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It’s a new year! What are your New Year’s resolutions? One of our resolutions at Funders for LGBTQ Issues is to work even harder this year to increase philanthropic resources for LGBTQ issues worldwide. To that end, we’d like to highlight the 94 foundations that increased their LGBTQ grantmaking by 25 percent or more in 2013. Our 2013 honor roll includes:   Adam Foundation* Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation * Akron Community Foundation* Headwaters Fund for Justice Alphawood Foundation* Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis* American Psychological Foundation Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights Anderson Prize Foundation Hermes Foundation […]

Just last week on December 1st the world commemorated the 27th annual World AIDS Day, a day envisioned to both remember those who have been lost to or impacted by HIV/AIDS, and importantly, to help raise awareness of HIV. While the media and public perception of AIDS as a crisis seems to have lessened, the epidemic still rages among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women. In the United States gay and bisexual men represent an estimated 2% of the population, yet more than half of all people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). They are also the only […]

Tomorrow is Trans Day of Remembrance, the annual observance of those whose lives were tragically lost to anti-transgender violence. This somber day reminds us of the critical need to provide support to trans communities. Since 2002, funding for transgender communities has increased more than seven-fold, twice the rate of growth for LGBTQ funding in general. However, there continue to be immense disparities within trans and gender non-conforming communities that could benefit greatly from increased funding. Between 2011 and 2012, foundations invested more than $10.3 million in transgender issues, representing 4 percent of LGBTQ funding overall. The top ten U.S.-based funders […]

Corporate funders have increased their investment in LGBTQ issues by more than fifteen fold in the last decade. Going from approximately $575,000 in 2003 to $8.7 million in 2012, corporate foundation support for LGBTQ issues has grown exponentially. Even though corporate funding constitutes a small portion of LGBTQ funding overall, at roughly 7 percent in 2012, it is growing at the fastest clip. In 2012 the top 10 corporate funders of LGBTQ issues included: Wells Fargo Foundation – $3,562,008 Levi Strauss & Co. Foundation – $1,710,000 M.A.C. AIDS Fund – $964,239 GE Foundation – $350,000 Walmart Foundation – $281,500 Otto […]