New World's grantmaking program is structured into three funds. The grantmaking budget for each fund is raised through collaborating donors and foundations, with New World providing most of the core support, fiscal sponsorship, staffing and overhead costs.

The Phoenix Fund for Workers & Communities supports worker organizing for economic justice and human rights in the U.S. and Mexico, funding labor-community alliances and immigrant worker centers that promote fair labor standards, economic policy reform, and civic participation.

The Global Environmental Health & Justice Fund supports environmental justice activism in the U.S. and in the global South, supporting poor communities in the fight for healthy environments, community empowerment, corporate accountability, effective government regulation, and sustainable economic practices.

The New Majority Fund at NWF expands the flow of funding to frontline organizations and alliances that are strengthening electoral participation, building new voter bases, and connecting constituencies to each other and to a progressive policy agenda. The Fund focuses on metro centers and rural states across the country that are pivot points for reversing Rightward trends and constructing new electoral majorities rooted in democratic values. The Fund is open to individual donors, family funds, foundation re-granting, and foundation partnerships. It is a place where we can compare notes on rapidly evolving work, create space for experimentation and new ventures, and compound the impacts of our grantmaking. For further information, please contact Colin Greer at 212-497-3470. To receive a copy of NWF's pamphlet Building the New Majority, please e-mail recept@newwf.org.

Special Projects and Programs: In addition to the grants made from its core funds, New World's discretionary grantmaking is responsive to timely opportunities to promote political participation and the visibility of peace and justice issues. We also founded and continue to sponsor the Alston-Bannerman Fellows Program, providing sabbaticals to veteran activists of color in the U.S. To help nurture the next generation in progressive philanthropy, we sponsor and house a national network of young donors and program officers, Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP).

Past special projects have included Take Action Awards for youth activists and The Harold Fleming Award for civil rights leadership. In the 1990s, New World also sponsored the development of the 21st Century Foundation, which works with African-American donors to promote community activism.

New World is proud to have participated in some of the most significant progressive advances of the past fifty years. We welcome donors and foundations who would like to join us in nurturing the important movements of the future.