2013 Grantees
2013 Grantees
| ORGANIZATION | GRANT AMOUNT | PURPOSE |
| COMMUNITY ISSUES GRANTS | ||
| Advocates for Informed Choice | $5,000 | General Operating Support for grassroots organizing and the use of legal strategies to address the human and civil rights of intersex children |
| AIRspace | $5,000 | General Operating Support for expanding the artist residency program, especially to underrepresented LGBTQ artists |
| Alternative Theater Ensemble | $2,000 | For the development and production of The Fellowship, which explores Queer identity in a rural northern California town |
| Asian & Pacific Islander Family Pride | $5,000 | General Operating Support for workshops and events for Asian and Pacific Islander families with LGBT children |
| Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach | $8,000 | To provide legal services and advocacy to ensure the civil and human rights of LGBT immigrants |
| Bindlestiff Studio | $5,000 | For programs to educate, challenge, and encourage dialogue among and between different ethnic and sexually diverse communities by highlighting Filipino American LGBTQQI youth experiences |
| Brown Boi Project | $5,000 | General Operating Support for leadership training for masculine-identified people of color. This is the second part of a two-year grant |
| Colectivo Acción Latina de Ambiente | $7,000 | General Operating Support for programs to provide a space for freedom of expression, individual growth, and community building for LGBT Latinas and Latinos |
| Community United Against Violence | $8,000 | General Operating Support for programs to support LGBT people in creating individual and collective safety and healing from abuse, and to transform the root causes of violence |
| Face Value, a project of the Tides Center | $15,000 | Increasing Giving Support for the implementation of a newly designed individual donor strategy. This is the second part of a two-year grant. |
| Floating Ophelia Productions, LLC | $8,000 | For the film Major! that explores the extraordinary life of Miss Major, a long-time activist in the transgender community |
| Fresh Meat Productions | $4,000 | General Operating Support for artistic programming to promote the development of transgender artists |
| Lavender Seniors of the East Bay | $5,000 | General Operating Support for programs to improve the quality of life of older LGBT residents of the East Bay through community building, education, and advocacy |
| Lesbian Health & Research Center at UCSF | $5,000 | For programs to improve the health and well-being of Lesbians, Bisexual Women, Transgender people and families. This is the second part of a two-year grant |
| LYRIC | $10,000 | Increasing Giving Support for the implementation of a grassroots fundraising model focusing on program and community engagement |
| Mexican Heritage Corporation | $5,000 | For the Queerseañera program to create a cultural event with the purpose of bringing communities together to reflect, celebrate and discover intersectionalities between the Latino and LGBT communities |
| New Conservatory Theatre Center | $10,000 | Increasing Giving Support to increase individual donor support and build development capacity |
| Oakland Pride, Inc. | $5,000 | General Operating Support 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 | $2,678 | General Operating Support for programs that provide lesbians a safe, supportive network and foster creative ways to live well as elder women |
| Our Space | $8,000 | To launch a GED preparation and support program for LGBTQ youth |
| Outlet Program – A project of Adolescent Counseling Services | $4,000 | General Operating Support for programs to support and empower LGBTQQ youth, including bilingual Spanish-speaking youth, living on the mid-SF Peninsula |
| OutLoud Radio | $8,000 | General Operating Support for production and radio broadcasting by LGBTQ youth |
| Pacific Center for Human Growth | $3,500 | General Operating Support for LGBT workshops, support groups, and other programs at the multi-service community center |
| Pye Harris Legacy Project, Inc. | $4,000 | For the re-editing of four (4) short films of LGBT youth interviewing LGBT elders about their coming out experiences in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and during the Age of AIDS |
| Queer Rebels Productions | $5,000 | General Operating Support for film programs and projects with a focus on LGBT people of color |
| Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project | $6,000 | General Operating Support for the creation, exhibition and distribution of new films/videos that address social justice issues that concern queer women of color |
| Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County | $15,000 | Increasing Giving Support to support the implementation of a community engagement and increase individual donor development strategy |
| Rainbow Women’s Chorus | $1,500 | General Operating Support for developing choral musical programming by an all women’s chorus |
| San Francisco Trans March | $5,000 | General Operating Support for the annual march and performance art program for transgender visibility and civil rights |
| San Francisco Transgender Film Festival | $5,000 | General Operating Support for the annual film festival in conjunction with the march for transgender visibility and civil rights |
| St. James Infirmary | $4,500 | Support for the STRIDE Clinic, a program for transgender and gender-variant sex workers |
| Transgender Law Center | $5,000 | Increasing Giving Support to increase donor recruitment, retention, and contributions as part of overall development and sustainability strategy |
| Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project | $10,000 | General Operating Support for programs to challenge and end the human and civil rights abuses committed against transgender, gender variant, and intersex (TGI) people in California prisons and beyond |
| Youth UpRising | $8,527 | To effect change and educate leaders and others about LGBT issues by creating advocacy and systems change through youth organized efforts |
| ALEX MORRIS MEMORIAL FUND GRANTS | ||
| Auburn Hip Hop Congress | $1,000 | General Operating Support |
| Bay Area Video Coalition | $1,000 | For BUMP Records |
| Homeless Youth Alliance | $1,000 | General Operating Support |
| BUENA VISTA FUND GRANTS | ||
| Community Music Center | $357,750 | One-time bequest for General Operating Support |
| Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | $178,857 | One-time bequest for General Operating Support for the de Young Museum |
| Friends of the San Francisco Public Library | $715,500 | One-time bequest for General Operating Support |
| San Francisco Conservatory of Music | $357,750 | One-time bequest for General Operating Support |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $357,750 | One-time bequest for General Operating Support |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $715,500 | One-time bequest for the Joseph A. Rosenthal University Librarian’s Discretionary Fund |
| FAIRY GODFATHERS FOR LGBT DISABILITY ISSUES FUND GRANTS | ||
| Diversity Center | $4,000 | To address issues of access and inclusion in the Santa Cruz queer community and to encourage the Center to reach out to under-represented members of the LGBT community, through collaborations, on-line programming and other initiatives that serve particularly Latino, and Spanish-speaking members of the Community |
| FUND FOR CAMEROONIAN LGBTI REFUGEES GRANTS | ||
| Jewish Family & Children’s Services Of The East Bay | $3,500 | To provide assistance to LGBTI asylum seekers/refugees from Cameroon who are already in the San Francisco Bay Area |
| GIVE OUT DAY GRANTS | ||
| Alternative Theater Ensemble | $1,500 | Give OUT Day Prize award |
| Center for Sex and Culture | $5,000 | Give OUT Day Prize award |
| Gay-Straight Alliance Network | $3,500 | Give OUT Day Prize award |
| New Conservatory Theatre Center | $1,500 | Give OUT Day Prize award |
| Out in the Bay | $3,500 | Give OUT Day Prize award |
| Transgender Law Center | $5,000 | Give OUT Day Prize award |
| GLOBAL FAITH & EQUALITY FUND GRANTS | ||
| Center for Constitutional Rights | $50,000 | For continued litigation efforts in SMUG v. Lively and to continue to develop its complementary advocacy campaigns and further the work of this project by focusing on three areas: research/investigation, coalition building and public education |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | $50,000 | For support of Global Rights Watch (GRW), a unique partnership between Planned Parenthood Global, Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s international division, and Ipas |
| Political Research Associates | $150,000 | To produce research and communications to challenge the “culprits” exporting politicized homophobia from the U.S. abroad. The Grantee will create a “one-stop shop” web platform for activists and journalists and partner with leading advocacy and communications groups to apply the research and put pressure on key actors |
| Southern Poverty Law Center | $75,000 | To use a combination of advocacy tools – research, publications, media, and policy outreach – to expose and marginalize the U.S.-based religious organizations that use their financial and political resources to export hate to Central and South America and through the demonization and criminalization of the LGBT community |
| HORIZONS YOUNG PROFESSIONALS FOR EQUALITY (HYPE) GRANTS | ||
| Our Space | $5,000 | To build a comprehensive base of monthly donors to sustain Our Space’s critical services for LGBTQ youth |
| Gay-Straight Alliance Network | $5,000 | To create and launch a GSA Alumni Association, engage more GSA Alumni to give and increase the amount of revenue from young donors |
| Pacific Center for Human Growth | $5,000 | To achieve and sustain target annual fundraising goal of $25,000 by a core group of Pacific Center donors between the ages of 25-35 |
| FELLOWSHIPS | ||
| Southwest Women’s Law Center | $16,525 | For Thomas Steel Fellowship Awardee |
| SCHOLARSHIPS | ||
| California Arts Education Association | $1,000 | For Juan Marquez Scholarship Awardee |
| Lutheran University Association DBA Valparaiso University | $1,000 | For Juan Marquez Scholarship Awardee |
| San Francisco State University Financial Aid Office | $6,000 | For Markowski Leach Scholarship Awardees |
| San Francisco State University Financial Aid Office | $1,000 | For New Road Scholarship awardee |
| Stanford University Financial Aid | $3,000 | For Markowski-Leach Scholarship Awardees |
| UC Hastings College of the Law | $1,000 | For New Road Scholarship Awardee |
| University of California Berkeley – Financial Aid | $10,500 | For Markowski-Leach Scholarship Awardee |
| University of California Berkeley School of Law | $1,500 | For Markowski-Leach Scholarship Awardee |
| University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business | $1,500 | For Markowski-Leach Scholarship Awardee |
| MISCELLANEOUS GRANTS | ||
| Equal Justice Society | $2,000 | General Operating Support |
| Hartley Film Foundation | $2,000 | To support Parvez Sharma’s latest film |
| Immigration Equality | $1,000 | General Operating Support |
