Thousands of LGBT people. Hundreds of LGBT organizations. One LGBT foundation.
Thousands of LGBT people. Hundreds of LGBT organizations. One LGBT foundation.
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Horizons Community Issues Grant Cycle - BACW Grant Cycle
Organization Description: The mission of New Langton Arts is to cultivate experimental contemporary artworks in a variety of disciplines while encouraging broad public appreciation and access to the art of our times. Purpose of Grant: $2,000 to support Latin Hustle in the
production of Inside,
a play in three acts in which they will explore the concept of
being "on the inside" or "on the outside" of
a culture. Writing and performing from a queer Latino perspective,
each member of Latin Hustle will write and perform one of the three acts. "Inside" will
run for 3 weeks for a total of 9 shows in the late summer or early
fall of 2001. Organization Description: Alison Wright is an African American Lesbian Solo Artist in the Bay Area. She has worked in several productions in the Bay Area in venues including New Conservatory, Theatre Rhinoceros, and Yerba Buena Center for The Arts. Her current production is sponsored by Intersection for The Arts. Purpose of Grant: $3,000 to support production of ...And You Can't Make Me. ...And You Can't Make Me is
a play with song and dance telling the life and music of Gladys
Bentley a cross-dressing Blues icon of the Harlem Renaissance. Organization Description: Asian American Theater Company (AATC) was founded in 1973 as a playwrights' workshop sponsored by the American Conservatory Theater. Now a professional theater dedicated to the production of new American plays by dramatists of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) descent, AATC continues to seek out and develop the talents of API playwrights, directors, designers, and actors; introduce new generations of audiences to emerging and established API theater artists; and chart new directions for API theater into the new millennium. Purpose of Grant: $2,500 to support NU'USINA,
a series of play workshops and performance cabarets targeting the
under-served needs of the LGBT Pacific Islander American community.
AATC, in close collaboration
with UTOPIA (United Territories of Pacific Islanders' Alliance)
and Artist-in-Residence Dan Taulapapa McMullin, will encourage
and support the development of new
works that will result in the ongoing presentation of performance
cabarets showcasing works by project participants, and culminating
with a staged
production of a new theatrical work by Dan Taulapapa McMullin in
April 2001. Purpose of Grant: $3,000 to support the planning
and production of the Persistent Vision Conference, a week-long
lesbian and gay media arts conference
which will coincide with Frameline's 25th San Francisco International
Lesbian & Gay
Film Festival, to be held in June 2001. Organization Description: GranDelusion is the production company of David Weissman, a multi-award winning, independent filmmaker whose work has been broadcast domestically and internationally, and has been featured at countless film festivals, including Berlin, Sundance, and Telluride. The current project of GranDelusion is The Cockettes. Purpose of Grant:
$5,000 to support production costs of The Cockettes, a feature
length documentary history of the legendary San Francisco performance
troupe, The Cockettes (1969-1972). Organization Description: In 1979, Joe Goode began synthesizing a genre of dance theater that combined text, gestures, and humor with his own deeply physical high velocity dancing. In 1986 Joe Goode Performance Group incorporated with the mission of providing a support structure for the artistic work of Joe Goode. In the 14 years since the company was founded, JGPG has performed annually in the SF Bay area and has toured extensively throughout the US and appeared in Canada, Europe, and South America. Purpose of Grant:
$5,000 for the marketing costs of What The Body Knows. Through What The Body Knows,
Joe Goode Performance Group and composer Beth Custer will develop
an original treatment of music in relationship to dance. What The Body Knows emerges
from an exploration of intuition. How do we choose our relationships,
our extended families, even our gender identity? When the body speaks
so strongly
to us of same-sex preferences, how can society reject this inherent
truth? Organization Description: The Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts (JSC) is a multidisciplinary performing arts presenter and service organization that offers programs that address the artistic, educational and community social needs of the LGBT communities of the Bay Area. JSC is home to the six resident programs: the SF Lesbian Gay Freedom Band, City Swing, Cheer SF, AIRspace artist in residence, the Emerging Playwrights series of the Artist Alliance Against AIDS, and producer of the Wournos opera project. Purpose of Grant: $2,500 to support the inauguration
of a monthly queer literary reading series to provide a focal
point for Bay Area queer literary culture. Monthly readings will
take place for 9
months in two seasons: fall-(Sept.-Nov.); winter/spring-(Jan.-June).
Readings will pair established and mid-career with a promising
protege of the lead
writer's choice assuring a public voice for emerging writers
while bridging generations of writers and audiences. The series
will highlight the Bay
Area's rich multicultural queer literary culture. Organization Description: Founded in 1975 La Pena Cultural Center is a multicultural community arts center whose mission is to present cultural and educational programs that increase understanding of different cultures; to operate a community cultural center where people from all races and cultures can share diverse heritages of the Americas; and to encourage the development of art of all disciplines that keep alive cultural roots and express peoples struggles against oppression and visions of a better future. Purpose of Grant:
$2,500 to support the third annual La Lesbian at La Pena: alesbian
performance and film series. The intent is to provide a provocative
mix of
performance artists and filmmakers. This year La Pena plans to
add a significant visual
arts component in collaboration with Lesbian Visual Artists
(LVA) or the GLBT Historical Archives. Organization Description: Luna Sea is a five year old multicultural women's arts organization. Luna Sea is a community based theater, performance space, and art gallery devoted to the work of women, primarily lesbians of color, in the extended Bay Area. By exposing audiences and performer to a multiplicity of voices, Luna Sea also provides important education on issues of racism, sexism, ageism, stereotyping, self-identity and many other deep-rooted issues in our society. Purpose of Grant: $3,000
to support the Tuesday Nights at Luna Sea, "From our Lips",
program, which specifically increases the involvement and visibility
of womyn of color and lesbians in the arts. The series will include
four parts including
Voices of: Lesbian of African and Asian/Pacific Islander/South Asian
ancestry; Lesbians of Middle East ancestry; Latina Lesbianas; and
transgender Lesbians.
It is a yearlong program with a series produced once a quarter and
presented on 3-4 consecutive Tuesday evenings. Organization Description: The Queer Cultural Center is a multicultural multidisciplinary arts presenting organization that operates artistic and interpretive programs exploring queer culture and identity issues. QCC has been responsible for establishing and coordinating the National Queer Arts Festival for the last three years. Purpose of Grant: $3,000 to support
the fees of artists of color participating in the 4th National
Queer Arts Festival. Purpose of Grant: $2,500 to support the June 2001 Queer Latina/o Arts Festival's production and audience development expenses. San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Dance Festival Organization Description: The annual June San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Dance Festival fosters the creation and performance of dance that reflects the experience of our community. Purpose of Grant: $2,000 to support
the fees of the artists participating in the Fifth Annual Lesbian/Gay
Dance Festival in June 2001. Organization Description: Sister Spit conducts annual national tours, performs at major Queer community events and festivals and organizes open-mike performances featuring Lesbian spoken word artists. Purpose of Grant:
$2,000 to support the fees of the artists appearing in Sister
Spit's June 2001 performances in Berkeley, San Jose and San Francisco. Organization Description: The Mujadarra Grrls are two queer-identified Web producers who claim roots, collectively in Palestine, Turkey, Syria and Ireland, as well as the United States. Aware of the power of the internet to connect queer Arabs with each other and of the lack of accurate representations of their lives, they decided to launch a Web site. The goal of the site and of future projects is to provide queer Arab women with forums and representations that accurately reflect their existence. Purpose of Grant:
$4,000 to support production of Bint el Nas,
which is designed "To serve the needs and interests of women who identify
as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and or queer (including female-to-male
and male-to-female trans people in any state of transition), and
who are identified ethnically
or culturally with the Arab world, regardless of where they live". Organization Description: Woman Vision was founded to promote tolerance and equal treatment of all people through the production and use of educational media, including video. Woman Vision's previous films include the Academy Award Nominated film "Straight From the Heart" and the multiple award-winning "All God's Children". Purpose of Grant:
$3,000 to support editing costs of Radical Harmonies: The Story of Women's Music,
which is documenting the rich and beautiful story of women creating
a cultural life based in a commitment to diversity, to personal integrity,
to feminism,
to women loving women. The film is part of the Women's Music
Project (WMP). WMP is a film, book and audio CD that will preserve and
organize the history
of Women's Music for generations to come. Organization Description: CUAV has been a unique leading force over the past 20 years in countering the violences which threaten and erase the lives and rights of LGBTQQ people. In particular, CUAV is devoted to the intervention and prevention of hate violence, same gender domestic violence, sexual assault and police abuse. CUAV utilizes crisis intervention; direct service, documentation, and advocacy; and education training and organizing; and local and nat'l collaboration as intersecting, multi-faceted strategies for anti-violence work. Purpose of Grant: $5,000 to support the Anti-Violence
Volunteer Network Project which will support and build a diverse
network of current and new volunteers trained as active peer violence
intervention
counselors; and as violence prevention and anti-homo/bi/transphobia
community educators. The project aims to recruit new volunteers,
with attention to
recruitment of under-represented multiply marginalized LGBTQQ
communities. Organization Description: Female-to-Male (FTM) International is community based, volunteer driven organization committed to serving the community needs of female to male transsexual and transgendered people and their significant others, families, friends and allies (SOFFAs). Purpose of Grant:
$7,500 to support expenses related to increasing access to FTM's
programs through ASL, childcare, travel funds and
free membership for low-income participants. Organization Description: GLAAD is a national organization dedicated to promoting fair, accurate and inclusive representation of individuals and events in all media as a means of combating homophobia and all forms of discrimination based on sexual orientation and identity. Purpose of Grant:
$2,500 to support a MediaEssential training for Bay Area community
leaders and activists to work effectively with the media. Organization Description: The Harry Hay Documentary Project is a 56 minute video about pioneering gay activist Harry Hay. Best known for founding the Mattachine Society in 1950, Hay has also been a tireless activist working his entire life in progressive social justice movements, among them labor organizing, Native American land rights, and fair labor practices in prisons. Hay was the first to name gays and lesbians an oppressed minority and more recently founded the Radical Faeries. The documentary is being produced by Eric Slade, an independent film and video maker whose work focuses on the areas of human rights, health care and education Purpose of Grant:
$5,000 to purchase archival film rights for the documentary. Organization Description: Looking for Compton's is a feature-length documentary film about the formation and political mobilization of the tenderloin's transgender community. It is intended for theatrical, festival, television, educational, and home video distribution and is being produced by Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker. Purpose of Grant: $2,000 towards production
costs for the documentary. Organization Description: NCLR advances the civil rights of lesbians - as well as gay men, and bisexual and transgendered people - through a national program of litigation, public policy advocacy, public education, and free legal advice and counseling. NCLR focuses primarily on family law, youth issues, immigration and asylum, and elder issues. Purpose of Grant:
$3,000 to support partnership protection workshops for lesbians
of color in the Bay area. Organization Description: Alfredo's Fire is an hour-long television documentary, which examines the volatile clash between faith and homosexuality. The film explores the story of Alfredo Ormando, a Sicilian writer, who in 1998 set himself on fire at the Vatican as a protest against the Church's condemnation of homosexuality. The film highlights the far-reaching and destructive consequences of exile from mainstream religion and from the realms of spiritual communication. The film is produced by Andy Abrahams Wilson, an Emmy Award-nominated non-fiction filmmaker residing in San Francisco. Purpose of Grant:
$5,000 towards production costs for Alfredo's Fire. Organization Description: TransAction is an organization of transgender/transsexual (TG/TS) people and lesbian gay and bisexual allies committed to exposing and ending police violence against TG/TS people. Founded in 1998, Trans Action is a joint project of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC) and Community United Against Violence (CUAV). Purpose of Grant: $5,000
towards staffing and training costs for Transactions' training
and community organizing programs. Organization Description: A cooperative project of New Leaf Outreach to Elders (formerly GLOE) in San Francisco, Lavender Seniors of the East Bay, and Spectrum Center in Marin, this is the nation's first collaborative effort to serve LGBT elders. It provides emotional support to isolated and frail elders by training and supervising volunteers who offer telephone support, home visits and group connections to at risk seniors whose fears of discrimination have kept them hidden from supportive services. The Collaborative also trains LGBT elders to speak to health and social service providers in training designed to make mainstream providers more effective in aiding people who have been afraid to seek the assistance they need and deserve. Purpose of Grant:
$6,000 to support the Collaborative Coordinator's time plus travel
expenses to continue outreach and training to providers. Organization Description: North of Market Senior Services (NOMSS) is a 28-year old private non-profit organization providing comprehensive services to low-income elders living in the Central City. As part of its special populations program, NOMSS hosts weekly gatherings of the G.L.O.E. "Lunch Bunch". The "Lunch Bunch," is a group of isolated gay and lesbian seniors who meet to share joys, sorrows, pains and pleasures of their past and present-day lives. Purpose of Grant: $3,000 to support transportation,
field trips and other special activities for the Lunch Bunch. Organization Description: Purple Moon Dance Project was founded to increase visibility for lesbians and women of color through the medium of dance. They present home performances in San Francisco, have developed educational programs for women without formal dance training, and tour nationally and internationally. Their signature style incorporates the use of non-western traditions, aesthetics and spirituality, and the consistent expression of intimacy between women. Purple Moon is one of the first "out" lesbian arts organizations, and the first dance organization directed by lesbians of color. Purpose of Grant: $3,000 to support Purple Moon Dance Project
Partnership with New Leaf Outreach to Elders, otherwise known
as GLOE, to create Telling Our Stories Through Movement,
a dance program for elder lesbians and engage in outreach to encourage
more participation by
elder lesbians of color. Organization Description: Founded in 1982, the mission of Spectrum Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns is to strengthen, mobilize and serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning people and to promote acceptance, understanding and full inclusion in Marin County. Reaching more than 6,000 people each year, Spectrum serves mostly low- and moderate-income residents through grassroots organizing, support groups and educating broader community through work in coalitions, in-service training, and speaker's bureau. Purpose of Grant: $3,000 to support staff time
devoted to support groups and social activities of Senior Spectrum,
a program which focuses both on reducing isolation among 420 senior
gays and lesbians,
and on increasing access to social services for the under-served
senior LGBT population. Organization Description: Bay-area GSA Network is a youth-led organization that empowers youth activists fighting homophobia in schools by helping start, sustain, and strengthen GSA clubs. For over 100 GSA's, the Network offers support, advocacy, training and political education to help youth make schools safer for all regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity. Purpose of Grant: $7,000 to support the GSA Network's Anti-Racism Initiative which
will engage its constituents in a dialogue about racism and
homophobia, and will then create materials, resources, workshops
on coalition building
and anti-oppression training curricula for GSA's. Organization Description: BAY Positives helps young people, age 26 and under, living with HIV/AIDS live longer, happier, healthier, more productive and quality-filled lives by helping them decrease a sense of isolation, reduce self-destructive behaviors, and advocate for themselves in complicated HIV/AIDS care systems. Purpose of Grant: $2,500
to support the Member Services program including individual
counseling, support groups and retreats. Organization Description: Begun in 1972 as a drug education program for Contra Costa County schools, CHD now serves the San Francisco Bay Area from four program sites: Pleasant Hill, North Richmond, Antioch and San Francisco. CHD was an innovator of the "training of the trainers" concept: empowering community members to share their skills, knowledge, and expertise. The Empowerment Project is a community level program for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and young adults. Purpose of Grant:
$5,000 towards staffing costs for the Empowerment Project to provide
additional outreach and support services in East Contra Costa
County for queer youth. Organization Description: The Center for Young Women's Development is a youth run grassroots organization led by young women who have lived or worked in the underground street economies of San Francisco. Its goal is to provide low income young women with economic and leadership opportunities. The Nelly Velasco Fun Project is a youth run recreational, cultural and educational project run for and by low income lesbians of color who reside in San Francisco. Purpose of Grant: $3,000 to support field
trips and other social events of the Nelly Velasco Fun Project. Organization Description: COLAGE is the only international organization specifically supporting young people with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents. Its mission is to foster the growth of daughters and sons of lgbt parents of all racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds. COLAGE works at the local, national, and international levels to provide education, support and community; to advocate for our rights and those of our families, and to promote acceptance and awareness in society that love makes a family. Purpose of Grant:
$7,000 to support COLAGE's Bay Area programming including: support/activity
groups for young people with lgbt families, public education
and media work, and advocacy around second-parent adoption and
safe schools. Organization Description: The Dimensions Clinic represents a unique and highly successful collaboration between LYRIC, Health Initiatives for Youth, New Leaf, Larkin Street Youth Services, the SF Dept. of Public Health and others. The clinic provides a comprehensive array of health services to underserved LGBTQ youth, through its Thurs night clinic housed at the Castro/Mission Health Center, and offers follow-up services such as psychotherapy, case management and additional outreach. Purpose of Grant: $7,000
to support the costs of a Clinic Coordinator, who will manage
all the functions of the clinic and coordinate the collaborative. Organization Description: GLSEN is a chapter organization that implements strategies in schools to protect and empower students and develops curricula and workshops that familiarize all students and teachers with the dangers of homophobia. Purpose of Grant: $4,000 to support the Respect for All Partnership Project,
a collaborative effort of the San Francisco-East Bay chapter
of GLSEN and the gay/lesbian employee groups of the Pride Collaborative.
The Project
will provide support providing support, encouragement, and new
energy to GSAs in the East Bay through the regular participation
of volunteer mentors. Organization Description: The Washington High School Healthy Start Collaborative builds partnerships between non-profit organizations, health providers, local business, faith communities and Washington High School, to create a comprehensive array of on site and community based support services. Purpose of Grant:
$5,000 to support GO, a student-led project which provides information,
programs and support for the school's LGBTQ youth. The project
is working to create a positive school climate by engaging in activities
that raise
awareness, educate faculty and challenge students to make the
connection between anti-gay harassment and other forms of oppression. Organization Description: The Harvey Milk Institute is in its fifth year of offering over 200 workshops and interpretive programs annually to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender communities and allies of all ages. The curriculum and subject matter encompasses artistic, cultural, intellectual and political aspects of queer studies. Purpose of Grant: $5,000
to support the Harvey Milk Institute Youth Program which provides
26-35 Free workshops and classes specifically designed for members
of the lgbtq
community aged 23 and under. Organization Description: The Human Sexuality Studies Program is one of the nation's foremost training institutions for human sexuality studies. It provides professional training and degrees in human sexuality and lesbian and gay studies, and conducts research on LGBT issues and policy issues related to sexuality, such as the effects of homophobia and anti-gay violence. Purpose of Grant:
$5,000 to support the GSA Policy Project, in collaboration with
Gay, Lesbian/Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which will provide
critically needed data to
help improve the climate for LGBT youth in schools throughout
the community and the country. These funds will be used to write
a key policy paper on
GSAs and to plan a qualitative study of successful GSAs in the
Bay Area. Organization Description: Founded in 1982, the mission of Spectrum Center for LGBT Concerns is to strengthen, mobilize and serve lgbtq people and to promote acceptance, understanding and full inclusion in Marin County. Reaching more than 6,000 people each year, Spectrum serves mostly low- and moderate-income residents through grassroots organizing, support groups and educating broader community (emphasizing school and healthcare providers) through work in coalitions, in-service training, and speaker's bureau. Purpose of Grant:
$5,000 to support Spectrum's growing Hate Violence and Harassment Prevention Program in
Marin County schools reaching more than 3,000 students and faculty
members. Through this program, students and staff in schools are coming
to understand
the profound personal and social problems facing LGBTQ youth
and are beginning to stand as allies with them in the schools. Organization Description: The NLLFS, initiated in 1986, is the first prospective and longitudinal study of lesbian families in the United States. The study documents the lesbian "baby boom" which began in the 1980s when lesbians gained access to donor insemination (DI) and began to conceive children by it. The NLLFS follows 84 such families from three metropolitan areas -San Francisco, Boston, and Washington DC- over a 25 year period and has been designed to document psychological aspects of this major social phenomenon as it is happening. Data from this study holds implications in many areas including medicine, public policy, law, ethics, education, and feminist studies. Purpose of Grant:
$2,500 to support data gathering and analysis for the 10 year
old (or Time 4) paper. This includes interviewing the mothers and
the index children
as well as administering the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist,
a widely used survey of children's social, emotional, and educational
development. Organization Description: Women's Educational Media is best known for its documentary film projects that advance the rights and visibility of gay and lesbian people, and serve as catalysts for widespread organizing for social change. A recent achievement was the successful 1999 station-by-station campaign to get It's Elementary broadcast on over 115 public television stations, despite the political right's intensive effort to stop the film from being aired. Purpose of Grant: $2.500 to support research and
production for the second and third videos of Respect for All,
a three-part video series for elementary and middle school students. When
complete, the series will be the first media pieces for school
children
that integrate gay and lesbian people into the full spectrum
of diversity. The first video, That's a Family!, is complete and
its outreach and distribution is currently under way. Organization Description: Youth Gender Project is a youth/adult partnership using a peer-based model to empower and support trans, gender-variant, intersex and gender-questioning youth and young adults of all cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds. YGP is dedicated to fostering gender and cultural diversity and equity, and to creating social and institutional change through the education of all those who work with, or make decisions about the lives of, these youth and young adults. Purpose of Grant: $7,500 to support
Youth Gender Project's Education Program which assists trans youth
in developing flexible, diversity-focused
workshop & training curriculums about trans youth issues. It trains youth
to present these workshops and training to educators, medical and
mental health professionals, activists, non-profit workers, and others
who have an interest
in, or affect the lives of, trans and gender-questioning youth. Organization Description: The Deaf AIDS Center was established in 1989 with the goal of providing equal access to HIV/AIDS medical and preventive information to the Deaf Community. In 1997/98, its vision was expanded to include other health issues, such as breast cancer. DAC is a member program of Deaf Communities Together, an all-volunteer organization dedicated to developing leadership and building capacity in the Deaf LGBT communities. Purpose of Grant:
$4,000 to support the costs of workshops on various health and
wellness topics to the LGBT deaf and Hard of Hearing community. Organization Description: The Derek Silva Community (DSC) provides low-cost apartments for very low-income persons disabled by HIV/AIDS. Apart from permanent housing, the program provides comprehensive case management services, coordination of medical services, 24 hour security/emergency assistance, a small gym, library, computer room and a resident-run art program. DSC is one of three residential facilities run by Catholic Charities. Purpose of Grant:
$1,500 to support resident-run recreational services geared toward
residents who are physically, socially, physically and sometimes
mentally challenged.
The goal of the project is to increase the health of the individuals
in the community through participatory recreational activities
such as community
dinners, group day trips, picnics and other activities. Organization Description: The Immune Enhancement Project (IEP) begun in 1983 as a holistic approach to treating people with HIV/AIDS and related immune problems. The organization offers acupuncture, herbal medicine, massage therapy, Reiki and hypnotherapy, and treats a wide range of conditions. A primary goal of IEP since its inception has been to bring holistic health care to low and no income people with chronic disabling conditions who would otherwise not have access to these kinds of treatments. Purpose of Grant:
$4,500 to support the Community Acupuncture and Massage Program (CAMP) for
adults which brings complementary healthcare into the community
for chronically ill, at-risk people with low and no income. For those
unable or unlikely
to seek treatment at our clinic, IEP provides free acupuncture
and/or massage at Continuum, Metropolitan Community Church, Peter Claver
Community, Leland
House and Mano a Mano. Organization Description: MOVE is a non-profit, community based organization which provides the Bay Area with counseling services for straight and gay men who are abusive in their relationships. MOVE also provides education and training services for mental health workers, law enforcement groups, community groups, and the general public. Since 1980, MOVE has helped thousands of men work to end their violence. Purpose of Grant: $2,500 to support
the Gay & Bisexual Men's Program curriculum development in order
to expand services specific to gay and bisexual men who batter. Organization Description: New Leaf: Services For Our Community is the non-profit, multi-service counseling center for the LGBT communities of San Francisco and the Bay Area. Created from the 1995 merger of Operation Concern and 18th Street Services, New Leaf's mission is to provide accessible, affordable, clinically excellent, culturally sensitive services primarily to low income and multiply diagnosed people. Purpose of Grant: $7,500
to support staffing to provide culturally competent mental health
services to disenfranchised, under-served transgender community.
The particular focus
will be serving the unique mental health needs of low-income
female-to-male and gender-questioning people in both individual
therapy and groups. Organization Description: The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) is a non-profit educational center founded to seek innovative and practical approaches to some of the most pressing environmental, social, and economic challenges of our day. Every year, hundreds of individuals and dozens of non-profits come to the Center for workshops, training, and tours. Purpose of Grant: $2,000 to support OAEC's Horticultural Therapy Program which
is working in close collaboration with the Food For Thought Food
Bank for People With AIDS to establish a garden project at their
site. This will
provide fresh, organic food for the clients, as well as foster
direct involvement of the clients in their own nourishment and
the services of the Food Bank. Organization Description: The Pacific Center is the third oldest LGBT community center and has been providing an array of services since its inception in 1973. Pacific Center's services include the provision of a safe community space, information and referral services, peer support groups, a speaker's bureau, mental health counseling, HIV services, a youth program, and a training program for mental health professionals. Purpose of Grant:
$7,000 to support stipends for clinical interns who are recruited
from the LGBT community to provide services to the Pacific Center's
mental health
clients. Clinical Services serves over 275 LGBT mental health
clients per year who receive services for help with depression,
relationship skills,
coming-out, and other life transitions. Organization Description: Positive Resource Center provides employment services and benefits counseling/advocacy for people living with HIV/AIDS so that they can obtain and/or maintain financial stability. Over 2,500 people are provided with personalized and comprehensive assistance each year. Purpose of Grant: $5,000 to support the computer training
component of PRC's Employment Services work. The computer training
program provides
150 low-income individuals each year with the skills needed so
that at least 50% of participants can successfully secure employment. Organization Description: The Asian Women's Shelter's mission is to eliminate domestic violence by promoting the social, economic and political self-determination of women. AWS's strategies integrate culturally competent and language-accessible shelter services, educational programs, and community advocacy. The goals of the Queer Asian Women's Services (QAWS) component of AWS are to respond to the unmet needs of queer Asian battered women and to organize the queer Asian women's community to change attitudes and behaviors that condone same gender relationship violence. Purpose of Grant:
$7,000 to support the Queer Asian Women's services programs of
technical assistance to other groups, outreach and community education,
and development
of community outreach curriculum and materials. Organization Description: The STOP AIDS Project's mission is to prevent HIV transmission among all gay and bisexual men in San Francisco through multicultural, community-based organizing. Purpose of Grant: $2,500
to support Our Love: The Series, an HIV prevention program which
works to create a stronger sense of community among Black and
African descendant gay and bisexual men. Organization Description: TARC is a non-profit community-based organization that respects and meets the needs of the diverse and often ignored residents of the Tenderloin neighborhood. provides direct services (case management, treatment education, peer-based support and access to on-site medical and psychiatric care) to more than 600 people with HIV each year, and its prevention programs reach 6,000 individuals at risk annually. TARC's HIV prevention program includes street outreach, prevention support groups, an evening drop-in center, educational forums, individual risk reduction counseling and HIV antibody testing. Purpose of Grant: $6,500 to support funding
for TARC's Transgender Services Coordinator/Prevention Counselor
position. Recent studies have found HIV infection rates of 27%
among transgender individuals,
and of 63% among African-American transgender persons. Organization Description: The Lighthouse Community Center is a new center established to provide a safe and substance-free meeting place with support, social, and informational programs serving the GLBTQ community of all ages and their friends. The center is located in Hayward and serves all of Central and Southern Alameda County. The center is operated by a volunteer board of directors, made up of representatives from Hayward City Council, GLOBE (Gays and Lesbians Organized for Betterment and Equality), EBN (East Bay Network), Faith Full Gospel Fellowship, Lavender Seniors of East Bay and LAMBDA Youth Group. Purpose of Grant: $2,500 to support
the development and implementation of community identified support
groups and services. This goal is to offer 5 weekly peer led support
groups. The
following populations and issues will be targeted: lesbians,
gay men, transgendered people, seniors, coming out and substance
abuse. Organization Description: Tri-City Health Center is a community-based clinic providing health care and related services to under-served and low/no income populations in Central and Southern Alameda County. The Men Together Project and The Edge provide HIV prevention and community building to the LGBTQ community, including HIV and health education outreach, workshops and events. Purpose of Grant: $2,500 to support community outreach
and needs assessment for What About Us?, a health, education and
community building program for lesbian, bisexual, transgender
and questioning women ages 16 and older. The program will provide health
education outreach,
a social support group, retreat and needs assessment. The program
has been designed to be delivered in a conservative suburban environment
where there
are no women-only services for LBTQ women. Return to the Top Organization Description: Alison Wright is an African American Lesbian Solo Artist in the Bay Area. She has worked in several productions in the Bay Area in venues including New Conservatory, Theatre Rhinoceros, and Yerba Buena Center for The Arts. Her current production is sponsored by Intersection for The Arts. Purpose of Grant: $1,000 to support production of ...And You Can't Make Me. ...And You Can't Make Me is
a play with song and dance telling the life and music of Gladys
Bentley a cross-dressing Blues icon of the Harlem Renaissance. Organization Description: The Center for Young Women's Development is a youth run grassroots organization led by young women who have lived or worked in the underground street economies of San Francisco. Its goal is to provide low income young women with economic and leadership opportunities. The Nelly Velasco Fun Project is a youth run recreational, cultural and educational project run for and by low income lesbians of color who reside in San Francisco. Purpose of Grant: $4,000 to support field
trips and other social events of the Nelly Velasco Fun Project. Organization Description: Founded in 1975 La Pena Cultural Center is a multicultural community arts center whose mission is to present cultural and educational programs that increase understanding of different cultures; to operate a community cultural center where people from all races and cultures can share diverse heritages of the Americas; and to encourage the development of art of all disciplines that keep alive cultural roots and express peoples struggles against oppression and visions of a better future. Purpose of Grant:
$1,000 to support the third annual La Lesbian at La Pena: a lesbian
performance and film series. The intent is to provide a provocative
mix of performance artists and filmmakers. Organization Description: Luna Sea is a five year old multicultural women's arts organization. Luna Sea is a community based theater, performance space, and art gallery devoted to the work of women, primarily lesbians of color, in the extended Bay Area. By exposing audiences and performer to a multiplicity of voices, Luna Sea also provides important education on issues of racism, sexism, ageism, stereotyping, self-identity and many other deep-rooted issues in our society. Purpose of Grant: $1,500
to support the Tuesday Nights at Luna Sea, "From our Lips",
program, which specifically increases the involvement and visibility
of womyn of color and lesbians in the arts. Organization Description: Lesbians in the Visual Arts exists to make lesbian visual artists and their work increasingly visible and to provide advocacy, information, skills and support to help them overcome many of the barriers that they face within the arts community and in the larger society. LVA provides a place for lesbians in the visual arts to develop their political consciousness as well as their professional skills by creating forums for dialogue, expression, and strategizing, through which they can recognize and strengthen their abilities to use art as a vehicle for social change, and develop their roles as political artist-activists within their communities. LVA achieves its goals through grassroots organizing and networking, coordinating and hosting art exhibitions, salons, and workshops, keeping a slide registry of members' artwork and producing a semi-annual newsletter, Pentimenta, showcasing the work of lesbian visual artists. Purpose of Grant:
$1,000 to support LVA's mentorship program Organization Description: NCLR advances the civil rights of lesbians - as well as gay men, and bisexual and transgendered people - through a national program of litigation, public policy advocacy, public education, and free legal advice and counseling. NCLR focuses primarily on family law, youth issues, immigration and asylum, and elder issues. Purpose of Grant:
$1,000 to support partnership protection workshops for lesbians
of color in the Bay area. Organization Description: The NIA Collective exists to create and provide a safe and healthy environment for the growth and empowerment of lesbians of African descent. NIA has served as a safe space for Black Lesbians to educate themselves, socialize and establish supportive networks. Purpose of Grant:
$1,000 to support board development and training. Organization Description: Purple Moon Dance Project was founded to increase visibility for lesbians and women of color through the medium of dance. They present home performances in San Francisco, have developed educational programs for women without formal dance training, and tour nationally and internationally. Their signature style incorporates the use of non-western traditions, aesthetics and spirituality, and the consistent expression of intimacy between women. Purple Moon is one of the first "out" lesbian arts organizations, and the first dance organization directed by lesbians of color. Purpose of Grant: $2,000 to support Purple Moon Dance
Project Partnership with New Leaf Outreach to Elders, otherwise
known as
GLOE, to create Telling Our Stories Through Movement, a dance
program for elder lesbians
and engage in outreach to encourage more participation by elder
lesbians of color. Organization Description: The Asian Women's Shelter's mission is to eliminate domestic violence by promoting the social, economic and political self-determination of women. AWS's strategies integrate culturally competent and language-accessible shelter services, educational programs, and community advocacy. The goals of the Queer Asian Women's Services (QAWS) component of AWS are to respond to the unmet needs of queer Asian battered women and to organize the queer Asian women's community to change attitudes and behaviors that condone same gender relationship violence. Purpose of Grant:
$2,000 to support the Queer Asian Women's services programs of
technical assistance to other groups, outreach and community education,
and development
of community outreach curriculum and materials. Organization Description: Founded in 1982, the mission of Spectrum Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns is to strengthen, mobilize and serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning people and to promote acceptance, understanding and full inclusion in Marin County. Reaching more than 6,000 people each year, Spectrum serves mostly low- and moderate-income residents through grassroots organizing, support groups and educating broader community through work in coalitions, in-service training, and speaker's bureau. Purpose of Grant: $2,000 to support staff time
devoted to support groups and social activities of Senior Spectrum,
a program which focuses both on reducing isolation among 420
senior gays and lesbians, and on increasing access to social services
for the under-served
senior LGBT population. Organization Description: The NLLFS, initiated in 1986, is the first prospective and longitudinal study of lesbian families in the United States. The study documents the lesbian "baby boom" which began in the 1980s when lesbians gained access to donor insemination (DI) and began to conceive children by it. The NLLFS follows 84 such families from three metropolitan areas -San Francisco, Boston, and Washington DC- over a 25 year period and has been designed to document psychological aspects of this major social phenomenon as it is happening. Data from this study holds implications in many areas including medicine, public policy, law, ethics, education, and feminist studies. Purpose of Grant:
$3,000 to support data gathering and analysis for the 10 year
old (or Time 4) paper. This includes interviewing the mothers and
the index children
as well as administering the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist,
a widely used survey of children's social, emotional, and educational
development. Organization Description: The Sperm Bank of California is a lesbian-founded and led non-profit sperm bank that offers the assisted reproductive option of donor insemination. 85% of our clients are lesbian or bisexual and we have helped over 1000 lesbians achieve pregnancy. We are also one of only two organizations in the USA to offer adult offspring (conceived through donor insemination) the option of getting their sperm donor's identity. Purpose of Grant:
$1,000 to support an 18-month needs assessment to research and
develop an effective protocol for the release of donor
identities (i.e., "identity-release") and associated support services and
resources for all those involved- recipient and donor families. Organization Description: The Center for Lesbian Health Research is a national research center, which is specifically and uniquely concerned with health andwellness issues for lesbians, bisexual women, transgendered individuals, their families and health care providers. Our mission includes the conduct of research, education, training and public service using the research skills and experiences of UCSF faculty, community collaborators, and researchers from other institutions. Stephanie Roberts, MD, former Medical Director of Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services, and Suzanne L. Dibble, DNSc, RN, Co-Director of the Center for Lesbian Health Research would like to test a model for education of lesbians over 60 about their cancer screening requirements, especially colon cancer. Deaths from colon cancer are almost always preventable; more folks die each year in California from colon cancer than from breast cancer. Some of those deaths are lesbians and we would like to stop this killer in our community. Purpose of Grant:
$3,000 to support the Center for Lesbian Health Research to
test a model for education of lesbians over 60 about their cancer
screening
requirements,
especially colon cancer. tic Violence. Our services include a 24-hour multi-lingual Crisis Line, Individual and Group Counseling, Latina Services, Lesbian Services, Restraining Order Clinics, Employment Rights Clinic, Domestic Violence Intervention Advocates in the field with the S.F. Police Department and CalWorks. Purpose of Grant:
$3,000 to support the Lesbian Domestic Violence Program. Organization Description: Woman Vision was founded to promote tolerance and equal treatment of all people through the production and use of educational media, including video. Woman Vision's previous films include the Academy Award Nominated film "Straight From the Heart" and the multiple award-winning "All God's Children". Purpose of Grant:
$3,000 to support video documentary, No Secret Anymore: A Video on The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. Organization Description: Woman Vision was founded to promote tolerance and equal treatment of all people through the production and use of educational media, including video. Woman Vision's previous films include the Academy Award Nominated film "Straight From the Heart" and the multiple award-winning "All God's Children". Purpose of Grant: $2,000 to support editing costs of Radical Harmonies: The Story of Women's Music, which is documenting the rich and beautiful story of women creating a cultural life based in a commitment to diversity, to personal integrity, to feminism, to women loving women. The film is part of the Women's Music Project (WMP). WMP is a film, book and audio CD that will preserve and organize the history of Women's Music for generations to come. Return to the Top ulti-purpose day center services to people living with HIV/AIDS and their families in West Contra Costa County. Purpose of Grant: $18,500 for general support.
Organization Description: ACRC provides HIV prevention education, street-level outreach, patient advocacy and treatment education for people with HIV/AIDS in San Mateo County. Purpose of Grant: $10,000 for
the Living Now and Positively EPA programs. Organization Description: AEF provides direct and immediate financial assistance to people living with AIDS. Emergency assistance grants are provided for basic human essentials such as heat, shelter or housing. Purpose of Grant:
$50,000 for general support for emergency financial assistance
for people living with AIDS. Organization Description: ALRP provides legal counseling in a broad range of civil legal issues for over 2000 people living with HIV/AIDS each year. Purpose of Grant: $25,000 for general support for legal
advocacy to help people living with AIDS avoid eviction and maintain
affordable housing. Organization Description: AIDS Prevention Action Network, Inc. provides client-centered outreach programs to serve the health needs of Injection Drug Users through clean needle exchange services. Purpose of Grant:
$5,000 for general support for Syringe Exchange in San Mateo
County. Organization Description: AIDS Project East Bay provides a comprehensive array of prevention and care related services, including case management, emergency assistance, HIV testing, entitlements counseling, treatment advocacy and risk reduction counseling, for people with AIDS/HIV in Alameda County. Purpose of Grant:
$15,000 to provide access to early intervention primary care
services to men of color and transgender people. Organization Description: Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center provides multilingual health promotion, cutting edge HIV programs, national training and technical assistance, and multi-issue advocacy for the Asian and Pacific Islander communities, particularly A&PIs living with HIV. Purpose of Grant: $20,000 for general support to
provide prevention and care services for API women, especially
women working in massage parlors. Organization Description: Works with young people, age 26 and younger, living with HIV/AIDS to decrease a sense of isolation, reduce self-destructive behaviors, and to advocate for themselves in complicated HIV/AIDS care systems. Purpose of Grant:
$20,000 for general support for programs to help HIV+ youth access
medical and treatment information. Organization Description: CAEAR is a national coalition that advocates for sound public health policies and resources related to the critical health care and supportive service needs of people living with HIV disease in the United States. Purpose of Grant: $20,000 for the second year of a
two-year CAEAR Coalition program to secure reauthorization of
the Ryan White CARE Act Amendments of
1996. Organization Description: Continuum provides adult day health care and other professional health services for more than 650 clients per year in San Francisco's Tenderloin. Purpose of Grant: $20,000 for general
support for the TLC collaboration of agencies serving people
in the Tenderloin and for the Adult Day Health Center. Organization Description: Diablo Valley AIDS Center operates the only HIV/AIDS-specific food distribution and nutrition education program in Contra Costa County, providing food services to more than 400 clients annually. Purpose of Grant: $21,000 for general support for the
HIV/AIDS food distribution and nutrition education program. Organization Description: East Bay Community Law Center provides desperately needed legal services to low-income residents of the East Bay, assisting clients with a wide range of legal issues. Purpose of Grant:
$15,000 for general support for free legal assistance for low-income
people living with HIV who have housing related needs. Organization Description: El Concilio of San Mateo County supports and unites Latino/a organizations to promote leadership development, increasing educational and employment opportunities and access to quality health care for Latinos in San Mateo county. Purpose of Grant: $5,000 for general
support for HIV/AIDS Program for outreach to the Latino community. Organization Description: Ellipse Peninsula AIDS Services provides comprehensive professional and volunteer support services to people living with HIV/AIDS in San Mateo County and their families. Services include case management, advocacy, financial assistance, counseling, practical support programs and education and training programs. Purpose of Grant: $10,000
for general support for emergency financial assistance and practical
support programs for people living with HIV/AIDS. Organization Description: HEPPAC works to stop the spread of HIV and Hepatitis B and C infection among injection drug users, their sexual partners, their children and their communities through the integration of needle exchange into the spectrum of HIV and harm reduction services offered in Alameda County. Purpose of Grant: $17,500 for Syringe Exchange
Program in Alameda County. Organization Description: Huckleberry Youth Program provides adolescents in San Francisco and Marin with high quality services along the continuum of care ranging from prevention to crisis intervention to stabilization and growth. Programs include shelters in San Francisco and Marin, an adolescent health clinic and HIV prevention and education programs. Purpose of Grant:
$7,500 for the HIV Prevention/Education Program for the provision
of HIV/AIDS information and materials to youth. Organization Description: Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services offers free/low-cost health care services to un-insured and under-insured women, serving over 3,000 women annually, 93% of whom have no health insurance and/or live below the federal poverty level. Purpose of Grant: $15,000
to hire a part-time registered nurse to provide increased access
to medical care, education and advocacy for homeless HIV+ clients. Organization Description: Maitri provides hospice care, social and other services in a state-licensed 15-bed Residential Care Facility for the Chronically Ill that serves men and women with severely disabling AIDS. Purpose of Grant:
$20,000 for general support to improve care and accessibility
enhancement for dementia patients. Organization Description: Marin AIDS Project provides a range of services to people living with HIV/AIDS in Marin County, including personalized case management, coordinated benefits counseling, emergency financial services, individual and group support, community forums and education programs. Purpose of Grant:
$25,000 for general support for Needle Exchange Program of Marin
(NEPOM). Organization Description: Most Holy Redeemer AIDS Support Group provides care and assistance to people with HIV and their loved ones, including an in-home care program of practical and emotional support, an on-site, professionally facilitated therapeutic program and a client emergency financial assistance component. Purpose of Grant: $5,000 for general support
for HIV support and prevention programming focused on the needs
of LGBT people over 45. Organization Description: N.E.E.D. provides syringe exchange, safer-use supplies and harm reduction education and action for injection drug users in the East Bay. Purpose of Grant: $23,000 for N.E.E.D: for purchase
of syringes and for volunteer staff position stipends. Organization Description: New Leaf is a non-profit, multi-purpose counseling center, providing HIV/AIDS, mental health and substance abuse services for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities of San Francisco and the Bay Area. Purpose of Grant: $15,000 for the outreach
activities of New Leaf's Transgender Initiative. Organization Description: PRC provides individual benefits analysis, counseling, advocacy and employment placement, job counseling and referral services to people with AIDS and HIV disease. Purpose of Grant: $20,000 for the Public Benefits Outreach program that helps low-income people with HIV/AIDS. San Francisco AIDS Foundation HIV Prevention Project
Organization Description: SFAF HIV Prevention Project prevents and/or reduces HIV transmission among injection drug-users and their partners in San Francisco by providing community based HIV prevention and education services including a sterile syringe exchange, disseminating safer sex materials, and providing referrals upon request to drug treatment and social/medical health services to persons who utilize the HPP exchange site(s) in the City and County of San Francisco. Purpose of Grant: $320,000 for general
support for needle exchange and prevention programs. Organization Description: Project Open Hand provides home-delivered meals, groceries and nutrition counseling for people with HIV/AIDS in San Francisco and Alameda County. Purpose of Grant: $15,000 for general
support for the provision of comprehensive nutrition services for
people with HIV & AIDS in Alameda County. Organization Description: SF Black Coalition on AIDS develops programs of advocacy, education and harm reduction of HIV/AIDS disease in Black people, with programs including prevention, supportive housing, treatment education, advocacy and case management. Purpose of Grant: $15,000 to support
BCA in developing and implementing an advocacy and public policy
program that is linked to HAN and regional activities. Organization Description: SF Project Inform, Inc provides vital information on the diagnosis and treatment of HIV disease to HIV-infected people, their caregivers and their health service providers and advocates for funding and research. Purpose of Grant: $40,000 for general support for Project
Inform's treatment education programs, particularly the Spanish
Language Services Programs. Organization Description: Shanti provides a wide range of direct services to people living with HIV/AIDS including emotional and practical volunteer support, cultural and recreational activities, a drop-in client center, transportation services and individual and group counseling. Purpose of Grant: $32,500
for Shanti's client information system and El Programa Latino for
Spanish speaking Latinos/as living with HIV/AIDS in San Francisco. Organization Description: Stop AIDS Project works to prevent HIV transmission among all gay and bisexual men in San Francisco through multicultural, community-based organizing including street outreach, workshops and community forums, neighborhood organizing, condom distribution and media campaigns. Purpose of Grant:
$20,000 towards Our Love: the series, an HIV Prevention program
for African American gay and bisexual men. Organization Description: Swords to Plowshares provides a wide range of services to more than 2,000 veterans in need annually. Services include legal counseling and representation, mental health counseling and referral, job placement and training, shelter, transition assistance and treatment. Purpose of Grant:
$5,000 towards securing Veterans Benefits for homeless and low-income
Veterans With HIV and AIDS. Organization Description: TARC works to lessen the incidence of HIV infection, disease progression and homelessness for the residents of the Tenderloin, through outreach, education, testing, client advocacy and practical direct services to more than 600 people each year. Purpose of Grant: $20,000
for general support for TARC's HIV prevention, outreach and support
groups for gay men, injection drug users and transgender people
in the Tenderloin. Organization Description: The Ark of Refuge, Inc provides a comprehensive range of services to under-served people with HIV/AIDS in San Francisco and Alameda counties. Services include supportive housing programs, HIV education/prevention and curriculum development, volunteerism training and public policy and advocacy. Purpose of Grant:
$15,000 for case management services for under-served individuals
in East Oakland to maintain the continuity of care for high-risk,
under-served clients. Organization Description: NAPWA provides programs to protect the interests of people with AIDS and educate policy makers and the nation through advocacy, education programs, public policy advocacy, community development and training. Purpose of Grant:
$5,000 for AIDS Watch 2001, a national constituent-based AIDS advocacy/educational
event focusing on appropriations at the federal level. Organization Description: Tri-City Health Center provides a wide range of basic health care services, education and related services to the residents of Central and Southern Alameda County. Purpose of Grant: $5,000 for
the Generations Project: A HIV Prevention Education program including
needle exchange targeting IDU's in Central and South Alameda County. Organization Description: UCSF AIDS Health Project is the leading HIV-related mental health agency in San Francisco, providing a wide range of HIV prevention, education, counseling and mental health support services. Purpose of Grant:
$90,000 for general support for a broad range of HIV care and prevention
programs. Organization Description: WORLD is a diverse community of women living with HIV/AIDS working together to provide support and information to women with HIV/AIDS and their loved ones, educate and inspire women with HIV/AIDS to advocate for themselves and their communities, and promote public awareness of women's HIV/AIDS issues. Purpose of Grant: $40,000 for WORLD's Retreats for Women With HIV/AIDS. Return to the Top In
the first round of grantmaking in 1999, grants included both capacity building
support and project support. In 2000, given the smaller amount of
funding to be allocated ($180,000) and the fact that project support
was already being provided through the Horizons Community Issues cycle, we
decided to
focus only on providing capacity building support. Examples of capacity
building support requests include staff and volunteer training, board development,
and support for development of the organization's fundraising or
administrative
capacity. Eligible organizations were those whose primary focus is
the LGBT community and whose programs were in the 5-county Bay Area (San Francisco,
San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin). Areas of interest included
in the
RFP mirror those of Horizons Foundation Community Issues cycle, with
the exception that, due to the NLGCFP guidelines, HIV-or AIDS-focused requests
would not
be supported. The Horizons Foundation and the San Francisco Foundation
are proud to support the following 19 organizations for a total grant amount
of
$180,000: Organization Description: An
all-volunteer community organizing effort, the API P-FLAG Family
Project was formed in 1995 with the purpose
of ending the isolation that A&PI parents and families experience during the coming out process and to promote dialogue about sexual diversity, sexual orientation, gender identity, homophobia, heterosexism, AIDS-phobia both within A&PI families and in the broader A&PI
communities. Organization Description: Bay-area GSA Network is a youth led organization
that empowers youth activists fighting homophobia in schools by helping start,
sustain, and strengthen GSA clubs. For the 100+ GSA's in our network, the
GSA Network offers support, advocacy, training and political education to
help youth make schools safer for all regardless of sexual orientation and
gender identity. Organization Description: CUAV has been a unique, leading force over
the past 20 years in countering the violences which threaten and erase the
lives and rights of LGBTQQ people. In particular, CUAV is devoted to the intervention
and prevention of hate violence, same-gender domestic violence, sexual assault,
and police abuse. CUAV utilizes crisis intervention; direct service, documentation,
and advocacy; education, training, and organizing; and local and national
collaboration as intersecting, multi-faceted strategies for our anti-violence
work. Organization Description:
DCT is an all volunteer organization dedicated to devloping leadership
and building capacity in the Deaf LGBT communities. DCT is an umbrella
organization
for five member programs, which comprise the grassroots Deaf gay
efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area. The member programs - Deaf
AIDS center, Communication
Access network, San Jose Lambda Society for the Deaf and the Northern
California Leather Association for the deaf - were all begun as
grassroots efforts to
provide crucial support service and social networking opportunities
to members of the deaf and gay communities. Organization Description:
The Dimensions Clinic represents a unique and highly successful
collaboration between LYRIC, Health Inititatives for Youth, New
Leaf, Lerkin Street Youth
Services, the SF Dept. of Public Health and others. The clinic
provides a comprehensive array of health services to underserved
LGBTQ youth, through
its Thurs night clinic housed at the Castro/Mission Health Center,
and offers follow-up services such as psychotherapy, case management
and additional outreach. Organization Description: Female-to-Male (FTM) International is a community
based, volunteer driven organization committed to serving the community
needs of female to male transexual and transgendered people and their
signifigant others, families, friends and allies. FTM's programs
include support groups,
resource lists, a newsletter and website. FTM also provides educational
speakers and advocates for TS/TG civil rights and access to medical
services. Organization Description: The GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves,
and pormotes an active knowledge of the history, art and culture of sexually
diverse communities in Northern California and beyond. Organization Description:
Lavender Seniors began in 1995 as a grassroots, all-volunteer organization
with a monthly potluck and Newsletter. In 1999, as part of the
LG Senior Services Collaborative, Lavender Seniors expanded its
services to include friendly
visits and phone support to isolated LGBT seniors and began a program
of outreach to and training for mainstream senior service providers. Organization Description: A cooperative project of New Leaf Outreach to Elders (formerly GLOE) in San Francisco, Lavender Seniors of the East Bay, and Specturm Center in M |