Total Awarded: $217,948
(corrected 1/12/10)

Community Issues grants are made possible in large part by the generosity of hundreds of Horizons donors, including those whose bequests and planned gifts have supported Horizons Foundation's LGBT Community Endowment Fund. The grants are also funded in part by support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the San Francisco Foundation.
 

Asian & Pacific Islander Family Pride - $5,000
For work to end the isolation of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) families with LGBT members

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center - $15,000
For broadening their base of individual support, to build capacity for care and prevention services for Asian and Pacific Islander (API) people living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS. This is the second part of a two-year grant.

Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry - $5,000
For education, research, community building, and advocacy efforts to shape a new public discourse on religion and sexuality

Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE) - $6,000
For programs for youth with LGBT families

Community United Against Violence (CUAV) - $7,000
For work preventing and responding to violence against and within the LGBTQQ communities. This is the first part of a renewable grant.

The Dancing Trees/Sins Invalid - $8,000
For performances by artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer/gender-variant artists

Fabled ASP - $5,895
For documenting and celebrating the history of Bay Area disabled lesbians through storytelling and media

Frameline - $15,000
For developing non-exchange individual support, to build capacity for programs that promote LGBT film. This is the second part of a two-year grant.

Fresh Meat Productions - $9,000
For artistic programs that support the creation, development, and staging of multi-disciplinary work that reflects the transgender experience and builds community. This is the first part of a renewable grant.

Gay-Straight Alliance Network - $5,000
For student organizing to empower youth leaders and counteract anti-LGBTQ bias

GLBT Historical Society - $5,000
For programs and archives preserving LGBT history

Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center (LYRIC) - $15,000
For the Social Justice Fundraising Project, to build capacity for LYRIC's programs for LGBTQQ youth. This is the second part of a two-year grant.

Lesbian Health and Research Center at UCSF - $7,000
For a comprehensive program of activities to enhance clinical practice and inform policy about the health needs of LBT women

National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) - $15,000
For increasing individual support, to build capacity for NCLR's litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education programs

Native American AIDS Project - $5,000
For programs designed to eliminate new HIV infections among Native people using holistic spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical approaches

Old Lesbians Organizing For Change, San Francisco Bay Area Affiliate - $2,948
For programs that provide old lesbians a safe, supportive network and foster creative ways to live well as old women. This is the first part of a renewable grant.

Openhouse - $5,000
For developing mixed-use, mixed-income senior housing and support services that welcome the LGBT community

Our Family Coalition - $7,105
For social, educational, and advocacy programs for LGBT parents and prospective parents

Outlet Program - $5,000
For programs that support the well-being of LGBTQQ youth living on the mid-Peninsula. This is the second part of a two-year grant.

OutLoud Radio - $5,000
For radio broadcasting and production by LGBTQ youth

Pacific Center for Human Growth - $8,000
For workshops, support groups, and other programs at the multi-service community center

Pride at Work, AFL-CIO San Francisco Chapter - $5,000
For efforts to build alliances between organized labor and the LGBT community

Puente de la Costa Sur - $4,000
For the South Coast School Safety Project, part of Puente's work making services accessible to people in rural communities

QueLACo (Queer Latino/a Artists Coalition) - $2,000
For the development, production, and presentation of multidisciplinary arts by and for queer Latinos in the Bay Area. This is the second part of a two-year grant.

Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County - $3,000
For the multi-service LGBT community center serving central and eastern Contra Costa County

Rainbow Women's Chorus - $1,000
For concerts and festival workshops that entertain, educate, and culturally enrich audiences. This is the second part of a two-year grant.

San Francisco LGBT Community Center - $15,000
For growing their major donor base, to build capacity for the multi-service community center's programming

San Francisco Trans March - $3,000
For the annual march for transgender visibility and civil rights

Somos Familia - $4,000
For programs to create support and acceptance for Latina/o LGBTQQ youth and their families

Song That Radio - $4,000
For social events and anti-homophobia educational programs for the Vietnamese-American community. This is the second part of a two-year grant.

Tenth Muse - $7,000
For the development and performance of original operas exploring queer and Latina themes

Transgender Law Center - $9,000
For legal services, education, advocacy, and community organizing to address the discrimination faced by transgender people and their families. This is the first part of a renewable grant.