Breaking Barriers to Funding for BIPOC-Led Nonprofits

Original Clay is a nonprofit dedicated to helping Native and BIPOC-led organizations secure funding, amplify their voices, and create lasting change

OUR MISSION

Original Clay is a nonprofit fighting to break funding barriers for BIPOC-led organizations. We equip communities of color with the resources, strategy, and power to tell their own stories, secure sustainable funding, and lead lasting change.

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What we do

Grant writing rooted in cultural narratives

Strategic funding plans to grow organizational sustainability

Capacity-building training for nonprofit staff

Storytelling that shifts power and perception

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Problems We Solve

Funding inequities and systemic barriers for BIPOC nonprofits

Limited access to culturally grounded grant writing support

Overworked nonprofit teams lacking time for fundraising

Philanthropy systems that undervalue lived experience

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Our Team

We are a Native-led team of grant strategists, storytellers, and nonprofit professionals committed to breaking barriers in philanthropy. Rooted in community and culture, we bring lived experience, technical expertise, and a passion for justice to every partnership.

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“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”

— Lilla Watson, Indigenous Australian activist and academic