The People’s Alliance Fund is a nonprofit organization that supports progressive educational, research, and service activities conducted by organizations in Durham and other North Carolina communities, principally other communities in the Greater Triangle area. The Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and contributions are tax-deductible.
The Fund works collaboratively with the People's Alliance C4 to support the democratic engagement via progressive forums and educational events/meetings. The Fund is open to collaborative endeavors with community movement partners.
Historical Highlights
In the early 2020's the PA Fund help to screen 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime to a sold out audience at the Carolina Theater. With the PA action teams the Fund supported events with Durham elected officials to the General Assembly. In 2023 and 2025 The PA Fund collaborated with several community groups to organize and implement a Housing Forum.
The Fund sponsored the Durham Living Wage Project, a successful volunteer-run campaign launched in March 2015 and during it's existence certified over 160 private sector, public sector, and nonprofit employers committed to paying their approximately 6,000 workers a living wage.
The People's Alliance Fund helped launch the voter education and registration project You Can Vote and then encouraged and supported its transition to become an independent nonprofit in 2019. During You Can Vote's time as a PA Fund project, from its first full year of 2014 through July, 2019, it grew from a part-time staff of one in Durham to a large full-time staff working to register and turn out voters across most of North Carolina.
In addition to individual donations, The People’s Alliance Fund receives and administers grants from foundations and other nonprofits for projects in Durham and across the state.
