wage workers in the region.
