September 2023

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Funding Forward 2023: 10th Annual Gathering of LGBTQ and Allied Grantmakers

Funding Forward 2023 is quickly approaching! We hope you’ll join us in-person in Chicago, IL or virtually November 29th through December 1st for our 10th annual conference gathering grantmakers committed to LGBTQ issues. 


We look forward to sharing the full conference slate with you in the coming weeks but are excited to offer a first look at some of the sessions in this year’s program.



Sessions include: 

Learn more and reserve your spot today!

We want to thank our host Chicago Community Trust and sponsors for their support of this year's conference. Without them Funding Forward would not be possible.

Learn more about sponsorship opportunities.

Transitions at Funders for LGBTQ Issues: Marvin Webb, CFO

It is with pride, along with sadness and excitement, Funders for LGBTQ Issues shares that after thirteen years, Marvin Webb will be transitioning from his role as Chief Financial Officer. He will be leaving at the end of September to become the inaugural executive director of the Nonprofit Financial Commons.


Marvin’s careful and thoughtful stewardship of the organization’s human resources and finances has not only ensured its long term sustainability, but has also offered new innovations and strategies to those in the philanthropic sector seeking to deepen their commitment to equity and justice.


We are so honored to get to celebrate Marvin’s graduation from Funders at this year’s Funding Forward conference in Chicago. Read the full transition announcement.

A New World Is Coming: Black TGNC Artists and Writers Speak On Cultural Organizing

From drag bans to book bans, the far-right has escalated its brutal attacks against racial, queer, and reproductive rights and justice. These attacks remind us of the deep need for expanded philanthropic investment and support for Black TGNC artists and cultural organizers. 


Join Funders for LGBTQ Issues and our partners at Grantmakers in the Arts and ABFE, a Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities on September 28 at 2 pm ET for a powerful conversation on the role of cultural organizing in our current moment.


Panelists include:

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Funders for LGBTQ Issues Annual Data Collection

Each year Funders for LGBTQ Issues conducts a data collection campaign to gather detailed information on funding for LGBTQ communities awarded by U.S.-based Foundations. Help us amplify the scale and scope of funding to LGBTQ communities!


Submit your foundation's CY 2022 grants data to enhance our resource tracking project.

Pride Foundation and Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s Partnership to Invest in LGBTQ+ Youth Across Washington

In August, Funders for LGBTQ Issues members’ Pride Foundation and Paul G. Allen Family Foundation announced $1.6 million in funding to support LGBTQ+ youth-serving organizations. The two-year pilot program, focused on Washington state, is funded by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, and implemented by Pride Foundation. The program provides unrestricted resources for nonprofits that primarily serve LGBTQ+ youth and support growth, capacity building, and movement building within and across the organizations, as well as the opportunity for participants to build relationships, share stories, rest, heal, and learn with each other as leaders. Learn more.

Save The Date: Gender Bash 2023

Gender Bash, Third Wave Fund’s annual party and fundrager, returns this fall on Thursday, November 2nd at 7PM ET! Gender Bash raises crucial funds for Third Wave’s grantmaking to fuel the organizing and healing work of young women, trans, and gender nonconforming youth of color and low-income youth across the country. Save the date and sign up for Third Wave Fund’s newsletter to be the first to get the official invite.

Third Wave Fund: Mobilize Power Fund

Third Wave Fund's Mobilize Power Fund resources time-sensitive projects including community organizing and mobilization, healing justice work, conflict resolution, community accountability, transformative and restorative justice work, direct action, and more. Application deadline: October 3, 2023.

Call or Applications: Global Steering Committee, LGBTI Pathways

LGBTI Pathways a global, multi-year project to identify and catalyze opportunities to increase and improve funding for LGBTI communities is looking for Steering Committee members! Donors and activists alike are invited to join the committee, which will advise and guide Pathways throughout the duration of the project. Application deadline: rolling.

Submit your featured funding opportunities on our website!

New Report: Banning Medical Care and Legal Recognition for Transgender People

The Movement Advancement Project has a new report out on recent efforts to criminalize transition-related medical care and curtail legal recognition for transgender people at-large. The report is the fifth in their series, Under Fire: The War on LGBTQ People in America, and outlines five core tactics opponents are using in their attempts to erase transgender people from public life. 


GPP Global Resources Report

Global Philanthropy Project is collecting LGBTI grantmaking data on funds awarded in calendar years 2021 and 2022 to offer funders an accurate understanding of the global LGBTI landscape. Data submission deadline September 30, 2023. 


Art of Leadership Training, Rockwood Leadership Institute 

The Rockwood Leadership Institute is now accepting applications for their flagship Art of Leadership training. The training is rooted in Rockwood’s six core practices—purpose, vision, partnership, resilience, performance, and personal ecology, and is aimed at providing social change leaders with tools and skills to help change themselves, their communities, and the world. Application deadline: varies based on training.


LGBTQ+ Safe Spaces National Funders Briefing

Across the board, LGBTQ safe gathering spaces face an unprecedented, ever-growing risk of violence and harm. Join the Anti-Violence Project on September 27 at 1 pm ET for the release of their new report, Under Attack: 2022 LGBTQ Safe Spaces National Needs Assessment. The report provides the first-ever large survey of LGBTQ organizations and groups nationwide on hate violence and prevention needs.



Unity Through Diversity: A National LGBTQIA+ BIPOC Health Conference

Join In Our Own Voices Inc. in Albany, NY on October 26th to October 29th for a jam-packed slate of workshops, panel presentations, and keynotes by activists and scholars from across the nation working on LGBTQIA+ BIPOC health, wellness, and capacity-building. People of color, transgender, and non-binary people are strongly encouraged to attend.


Notable promotions, transitions, and career updates from LGBTQ people

in philanthropy and allies.

HB Lozito, Executive Director of the Vermont-based nonprofit Out In The Open has been honored with the Vermont Community Foundation’s Con Hogan Award for Creative, Entrepreneurial Community Leadership. Congratulations, HB and thank you for your crucial work advocating for rural LGBTQ+ people! 

Vice President, Legal Affairs

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Mountain View, CA


Vice President for Equity and Justice

Northern California Grantmakers

San Francisco Bay Area, California


Program Associate, Francophone West Africa

Foundation for a Just Society

New York, NY


Visit our website for more listings on our full Jobs Board.

Q-Notes is a regular newsletter produced by Funders for LGBTQ Issues. Please contact communications@lgbtfunders.org with questions on this edition or submissions for future publishings. The next edition of Q-Notes will be released on October 26th.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Cynthia Renfro, Chair (Civis Consulting, LLC)

Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Vice-Chair (Foundation for a Just Society)

Jonathan Jayes-Green, Secretary (Philanthropic Consultant)

Karen Appelbaum, Treasurer (Northwest Area Foundation)

Namita Chad (Philanthropic Consultant)

Ana Conner (Third Wave Fund)

Desiree Flores (General Service Foundation)

Aldita Gallardo (Borealis Philanthropy)

Lane Harwell (Ford Foundation)

Kelli King-Jackson (The Simmons Foundation)

Cathy K.K. Kapua (Trans Justice Funding Project)

Bré Rivera (Black Trans Fund)

Glo Ross (Arcus Foundation)

William (Bill) Smith (May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust)

Judy Yu (Wellspring Philanthropic Fund)

STAFF

Saida Agostini-Bostic

President

Cleopatra Jach Acquaye

Director of Programs

Luna Moreta Avila

GUTC Project Director

April Bethea

Director of External Affairs

Ashe Helm-Hernández

Senior Fellow of Philanthropic Organizing

Shaena Johnson

Interim Director of Out in the South

Alyssa Lawther

Senior Research Officer

Alexander L. Lee

Deputy Director

Ollin Rodriguez Lopez

Director of Human Resources & Administration

Amara Reese-Hansell

Membership Engagement Officer

Stephen Switzer

Director of Finance

Marvin Webb

Chief Financial Officer

INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS

American Jewish World Service

Annie E. Casey Foundation

Arabella Advisors

Arcus Foundation

Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Baltimore Community Foundation

Borealis Philanthropy

Boston Foundation

California Wellness Foundation

CGRE

Civil Rights Defenders

Cleveland Foundation

Community Foundation for Southern Arizona

Community Foundation of Louisiana

Community Foundation of Northeast Florida Con Alma Health Foundation

David Bohnett Foundation

Dwight Stuart Youth Fund

Edward W. Hazen Foundation

Excelerate Foundation

Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund

Ford Foundation

Foundation for a Just Society

Foundation for the Carolinas

Foundation for Louisiana

General Services Foundation

Gilead Sciences

Gill Foundation

Gilmour-Jirgens Fund

Groundswell Fund

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Henry van Ameringen Foundation

Horizons Foundation

James Irvine Foundation


Johnson Family Foundation

JP Morgan Chase & Co. 

Kicking Assets Fund

Kresge Foundation

Laughing Gull Foundation

Levi Strauss Foundation

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

The Leonard-Litz LGBTQ+ Foundation

Libra Foundation

MacArthur Foundation

Marguerite Casey Foundation

Masto Foundation

McKnight Foundation

Meyer Memorial Trust

Ms. Foundation For Women

Mukti Fund

Nathan Cummings Foundation

NEO Philanthropy

New Moon Fund

New York Women's Foundation

North Star Fund

Northwest Area Foundation

Open Society Foundations

Our Fund, Inc.

Overbrook Foundation

Pacific Foundation Services, LLC

Paul G. Allen Foundation

Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation

PFund Foundation

Philadelphia Foundation

Polk Bros. Foundation

Pride Foundation

Proteus Fund, Inc.

Richmond Memorial Health Foundation

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Rosenberg Foundation

Santa Fe Community Foundation

Simmons Foundation

Small Change Foundation

Southwest Florida Community Foundation

Stonewall Community Foundation

Stupski Foundation

Surdna Foundation

The California Endowment

The Collins Foundation

The Colorado Health Foundation

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

The Palette Fund

The Queer Livelihoods Project

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Tikkum Olam Foundation

Third Wave Fund

Tides Foundation

Trans Justice Funding Project

Transgender Strategy Center

Tzedek Social Justice Fund

Wallace Foundation

Washington Grantmakers AIDS Partnership

Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

Wild Geese Foundation

Women's Foundation of California

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