Community Issues
Grantee Partners
The SF Bay Area LGBTQ organizations below received grants through Horizons' flagship Community Issues Funding Program.
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2024
2024
Community Issues 2024
Horizons Foundation awarded a total of $753,372 to 44 Community Issues Grantee Partners
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Amor Para Todos' mission is to join with schools and communities in an innovative, intersectional approach to cultivate more gender and LGBTQIA+ affirming environments for our youth. We believe our work will be the early intervention that can serve as a catalyst to change systematic invisibility for LGBTQIA+ youth. |
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Home of the first and largest annual Two-Spirit Powwow, Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) exists to restore and recover the role of Two- Spirit people within the American Indian/First Nations community by creating a forum for the spiritual, cultural and artistic expression of Two-Spirit people. |
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Bay Area Girls Rock Camp empowers young people through music, promoting an environment that fosters self-confidence, creativity and teamwork. Our camp centers the experiences of girls, trans and/or non-binary youth in our explicit commitment to gender justice and creating an inclusive environment that supports a wide range of marginalized gender identities and expressions. |
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The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center provides a safe space, leadership, advocacy, services, and support for the LGBTQ+ community and allies. |
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The mission of the Billys is to foster community, intimacy, and personal exploration among gay, bi, trans and queer men through shared values and brotherhood. We are a heart-centered community woven together by shared values and by our shared experience as gay, bi, and queer men. |
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We are a community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, trans folks, LGBTQ+ individuals and allies committed to changing the way communities of color talk about gender and leadership. We work across race and gender to eradicate sexism, homophobia and transphobia to create affirming and liberatory frameworks for gender, masculinity and change. |
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Bruthas Rising works to enhance the spiritual, mental, and economic health and well-being of transmen — with a particular focus on those most underserved in every effort to engage, empower, influence, and ameliorate adverse conditions — so that they can evolve as members of a diverse community. We envision a world in which practical methodologies have been implemented to build the fundamental structures to positively impact longevity and sustainable life goals for all transmen. |
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Camp It Up! offers arts and nature based LGBTQAI+ family camps that nurture youth leadership development, community building, fun and a deep commitment to diversity, racial justice, equity, and radical inclusivity. |
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Creating a Coastside in San Mateo County that supports and celebrates people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. |
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To provide a space for the freedom of expression, individual growth, and community development for LGBTQ Latinx individuals. Teatro Alebrijes develops works rooted in the experience of queer Latinx individuals whose primarily language is Spanish. Teatro Alebrijes exists at the intersection of Creative, Queer, Latine/x, Immigrant, Spanish speaking individuals. |
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The Deaf Queer Resource Center is an anti-racist organization committed to equity and social justice that works to support, inform, educate, empower, and bring more visibility to and awareness about marginalized Deaf Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer communities. |
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Detour Dance centers the prismatic experiences of queers and people of color. Detour is a devised dance-theater ensemble that creates bold performances rooted in community-based creative processes. |
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Diamond Wave is a queer arts organization that produces diverse, queer-centered artistic and cultural events that bring together disparate segments of LGBTQIA2S+ community in the Bay Area. |
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Drag Story Hour celebrates reading through the glamorous art of drag. Our chapter network creates diverse, accessible, and culturally-inclusive family programming where kids can express their authentic selves and become bright lights of change in their communities. |
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East Bay Getting to Zero is a collaborative community-driven initiative which improves access and eliminates barriers to HIV prevention and care in the East Bay region of Northern California and serves the unique role of bringing together all leaders, organizations and stakeholders to strategically implement innovative and evidence based practices across the region. |
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EBSC-OLAS LGBT Asylum Program |
Since 2004, the EBSC-OLAS LGBT Asylum Program has provided integrated legal and social services, psychological support, and community-building to Latinx LGBT asylum seekers in the SF Bay Area. OLAS means “wave” in Spanish and is an acronym for LGBT Organization for Support and Solidarity. |
Rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area, Foglifter Press is a platform for LGBTQIA2S+ writers that supports and uplifts powerful, intersectional, and transgressive queer and trans writing through publication and public readings to build and enrich our communities as well as the greater literary arts. |
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Homobiles |
Homobiles is a ride share with the sole purpose of providing safe, reliable transportation to the greater LGBTQ+ community in the Bay Area. Homobiles continues to prioritize a supportive and safe environment for queer people, especially transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals. We are especially focused on providing safe and caring transportation for members of the trans community's medical appointments pertaining to surgery. |
LGBTQ Connection's goals are to promote LGBTQ youth leadership, strengthen underserved populations within the LGBTQ community, and build safe and welcoming outposts for community members to seek and receive education and support throughout Napa and Sonoma Counties, including transgender youth; Latinx youth and non-English speaking families; youth of color; youth living in rural / semi-rural communities. |
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Curry Senior Center's LGBTQ+ Programs serve LGBTQ+ older adults (55+) and adults with disabilities and prioritizes community building and isolation reduction for all LGBTQ+ older adults. |
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Outlet Program will be facilitating a middle and high school group as well as providing 1 on 1 counseling services to LGBTQIA+ youth at Coast Pride in Half Moon Bay. |
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Parivar Bay Area builds a community of light, love, and acceptance that enhances our reputation as a primary organization for Transgender economic justice, social inclusion, and health care equity, and an engaging leader for Queer Trans Immigration equity, led by South Asian Transgender Leaders. |
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PFLAG's mission is to create a caring, just and affirming world for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them. |
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Queer LifeSpace provides affordable, evidence-based mental health services, substance abuse services, and clinical training to the LGBTQIA+ community. Developed by queer people for queer people. We're passionate about serving the underserved and providing therapy services to those in need regardless of their ability to pay. |
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Queer Rebels Productions (QRP) is an arts organization with presenting, commissioning, and residency programs that provide visibility and financial sustainability to Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous, and people of color (QTBIPOC) artists. |
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QWOCMAP uses film to shatter bias, reveal the lived truths of injustice, and illuminate the brilliance of our communities through art and activism. QWOCMAP creates, exhibits, and distributes films that authentically reflect the lives of, and address the vital, intersecting social justice issues that concern LBTQIA+ BIPOC. We change who is behind the lens by actively investing in, developing, and nurturing the creativity and leadership of LBTQIA+ BIPOC to create transformative change. |
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Quest House is a post-op community healing home for trans men and transmasculine individuals pursuing gender-affirming bottom surgeries in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
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The Sebastopol Area Senior Center improves the lives of older adults in West Sonoma County through programs, classes, services. Specifically, the LGBT+ Rainbow Connection aims to foster safe and welcoming activities that encourage connectedness, belonging, and inclusion for all LGBTQ adults. We co-create this through active volunteerism at our wide variety of in-person and online activities. |
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Rainbow Women’s Chorus works together to develop musical excellence in an atmosphere of mutual support and respect. We perform publicly for the entertainment, education and cultural enrichment of our audiences and community. We sing to enhance the esteem of all women, to celebrate diversity, to promote peace and freedom and to touch people’s hearts and lives. |
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The Center’s Bi The Way is a series of workshops and discussions for bisexual (Bi+) community members, led by Bi+ community members. Bi The Way centers Bi+ communities through connection and wellbeing. |
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The mission of the San Francisco Trans March is to inspire all Trans and Gender Non-Conforming people to realize a world where we are safe, loved, and empowered. The San Francisco Trans March envisions a world based in safety and justice for all, regardless of gender identity and expression. We strive to create a space for our diverse communities to unite and achieve the social justice and equality that each of us deserves. |
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The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival builds strong and resilient transgender community through media arts programs that strengthen awareness of intersectional trans history, identity, rights movements, and culture; uplifts community dialogue about local and global transgender issues; invests in TGNC filmmakers; and engages in movements for trans and racial justice. We are the world’s first and longest-running transgender film festival. |
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Side by Side's Our Space's mission is to walk with young people impacted by adversity toward a future with connection and meaning. Side by Side’s Our Space is the only program or organization providing advocacy, support services, and a community center for LGBTQIA+ youth in Southern Alameda County, including Hayward, California. |
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The mission of the Silicon Valley Gay Men's Chorus is to inspire and unite our diverse community through musical excellence and pride. |
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Solano Serenity Center's mission is to provide resources to the LGBTQ+ community, thereby creating a safe haven for all LGBTQ+ individuals to live their lives free from discrimination and unfair treatment from others. |
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Still Here San Francisco / Queer Ancestors Project Kaleidoscope |
Still Here San Francisco is an Intergenerational cultural preservation project amplifying the voices and creativity of Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Color raised in San Francisco. SHSF brings together Queer and Trans/ nonbinary artists of different ages and racial backgrounds to create works that explore how historical and contemporary issues such as gentrification, displacement, AIDS, and incarceration have impacted the residents of San Francisco. |
The Castro Country Club (CCC) is a safe and sober community center for all people and a refuge for the LGBTQ recovery community by providing programs and services that help people change their lives by supporting personal growth and connecting them with the larger recovery community. |
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The LGBT Asylum Project is the only San Francisco nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to providing accessible legal representation for LGBT asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution due to their sexual orientation, gender identity and/or HIV status. |
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Trans Advocacy and Care Team is a trans-led initiative based in the East Bay that provide free, ongoing, virtual non-crisis peer support that is both accessible from anywhere, and led and facilitated by trans people themselves. |
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Trans bloom is an intergenerational trans and BIPOC-centered cultural hub dedicated to healing through creativity and connection that creates programming to strengthen community resilience, foster meaningful relationships with nature, and promote joy. |
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TransCamp facilitates safe outdoor experiences for trans adults so that they can connect to each other & themselves in nature. |
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TurnOut’s mission is to mobilize communities to power queer and trans movements by implementing a full suite of support programming to supercharge the impact of every part of LGBTQ+ grassroots organizations' infrastructure. |
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Community Forward helps the most vulnerable individuals get off the streets, find comprehensive services, and achieve stability so they may thrive. The Gender Inclusive Re-Entry Program at the Women’s Resource Center, which serves low-income transgender adult females who are or have been incarcerated. We provide a connection to stabilization so clients can begin their journey to self-sufficiency. |
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花和霧 flowers and fog: Mongolian Days |
花和霧 flowers and fog is an intergenerational, queer, diasporic project with their mother Joy bridging their stories with local AAPI drag artists and Chinatown via immersive picnic shows. |