Grants

U.S. Movement Resource Fund Astraea’s Movement Resource Fund provides grants to enhance the capacity and effectiveness of LGBTI organizations to engage in movement building work. Grants are generally provided in three areas: Technical Assistance, Travel/Peer-to-Peer Learning, and Historic Convenings. Grantees of Astraea’s U.S. Panel and Movement Building funds are prioritized for Movement Resource Fund grants.

Technical Assistance

ALLGO (Austin, TX) For communications and fundraising strategies. $10,000

Audre Lorde Project (Brooklyn, NY) Grant supports the organization’s strategic planning process. $10,000

Committee on Women, Population and the Environment (Atlanta, GA) is a multi-racial alliance of feminist activists, health practitioners and scholars. Committed to promoting the social and economic empowerment of women in a context of global peace and justice, CWPE works to eliminate poverty, inequality, racism and environmental degradation. Grant supports the organization’s strategic planning process. $5,000

FIERCE (New York, NY) For completion of the organization’s strategic planning process. $2,800

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (San Francisco, CA) Grant supports fundraising training for staff, the first board-staff organizational retreat and leadership development activities. $10,000

Southerners on New Ground (Durham, NC) For the development of an innovative fundraising and base-building strategy.$10,000

Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project (San Francisco, CA) For their leadership transition plan and related strategic planning. $10,000

Unid@s—The National LGBT Latina/o Human Rights Organization (Austin, TX) For the organization’s first strategic planning process. Unid@s is a newly established organization using advocacy, education and convenings to bring together Latina/o LGBT organizations and individuals from the U.S. and Puerto Rico. $10,000

Travel and Peer-to-Peer Learning

Audre Lorde Project (Brooklyn, NY) For travel to the National Network of Immigrant and Refugee Rights National Conference in Houston, TX. $2,000

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center (San Antonio, TX) Grant supports a 10-member cultural exchange and political education trip to 4 cities in México. $2,000

FIERCE (New York, NY) Grant supports their participation in Transforming Justice: Ending the Mass Imprisonment of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People, a conference held in Oakland, CA, and in a national action coordinated by the Right to the City Alliance in Miami, FL, in June 2008. $4,800

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (San Francisco, CA) Grant supports exchange visits with LGBT organizations engaged in immigrants’ rights work in Austin, TX, and New York, NY. $2,000

Sylvia Rivera Law Project (New York, NY) For travel to and participation in Transforming Justice, a conference held in Oakland, CA. $1,200

Trangender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project (San Francisco, CA) For participation in the 2009 U.N. review of U.S. compliance with the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, which came out of the Durban Conference Against Racism. $2,000

Zami (Decatur, GA) For travel to, and participation in, the National Black Lesbian Conference, hosted by the Zuna Institute in Las Vegas, NV. $2,000

Colorado Anti-Violence Program (Denver, CO) is a state-wide organization working to increase services available to survivors of violence, and end violence within and against LGBTQ communities. $1,113

GRIOT Circle (Brooklyn, NY) $2,164

National Youth Advocacy Coalition (Washington, DC) $1,696

Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (Athens, OH) $1,817

Zuna Institute (Sacramento, CA) $1,743

Affinity Community Services (Chicago, IL) $3,000

ALLGO (Austin, TX) $2,500

Audre Lorde Project (Brooklyn, NY) $3,000

FIERCE (New York, NY) $3,000

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (Washington, DC) $3,500

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (San Francisco, CA) $250

Queers for Economic Justice (New York, NY) $3,000

Southerners on New Ground (Durham, NC) $3,000

Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project (San Francisco, CA) $300

Convenings

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (Washington, DC) For a training and issue briefing for leaders of LGBT API organizations to enhance local grassroots organizing and build organizational infrastructure and capacity. $10,000

Tongues/Que Viva (Los Angeles, CA) For a three-day meeting to address issues of queer women of color in debates related to immigration reform, healthcare initiatives and local organizing. $5,000 tonguesla.org

Two Spirit Press Room (Minneapolis, MN) For the 20th Anniversary of the International Two Spirit Gathering. $2,000

Zuna Institute (Sacramento, CA) For the National Black Lesbian Conference, including a leadership summit for leaders of local Black lesbian organizations and communities. $7,500 zunainstitute.org

U.S. COLLABORATIVE GRANTS

U.S. Collaborative Grants are issued to organizations with whom we work in partnership.

Applied Research Center (New York, NY) For travel to workshops on race and sexuality for the Facing Race conference, held in November 2008 in Oakland, CA. $5,000 arc.org

Audre Lorde Project (Brooklyn, NY) For sponsorship of the 2008 Power We Have community celebration event. $1,000 alp.org

FIERCE (New York, NY) For general support, as part of the Lynn Campbell Award for Outstanding Leadership, presented at the Astraea 30th Anniversary Gala. $5,000 An additional grant supports organizing for the young lesbians charged in the Jersey 4 case. $1,600

Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (Oakland, CA) For sponsorship of Raising Change 2008 and for conference registration for 19 representatives from Astraea’s Movement-Building grantee partner organizations. $7,565 grassrootsfundraising.org

GRIOT Circle (Brooklyn, NY) In honor of Regina Shavers, grant supports this intergenerational and culturally diverse community organization addressing the needs of LGBT elders, particularly elders of color. $1,000 An additional grant supports GRIOT Circle’s 12th Anniversary Event. $500 griot.org

Highlander Research and Education Center (New Market, TN) For the 75th Anniversary of Highlander’s work for social and economic justice in Appalachia and the South. $2,000 highlandercenter.org

KhushDC (Washington, DC) For their Second Annual Women’s History Month Event, Dancing at the Intersections: Understanding Gender Variance in South Asian LGBTQ Communities. $500 khushdc.org

Sylvia Rivera Law Project (New York, NY) For their 5th Anniversary event. $250

Women of Color Resource Center (Oakland, CA) For the 9th Annual Sisters of Fire Awards. $1,000