The CROSSROADS COMMUNITY FUND has three current funding opportunities: the DownRoot Fund, the People's Fund, and the Power Up Fund.

DownRoot Fund

The DownRoot Fund exists to promote and preserve community ownership and community control. We are moving on from failed economic practices that exploit, extract, and uproot our people, our resources, and our culture. Instead, we are laying down roots with purpose: DownRoot funds projects that are building an economy that puts people in control of their lives, workplaces, and neighborhoods.

DownRoot has 3 grant opportunities: Build, Preserve, and Create.

The People's Fund

Mutual-aid style direct support to residents in Buffalo’s most historically excluded, intentionally overlooked, and economically distressed zip codes for crisis response and emergency assistance.

Details coming soon.

Power Up Fund

A new fund to support efforts that promote civic literacy and leadership development.

Details coming soon.