Partner & Collaborative Funds

Public Interest Projects’ collaborative and partner funds offer donors the opportunity to pool their resources and expand their geographic reach. PIP’s funds are multi-year funds that engage private, corporate, family and individual donors.

By working through collaborative funds to achieve its mission, PIP is able to help the field:

• Raise the visibility of key issues and provide a coordinated funding strategy;
• Increase collaborative learning and strengthen capacities in the field among funders (including new donors) and grantees; and
• Enable more flexible, timely and effective grantmaking and programming, both on the ground and across broader networks.

PIP currently manages six collaborative and partner funds, providing them strategic direction, grant management and fiscal oversight:

• American Dream Fund – supporting organizations working to help immigrants and refugees become naturalized citizens and play active roles in civic life;
• Communities for Public Education Reform: A Fund for Education Organizing – supporting groups working to improve student outcomes in low-income communities;
• Four Freedoms Fund – funding capacity-building, civic participation and policy advocacy by and for immigrants and refugees;
• Fulfilling the Dream Fund – helping redefine how the U.S. thinks about, talks about and achieves racial and gender inclusion;
• Racial Justice Collaborative – funding partnerships of lawyers and community organizations to achieve equity and fairer policies for communities marginalized by race, ethnicity and immigrant or citizenship status; and
• U.S. Human Rights Fund – providing strategic, field-building support to the U.S. human rights movement.