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California Civil Liberties Public Education Program

CA State Library · 50454

Eligibility details

Applicants can use fiscal agents. The fiscal agent, acting as the applicant organization, assumes financial and contractual responsibilities if awarded a grant.

Matching funds & resources

Source matching-funds field: Not Required. Applicants are encouraged to seek additional investment in their project – ideally a dollar-for-dollar (1:1) match, if possible and applicable. The match may be from corporate contributions, private contributions, local government, earned income or in-kind matches, including labor from experts, volunteers, administrators, and others. Matches are strongly encouraged but not required.

Matching funds and leveraged resources are different requirements. Read the description and reviewed rules below before determining resource commitments.

About this opportunity

The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program is guided by California Education Code Sections 13000, 13015, 13020, 13025, and 13030. This competitive grant program supports the creation and dissemination of educational and public awareness resources concerning the history and the lessons of civil rights violations or civil liberties injustices carried out against communities or populations. These include, but are not limited to, civil rights violations or civil liberties injustices that are perpetrated on the basis of an individual’s race, national origin, immigration status, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. Eligible projects may include educational materials, preservation projects, public media, and artistic and documentary projects for the purpose of creating public awareness concerning the history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II and the lessons of other civil rights violations or civil liberties injustices carried out against communities or populations. Applicants must be a California-based non-profit organizations formed under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code in good standing, or a California-based satellite offices of a regional or national non-profit organization formed under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code in good standing, or a unit of California local or state government. Statewide Projects have a maximum requests of $125,000 and Community Projects have maximum requests of $50,000.

Funding geography: Projects must be created in California and grant monies can only be spent in California. Projects may occur on state or federal lands.

Funding instrument: Grant. Issuing jurisdiction: California. This is not a geographic eligibility determination.