Funders for LGBTQ Issues

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If you're a Funders for LGBTQ Issues member, you're invited to a members-only virtual gathering on July 23rd from 3:00 - 4:00 pm EST. During this convening, we'll dive into the key themes from our newly released 2022 Resource Tracking Report with our research team. Register today: https://lnkd.in/eiuW9epb #memberconvening #fundersforlgbtqissues #membersonly

Meet the team's newest addition, our Communications and Storytelling Officer, Hala Hassan! Read more about Hala and her dream superpower. https://lnkd.in/dUqunB6Q

📣 We've extended the deadline to submit sessions for #FundingForward 2025! Don't miss this opportunity to lead a session at the only #LGBTQ conference in #philanthropy. Check out the details here: https://lnkd.in/ewKuHMBc

Concluding Pride Month with insights from leaders: Ten questions for M. Saida Agostini Bostic, President of Funders for LGBTQ Issues. Explore her vision and strategies for advancing LGBTQ rights in our latest article on Inside Philanthropy. Michelle Dominguez reports: • Saida Agostini-Bostic’s leadership journey • Key initiatives and focus areas for LGBTQ advocacy • Strategies for enhancing philanthropic impact on LGBTQ issues Join the conversation! What are your thoughts on the future of LGBTQ philanthropy? #PrideMonth #LGBTQRights #Leadership #SocialJustice #ImpactfulGiving #SaidaAgostiniBostic #FundersForLGBTQ #Intersectionality #InclusiveGrantmaking #Equity #LGBTQSupport #StrategicPhilanthropy #SystemicChange #FundingFor2025 #TGNC

Funding Forward 2025 is coming to Houston, TX from March 31 to April 3, 2025 and we need your help to make it the best convening of grantmakers committed to LGBTQ communities yet! Now through July 15th, you can submit session ideas and help shape the content of Funding Forward. Proposals are your opportunity to suggest a topic, format, and presenters for an engaging session. This year we’ll be prioritizing ideas that: * Mobilize philanthropy to improve the lived experience of the broad diversity of LGBTQ people while leveraging the capacity of rising leaders and offering perspectives from multiple organizations. * Catalyze increased resources for local and regional advancement of various LGBTQ issues. * Advance racial, economic, and gender justice for all LGBTQ people through an intersectional approach. * Provide practical recommendations and tangible takeaways for funders interested in expanding, shifting, or providing accountability to their grantmaking. Only Funders for LGBTQ Issues' members can submit content to Funding Forward. We hope you’ll take this opportunity to help us bring our next conference to life! Learn more and submit here: https://lnkd.in/e_yHpU9r Interested in submitting but want to learn more? RSVP for our information session on Thursday, June 20th at 2 PM EST here: https://lnkd.in/ekK9z75g

Join us next Tuesday, June 11th, for the virtual release of our twentieth resource tracking report! RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/eNye4RhS

We are thrilled to announce that Ashe Helm-Hernández and Shaena Johnson are joining the Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ team in permanent capacities. Ashe, who began at Funders in January of 2023 as the Inaugural Senior Fellow of Philanthropic Organizing, is now the Philanthropic Organizing Project Director. Shaena, who has been a consultant with both Out in the South and Grantmakers United for Trans Communities and who has served as the Interim Project Director of Out in the South for the last year, has been named the new Out in the South Project Director. Our team has continually been awed by the creativity, expertise and joy that Shaena and Ashe bring to the work. We are excited and grateful to have them join us as permanent members of our team!

On Thursday, June 13th, celebrate Pride Month with a funder briefing about LGBTQ inclusion co-sponsored by Funders for LGBTQ Issues, "Investing in Inclusion: The LGBTQ+ Community & the Census." This year marks a historic moment in the movement: for the first time ever, the Census Bureau will test questions that allow LGBTQ people to identify themselves on the American Community Survey (ACS), the premier source of social, economic, housing, and demographic data on the nation’s population. Learn more about the work happening, the opportunities for funders to get involved, and what success would mean for LGBTQ people and our communities.  Register here: https://lnkd.in/eeFuJiX6

Join us for a conversation tomorrow with Denise Brown, Gabriel Foster and V Varun Chaudhry on funding transgender artists, held by the Leeway Foundation and co-sponsored by Funders for LGBTQ Issues. In 2005, the Leeway Foundation expanded its grant funding to artists who identified as trans. After almost twenty years, we look back at Leeway’s decisions, strategy, processes, and impact on philanthropy and nonprofits. Denise Brown, Gabriel Foster & V Chaudry will discuss how this work evolved over the years, what is still needed, and what’s next. Reserve your spot here: https://lnkd.in/ejXUnubq