Grants

In 2006, Astraea initiated a multi-year grantmaking program in the U.S.. Grants are made to organizations that demonstrate significant movement, leadership and creative community organization strategies f or social change within and beyond LGBTI communities. Each of the following is a 3-year grant totaling $150,000 ($50,000 per year). Additionally, each of the following organizations participate in strategic Astraea convenings where they share experiences, strategies and build skills to forward their organizational and movement efforts.

Technical Assistance

Affinity Community Services (Chicago, IL) to support strategic and transition planning processes for this African-American LBT women’s organization.$10,000 http://www.affinity95.org

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Program (San Francisco, CA) to support strategic planning process. $10,000 www.qwocmap.org

Southerners on New Ground (Durham, NC) for fiscal and development training of staff. $2,049 www.southernersonnewground.org

Transgender, Gender Varient and Intersex (TGI) Justice Project (San Francisco, CA) to support fundraising and strategic planning technical assistance. $10,000 www.tgijp.org

Travel & Peer-to-Peer Learning

Audre Lorde Project (Brooklyn, NY) for co-organizing a delegation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, transgender, gender-nonconforming people of color to participate in the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA. $6,000 www.alp.org

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center (San Antonio, TX) to support participation in the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference, and the U.S. Social Forum. $4,778 www.esperanzacenter.org

FIERCE! (New York, NY) for their unanticipated office move and for participation in the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference. $1,370 www.fiercenyc.org

Queers for Economic Justice (New York, NY) for participation in the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference. $2,000 www.queersforeconomicjustice.org

Southerners on New Ground (Durham, NC) for participation in the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference, and the U.S. Social Forum. $6,783 www.southernersonnewground.org

Transgender, Gender Varient and Intersex (TGI) Justice Project (San Francisco, CA) for participation in the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference, and the U.S. Social Forum. $2,870 www.tgijp.org

Convenings

African Asian Latina Lesbians United (AALLU) (Hillside, NJ) for scholarships and childcare for their 10th Anniversary Eastern Regional Women of Colour Celebrating Sisterhood Conference. $2,000 www.celebratesisterhood.org

Purple Moon Dance Project (San Francisco, CA) for their 15th Anniversary year. $2,000 www.purplemoondance.org

Transgender People with Hope (TGPH) (Philadelphia, PA) to support their Philadelphia Transgender People with Hope Conference. $2,000