Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (Athens, OH) is a national membership organization dedicated to fighting and confronting ageism in lesbian lives, communities, organizations and society as a whole. $11,400
HELLER / BERNARD FUND
Arab Women's Gathering Organizing Collective (Oakland, CA) is a group of Arab and Arab American women working for social justice locally and globally, with a particular focus on women's issues. AWGOC is committed to creating a space where Arab and Arab American women can reclaim self-determined dialogues within communities, families and within the state without internal or external censure. $1,500
Audre Lorde Project (Brooklyn, NY) is the nation's only Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit and Trans (LGBTST) People of Color center for community organizing. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, ALP promotes community wellness and progressive social and economic justice. $1,500
Dyke TV Productions (Brooklyn, NY) is a community media resource center that has documented the lives of queer women for the past thirteen years. Airing on over 108 public access cable channels, Dyke TV also builds skills of lesbians in all aspects of video production, editing and web design. $1,000
GLBT Historical Society (San Francisco, CA) collects, preserves and interprets the history of GLBT people and the communities that support them. The archives of the GLBTHS is one of the world's largest collections of primary source materials about GLBT history. Grant supports Date of Birth: the 50th Anniversary of the Daughters of Bilitis.$1,500
GRIOT Circle (Brooklyn, NY) is an intergenerational and culturally diverse community organization seeking to address the needs of LGBT elders, particularly elders of color. Their innovative programming includes social services, Yoruba wood carving, health advocacy and mobilization of elders of color to respond to pressing issues in their communities. $3,000
Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer (Washington, DC) provides direct services to lesbians with cancer, their families and caregivers. They educate policymakers about lesbians, promote lesbian health issues and research, and empower local grassroots groups and individuals to do the same. $3,000
Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (Athens, OH) is a national membership organization dedicated to confronting and fighting ageism in lesbian lives, communities, organizations and society as a whole. $1,500
Paris Press (Ashfield, MA) is a nonprofit press publishing the work of women writers who have been neglected or misrepresented by the mainstream literary world. Publishing two to three books a year, Paris Press values work that is daring in style and in its courage to speak truthfully about society, culture, history and the human heart. $1,500
Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL) is committed to student success, academic quality and social justice, with campuses in Chicago and Schaumburg, IL. Grant supports the creation of the Lesbian Scholarship Fund, which will support students interested in pursuing lesbian studies. $3,000
Southerners on New Ground (Durham, NC), builds progressive movement across the South by organizing to integrate work against racism, sexism and economic injustice into LGBT organizing and integrating anti-homophobia work into other freedom struggles in the South. SONG's programs concentrate on leadership development and creating critical spaces for progressive LGBT leaders to build effective organizing strategies in the South. $3,000
LESBIAN STRATEGIC FUND The Lesbian Strategic Fund was initiated at the Gill Foundation's 2005 OutGiving Conference in Aspen, Colorado. At the conference, women donors decided to create an opportunity for lesbians in attendance to pool resources in order to advance strategic, timely and high impact initiatives. Men and other colleagues joined in this endeavor. The purpose of the Lesbian Strategic Fund is to ensure lesbian visibility in providing financial resources to strategic, timely, high-impact efforts for LGBTI movement-building initiatives and activities in the U.S.
Equality Federation Institute (San Francisco, CA) is a network of state-based organizations working together and with allies to end discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. As a newly-staffed organization with over 60 member organizations in 47 states, Equality Federation Institute serves as a bridge between national and statewide organizations, while increasing effective coordination of state-by-state strategies on key issues. Grant supports efforts to help build infrastructure and coordinate strategy of statewide LGBT organizations. $10,000
Equality Florida Human Rights Education Project (St. Petersburg, FL) is a statewide LGBT organization fighting to protect the rights of Florida's LGBT population through civic education, advocacy and capacity building for regional coalitions in North, Central and South Florida. Known as one of the most effective statewide LGBT organizations in the country, Equality Florida is viewed by many as a national model for building LGBTI rights and power in Florida—and in the South. Grant supports hiring of additional field organizing staff. $50,000
EqualityMaine Foundation (Portland, ME) has worked for over two decades to promote equality for all Mainers, acting in support of people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities through education, legislative advocacy and collaboration within the state. In 2005, EqualityMaine was able to win statewide non-discrimination legislation providing protection against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity/expression, while defeating a constitutional amendment on marriage. $33,000
Camp Corazones (Santa Fe, NM) is a four-day non-profit summer camp for children and families infected or impacted by HIV/AIDS. The volunteer-run camp offers activities and performances as well as opportunities to learn how to deal constructively with the daily challenges of being a child with AIDS or living with a HIV+ family member. $20,000
Española Valley Fiber Arts Center (Española, NM) is a venue for artists to teach and learn fiber arts and build community while preserving the skills and traditions of native cultures within the local community. $30,000
Outland Communities (Serafina, NM) is a space for women to heal, write, create and grow, with programs focused on creating a local land-based economy to support the land and the women who live on and care for the land. $20,000
Tides Foundation (San Francisco, CA) launched the Tides Foundation Shelter Fund to specifically support key organizations working across the U.S. to address homelessness. In 2005-06, Shelter Fund grants were primarily devoted to helping low income people return to their homes and communities in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Additionally, through a generous matching grant, Tides was able to match dollar for dollar all contributions to Tides Shelter Fund this year. $5,000
Carolyn Gage (Portland, OR) is a lesbian-feminist playwright, performer, director and activist. Grant supports production of workshop performances and readings of new one-act plays. $2,000
PASS THE BUTTER FUND
Coalition on Homelessness San Francisco (San Francisco, CA) garners the participation of poor people to design and critique public policy and nonprofit services in an effort to find permanent solutions to poverty. $2,000
Funding Exchange (New York, NY) is a network of publicly supported, community-based foundations working to build a base of support for progressive social change through fundraising for local, national and international grantmaking programs. $4,000
Global Fund for Women (San Francisco, CA) is an international network of women and men advocating for and defending women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world. $3,000
Global Greengrants Fund (Boulder, CO) supports grassroots groups working for environmental justice and sustainability around the world. $3,000
Third Wave Foundation (New York, NY) provides resources to support cutting-edge work of young women activists through grantmaking, public education campaigns and networking programs. $2,000
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (Los Angeles, CA) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. $250
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (New York, NY) combats harassment and discrimination against LGBT students and school personnel in order to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender/identity/expression in schools. $1,000
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund (New York, NY) is committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work. Grant is in honor of Marla and Anita Meislin-Dietrich. $2,500
National Center for Lesbian Rights (San Francisco, CA) advances the legal and human rights of LGBT people, particularly lesbians and transgender people, across the U.S. through litigation, public policy advocacy, direct legal services and public education. Grant is in honor of Marla and Anita Meislin-Dietrich.$2,750
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute (Washington, DC), a think tank for the LGBT community, provides research and policy analysis to support the struggle for complete equality, and trains state and local activists/leaders how to organize legislative campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislation. Grant is in honor of Marla and Anita Meislin-Dietrich.$2,500
Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Washington, DC) promotes the health and well-being of GLBT people, their families and friends through support, advocacy and education. Grant is in honor of Marla and Anita Meislin-Dietrich.$500
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (Washington, DC) offers legal advice and assistance to, and fights harassment of, LGBT military personnel under investigation or affected by the U.S. Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy and related forms of intolerance. $500
ACLU Foundation (New York, NY) works daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. $1,000
Bread for the Journey International (Mill Valley, CA) supports their 18 local chapters to offer practical assistance, funding and encouragement to help people start valuable new local projects quickly and easily. $500
Changemakers Project (San Francisco, CA) models and supports social change philanthropy by working within the philanthropic sector to address root causes, and shift how money is given in order to urge donors to become more accountable, inclusive and creative. $500
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues (New York, NY) is comprised of grantmakers and individual donors advocating for increased funding support for the LGBT community through education and capacity-building within the philanthropic community. $1,000
Horizons Foundation (San Francisco, CA) is a local LGBT community foundation that mobilizes and increases resources for the LGBT movement and organizations that secure the rights, meet the needs and celebrate the lives of LGBT people. $1,000
National Center for Lesbian Rights (San Francisco, CA) advances the legal and human rights of LGBT people, particularly lesbians and transgender people, across the U.S. through litigation, public policy advocacy, direct legal services and public education. $1,500
Southern Partners Fund (Atlanta, GA) provides financial resources, technical assistance and training, and access to systems of information and power to southern communities and organizations seeking social, economic and environmental justice. Grant is for The Justice Fund for Katrina Relief and Renewal, which provides short and long term support for transformative community renewal in LA and MS, with a particular focus on local community organizations. $2,500
Children's Music Network (Evanston, IL) supports the creation and dissemination of life-affirming, multicultural musical forms for, by and with young people. $5,000
Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation (New York, NY), founded in 1973 and now the largest and oldest lesbian archive in the world, gathers and preserves records of lesbian lives and activities for future generations. $500
National Center for Lesbian Rights (San Francisco, CA) advances the legal and human rights of LGBT people, particularly lesbians and transgender people, across the U.S. through litigation, public policy advocacy, direct legal services and public education. $2,500
National Women's Health Network (Washington, DC) works to improve the health of women in the U.S. by developing and promoting a critical analysis of health issues in order to affect policy and support consumer decision-making. $500
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center (New York, NY) provides a home for the birth, nurture and celebration of LGBT organizations, institutions and culture in New York City. The Center offers community care, education and advocacy and empowers LGBT individuals and groups to achieve their fullest potential. $1,500
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