Grants

Astraea’s Donor-Advised Fund program enables donors to establish a fund at Astraea through which they may recommend specific organizations or projects for support. Astraea staff also work with donors to identify organizations in need of support whose work matches the interests of the donor.

Bessie Coleman Fund

ACLU Foundation (New York, NY) for the Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, which conducts advocacy that places LGBT rights within the larger context of securing equal rights and civil liberties for all. $1,000

Agape Foundation (San Francisco, CA) is a nonprofit public foundation that raises and distributes funds to organizations working for nonviolent social change. Grant is for the Heart & Hand Fund. $500

Audre Lorde Project (Brooklyn, NY) is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit and Transgender People of Color center for community organizing. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, it promotes community wellness as well as progressive, social and economic justice. $1,000

Boston Film/Video Foundation (Boston, MA) for Crossing Over: The White Journey to Racial Consciousness, a film by Aimee Sands about white people confronting themselves and other white people on racism. $5,000

Changemakers Project (Ross, CA) provides critical resources to the leaders and institutions that build community-based philanthropy.  $1,000

COLAGE/Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (San Francisco, CA) is the world's only national and international organization which specifically supports young people with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender parents. $1,000

Center for LGBT Life at Duke University (Durham, NC) provides education, advocacy, support, and space for LGBT, questioning, and straight-allied students, staff, faculty, and alumnae. $1,000

First Nations Development Institute (Fredericksburg, VA) assists tribes and Native communities through grants, loans, technical assistance, policy research and convenings, so that they can control, create, leverage, and retain their assets.  $500

Freedom To Marry Foundation (Boston, MA) for travel to Turin, Italy, for the 2nd International Conference on Same-Sex Marriage, Partnerships and Parenting held in June 2002.  $500

Funding Exchange (New York, NY) is a national network of publicly-supported, regionally-based community foundations dedicated to building a permanent institutional and financial base to support progressive social change. $6,000

Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (San Francisco, CA) for the Lesbian Health Fund, which is dedicated solely to addressing the unique health needs of lesbians. $1,250

Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (Boston, MA) is a public interest legal organization whose mission is to gain full equality and justice for New England's LGBT and HIV/AIDS-affected communities. $1,000

Global Fund for Women (San Francisco, CA) makes grants to support and strengthen women's rights groups around the world. $2,500

Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network/GLSEN (New York, NY) combats harassment and discrimination leveled against LGBT students and school personnel in order to end anti-gay bias in K-12 schools. $1,000

Intersex Society of North America (Petaluma, CA) is a peer support, education, and advocacy organization dedicated ending the shame, secrecy, and nonconsensual genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female. $1,000

Jewish Fund for Justice (New York, NY) awards grants in the areas of economic justice, community-building, women in poverty, youth, immigrants, refugees and issues of Jewish social justice.  $500

Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund (New York, NY) is committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, and people with HIV/AIDS through impact litigation, education, and public policy work. $1,000

Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services (San Francisco, CA) provides affordable, comprehensive health care and health education for women, by women.  $500

National Center for Lesbian Rights (San Francisco, CA) advances the rights of lesbians and their families through litigation, public policy advocacy, free legal counseling, and public education. $5,000

National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (Washington, DC) is a national progressive organization working for the civil rights of LGBT people, with the vision and commitment to building a powerful political movement.  $1,000

National Youth Advocacy Coalition (Washington, DC) provides advocacy, education and information addressing the broad range of issues facing LGBT youth. NYAC represents the interests of more than 500 LGBT youth-serving organizations nationwide.  $500

Peninsula Community Foundation (San Mateo, CA) for the Woodlake Fund, a college scholarship fund benefiting young women of color. $500

Political Research Associates (Somerville, MA) provides accurate, reliable research, analysis and archival information on right wing movements to, activists, journalists, educators, policy makers, and the public at large.  $1,000

Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE) (New York, NY) is an intergenerational and culturally diverse organization dedicated to meeting the unique needs of older lesbians and gay men. $2,750

Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (Washington, DC) offers legal advice and assistance to LGBT service members under investigation or otherwise harmed by the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. $2,000

South Africa Development Fund (Boston, MA) works in partnership with community-based organizations to provide financial and technical support to communities disadvantaged by decades of apartheid policies. $500

South Africa Partners (Boston, MA) supports efforts promoting South Africa's equitable and sustainable development while also building bridges between the U.S. and South Africa. $500

Southern Partners Fund (Atlanta, GA) serves Southern communities and social justice organizations by providing financial resources, technical assistance and training.  $2,500

The Promises Film Project (Berkeley, CA) is committed to furthering the Middle East peace process by using the power of film to educate audiences about the importance of supporting peace efforts. $2,500

Third Wave Foundation (New York, NY) provides resources to support the cutting-edge work of young women activists through grantmaking, public education campaigns, and networking programs. $1,000

Todos: Sherover Simms Alliance Building Institute (Oakland, CA) works with
groups and individuals to build alliances between and across all social identities. $1,000

Woman Vision (San Francisco, CA) produces educational materials and programs, including the award-winning films Straight From the Heart and All God's Children, which promote tolerance and equality; and Radical Harmonies: The History of the Women's Music Cultural Movement. $1,000

Women's Educational Media (San Francisco, CA) produces documentary films such as It's Elementary, That's A Family and Choosing Children, which offer perspectives on how social justice can be achieved. $1,000

Women's Initiative for Self Employment (San Francisco, CA) provides workshops, technical assistance, and loans to help low-income women launch their own businesses. $500

Loving Lesbians Fund

Arco Iris, Inc. (Ponca, AR) acquires and protects land for ecological diversity which is held in trust for descendants of displaced indigenous people and others deprived of a land base. $1,000

Indigenous Women's Network (Austin, TX) supports public education and advocacy, the elimination of all forms of oppression, and the revitalization of indigenous languages and cultures.  They work toward self-sufficiency and the protection of Mother Earth for future generations. $10,000

Heller/Bernard Fund

Audre Lorde Project (Brooklyn, NY) is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit and Transgender People of Color center for community organizing. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, it promotes community wellness as well as progressive, social and economic justice. $1,000

Bridges: A Journal For Jewish Feminists (Eugene, OR) celebrates and illustrates Jewish women's identity and social justice activism.  The Journal include articles by and about lesbians, working-class Jews, Jewish women of varied ethnic backgrounds, and Israeli women peace workers. $2,000

Charis Circle (Atlanta, GA) expanded the community programs previously offered by Charis Books, a 27-year old feminist bookstore providing a feminist and lesbian space and sponsoring educational programs, writing and cultural events. $2,000

DYKE TV (Brooklyn, NY) produces an award-winning television magazine and teaches video production and editing.  Grant is for the On The Road Campaign, which introduced small cities, towns and rural communities to Dyke TV.  During the campaign, Dyke TV staff conducted free video production workshops, screened episodes of the show and put cameras in the hands of activists to document their communities. $1,000

GRIOT Circle  (Brooklyn, NY) provides empowerment programs targeting senior LGBT people of color coping with isolation, ill health and loneliness, all of which are further complicated by homophobia and racism. $2,000

Mautner Project (Washington, DC) is the only national organization dedicated to lesbians with cancer, their partners and caregivers.  Through their Removing the Barriers Project, they work to improve the skills of individual practitioners and create systemic change so that lesbians feel truly comfortable in hospitals and other health care settings. Grant was for the 2002 Healing Works/National Lesbian Health Conference in Washington, D.C.  Grant was issued to offset conference expenses after the Federal Government withdrew its funding.  $2,000

Paris Press (Ashfield, MA) publishes feminist literature of all genres, from experimental and politically radical works to writing by worthy yet neglected writers. $5,000

Southerners on New Ground (Durham, NC) helps build the progressive movement by integrating work against racism, sexism and economic injustice into LGBT organizing, and by integrating the struggle against homophobia into the broader freedom struggles in the South. $2,000

Whatever It Takes (WIT) Award Fund

Mercedes Martin (Piedmont, CA) $3,200

M. Nell Myhand (Oakland, CA) $4,600

Ahbi Vernon (Berkeley, CA) $500 

Anonymous (Oakland, CA) $6,200

FM Alexander Technique Fund

Boston Film/Video Foundation (Boston, MA) for Crossing Over: The White Journey to Racial Consciousness, a film by Aimee Sands about white people confronting themselves and other white people on racism. $3,000

Changemakers Project (Ross, CA) provides critical resources to leaders and institutions that build community-based philanthropy. $2,500

National Center for Lesbian Rights (San Francisco, CA)
advances the rights of lesbians and their families through litigation, public policy advocacy, free legal counseling, and public education. $2,000

Political Research Associates (Somerville, MA) provides accurate, reliable research, analysis and archival information on right wing movements to, activists, journalists, educators, policy makers, and the public at large. $3,000

Rainbow Place: Nevada's Gay and Lesbian Community Center (Reno, NV) increases the local lesbian community's visibility and organizing capacity through discussion groups, youth meetings, wellness projects, and a herstory archive. $2,000

Resourceful Women (San Francisco, CA) promotes positive social change by educating and empowering women to make informed choices about investing, spending and contributing their money. $700

Responsible Wealth (Boston, MA), a project of United for a Fair Economy, is a national network of businesspeople, investors and affluent Americans who are concerned about deepening economic inequality and are working for widespread prosperity through tax fairness, corporate responsibility and living wages. $2,500