Welcome to the Walter & Elise Haas Fund’s first ever Possibility Grants, designed and decided by BAY Fellows, youth members of the Walter & Elise Haas Fund grantmaking team.  

 
2023 Grants

Our hope with these grants is to support youth working to transform the future to be joyful and just. We are particularly interested in hearing from youth who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), and/or Queer, Transgender, and Gender Non-Conforming (QTGNC), and from communities impacted by gentrification in Alameda and San Francisco counties.

Designed and decided by youth, the Possibility Grants are general operating grants of $100,000 per organization. Selected organizations need to be 501(c)3 entities to receive the funds. Fiscally sponsored projects are eligible. We are prioritizing smaller organizations whose organizational or youth organizing program budget is equal to or under $500,000 annually.
   

Instructions for filling out nomination form 

You can use the downloadable Microsoft Word template of the nomination form to read all the questions and draft your answers. However, note that you will not be sending the Word document; you will submit the nomination online.

You are in the correct place to fill out the nomination form. The deadline to submit nominations is Monday, July 24th 2023. ****

Questions? Please reach out to our staff contact, Pui Ling Tam at puiling@haassr.org 
 
Who you are

BAY Fellows encourage and have a preference for nominations from youth, up to age 24, who have experience with the organization being nominated. You may have benefited from or taken part in the organization’s work as a past or current participant. You may have worked at the organization, or you may have been an intern there. Friends or someone in your family may be a participant; so, you are familiar with the organization’s work through a close association.


Things you will need for your nomination

  1. Testimonials from two or more youth participants of the organization (see section one, question four)
  2. Information from the organization you are nominating (see section two, questions seven to eleven; see section three)
  3. Your thoughtful responses on why you care about the organization, how it has changed you, and why they matter to your community.
 

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