Updates

January 25, 2023

Meet Our Team: Cleopatra Jach

Funders for LGBTQ Issues welcomes Cleopatra Jach Acquaye (sir/her) as our new Director of Programs! We asked Jach a few questions to get to know sir better.  What do you do at Funders? What strengths do you bring to your work?   As the newest Director of Programs at Funders, I am responsible for leading and managing the program team, overseeing the execution of Funding Forward, coordinating our training structure, and developing an effective program department. With a background in Community Organizing, I bring a wealth of strengths to this role, having served as an Executive Director twice and managing programming for […]
October 5, 2022

We Begin With Love: Celebrating Forty Years of LGBTQ Funder Organizing

May 4, 2022

We Will Not Betray Each Other: Spring Message from Saida Agostini-Bostic

Our team is deeply troubled by the Supreme Court’s readiness to overturn a constitutional right to abortion. Whether we are talking about family separation, police brutality, the predicted repeal of Roe vs. Wade, or voter suppression, one ultimate truth emerges: the rights of LGBTQ communities, people of color, immigrants, survivors, and young people are deeply bound up in each other. I am taking faith that regardless of the systems and bad actors that routinely betray us, we will not betray each other. In early April, our board had the honor of meeting with movement leaders from Transgender Education Network of […]
April 14, 2022

Meet Our Newest Board Members!