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Celebrating 30 years of mobilizing philanthropic resources for the LGBTQ community.
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Funders for LGBTQ Issues is pleased to welcome Richard Burns as Interim Exectuive Director. He began his duties on June 18.
Richard has previously served as Interim Executive Director of the Stonewall Community Foundation, and as Chief Operating Officer at the Arcus Foundation, after leading New York City's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center from 1986 to 2009. He was the founding president of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), and served as Managing Editor of Gay Community News in the late 1970's, both in Boston. Richard is a graduate of Hamilton College and Northeastern University School of Law.
Richard is a member of the Selection Committee of the 2012 New York Community Trust - New York Magazine Nonprofit Excellence Awards and serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the NonProfit Coordinating Committee. He is a member of the steering committee of New York's AIDS Memorial Park campaign and serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for HIV Law & Policy.
Funders has engaged the executive recruiting firm Isaacson, Miller Vice to find our next President/CEO. More information can be found at www.imsearch.com.
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Save the Date:
GBTQ Men and Boys of Color
A One Day Symposium for Grantmakers
Oakland, CA - October 1, 2012
Plan now to attend our one-day fall symposium for grantmakers interested in deepening their critical thinking, expanding their knowledge and increasing the impact of their men and boys of color initiatives and LGBTQ initiatives through an exploration of gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, and race. (Registration opening soon. For more information contact
N. Ordover at ordover@lgbtfunders.org)
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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 at our annual retreat for grantmakers working on LGBTQ issues.
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 Notes from the Road is a new report from PFund Foundation on building Upper Midwest LGBT communities. Supported by the Otto Bremer Foundation, it reflects 18 months of traveling across the upper Midwest and listening to LGBT communities reflect on their current conditions and opportunities for change. (Click here to download the report.)
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Bold Conversation with Cathie Hartnett
Thursday, July 19th at NOON, Eastern.
Bolder Giving will feature Cathie Hartnett at its next monthly teleconference series, "Bold Conversations." A staunch supporter of women's rights, gay rights, and the environment, Cathie has advanced these movements through political organizing, fundraising, and her own bold giving. Today, Cathie is the Executive Director of the National Youth Recovery Foundation and manages the Kevin Mossier Foundation. (Click here to register) (Click here to read Cathie's story)
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One year ago, the National Committee for Responsive Philnathropy (NCRP) launched Philanthropy's Promise, a project that celebrates funders that apply two high impact strategies in their grantmaking: targeting grant dollars to address the needs of underserved communities, and empowering them by funding advocacy, organizing and civic engagement. NCRP now marks the first anniversary of Philanthropy's Promise with a wonderful milestone: 125 leading U.S. foundations that represent a total of more than $3.37 billion in annual giving have pledged to prioritize the needs and promote the democratic participation of underserved communities such as the poor, the elderly and LGBTQ citizens.(Learn more here)
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For All Ages: The GIA Guide to Funding Across the Lifespan is an expanded and updated version of an online grantmaking toolkit from Grantmakers in Aging.The kit contains a wealth of real-life programming, grantmaking strategies, and issues-based approaches to identifying, researching, and funding the multitude of needs arising from the aging of our society. FOR ALL AGES also offers GIA's own online tutorial on what to fund, guidance on demographic research, and profiles of foundations that are committed to aging as well as others just getting started in the field. (Visit the guide here)
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| LGBT Webinar: Spotlight on Trangender Health part of the Healthy People 2020 webinar series by the Department of Health and Human Serivces, focuses on gender identity and development, and transgender health issues. Speakers include: Dr. Donald Wright, Director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; JoAnne Keatley, Director of the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health and the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center Minority Programs Manager at the University of California San Francisco; Dr. Walter Bockting licensed psychologist, professor, and coordinator of transgender health services at the University of Minnesota Program in Human Sexuality; and Dr. Madeline Deutsch, Director of the Transgender Health Program at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center.
(Click here to view the webinar.)
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40 Years of LGBTQ Philanthropy
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A Global Gaze
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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.
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