UPDATE: Thanks to additional funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Horizons Foundation was able to make additional Community Issues grants, bringing the 2007 total to $243,607. The full list of 2007 Community Issues grantees is available here.

SAN FRANCISCO – Horizons Foundation proudly announced more than $200,000 in Community Issue grants for organizations and projects benefiting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.

Community Issues grants, the longstanding touchstone of Horizons’ grantmaking, makes awards in four areas: Arts & Culture, Awareness & Civil Rights, Community Building, and Human Services & Health. Horizons was delighted to support arts grants with funding from the Hewlett Foundation and health-related programs with additional funding from The Levi Strauss Foundation. Thirty-three organizations, selected from more than a hundred proposals by a diverse community review panel, received a total of $213,607 in grants. Among those selected, three organizations—Purple Moon Dance Project, openhouse, and Transgender Law Center—will receive two-year funding, only the second time the foundation has made such awards. Click here for the full list.

“This was a highly competitive group of proposals, and even more requests than usual. The selections should make our community very proud,” said Jewelle Gomez, Director of Grants for the foundation.

Roger Doughty, Executive Director of Horizons, added, “Each year’s grant process shows us more about the amazing things our organizations are accomplishing and the tireless efforts they are all making for our rights.”

Founded in 1980, Horizons was the world’s first community foundation focused exclusively on LGBT issues.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been making grants since 1966 to support education, culture, and the performing arts, and to address serious social and environmental problems facing society.

The Levi Strauss Foundation, founded in 1952, supports AIDS prevention and care, children, youth, civil rights, economic empowerment, and projects created to eliminate racism.