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Astraea in the Press
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Astraea Featured in Front Page New York Times Article for Role in Uganda
Astraea's support for Uganda-led solutions for LGBTI human rights in Uganda was featured today in a front-page article in the New York Times titled "U.S. Evangelicals’ Role Seen in Uganda Anti-Gay Push." [More]
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Executive Director Katherine Acey featured in GO Magazine
Executive Director Katherine Acey shines this month among other luminaries in a GO Magazine special feature. The series, "Women at the Helm" highlights the "dedicated women steering many of the nation's finest LGBT organizations." Also featured... [More]
| Location: New York, NY
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IN THE LIFE features Astraea Executive Director in Summer of Stonewall Series
Watch Astraea Executive Director Katherine Acey featured on IN THE LIFE's Summer of Stonewall Series. "Two of our movement's longest serving executive directors - Katherine Acey of Astrea and Lambda Legal's Kevin Cathcart - discuss their lives as... [More]
| Location: New York, NY
| Category: Press
GRIT TV features Katherine Acey on Nonprofits and the Financial Crisis
Executive Director Katherine Acey provides insight and inspiration on the way forward for nonprofits and foundations in a timely episode of Laura Flander's GRITtv. Katherine joins The Nation contributing writer Eyal Press, Marjorie Fine of the... [More]
| Location: Oakland, CA
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Katherine Acey on Putting the Movement First in Grassroots Fundraising Journal
I have been a fundraiser for nearly three decades, but I fancy myself an activist, organizer, political thinker, manager, leader of sorts - they all have become inseparable identities for me. There have been times when, called a fundraiser to my... [More]
| Location: New York, NY
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Gay City News Highlights FIERCE!, Astraea's 30th Celebration
"We're more likely to be remembered by the presence of monuments than by the presence of our people." Rickke Mananzala, the executive director of FIERCE, shared those words from his colleague Glo Ross, the group's lead organizer, as the two sat... [More]
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Advocate Article Spotlights FIERCE!/Astraea
In 2006 less than 9% of total funding for LGBT issues went to groups that work with blacks, Latinos, and other people of color. Conn Corrigan finds out why -- and what's being done to resolve the imbalance. [More]
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Astraea featured in San Francisco Chronicle
On a recent Thursday morning, Joseph Rosenthal, 77, drove from his barn-red, four-story house on Buena Vista Terrace to a lawyer's office in the Castro, where he quietly transferred a substantial part of his estate to the endowment fund of the... [More]