As a sector, we cannot give in to fear, we cannot back down. Our movements need us to fund more boldly and lovingly than ever before. To remember that as difficult as this moment is, our movements triumphed in harder times. This is a time to organize with precision and care, to be grounded in the wisdoms of movements both stateside and abroad who have looked hate and fascism in the face and said no.
We have put together reflections to help guide your work in the coming days. We invite you to use these reflections as a tool to explore how your institution will show up in a time where our work can truly make the difference. |
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Episode 6 of Justice Ain’t Cheap podcast is out! “Philanthropic Organizers Making Waves” features a timely discussion on philanthropic organizing and the mobilization of resources for LGBTQ communities. It also provides an interesting analogy between funding movements and Jacob Riis Beach in New York City.
Funders' President Saida Agostini-Bostic joins three powerhouse speakers Farrah Parkes from Gender Justice Fund, Mike White from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Zev Lowe of the Tikkun Olam Foundation.
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We’re excited to have signed the Disability Inclusion Pledge and embarked on a disability inclusion learning journey. The Disability and Philanthropy Forum also became a signatory to the GUTC Pledge and has committed to transforming the culture of philanthropy and resourcing the well-being of transgender and gender nonconforming communities. We're excited about this mutual collaboration to better our commitments to our intersectional communities.
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Last week Global Philanthropy Project launched the Fund Our Futures campaign. Amid rising anti-rights backlash and dramatic shifts in the philanthropic and development assistance landscape, the Fund Our Futures campaign is working to raise $150 million in new funding for global LGBTI movements.
Funders for LGBTQ Issues is proud to be a Fund Our Futures campaign partner. The campaign calls on all donors to step up and protect the hard-won current LGBTI funding levels, and commit to increase and improve resources for the years ahead. To date, 28 funders have pledged $100 million to the campaign.
We invite our members to an exclusive informational session on the Fund Our Futures campaign on January 15 for an overview of the campaign, its long-term goals, and more. |
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We’re excited to feature Ms. Foundation in this month’s Member Spotlight. For over 40 years, Ms. Foundation has provided grants and capacity-building support to the LGBTQ+ community. In 1984, Ms. Foundation gave Funders for LGBTQ Issues (then named Working Group on Funding Lesbian and Gay Issues) our first grant ever to research philanthropic support for lesbian issues. The following year, the Working Group published the findings and released a report to approximately 5,000 funders and nonprofit organizations.
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The third edition of The State of Trans Organizing and The State of Intersex Organizing reports produced by Global Philanthropy Project brings new, actionable findings that civil society, philanthropy, and development advocates can use to make the case for funding that responds to the documented needs of global trans and intersex movements. The findings are clear and stark: these movements are under attack and under-resourced. Despite these ongoing struggles, trans and intersex movements are organizing and strategizing across local to international geographic levels, defending hard-won rights, and leading sophisticated campaigns for human rights and bodily self-determination.
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Emergent Fund compiled a growing list of resources for our grantee partners and philanthropy peers who are in the beginning stages of holding space for grief, organizing within community, strategizing, engaging in direct action, implementing security culture/holistic security, healing justice and so much more. If you have a resource you think they should include, please email it to movement@emergentfund.net.
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The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation announced that Richard Burns has joined the Foundation as Interim Executive Director to lead the foundation into 2025. Richard brings decades of experience as a nonprofit executive and advisor.
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The Open Society Foundations announced the 2024 cohort of Soros Equality Fellows. Among this year’s cohort of innovators and risk takers tackling the systemic causes and symptoms of racial disparity and discrimination is Funders’ board member Aldita Amaru Gallardo. Aldita seeks to meet the new moment in philanthropy by mobilizing funds to BIPOC trans movement-building and intersectional racial and gender justice while training trans leaders to better navigate philanthropy.
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Members of the Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ team are going to be at these following events. Feel free to reach out to connect. |
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Queer & Trans People in Emergent Space (QTPIES) is a peer support and network building space for queer and trans folks working in philanthropy, as well as a place to have emergent conversations on sector-wide news. The space is open to philanthropic professionals at both Funders for LGBTQ Issues member and nonmember institutions.
If you would like to sign up for the affinity space please fill out this form and we’ll get back to you shortly. Our next meeting is Tuesday, November 19th from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM ET. |
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As we prepare to celebrate LGBTQ+ resilience at our annual Funding Forward Conference in Houston in April 2025, we are taking the time to get to know our partners and stakeholders in the South to build across issues, create shared understanding, and strategize for resource mobilization. LGBTQ+ communities in the South have been surviving through multiple legislative attacks, hate crimes, and political unrest.
Join us for this in-person funder briefing in Houston on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM CT. |
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Early Bird tickets for Funding Forward are available until December 31, 2024 ! Funding Forward is the premier LGBTQ conference in philanthropy bringing together grantmakers committed to intentionally and intersectionally funding LGBTQ communities. We can’t wait to host you and have critical funding conversations!
Funding Forward 2025 is coming to Houston, Texas from March 31 – April 3 with March 31 being a pre-session day! |
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Safeguarding Health Care Access for Transgender Communities
Saida Agostini-Bostic, President of Funders for LGBTQ Issues, and Hez Norton, Senior Portfolio and Partnerships Director at the Laughing Gull Foundation, collaborated on a piece for Grantmakers in Health. They share challenges and insights and discuss healthcare access for transgender communities and how health funders can build a future that ensures health equity and access for all.
Preparing for the Next Administration: Five Steps Funders Can Take Now
With all the uncertainties and challenges that the next administration will mount, Paul Di Donato, President of Proteus Fund shares five critical needs and strategies funders can take now to help protect hard-won wins gained since the civil rights movement.
The 2024 Election and the Path Ahead
Join Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, movement organizations (ACLU, PICC, PLAN, NILC), and funders for a post-election debrief and discussion about our new reality on November 19. Questions that will be discussed include: what strategies are already being implemented, and how philanthropy can align its grantmaking to support those efforts while keeping an eye on the long game of building a multiracial and inclusive democracy.
Native Americans in Philanthropy (NAP) Member Education Sessions: Native Lands and Sacred Places
Join NAP on Thursday, November 21 at 1:00 pm ET for a dynamic discussion galvanizing civil rights, activism, and community engagement that incorporates traditional knowledge and practices in offering a model for resilience and sovereignty. Featuring Pua Case (Kānaka Maoli), Tanya Ruka (Māori), Natali Segovia (Quechua), and Dr. Laura Harjo (Mvskoke), this panel of Indigenous leaders have fought to protect Native lands and rights, both in the courtroom and on the frontlines.
Why Does Philanthropy Keep Overlooking Disability Funding?
According to this article, while foundations have pledged to support disability-focused work, that hasn’t led to a significant increase in investments. Richie Siegel, President of the Inevitable Foundation, shares actions funders can take now to right that wrong.
10 Years After Ferguson: How Philanthropy Can Bridge Funding Gaps for Black and Brown-Led Organizations
Check out this piece the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) addressing the role philanthropy has to play in bridging funding gaps for Black and Brown-led organizations. They suggest that the way to restore democratic movements is to fund anti-racist systems change organizations and initiatives and provide long-term commitments to grassroots organizing.
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American Jewish World Service
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Arabella Advisors
Arcus Foundation
Arizona Community Foundation
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Atlanta Pride
Baltimore Community Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Blue Shield of California Foundation
Borealis Philanthropy
Boston Foundation
California Wellness Foundation
Center for Effective Philanthropy
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies
Collaborative for Gender and Reproductive Equity
Cleveland Foundation
Collaboratory
Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
Community Foundation of Northeast Florida
Con Alma Health Foundation
Cream City Foundation Democracy Fund
Democratizing Justice Initiative
Dwight Stuart Youth Fund
Edward W. Hazen Foundation Emergent Fund
Excelerate Foundation
Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
Ford Foundation
Foundation for a Just Society
Foundation for the Carolinas
Foundation for Louisiana
General Service Foundation
Gender Justice Fund
Gilead Sciences
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Gill Foundation Goldman Family DAF
Gilmour-Jirgens Fund Groundswell Fund
Halff Windham
Hyams Foundation
Henry van Ameringen Foundation
Horizons Foundation
Impact Charitable
James Irvine Foundation
Johnson Family Foundation
Kataly Foundation Keith Haring Foundation
Kicking Assets Fund
Kresge Foundation
Laughing Gull Foundation
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
The Leonard-Litz LGBTQ+ Foundation
Libra Foundation
MacArthur Foundation
Marguerite Casey Foundation
Masto Foundation
May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust
McKnight Foundation
Mellon Foundation
Meyer Memorial Trust
Movement Voter Project
Ms. Foundation For Women
Mukti Fund
Nathan Cummings Foundation
New Moon Network
NEO Philanthropy
New York Women's Foundation
North Star Fund
Northern California Grantmakers
Northwest Area Foundation
One of Us Global Foundation
Open Society Foundations
Overbrook Foundation |
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Paul G. Allen Foundation Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation
PFund Foundation
Polk Bros. Foundation Pride Foundation
Proteus Fund, Inc.
Richmond Memorial Health Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Rosenberg Foundation
Southern California Grantmakers
Solidaire Network
Stonewall Community Foundation
Stuart Foundation
Stupski Foundation
Surdna Foundation
Tagliabue Family Foundation
The California Endowment
The Collins Foundation
The Colorado Health Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The Wild Gifting Project
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Tikkun Olam Foundation
Third Wave Fund
Tides Foundation
Trans Justice Funding Project
Transgender Strategy Center
Tzedek Social Justice Fund
ViiV Healthcare
Wallace Foundation
Wayfarer Foundation
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
Women Moving Millions
Yellowhammer Fund |
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