The following grants were made to projects in need of special consideration or emergency funding that fell outside our regular grantmaking cycle.

Al Fatiha Foundation (Washington, DC) for sponsorship of lesbian participation and programming at the 3rd International Retreat for LGBTQ Muslims & Friends in Washington, DC, in May 2002. $1,000

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (San Francisco, CA) for costs associated with assisting an African LGBT activist seeking asylum in the U.S.   $1,500

FEDAEPS (Ecuadorian Foundation for Action and Education) (Quito, Ecuador) to support a lesbian activist to travel to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism PrepCom in Geneva in August in 2001. $2,000

Primer Encuentro Lésbico (Macul, Chile) for Chile's first national lesbian conference held in 2002.  $2,000

South Africa Partners (Boston, MA) for sponsorship of Sisters Crossing Bridges 2002, an exchange visit between the Women's Health Project of South Africa and U.S. sexual and reproductive rights advocates. $1,000

Swara Srikandi (Jakarta, Indonesia) for a Muslim member of this Indonesian lesbian group to attend the Al Fatiha International Retreat in Washington, DC, in May 2002. $1,700