Help Us Celebrate the Best of LGBTQ Philanthropy!

Funders for LGBTQ Issues is now accepting nominations for the fourth Pride in Philanthropy Awards! Two years ago, we marked our 40 year anniversary and honored the notable contributions of philanthropic institutions and leaders with a record of leadership and impact in LGBTQ philanthropy. We are excited to continue the tradition with our 2024 Pride in Philanthropy Awards.

Nominations are open through April 1st.

Learn more about the awards and share your nominations.

Meet Our Team: Sammy Luffy

Join us in welcoming our new Director of Research, Sammy Luffy!

Sammy (she/her) is passionate about designing feminist research projects that center the expertise of communities and recognize the intersectionality of all social justice movements, including climate justice, racial justice, gender justice, and disability justice. We’re thrilled to have her on our team, where she will be leading research, tracking, and reporting work to support LGBTQ communities through philanthropic action.

We asked Sammy a few questions to get to know her better.

See her answers here.

Announcing the Host Partner of Funding Forward 2025:

Texas Pride Impact Funds (TPIF)

Funders for LGBTQ Issues is pleased to announce Texas Pride Impact Funds (TPIF) as the host partner for our next Funding Forward conference! 

Texas Pride Impact Funds is the leading progressive LGBTQ+ community foundation in Texas, and has been a close partner of Funders for LGBTQ Issues since its earliest days. Indeed, planning for TPIF occurred at the same time Funders for LGBTQ Issues launched Out in the South, our own initiative to increase resources to southern LGBTQ communities. 

As we look forward to our 2025 conference in Houston, TX, and the impact we hope to make on LGBTQ movement work in the state and region, we can think of no greater partner than Texas Pride Impact Funds.

We look forward to sharing more conference details, including dates, in the near future.

Read the full press release here.

Poem by Funders' President Saida Agostini-Bostic Featured by the Academy of American Poets

On March 18th, a new poem from Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ President Saida Agostini-Bostic was featured in Poem-a-Day, the curated daily poetry series from the Academy of American Poets. Initially begun as a month long celebration of poetry in 2006, Poem-a-Day now publishes 250 new poems each year.

Saida’s poem was selected for publication by Guest Editor Kendra DeColo who aimed to showcase poets who “really write in the mindset that the personal is political and to celebrate that."

You can read Saida’s poem ‘black aphrodite entertains mortal love’ here.

Congratulations, Saida!

This week (March 18th to March 20th) Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ Programs team gathered in Houston, TX for the first ever Q Summit, an invitation-only joint convening of our three program areas aimed at creating community across philanthropy and fostering a deeper collective understanding of our external program areas.

Invited participants included the steering committees of Out in the South and the Trans Futures Funding Campaign, Out in the South Fund grantee partners, and the recently announced 5th cohort of GUTC Leaders Fellows. Look out for a deeper reflection on the Summit in next month’s Q Notes!

The Edward W. Hazen Foundation, a private foundation committed to supporting the organizing and leadership of young people and communities of color, is fulfilling its 2019 promise to spend down all its assets. Hazen, a member of Funders for LGBTQ Issues, has made its final grants—moving $3.75 million to 43 nonprofit organizations. After nearly 100 years of operation, the Foundation will close its doors this May.

Read the press release here.

Funders for LGBTQ Issues signs All by April: An Open Letter from Pro-Democracy Philanthropy. The letter calls on philanthropy to pledge to provide early support to the organizations that help uphold our democracy by moving election funds faster wherever possible and encouraging our networks to do the same. 

Read the full letter and sign on today!

Horizons Foundation Awards Over $715,000 to 50 Grassroots LGBTQ Nonprofits

Horizons Foundation announced an all-time high in total dollars—over $716,400—awarded through its flagship funding program, Community Issues, to 50 grassroots LGBTQ grantee partners in the nine counties of the SF Bay Area. 

Read more here.

Borealis' Racial Equity in Philanthropy (REP) Fund Announces Sunset Grants

In the fall of 2023, Borealis Philanthropy announced its decision to sunset the Racial Equity in Philanthropy (REP) Fund. This month, they announce $6 million in awards to the Fund’s 25 grantee partners— including Funders for LGBTQ Issues. In dispersing these resources, the REP Fund aims to support their grantee partners’ near-term financial stability as they work toward transforming philanthropic behaviors and shifting power to communities. Award amounts prioritized those organizations led by people of color and which represented historically under prioritized communities and/or geographic regions. 

Read the announcement.

2024 African American Philanthropy Summit (Cleveland, OH)

Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ member Cleveland Foundation is hosting the 2024 African American Philanthropy Summit. Presented by the Foundation’s African American Philanthropy Committee (AAPC), the conference will be held Saturday, April 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Corporate College East and will have in-person and Zoom accommodations. This year’s theme is Philanthropy and the Black Family: Elevating from Moment to Movement, and features a dynamic lineup of speakers and engaging breakout session opportunities.

Get more information and register here.

WEBINARS, TRAININGS, AND BRIEFINGS

Trainings for Emerging Nonprofit LGBTQ &/or BIPOC Leaders 

The Rosenberg Foundation and the Asian American Federation, in collaboration with Magpantay & Associates, a nonprofit consulting and legal services firm, are hosting a Series of Training Workshops for LGBTQ and people of color (BIPOC) emerging leaders of smaller nonprofit organizations with budgets under $1 Million.

“Towards Liberation” Strategic Vision Virtual Briefing

On March 7, 2024, the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice held a virtual briefing to present "Towards Liberation," their bold 10-Year Strategic Vision for the future at the organizational, global, and regional levels, followed by a Q&A.

RESEARCH, RESOURCES, AND UPDATES

Give OUT Day 2024

Horizons Foundation is hosting Give OUT Day in May 2024. Since 2013, Give OUT Day has helped hundreds of LGBTQ nonprofits raise millions of dollars.

Burnout in Women and Nonbinary Leaders of Color

Teresa C. Younger, CEO and President of the Ms. Foundation for Women, joins host Tetiana Anderson to discuss the impact of philanthropic underinvestment in women and nonbinary leaders of color, and the organizations they lead.

Southern Anti-Trans Laws Are Uprooting Families — And Leaving Them With Impossible Choices

Hannah Murphy Winter, author of Queer Power Couples: On Love and Possibility, analyzes how new laws in the South have put transgender children's health and futures in limbo.

Groundswell Leaders on Funding Challenges for the Intersectional Reproductive Justice Movement 

Dawn Wolfe interviews Groundswell Fund leaders Yamani Yansá Hernandez and Naa Amissah-Hammond about the difficulties organizations are facing to fundraise for intersectional reproductive justice.

Opinion: What would Mark Robinson’s North Carolina look like for me?

Allison Scott, Director of Impact & Innovation at the Campaign for Southern Equality, an Out in the South grantee partner, writes about Mark Robinson's campaign for the governorship of North Carolina, and the disastrous impact it would on LGBTQ+ rights.

The Push for Payback: Robert Wood Johnson and 80 Other Foundations Make a Case for Reparations

Alex Daniels, Senior Reporter for the Chronicle of Philanthropy, profiles Funders for LGBTQ Issues' member Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in his report on the philanthropic movement to redefine reparations to advance policy changes in public health, education, criminal justice, and business development.

Farewell from the Co-Directors at Third Wave

Kiyomi Fujikawa and Ana Conner reflect on their time directing Third Wave Fund for five years.

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Kresge Foundation

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Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

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