2004 Community Issues Grants

Advocacy, Awareness, and Civil Rights

Metropolitan Community Church of the Redwood Empire - $2,500
Metropolitan Community Church of the Redwood Empire (MCCRE) is a Sonoma County church founded for and by gay individuals that does outreach programs and supports the queer community.

Nonprofit Song That Radio - $3,500
Song That is a non-profit support advocacy group for the Vietnamese American Community in Northern California. This grant will support Song That's support/advocacy group, which offers social events and anti-homophobia educational programs.

Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex (TGI) Alternative Sentencing Project - $7,000
The Transgender, Gender Variant, & Intersex (TGI) Alternative Sentencing Project works to expose and end abuse of TGI prisoners. They help improve access to alternatives to incarceration for TGI people held in Bay Area jails awaiting sentencing, and promote community organizing and leadership development among TGI communities.

Transgender Law Center - $7,000
The Transgender Law Center (TLC) provides direct legal services, community education, and public policy advocacy in all areas of transgender law. This grant supports TLC's Transgender Immigration Law Program, which offers legal information and services to transgender immigrants and technical assistance to immigration attorneys.

Arts & Culture

(a)eromestiza Project - $5,000
The (a)eromestiza Project deconstructs American culture's dominant racial and gender stereotypes through original multimedia interdisciplinary performances that reflect and explore the experiences of mixed-race lesbians. This grant will support Freedom and Deception, a multidisciplinary performance piece exploring historical and contemporary American attitudes about race.

Electra Theater Company - $3,000
The Electra Theater Company offers LGBT people disenfranchised through homelessness, substance abuse, and other issues the opportunity to creatively express and explore their own dramatic material. The performances emerge from weekly workshops, journal writings, storytelling, and improvisation.

Fresh Meat Productions - $7,000
Fresh Meat Productions builds community through the arts by creating, developing, and staging multidiciplinary work that authentically reflects the transgender experience and bridges traditional identify boundaries of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and age. This grant will support Fresh Meat Productions' 2005 artistic programs.

Liquid Fire Productions - $7,000
Liquid Fire Productions empowers lesbians of color to create, develop, and stage original multidisciplinary performances that explore sexuality, race, body image and gender identity issues.

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project - $5,000
The Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project promotes the creation and exhibition of films/videos that reflect the experiences and stories of queer women of color. This grant will support the Artistic Director and the Screening Coordinator for their 2005 training and exhibition programs.

Quelaco - $3,000
QueLACo promotes the development, production, and presentation of multidisciplinary arts by and for queer Latinos in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Children, Youth & Families

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center - $5,000
API Wellness Center exists to educate, support and empower, and advocate for Asian and Pacific Islander communities - particularly A&PIs living with HIV/AIDS, their partners, families and friends, regardless of immigration status or ability to pay - through multilingual health promotion, cutting-edge HIV programs, national training and technical assistance and multi-issue advocacy. This grant provides programmatic support for their A&PI LGBTQQ youth programming.

Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE) - $5,000
COLAGE engages, connects, and empowers children of LGBT parents and families. To fulfill this mission, COLAGE offers an integrated array of programs structured to empower children and youth, strengthen families, create safer communities, and promote just laws and policies.

Family Arts Bridge Camp of Northern California (FAB Camp) - $5,000
The core mission of FAB Camp is to provide a summer family residential camp experience that builds and nurtures critical LGBTQ partnerships with diverse community organizations (representing people of color, low-income people, and people living with disabilities), and strengthens individual families through the arts. FAB Camp strives to create a community-based family camp that more accurately reflects the diversity of queer families and their extended families, friends, and allies in the greater Bay Area.

Family Builders by Adoption - $4,000
Family Builders by Adoption is a nonprofit adoption agency serving children with special needs. This grant will support the Breaking the Barriers Program, which trains adoption and child welfare professionals to identify personal biases and institutional points of resistance, practice strategies to support LGBT adoption, and develop policies and procedures to facilitate LGBT adoption within their agencies.

Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network/San Francisco-East Bay (GLSEN) - $7,000
GLSEN/SF-EB strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. This grant supports their PRYDE and RESPECT programs, which provide peer education services to nearly 3,000 youth in Bay Area middle and high schools, and staff development training on AB537 to approximately 1,000 local educators.

Movement Generation: Young Leaders Strategy Project - $9,500
Movement Generation builds the strategic leadership skills, political analysis, and relationships among young LGBT and progressive Bay Area organizational leaders necessary to forge a set of long-term, collaborative, grassroots organizing strategies. This grant will support the leadership development of 20 LGBT organizational leaders, who will create an LGBT peer-based "learning circle," lead a group assessment of right-wing strategy and tactics, and develop and facilitate a series of workshops for LGBT leaders and their allies on overcoming homophobia and transphobia in the progressive movement.

Tri-City Health Center - $9,500
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 south Alameda County. This grant will support youth-focused services in their TransVision program, which provides HIV and other health education services for transgender women.

Elders

Lavender Seniors of the East Bay - $5,000
Lavender Seniors of the East Bay provides telephone support, home visits, and monthly group meetings to LGBT people over 55 in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. This grant will support their Latino LGBT Seniors outreach project, which seeks to improve access to culturally competent health and related services for Latino LGBT seniors, solidify collaborative relationships with organizations serving the Latino community, and cultivate more Latino participation at all levels of Lavender Seniors.

Purple Moon Dance Project - $5,000
Purple Moon Dance Project The Purple Moon Dance Project integrates western and non-western dance forms and aesthetics to develop a greater appreciation of American cultural diversity-especially for lesbians and women of color-through the medium of dance. This grant will support Purple Moon's LGBT Elders Program ("Strong!Fit!Flexible!" and "Joyful Body").

Health & Human Services

AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP) - $7,500
ALRP provides free and low-fee legal services to people with HIV or an HIV-related legal problem and advances their rights through public policy advocacy. This grant will support the Immigrant HIV Assistance Project (IHAP), which provides free immigration legal services to immigrants with HIV/AIDS in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center - $7,500
API Wellness Center exists to educate, support and empower, and advocate for Asian and Pacific Islander communities - particularly A&PIs living with HIV/AIDS, their partners, families and friends, regardless of immigration status or ability to pay - through multilingual health promotion, cutting-edge HIV programs, national training and technical assistance and multi-issue advocacy.

Black Coalition on AIDS - $7,500
The Black Coalition on AIDS is the oldest community-based AIDS services organization in San Francisco targeting services to the African-American community. This grant will support the transformation of Man2Man, a previously federally funded HIV-prevention program, into a volunteer-driven, community-building effort.

Emani Incorporated - $5,000
Emani Incorporated provides residential support services to people in the Vallejo and Solano County area suffering from substance abuse, mental health, and potentially life-threatening illnesses (HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C). This grant will support Emani House, a six-bed supportive living residence for women who are dual or triple diagnosed.

Gente Latina de Ambiente (GELAAM) - $7,500
GELAAM is a community-based Latino organization that provides forums for social awareness, education, advocacy, activities on health education and HIV/AIDS prevention, and emotional support for its Latino LGBT constituency. GELAAM is the only Latino LGBT support group in San Mateo County.

Immune Enhancement Project - $6,000
The Immune Enhancement Project is a non-profit clinic providing low-cost acupuncture, herbs, and massage to the community for a variety of health concerns. This grant will support the Community Acupuncture and Massage Program, which brings complementary healthcare into the community for those who are chronically ill and at-risk with low/no-income, with a primary focus on under-served segments of the LGBT community.

Pacific Center for Human Growth - $6,000
The Pacific Center for Human Growth has existed since 1973 as an LGBT community services center, providing resources for the social, informational, and emotional needs of the Bay Area's LGBT communities.

Positive Resource Center (PRC) - $7,500
PRC provides people living with HIV/AIDS with comprehensive benefits counseling and employment services in San Francisco. PRC also offers training and technical assistance throughout California on complex benefits issues.

St. James Infirmary - $4,000
The St. James Infirmary is a peer-run, free health and social service clinic for San Francisco Bay Area sex workers, offering a range of services including comprehensive health care, social services, massage, and a food and clothing bank. This grant will support their Thursday night health clinic for transgender sex workers.

Tri-City Health Center - $6,500
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. This grant will support their TransVision program, which provides HIV and other health education serves for transgender women.