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Funding LGBT Issues Group


Members
The following are current members of Funding LGBT Issues Group. If you are interested in joining this group,contact Margo Gray.


Consuella Brown, co-chair, Woods Fund of Chicago
Evette Cardona, co-chair, Polk Bros. Foundation

Leslie Corbett, Illinois Equal Justice Foundation
Thomas Houlihan, McCormick Foundation
Rose Jagust, Lawrence E. and Nancy S. Glick Foundation
Jeanne Kracher, Crossroads Fund

Ernest Vasseur, Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County
Martha Wright, Crossroads Fund



Upcoming Programs

Please check back for upcoming programs.

Program Archives
The notes from previous programs contain valuable knowledge and information on LGBT-related issues.

2008 Summer Retreat
The group planned four sessions for the coming year: "Common Vision and Social Justice," Making Change: Queer Youth," "The State of LGBT Issues," and a Peer Exchange. Evette Cardona completed her service as co-chair, and Jane Saks was welcomed as new co-chair to work with continuing co-chair Consuella Brown.

Resources
Updated: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Funding by U.S. Foundations (pdf, 26 pages, 2008)
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues has released a report on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Funding by U.S. Foundations: Calendar Year 2006.

Report on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Grantmaking by U.S. Foundations (pdf, 12/06)
This annual report on from Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues is the most comprehensive and detailed portrait available of both private and public foundation giving to LGBT issues.

Out for Change: Racial and Economic Justice Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities (pdf, 10/05)
This report from Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues aims to help funders understand the complexity of racial and economic justice issues among gay and transgender individuals.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Grantmaking by U.S. Foundations (pdf, 04,05)
Produced by Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues, this report is the first to track foundation support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. The fight for recognition of civil rights and same-sex marriages has received the most funding (24 percent), while children and youth received nearly as much (22.6 percent).

Discrimination and Inclusiveness at a Crossroads (pdf, 05/02)
Using the Boy Scouts of America ruling as a case study, this new brochure from FLAG discusses discrimination law as it relates to sexual orientation and provides recommendations on integrating sexual orientation into grantmaking inclusiveness policies.

LGBT Organizations Database
This database lists nonprofit organizations in the country that support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and issues.

Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues
Visit the national affinity group web site.

Funding LGBT Issues Group Program Archives
Notes containing valuable knowledge and information shared at previous programs and meetings of this group.