Qnotes from Funders for LGBTQ Issues

Celebrating 30 years of mobilizing philanthropic resources for the LGBTQ community.

1982-2012

ADAM Queer Youth Report: Grantmaking By and For Youth

In 2007, the ADAM funding collaborative and Funders for LGBTQ Issues launched a matching grants program designed to support and serve LGBTQ youth. Four years after the initiative's first grants were made, foundation staff reflect on what their participation revealed about engaging youth, the value (monetary and otherwise) of matching programs, and the power of small grants to do mighty things. (Download the report here.)

Save the Date
UPCOMING TELEBRIEFING 
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40 Years of LGBTQ Philanthropy


Thursday, June 7th at 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST

Join us as Funders for LGBTQ Issues hosts a telebriefing providing an overview, insight and reflections on our recent publication of Forty Years of LGBTQ Philanthropy: 1970 - 2010, a new report documenting the amount and character of the first 40 years of U.S. foundation support to LGBTQ communities. Mark your calendars now, details forthcoming. Meanwhile, click here to download the report.  

 

Save the Date: 2013 Grantmakers Retreat
Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM
March 13 - 16  
Join us for four days of discussion, strategizing, and knowledge sharing our annual retreat for LGBTQ grantmakers.  

Philanthropy Notes

 
HIP logoUsing Strategic Communications Tools to Advance Equality for LGBT Latinos

Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Time: 2:00pm-3:30pm EST
 Location: webinar 


Join this HIP Philanthropy Lab for a rich discussion on using strategic communications to advance equality for LGBT Latino communities. Learn about recent research on effective messaging on LGBT issues in Latino communities and innovative campaigns on immigrant rights, marriage, and familia, making use of both social media and traditional media. What communications strategies are effective for building ties across LGBT and Latino communities, and for advancing equality of LGBT Latinos? Where are the gaps, what's next, and what role can funders play in advancing this work?. (Click here for more details.)  

 

 
LGBTQ Notes

LGBT Families of Color: Facts at a Glance examines families and the ways children living in LGBT families of color face disproportionate economic struggles, unequal access to health care, and dual burdens of social stigma and discrimination. It also provides a set of key recommendations for addressing these harms and inequities.
(Visit here to download the report.)

    

Public Opinion and Discourse on the Intersection of LGBT Issues and Race is new report which takes a close look at current public opinion and the role of ethnic and new media in both perpetuating and challenging myths and biases about LGBT. Recommendations are also available about how to improve ethnic and new media environments in the three genres: 1) African-American news media, 2) Latino news media, and 3) commonly used social media platforms such as blogs, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. (Visit here to download the report and recommendations.)  



Resources available at lgbtqfunders.org








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Funders for LGBTQ Issues seeks to mobilize philanthropic resources that enhance the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, promote equity and advance racial, economic and gender justice.