PUBLIC DOLLARs
FOR PUBLIC
GOOD

It’s time for the people’s money to be used to build the unfulfilled promise of vibrant multiracial democracy. 

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THE PEOPLE'S Money

Our 2024 PDPG funding provides more than $3M in general operating grants to fuel organizations advancing economic justice.

PDPG provides support to grant recipients organizing communities or unlocking federal funds in ways that help us all to experience and reimagine what our world could be like if our public dollars were used to build a thriving multiracial democracy.

We all pay taxes, and that money—our money—should work for everyday people to make our collective lives better. Public Dollars for Public Good funds organizations and leaders that are creating evidence of what our world would be like if our dollars ensured everyone had a home to sleep in, had access to free public transportation, lived in communities with clean air and water, and had a robust and racially integrated public education system. This future is possible if we organize to win it.”
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Carmen Rojas, PhD
MCF President & CEO

DARE to Imagine

Dare to imagine a world with widely available public housing, dignified jobs with a living wage, and clean drinking water for all communities.

There is a massive influx of funding that could help us realize our collective dreams for a better world. Currently, trillions of dollars are being disbursed through federal programs, including the American Rescue Plan Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. It’s the funding opportunity of a generation, and we refuse to let special interests tip the scales and direct these funds into programs that cause further harm. 

It’s time for the people’s money to be used to build the unfulfilled promise of vibrant multiracial democracy. 

THIS MOMENT  DEMANDS Bold Experiments

What would society look like if racial and economic justice leaders got the funding to take risks and experiment boldly? This is where PDPG comes in. PDPG helps level the playing field in the fight for a better future by giving racial and economic justice organizations resources to experiment with:

Unlocking federal funding

for communities that have been denied access to it.

Organizing people power

that can ensure as much public funding as possible is moved to programs that will serve the common good.

Reimagining what’s possible

through amplifying stories about and increasing demand for public goods and public options.

Unlocking federal funding for communities that have been denied access to it.

Organizing people power that can ensure as much public funding as possible is moved to programs that will serve the common good.

Reimagining what’s possiblethrough amplifying stories about and increasing demand for public goods and public options.

Insight Corner

Rediscovering PDPG

The article discusses the revival of interest in public options and public provisioning of essential goods and services, such as healthcare and groceries, as a means to address systemic inequities in the economy and society, and highlights various experiments and innovations in this area at the state, local, and federal levels.

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2024 Advisors

Meet the distinguished scholars, recent government leaders, and experts guiding the development, implementation, and evolving strategy of this initiative. 

FIGHTING to WIN

PDPG

Public Dollars for Public Good grant recipients are organizing communities and unlocking federal funds to help us all reimagine what our world could be like by demanding our public dollars ensure everyone gets to live a good life.

Many PDPG grant recipients have already seen powerful wins. Get to know our SECOND cohort of PDPG grant recipients and learn how they are taking their work to new heights with this year's funding.

2024 Grant Recipients
2023 Grant Recipients
Addition Collective
Amalgamated Foundation
Economic Security Project
Foot Soldiers Park
Heartland Fund
KC Tenants
More Perfect Union
Native Americans in Philanthropy
Seattle Solidarity Budget
Southern Economic Advancement Project
The Center for Working Families (CWF) Fund at Tides Foundation
The Workers Lab
Workshop

For More Information

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