Arcus LGBT Program Grants 2010
to date
31 grants totaling $4,212,500
31 grants totaling $4,212,500
| Michigan LGBT Rights Program
2010 to date: 4 grants totaling $255,000 |
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Center for Progressive Leadership
Washington DC $100,000 for the Michigan Civic Leadership Academy to train emerging LGBT and racial justice leaders to begin and more effectively organize local communities. |
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Freedom Institute for Economic, Social Justice and Political Empowerment
Detroit MI $50,000 for general operating support for the organization's ongoing activities, including the 2010 Freedom Weekend and Youth Conference that will feature LGBT-inclusive programs. |
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OutCenter
Benton Harbor MI $55,000 for general operating support to provide human and social service resources for the local LGBT community as well as outreach and educational programs. |
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Progress Michigan Education
Lansing MI $50,000 for the 2010 Michigan Summit, a forum to advance a progressive agenda at the grassroots level, |
| Michigan Racial and Economic Justice Initiative
2010 to date: 1 grant totaling $100,600 |
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Hispanic American Council
Kalamazoo MI $100,600 for support of Ordinary People for Extraordinary Change to build leadership, organize and create change in the Edison Neighborhood of Kalamazoo, in connection with the Michigan Racial & Economic Justice Initiative. |
| National LGBT Rights Program 9 grants totaling $1,775,000 |
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ACLU Foundation
New York NY $500,000 over two years to provide comprehensive impact litigation, public education and advocacy aimed at eliminating discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and HIV status. |
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American Society on Aging
San Francisco CA $25,000 for support of the LGBT Aging Issues Network's strategic planning meeting to develop a work plan which would further the integration of LGBT aging into the mainstream aging agenda. |
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Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute
Washington DC $100,000 to increase the number of qualified LGBT leaders able to serve in public offices as well as to heighten awareness about the importance of having LGBT representation in government decision-making bodies. |
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Gill Foundation
Denver CO $250,000 for support of the Movement Advancement Project to provide analysis of various aspects of the LGBT movement, the policy landscape, emerging opportunities, and research for strategic messaging. |
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National Coalition for LGBT Health
Washington DC $100,000 for general operating support to advance gains for the LGBT community in relation to accessing health care as well as through national health care reform. |
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National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Oakland CA $75,000 to map and assess LGBT participation in grassroots immigrant rights organizations in order to establish a national network of LGBT immigrants and develop leadership within that network. |
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Public Interest Projects Inc
New York NY $200,000 for the Four Freedoms Fund, a collaborative funding strategy to increase immigrant rights in the U.S., and to broaden the inclusion of LGBT issues in the immigrant rights movement. |
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Research Foundation of the City University of New York
New York NY $25,000 for the first convening of the International Research Network's North American Region which will focus on workplace equality issues. |
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Tides Foundation
San Francisco CA $500,000 for the State Equality Fund, a collaborative funding strategy to support state-based work on basic rights for LGBT people. |
| International LGBT Rights Program 6 grants totaling $976,900 |
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Akiba Uhaki Foundation
Nairobi Kenya $200,000 for support of the programmatic and convening activities of UHAI - The East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative, which supports local LGBI and sex worker organizations in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. |
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Comite IDAHO
Paris France $100,000 over two years to support the increased recognition and global activities of the International Day Against Homophobia campaign, particularly in the global South and East. |
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Fahamu
Nairobi Kenya $293,066 over two years for development and implementation of a movement building training program for the LGBTI movement in East Africa, in collaboration with the East Africa Sexual Rights and Health Initiative (UHAI). |
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Inclusive & Affirming Ministries
Capetown South Africa $102,761 over two years for the Regional Partnerships Africa program to empower African Christian communities by facilitating dialogue between African LGBT communities and mainstream Christian leadership in Africa and providing training and support for local groups. |
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Institute of International Education
New York NY $181,073 for the International LGBT Learning Initiative to undertake a highly participatory process of developing learning frameworks and indicators that will strengthen the work of key stakeholders in the international LGBT advocacy sector. |
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Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team
Turlock CA $100,000 to support the launch of a venture capital fund, Galeforce Capital, designed to support social enterprises by enabling LGBT organizations to test the feasibility of new social enterprise ideas, develop business plans, and launch new social enterprises or improve existing enterprises. |
| Racial Justice, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Program 7 grants totaling $795,000 |
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ACLU of Maryland
Baltimore MD $100,000 for support of the Maryland Black Family Alliance to educate and organize allies on issues impacting Black LGBT communities. |
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Chinese for Affirmative Action
San Francisco CA $185,000 to build the capacity of two Asian Pacific Islander LGBT groups, API Equality - Northern California and API Equality - LA, to engage the API community in statewide LGBT rights campaigns. |
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National Black Justice Coalition
Washington DC $150,000 for general operating support to strengthen the organization's national public policy and advocacy work on behalf of the black LGBT community. |
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OneAmerica
Seattle WA $75,000 for outreach and education in connection with the film 'Papers' to promote awareness of issues facing LGBT undocumented youth. |
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The Black AIDS Institute
Los Angeles CA $100,000 for a full-time communications director to develop and implement a comprehensive communications strategy to increase the reach and impact of the Institute's national HIV/AIDS advocacy work both within and on behalf of Black communities and to improve coverage of HIV/AIDS-related issues in Black and mainstream media. |
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Urban Justice Center
New York NY $125,000 for the Peter Cicchino Youth Project to amplify the voices and leadership of LGBT youth of color and homeless LGBT youth in national policy debates on sex work and trafficking. |
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Zuna Institute
Sacramento CA $60,000 for general operating support to raise public awareness and strengthen advocacy efforts on issues impacting black lesbians. |