Your LGBT Community | Your LGBT Foundation
Your LGBT Community | Your LGBT Foundation
A brief video about Horizons' history serving the LGBT community
Event Captain Party
Tuesday July 27, 2010
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Horizons Foundation serves the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community by making grants, strengthening LGBT organizations and leadership, and increasing philanthropic giving.
NOTE: If you have been asked to apply for an individual grant from Horizons Foundation, please click here for important information.
Guide to Gift Planning Helps You Plan Your Legacy
Horizons Foundation is proud to share our newest publication, the Guide to Gift Planning for the LGBT Community [PDF]. We created the guide as a free resource to help you think about and plan the legacy you want to leave. The guide also highlights how planned gifts to LGBT causes are the key to securing our community's financial future.
Many of us put off planning for the future for all kinds of reasons: maybe it seems very complicated or somber, or maybe we think our "estate" is too small (or nonexistent) for planning to matter. In reality, though, gift planning is about defining your own life and legacy - rather than letting the government's rules define them for you - and providing for the people and causes you care about.
In the guide you'll find information that will help you move forward in your gift planning:
It's important to remember that you can accomplish multiple goals with your estate, providing for your partner, your family, your children, your friends, and your community. Neither are you limited to supporting just one organization or interest area. Your example may well inspire others to make gift provisions in their own plans, too.
If you'd like to receive a printed copy of the guide or have other questions, please contact Deb Stallings, Director of Development and Gift Planning, at 415.398.2333 x103 or dstallings [at] horizonsfoundation [dot] org.
Download the Guide to Gift Planning for the LGBT Community: PDF
Learn more about the LGBT Community Endowment Fund...
2010 Community Issues Proposals Due This Friday
The cornerstone of Horizons Foundation's grantmaking portfolio, our annual Community Issues grants are awarded to LGBT organizations and projects throughout the nine Bay Area counties. This year, proposals are due June 11, 2010 (postmarked or delivered by 5:00 p.m.).
We recognize that the deadline makes Pride Month extra busy for applicants, but it also means we can get funding into the hands of our grantees earlier in the year.
Download the 2010 Community Issues RFP: PDF | Word
Learn more about Community Issues grants...
Challenge Grant for Horizons' 30th Anniversary
Horizons Foundation is proud to announce the James C. Hormel and Michael P. Nguyen 30th Anniversary Challenge - a powerful new matching grant designed to promote LGBT giving, a core element of our mission.
Between now and December 31, 2010, Horizons has the opportunity to raise an additional $30,000 for the LGBT community. Here's how the challenge works:
If you're a current donor, first of all, thank you for your support! You, too, can help us meet this challenge by telling your friends about Horizons and inviting them to make their first gift to support our critical grantmaking, donor education, leadership development, and philanthropic advocacy for the LGBT community.
Make a donation towards the challenge grant...
Thanks for a Fantastic Golf Tournament!
We could not have been more delighted with the energy and enthusiasm at Horizons' LGBT Golf Fore Good tournament! What a fabulous day of fun - and all while helping move the LGBT community forward.
Many thanks to all the golfers, sponsors, volunteers, and silent auction bidders who made the event such a success. An especially big thank you to the planning committee - we couldn't have done it without you! We're also very grateful to the Monarch Bay Golf Club for being such great hosts of this inaugural event.
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Bobby Griffith Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Bobby Griffith Memorial Scholarship Fund, a long-time scholarship for LGBTQ youth, has found a new home at Horizons Foundation.
Bobby Griffith was a gay youth from Walnut Creek who committed suicide in 1983 after his family would not accept his sexual orientation. After his death, his mother Mary and the rest of Bobby's family came to better understand and accept what happened. Through her involvement with PFLAG, Mary has continued to advocate for LGBTQ youth.
The family's story was told in the 1995 book Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son and more recently in a TV special that was nominated for two 2009 Emmy® Awards (for Outstanding Made for TV Movie and for Sigourney Weaver, who plays Mary).
Donate to the scholarship fund...
Learn more about the scholarship...
Horizons Foundation Receives $500,000 Grant from Community Leadership Project to Invest in LGBT Communities of Color
Horizons Foundation has been awarded a grant from the Community Leadership Project that will bring $500,000 over the next three years to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people of color organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area - one of the largest grants ever to focus on this population. The funding will provide major support for Horizons' POCIBLE (People of Color Initiative to Build Leadership and Effectiveness) program, which made its first grants earlier this year.
The Community Leadership Project is a creation of three of the Bay Area's largest private foundations - the David and Lucile Packard, James Irvine, and William and Flora Hewlett Foundations - and is aimed at strengthening nonprofit organizations that are led by or serve people of color in California. Horizons is one of only six regranting partners selected for the Project, which was launched in April 2009 to serve the San Francisco Bay Area, the Central Coast, and the San Joaquin Valley.
"It is to the enormous credit of the Packard, Irvine, and Hewlett Foundations that they've recognized the complexity of community and identity experienced by LGBT people of color and embraced an inclusive vision of diversity," said Doughty. "In making this grant to Horizons Foundation, the Community Leadership Project is playing a vital role in helping multiply-marginalized communities build bridges across some of the widest gaps between the promise of equality and its fulfillment." Read more...
Look for Horizons on Twitter and Facebook
Horizons Foundation now Twitters! Keep up with the latest Horizons news and events, information about our grants, tips for LGBT donors, articles for professional advisors, data on LGBT giving, and more. Each "tweet" is limited to 140 characters, making it a quick and easy way to stay informed.
You can also spread the word about Horizons and our work via Facebook. With one click, you can let your network of friends know how important it is for each of us to give to LGBT nonprofits. Together, we'll make giving an integral part of the LGBT community.
Follow Horizons on Twitter: www.twitter.com/horizonsfdn
Become a fan of Horizons Foundation on Facebook
RESEARCH FROM HORZIONS: Groundbreaking Study Examines Charitable Giving in the LGBT Community
By all indications, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people are at least as generous as other Americans. So why are less than 5% of them giving to support LGBT causes? More importantly, how can LGBT nonprofits capture more LGBT dollars? These are the central questions raised by new research just released by Horizons Foundation.
The first multi-part study of its kind, Building a New Tradition of LGBT Philanthropy offers a snapshot of current giving to LGBT organizations, and points to ways to expand the pool of individual donors whose untapped potential can power both the immediate and long-term success of the LGBT movement. The research is based on giving data from 39 LGBT and HIV organizations in the Bay Area, an extensive online donor survey, and a series of focus groups with LGBT donors. More...
Read the full research report...
Read the Executive Summary of the report...
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