Legal Empowerment Fund (LEF) Grants 2025 – Supporting Grassroots Legal Empowerment in the Caribbean (up to $30,000) – YOA

Deadline: September 29, 2025

Applications are open for the Legal Empowerment Fund (LEF) Grants 2025. The Legal Empowerment Fund (LEF) is saying a brand new funding OPPORTUNITY for grassroots teams working at the intersection of authorized empowerment and land and environmental justice in the Caribbean.

This name seeks to help grassroots justice advocates who use authorized empowerment to pursue land and environmental justice. LEF is specializing in this concern as a result of they know grassroots justice advocates play a significant position in combating the local weather disaster by defending their land from air pollution, securing communities’ proper to land, and supporting neighborhood-pushed options.

Grants

• Grants of USD $10,000–$30,000 can be found to help efforts that use authorized empowerment to deal with the local weather disaster, safe land rights, and defend communities from environmental hurt.

Eligibility

• Open to grassroots organizations in Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.

They are searching for teams that:

• Use authorized empowerment methods to help land and environmental justice
• Are rooted in the communities they serve
• Intentionally middle traditionally excluded communities, akin to Afro-descendant, Indigenous, rural, or LGBTQ+ communities
• Have an annual organizational finances of lower than USD $200,000
• Are requesting funding between USD $10,000 and $30,000

Application

• Applications will probably be evaluated by a Grants Selection Committee made up of Caribbean authorized empowerment practitioners.
• They will attain out to at the least two of the references you present.
• You can anticipate to hear a response round November 2025.
• If your application is profitable, you’ll obtain funds round January 2026.
• The grant time period will start on February 1, 2026.

Applications might be accomplished in English, French or Spanish

For extra info, go to LEF Grants.