CURRENT GRANTS 2006-2007

Audre Lorde Project (Brooklyn, NY) is the nation's only community organizing center led by and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, transgender,and gender-non-conforming communities of color. Grant supports building community-based strategies to address violence, as well as supporting organizing work around transgender employment, immigrant rights, and HIV/AIDS. $50,000 (First year of a 3-year grant, totaling $150,000) http://www.alp.org

ALLGO (Austin, TX) is the nation's only statewide queer multi-racial people of color organization working to create and sustain a statewide network of queer people of color activists, groups, organizations, and allies.Grant supports development of statewide action teams around issues including immigrant rights and HIV/AIDS, a statewide convening of queer people of color activists/organizations, and structural development to enhance their ability to serve a statewide constituency. $50,000 (First year of a 3-year grant, totaling $150,000) http://www.allgo.org

Esperanza Peace & Justice Center (San Antonio, TX) is a multi-issue, grassroots social justice and cultural organization with an effective history of organizing San Antonio's progressive communities in the midst of significant right-wing attacks.Grant supports development of the Esperanza network's coalition of organizations in San Antonio and South Texas, as well as their Puentes de Poder Community School to build a core of trained organizers and activists in southern Texas. $50,000 (First year of a 3-year grant, totaling $150,000) http://www.esperanzacenter.org

FIERCE! (New York, NY) is a community organizing project for transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, queer and questioning youth of color in New York City. FIERCE! uses a mix of leadership development, artistic, and cultural activism, political education, and campaign development to organize around critical issues including employment, education, violence, and access to public space. $50,000 (Second year of a 3-year grant, totaling $150,000) http://www.fiercenyc.org

Southerners on New Ground (Durham, NC) builds progressive movement across the South by integrating work against racism, sexism, and economic injustice into LGBT organizing, and 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. $50,000 (Second year of a 3-year grant, totaling $150,000) http://www.southernersonnewground.org

Transgender, Gender Varient and Intersex (TGI) Justice Project (Oakland, CA) to challenge and end human rights abuses committed against transgender, gender variant/genderqueer, and intersex (TGI) people in California prisons and beyond. Recognizing that poverty resulting from profound and pervasive discrimination and marginalization of TGI people is a major underlying cause of why TGI people end up in prison, the group addresses human rights abuses against TGI prisoners through community organizing and direct services. $50,000 (Second year of a 3-year grant, totaling $150,000) http://www.tgijp.org

In addition to the grants indicated above, Astraea was able to make a seventh Movement-Building Grant in the fall of 2007:

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (San Francisco, CA) helps create and promote social justice video and filmmaking amongst queer women of color communities through free training workshops, screenings and their annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival.Grant supports program and organizational expansion, including expanded work with immigrant communities, distribution of Reels of Resistance(a compilation of activist shorts), and hiring a second full-time staff person to focus on events and development. $150,000 ($50,000 per year) over three years http://www.qwocmap.org

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