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In recent months, states across the country have passed or introduced extreme anti-LGBTQ bills. From North Carolina’s HB2 law to Mississippi’s “religious exemption” bill, LGBTQ communities, and transgender people in particular, are being targeted during this year’s legislative cycle in an effort to roll back gains in recent years for LGBTQ equality. North Carolina’s new HB2 law forbids municipalities from protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination, and requires that transgender people use the bathroom that matches their birth certificate rather than their gender identity. In Mississippi, a new law permits individuals and businesses to deny services to LGBTQ people if they […]

It’s that time of year again … Who are you following on Twitter? Check out our 4th annual list of #LGBTQ philanthropoids to follow on Twitter! (Click to see previous lists from 2015,2014 and 2013). Our 2016 list includes amazing leaders who span several generations of experience in philanthropy and provide critical and often funny commentary about the field, politics, social justice, pop culture, and everyday life. Scroll down to learn more! @a3mandel (Amy Mandel) Principal of the Mandel Rodis Fund (@MandelRodis). Tweets on a range of social justice issues with a special focus on North Carolina. @BraedenLentz (Braeden Lentz) […]

Next week, Funding Forward – Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ annual gathering of grantmakers committed to LGBTQ issues – will convene in Minneapolis, MN. So what does funding for LGBTQ issues in Minnesota look like?   In 2014, Minnesotan LGBTQ communities were awarded $854,500 – a marked decrease from the approximately $1.8 million it received in both 2012 and 2013 when the state was first fighting off a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and then working to legislatively pass marriage equality. (Minnesota was the recipient of marriage equality funding totaling more than $550,000 in 2012 and more than $700,000 in 2013.) […]

We have an extremely engaging and timely program planned for this year’s Funding Forward in Minneapolis, MN. To help you get ready for the conversations at our annual conference of grantmakers committed to LGBTQ issues, we thought we would compile some pre-readings. Enjoy! Money for the Midwest: LGBTQ Assets and Opportunities in the Midwest One in five LGBT adults lives in the U.S Midwest. Laws, policies and protections for LGBTQ people vary widely here. The region is home to states with full legal protections (relationship, housing, employment, bullying) and states where you can get married today, fired tomorrow and arrested […]