Grants

Astraea's U.S. Emergency Fund is a rapid-response grantmaking mechanism, providing timely support for organizations to address urgent and strategic political opportunities and crises affecting LGBTI communities.

American Indian Community House
New York, NY
Contribution towards the Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa Memorial at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Ingrid, of the Menominee Nation, and Executive Director of the Fund for the Four Directors, worked for Indigenous people's rights nationally and internationally.

Audre Lorde Project Center for LGBTST People of Color Communities in New York City
Brooklyn, NY
Support of ALP's Third Annual Gala Celebration May 1999 and for Arms Akimbo: NYC's first-ever Lesbian, Bisexual, Two-Spirit and Transgender Women of Color Organizing Institute, October 1998.

Bromfield Street Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
Grant is for unexpected contingency expenses related to planning OutWrite '99.

International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission
San Francisco, CA
Support of the Felipa de Souza Awards for activists working in the global struggle for human rights of l/g/b/t communities and people living with HIV and AIDS.

Lesbian Community Cancer Project
Chicago, IL
Support of the first Midwest regional conference dedicated to lesbian health, Creating Healthy Lives: A Conference Dealing With Lesbian Issues, September 1998 in Chicago.

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Washington, DC
To subsidize registration fees to the 11th Annual Creating Change Conference in Pittsburgh for women of color and youth activists in financial need.

National Latino/a Lesbian & Gay Organization (LLEGO)
Washington, DC
VOLAR (Vision, Organization, Leadership, Action & Revolution), leadership training for Latina lesbians and bisexuals.

New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project
New York, NY
Assistance for STOP THE HATE IN SCHOOL advertisement in the New Youth Connections publication distributed throughout the NYC school system.

Pa' Fuera, Pa' Lante
New York, NY
The second collaborative conference of Northeast and Puerto Rican Latino/a l/g/b/t organizations, Pa' Fuera, Pa' Lante provides skills-building workshops and forums on organizational and individual capacity-building. Grant is for outreach to the Latina lesbian community.

Senior Action in a Gay Environment
New York, NY
To subsidize travel expenses for two lesbians to participate in a panel on Ageism at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Creating Change conference November 1998.

Sojourner Feminist Institute
Boston, MA
To partially underwrite printing and distribution costs of the June'99 Pride Issue of Sojourner: The Women's Forum.

Underground Railway Theater
Arlington, MA
Towards initial staged readings for Me in the Mirror, based on the autobiography of Concetta Panzarino, a lesbian and activist in the peace and disability rights movements, who was born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

U.S. Urban-Rural Mission
Durham, NC
Towards travel expenses for lesbian delegates from the Urban-Rural Mission (USA) to the World Council of Churches General Assembly in Zimbabwe to present the workshop Sexuality and the Promise of Fullness of Life.

Woman Vision
San Francisco, CA
Towards educational work in conjunction with the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum and Dwayne S. Brown Foundation, at the Congressional Black Caucus National Conference in September 1998.