• Community Issues Grants
  Horizons' Community Issues grants award up to $10,000 to support organizations or projects serving LGBT people of all ages in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties, focusing on the following issue areas: Arts and Culture; Awareness and Civil Rights; Community Building; and Human Services and Health.

• HIV/AIDS Community Grants
  This program, which Horizons administered in partnership with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation for over a decade, has returned to SFAF as one of their in-house grantmaking programs. (View the 2010 guidelines and RFP...) It has been our honor to be entrusted with the HIV/AIDS Community Grants since 1999, and we are thrilled that SFAF will continue to provide much-needed resources to the organizations and programs dedicated to ending the pandemic. Learn more about past HIV/AIDS Community Grants...

• LGBT WISE: Working to Increase Services for Elders
  LGBT WISE is a landmark program to increase the capacity of LGBT organizations in the Bay Area to provide services to LGBT elders, a population that is critically underserved - and growing.

• POCIBLE: People of Color Initiative to Build Leadership and Effectiveness
  To help a core of people of color LGBT organizations and individuals develop the capacity to play sustaining leadership roles in the LGBT community, Horizons has made investing in this area one of our grantmaking priorities, particularly through this new program, POCIBLE: People of Color Initiative to Build Leadership and Effectiveness. This program also includes the Rickey Williams Fellowships, which recognize and support emerging LGBT leaders from communities of color.

• Scholarships
  Horizons is home to several scholarships focused on the supporting and raising the visibility of the LGBT community, including GAPA's George Choy Memorial Scholarship, Markowski-Leach Scholarship, Juan Marquez Scholarship, Pride Law Fund's Thomas H. Steel Fellowship, and Joseph Towner Scholarship for Gay and Lesbian Families.

• Field of Interest Funds
  Horizons has created several field of interest funds that bring together donors around particular topics and generate new resources for LGBT organizations and projects. These funds include the Civil Marriage Collaborative Donor Circle and the Fund for Advocacy and Political Initiatives.
  
  

Horizons also manages and advises the grantmaking of donor-advised and other named funds. We encourage LGBT organizations to submit copies of proposals prepared for other funders that we can forward to donor advisors for review, as appropriate.

If you're interested in opening a donor-advised fund at Horizons, please contact Deb Stallings, Director of Development and Gift Planning, at 415.398.2333 x103 or dstallings [at] horizonsfoundation [dot] org.