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.

Accident in Vil'na (Brooklyn, NY) depicts a love story between a Ukrainian woman and a Jewish-American artist.  The film addresses issues of migration and the trauma of war in subsequent generations. $1,500

African American Lesbians United (New Brunswick, NJ) addresses health, education, economic, social, and social issues of concern to African American lesbians. Grant was for the 5th Anniversary Conference held in New Brunswick, New Jersey in February 2002. $1,000

American Boyz (Falls Church, VA) for sponsorship of a people of color caucus and networking lounge at the True Spirit Conference for transgendered people in Washington, D.C., in February 2002.  $1,500

Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies-CUNY (New York, NY) for the classroom seminar,"Labor, Class & Queer," which brought together filmmakers, scholars, union organizers, and activists to discuss LGBTQ issues in the workplace, and issues of work and class in LGBTQ communities.  $1,000 

Creating Positive Change Foundation (Wilton Manors, FL) for the ONI Women's Conference, which explored empowerment, coalition building, diversity, and ending violence against women. The one day conference was held in Fort Lauderdale in October 2002.  "Oni" is a Nigerian word which means "Ruler Woman." $1,500

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. $1,000

Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lorde (Long Beach, CA) is a film that documents the events of the historic conference "I Am Your Sister: Forging Global Connections Across Differences," where more than 1,000 people from 23 countries came together to honor Lorde during her lifetime. Grant is for a resource guide to accompany the video. $1,000

Herland Sister Resources (Oklahoma City, OK) is a lesbian advocacy organization that generates newsletters, operates a bookstore, sponsors educational and cultural events, and supports the Herland Legal Defense Fund for cases involving lesbian issues. $1,000

Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization (New York, NY) for the production and distribution of information materials for the 2002 Parade Inclusion Project, which protested the exclusion of gays and lesbians from the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City. $500

Festival of International Artists for Peace (New York, NY) for NO! The Rape Documentary  Project, a film by Aishah Shahidah Simmons exploring intra-racial rape and sexual assault in the Black community. $500

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center (New York, NY) for a memorial honoring LGBT victims of the World Trade Center disaster. $500

Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School (New York, NY) for Love Makes a Family-Family and Friends Make a Community, a photo exhibit celebrating lesbian and gay connections, and family members. $1,500

LLEGO, the National Latino/a LGBT Organization (Washington DC) for their fifteenth-year anniversary event in April 2002. $500

LVA: Lesbians in the Visual Arts (San Francisco, CA) is dedicated to building a network of lesbians working in the visual arts and promoting their work through exhibitions, panels, conferences, a journal and a website. $2,000

Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer (Washington, D.C.) 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 September 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 

National Women's Alliance (Washington, D.C.) for the Radical Women of Color Organizing Conference in Chicago in May 2002.  The event was an opportunity for women of color to come together to create an agenda for social change. $2,000

Political Research Associates (Somerville, MA) provides accurate, reliable research and analysis to activists, journalists, educators, policy makers, and the public at large on right-wing movements.  Grant was for support of their 20th Anniversary Celebration. $500 

Sante Fe Rape Crisis Center (Sante Fe, NM) for Youth Organizing Diversity for All, a comprehensive education and prevention program.  Geared toward educators, students, social service providers and parents, the program promotes the message that homophobia is not tolerated in their community. $2,000

Serpent Source Foundation for Women Artists (San Francisco, CA) serves women artists who are excluded from other support due to racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, able-bodied privilege, and political conservatism. $2,000

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. Grant assisted with the transition of new organizational leadership. $1,000 

Trikone (San Francisco, CA) is the world's oldest support group for queer people of South Asian heritage. Grant was for the first North American South Asian Queer Film Festival, Queer Filmistan, in San Francisco, in August 2002. $2,000 

Women's Cancer Resource Center (Berkeley, CA) empowers women with cancer to be active and informed consumers and survivors.  The Center provides support for women with cancer and their families and friends, and educates the general community about cancer. Grant is for the Sister to Sister Project for lesbians of African descent with cancer. $2,000

Women's Project (Little Rock, AR) works against violence and economic injustice resulting from racism, sexism and homophobia.  The Project empowers disenfranchised individuals and communities by encouraging them to use democratic means to achieve significant, progressive social change. $2,000