Grants

U.S. Panel Grants are grants issued to U.S.-based lesbian, trans and LGBTI social change organizations and projects, including cultural and film/video projects. U.S. Panel Grants are determined by a diverse and committed activist Community Funding Panel.

Affinity Community Services
Chicago, IL
General support to provide a safe space for lesbian and bisexual women and youth of African descent to meet and participate in community-building programs. Programs include Forty Plus, Lez Chat, Healthy Woman, and Youth Coming Out in Affinity.

Alternatives of Northwest Indiana
Highland, IN
General support for programs empowering members of Northwest Indiana's LGBT community by providing culturally competent direct services, facilitating the organization of a unified community and changing the societal attitudes and institutional barriers that prevent full participation in the broader community.

Californians for Justice Education Fund
Oakland, CA
General support for training, public education, leadership development and alliance building dedicated to building power for people pushed out of the political process in California. Focus is on defeating right-wing initiatives that promote hate and fear, and setting a progressive agenda for California reflecting the values of racial, social, and economic justice.

Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies
New York, NY
Support for a series of roundtables: The Gender Faultline, on feminism in the LGBTQ community; Student Organizing, a dialogue between emerging student activists and those who have been organizing on LGBTQ issues for twenty years; and Crossing Borders, on intersections between student, immigrant, and LGBTQ organizing.

Esperanza Peace & Justice Center
Puentes de Poder
San Antonio, TX
Support for a leadership development project to bring diverse voices together amongst communities of color and LGBT communities in the region, to help address homophobia, racism, sexism and class elitism and the interconnection among these oppressions.

In Our Own Voices, Inc.
Albany, NY
General support for programs that develop the local leadership and organizing skills of LGBT people of color, especially lesbians; to connect with the national LGBT movement; and to provide tools for white lesbians, gays and heterosexuals to play a role as anti-racists in community organizing.

National Center for Lesbian Rights
San Francisco, CA
General support for programs dedicated to achieving full civil rights for all lesbians through litigation, public policy advocacy, free advice and counseling, and community education. Programs are targeted to include those most marginalized in the legal and political systems, including lesbian mothers, lesbians of color, LGBT youth, LGBT immigrants, and lesbian elders.

PRIDE
Operation Gatekeeper
Helena, MT
Support for a project to develop political engagement and a sustainable statewide network by delivering PRIDE resources and support to underserved communities through identifying existing leadership and support structures in those communities, and training grassroots activists in local communities to participate in ongoing civil rights efforts.

Southerners on New Ground
Louisville, KY
General support for innovative workshops and trainings that help build a progressive movement by integrating work against racism, sexism, and economic injustice into LGBT organizing, and integrating work against homophobia into freedom struggles in the South.

Taller Lesbico Creativo
San Juan, PR
General support for lesbian collective that addresses the lives, relationships, health, visibility/invisibility, and sexuality of lesbians and bisexual women in Puerto Rico through theater techniques and workshops that focus on domestic violence, addictive behaviors, sexuality and homophobia.

Women of Color Against Violence
Santa Cruz, CA
Support for the Color of Violence Conference and founding of a national organization that will develop strategies and advocate for policies that address violence against women of color.

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