Total Awarded: $200,902

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.
 

Aunt Lute Book Foundation - $7,500
For creating community between lesbian elders and youth of color, as part of Aunt Lute's publishing that serves lesbians and women of color

BorderOUT - $2,500
For arts programs that build solidarity among LGBT immigrants

Bring Your Own Queer - $2,000
For an LGBT music/performance festival in Golden Gate Park

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

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

Fabled ASP - $4,000
For documenting and celebrating the history of Bay Area disabled lesbians through storytelling and media

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 second part of a two-year grant.

Groundspark - $10,000
For films and teaching guides for anti-homophobia campaigns in schools

Guy Writers - Playwrights - $1,000
For the production of LGBT short plays

Lesbian Health and Research Center at UCSF - $5,000
For a comprehensive program of activities to enhance clinical practice and inform policy about the health needs of LBT women

Marea Media - $7,500
For the feature-length documentary film Tomboys and Ladies: Thai Gender Outlaws and the Women who Love Them

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 - $8,000
For programs designed to eliminate new HIV infections among Native people using holistic spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical approaches

New Conservatory Theatre Center - $15,000
For increasing individual support, to build capacity for New Conservatory's innovative, high-quality theater that brings about both personal and societal change

Oakland Pride - $8,000
For the annual celebration of the culture and diversity of the LGBT community in Oakland and the East Bay

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 second part of a two-year grant.

Our Family Coalition - $8,000
For social, educational, and advocacy programs for LGBT parents and prospective parents

OutLoud Radio - $9,954
For radio broadcasting and production by LGBTQ youth. This is the first part of a renewable grant.

Pacific Center for Human Growth - $7,500
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
* NOTE: Because the funds for this grant were issued in early 2011, it is not included in the 2010 grant totals.

Question Why Films - Regarding Susan Sontag Documentary Film Project - $7,500
For a film about author Susan Sontag

RADAR Productions - $7,500
For a new feature film by 21 culturally diverse LGBT media artists based on "Valencia", Michelle Tea's 21-chapter award-winning novel

St. James Infirmary - $5,000
For a project to end "condoms as evidence," as part of the infirmary's medical and social services for LGBT sex workers

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 - $5,000*
For the annual march for transgender visibility and civil rights. This is the first part of a renewable grant.
* NOTE: Because the funds for this grant were issued in early 2011, it is not included in the 2010 grant totals.

Sins Invalid - $5,000
For performances by artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer/gender-variant artists. This is the first part of a renewable grant.

Somos Familia - $8,000
For programs to create support and acceptance for Latina/o LGBTQQ youth and their families

Teatro Vision - $5,000
For the production of ¡Gaytino! at the 2010 San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival

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 second part of a two-year grant.

Vanguard Revisited Project - $4,000
For a public arts and history project serving and led by LGBT people living in poverty in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood