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Contact: April Bethea, Director of External Affairs, [email protected]   (New York, NY) Funders for LGBTQ Issues is pleased to announce Texas Pride Impact Funds (TPIF) as the host partner for our next Funding Forward conference. Slated for the spring of 2025, Funding Forward is the largest convening of grantmakers committed to LGBTQ issues. The conference provides an exciting opportunity for funders to connect and learn together while coordinating their efforts to maximize the impact of their grantmaking. Last held in November 2023 in Chicago, Funding Forward brought together over 300 attendees from national and regional funders alike to learn about […]

Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ staffers, Alexander Lee and Ashe Helm-Hernández, were quoted in this article featured in Inside Philanthropy. The article titled, These Two Philanthropic Initiatives Seek to Save Trans Lives Now and Build Support for the Future, provides an inside look at two Funders for LGBTQ Issues and partner programs: Grantmakers United for Trans Communities (GUTC) and the Trans Futures Funding Campaign, which Funders co-coordinates. Read the article here.   Image Credit: RACHAEL WARRINER/SHUTTERSTOCK

Inside Philanthropy recently featured our 2021 Resource Tracking Report findings. The article titled “Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ Latest Tracking Report: Some Good News, More Not So Good” includes insights into the substantive increases in LGBTQ funding in 2021 and the stark misalignment of funding priorities in philanthropy for the most vulnerable communities in the United States. Read the article here.   Image credit: DCSTOCKPHOTOGRAPHY/SHUTTERSTOCK