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We have an amazing slate of speakers lined up for this year’s Funding Forward. To help get you ready for our annual conference of grantmakers committed to LGBTQ issues, we thought we’re compile some of the best pre-reading available. (See the full Funding Forward schedule here.) Youth Criminalization Thursday morning’s plenary will focus on the plight of the approximately 300,000 gay and transgender youth arrested and detained each year. While LGBT youth represent between 5 and 7 percent of nation’s youth, they compose between 13 and 15 percent of youth in the criminal justice system. (See the specific session here.) […]

In honor of Black History Month, we thought we’d take a closer look at the $5.9 million awarded specifically for African American LGBTQ communities between 2011-2012. During that time, the top 10 funders were: Elton John AIDS Foundation ($ 1,342,950) Ford Foundation ($ 949,000) Arcus Foundation ($ 687,811) Gill Foundation ($ 575,300) Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund ($ 390,000) H. van Ameringen Foundation ($ 330,000) Open Society Foundation ($ 300,000) Levi Strauss Foundation ($ 155,000) Liberty Hill Foundation ($ 150,250) Healthcare Foundation of NJ ($ 150,000) Nearly half of this funding – $2.5 million – went towards addressing HIV/AIDS. […]

The ADAM Queer Youth Initiative and Funders for LGBTQ Issues are partnering on a matching grants program to support foundations that serve or address the needs of LGBTQ youth and involve youth in grantmaking decisions. Currently in its third round of funding, the FLGBTQI + ADAM Queer Youth Initiative invites applications that prioritize grantmaking to LGBTQ youth-serving organizations and projects that: have youth involvement in the organizing and governance of the organization; serve LGBTQ youth of color, young women, transgender and gender non-conforming youth, low-income youth, and projects serving rural areas; work for systemic social change and demonstrate an understanding […]

Funding Forward 2014 is shaping up to be the best gathering of grantmakers commited to LGBTQ issues yet! Our planning committee is deeply engaged, our members submitted a high volume of thoughtful and innovative session proposals and the local community in Philadelphia is going out of their way to welcome us. Funding Forward 2014 is bound to be a huge success.   Register Today! (Early Bird Rates end February 14th) Funding Forward is our time to come together as a philanthropic community to teach, learn and strengthen our network. The detailed agenda for the conference will be released soon, but […]