Apply to the Buck Dinner

Any organization wishing to apply for a grant must do so by using the 2024 Grant Application and Reporting Guidelines (word doc). Here is a pdf of the application and guidelines. Please submit all applications to: application@buckdinner.org.These must be received no later than April 13, 2024. If you have received a grant for 2023, please submit your report by January 31, 2024, or you will be ineligible for a 2024 grant! See below for instructions (also info is included on the application form). If you need an extension for your report, email info@buckdinner.org

The mission of the Buck Dinner is to support groups working for progressive social change and defending against erosion of our civil rights and civil liberties. The Buck Dinner will support specific projects or provide general operating support to those organizations which can demonstrate that its work’s central focus is advocacy efforts that have an impact. General operating support is intended to help ensure the stability and build the capacity of progressive organizations in southeastern Michigan. 

The Buck Dinner supports justice, peace and equality. The Buck Dinner Committee consists of Headhunters, who invite guests to sit at their table at the dinner and contribute as many bucks as they can. The amount of money available for grants each year depends on the amount generated at the dinner. 

Several weeks after the dinner, headhunters gather to review applications and reports from organizations that previously received grants and to make decisions about that year’s distribution of funds. The Buck Dinner Committee provides funding for some projects; others are funded by attendees’ donations to the Fund for Equal Justice, which provides grants eligible for its Section 501(c)(3) funds. 

The criteria for Buck Dinner/FEJ grants is included in the 2024 Grant Application and Reporting Guidelines

REPORTS

All 2024 grant recipients are required to submit a report to reports@buckdinner.org by January 31, 2025, as outlined in the above 2024 Grant Application and Reporting Guidelines. Filing this report is required for future grant consideration. Please include a few photographs with your report.

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