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The Dru Project

Provides LGBTQ+Focused services

Services

  • Ally Training and Education
  • Professional Development/Scholarships/Higher Education
  • Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming
  • Youth Services

Location

3039 Old Fulton Place
Brandon, Florida 33510

Contact Info

Phone:

Notes

"The Dru Project is an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization on a mission to spread love across the nation and promote gay straight alliances. We are doing this by creating a curriculum for high school GSAs to use, should they wish to adopt our program. We are also offering scholarships to students who truly exemplify Drew's spirit for inclusion and unity."
Scholarships are offered to students who will be attending college or a trade school. GSA support for schools in Florida.

Awesomely Authentic

Provides LGBTQ+Focused services

Services

  • Professional Development/Scholarships/Higher Education
  • Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming
  • Youth Services

Location

National

Contact Info

Phone: 704-248-1442

Notes

"If you’re tired of playing the same 'professional' game and ready to be your authentic self at work, at school and in life, then you have come to the right place!
Awesomely Authentic focuses on the issues and journeys of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans* and Queer (LGBTQ+) individuals as they find that right job/internship, college or career fit.
'Why have a grain of sand, when you can have the whole damn sandbox' -Matthew French, Awesomely Authentic Founder"
Services include College Prep for high school students; Career Coaching; and Diversity and Inclusion Consulting for companies and organizations.

National Bail Fund Network

Provides LGBTQ+Friendly services

Services

  • Immigration/Asylum
  • Immigration
  • Mutual Aid/Direct Giving/Fundraising

Location

National

Notes

"The National Bail Fund Network is made up of over sixty community bail and bond funds across the country. We regularly update this listing of community bail funds that are freeing people by paying bail/bond and are also fighting to abolish the money bail system and pretrial detention."
Includes information on LGBTQ+Focused funds.
Part of Community Justice Exchange.

American Indian College Fund

Provides LGBTQ+Friendly services

Services

  • Indigenous/Native Communities
  • Mutual Aid/Direct Giving/Fundraising
  • Professional Development/Scholarships/Higher Education

Location

8333 Greenwood Blvd.
Denver, CO 80221

Contact Info

Phone: 303-426-8900
Email:

Notes

"The American Indian College Fund invests in Native students and tribal college education to transform lives and communities."
Includes an LGBTQ webinar series "to provide a resource for all tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) on awareness and understanding of campus climate, identity, and current College Fund initiatives."

Lighthouse Foundation

Provides LGBTQ+Focused services

Services

  • Adults Questioning Their Sexuality/Gender Identity
  • Ally Training and Education
  • Black/African Diaspora
  • Mutual Aid/Direct Giving/Fundraising
  • Youth Services

Location

2335 N. Orchard Street
Chicago, Illinois 60115
Cook County, IL

Contact Info

Phone: (773) 808-3050
Email:

Notes

"We are a nonsectarian, nonprofit social justice organization that advances justice for Black LGBTQ+ people across Chicagoland through empowerment, education, and entertainment."
Also: "The Lighthouse Foundation is raising money for its Black Queer Mutual Aid Fund, which will give out $100 micro-grants to Black LGBTQ people in need in light of the COVID-19 pandemic." (from an article on blockclubchicago.org)

Southern Fried Queer Pride

Provides LGBTQ+Focused services

Services

  • Mental Health
  • Black/African Diaspora
  • Indigenous/Native Communities
  • Persons of Color/P.O.C.
  • Professional Development/Scholarships/Higher Education
  • Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming

Location

National

Notes

"SFQP envisions a world where Black and QTPOC artists and leaders are employed and owners in the regional South. Black and brown queer folks are often the drivers of culture, but often lack the autonomy and resources needed to support themselves and their communities. Our mission to uplift them, give them the platforms they need, and help create an environment and culture that sustains them."
Programming includes social events; community/educational events; festivals and art events.

The Okra Project

Provides LGBTQ+Focused services

Services

  • Black/African Diaspora
  • Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming

Location

National

Contact Info

Phone:
Email:

Notes

"The Okra Project is a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People wherever we can reach them."
"Based on individual donations, The Okra Project pays Black Trans chefs to go into the homes of Black Trans people to cook them a healthy and home-cooked meal at absolutely no cost to our Black TGNC siblings. For those Black Trans folks currently experiencing homeless or whose homes cannot support our chef’s cooking, The Okra Project has partnered with institutions like Osborne Association and other community spaces to deliver foods."
"In order to address financial and food disparities faced by Black Trans people worldwide, The Okra Project has developed the International Grocery Fund. This is a monthly fundraising effort that allows us to send small $40 grants to Black Trans people anywhere in the world, so they can buy food if they are experiencing emergency food shortages."

House of GG

Provides LGBTQ+Focused services

Services

  • Trans Legal Aid (Change of Name/Gender Marker)
  • Adults Questioning Their Sexuality/Gender Identity
  • Ally Training and Education
  • Black/African Diaspora
  • People with Disabilities
  • Persons of Color/P.O.C.
  • Professional Development/Scholarships/Higher Education
  • Seniors/Elderly/Aging
  • Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming
  • Youth Services

Location

P.O. Box 26165
Little Rock, Arkansas 72221

Contact Info

Phone: 501-904-5216
Email:

Notes

"The Griffin-Gracy Educational Retreat & Historical Center’s (a.k.a. “House of GG”) mission is to create programs, services, and resources that positively impact the lives, history, and visibility of Transgender, gender-questioning, and gender-nonconforming people. We do this through programs that promote healing justice, resilience, and organizing among our communities, particularly by and for transgender women of color, to remove barriers that inhibit our survival."
"Founded and led by Trans and gender nonconforming people and our allies, we create safe and transformative spaces where members of our community can heal—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually—from the trauma arising from generations of transphobia, racism, sexism, poverty, ableism and violence, and nurture them into tomorrow’s leaders. We currently primarily focus on supporting and nurturing the leadership of Transgender women of color living in the U.S. South."

Freedom Fund

Provides LGBTQ+Focused services

Services

  • Immigration/Asylum
  • Other (Legal)
  • Black/African Diaspora
  • Immigration
  • Mutual Aid/Direct Giving/Fundraising
  • Persons of Color/P.O.C.
  • Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming

Location

National

Contact Info

Phone: 786-233-8969

Notes

"The Freedom Fund secures the release of low-income people held in jail or immigration detention simply because they can't afford bail, with focus on LGBTQ individuals."
"We work to build a critical mass against the mass detention of LGBTQ individuals."

Black AIDS Institute

Provides LGBTQ+Friendly services

Services

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Anti-Discrimination (Workplace/Housing/Etc.)
  • Black/African Diaspora
  • Professional Development/Scholarships/Higher Education
  • Youth Services

Location

1833 West Eight Street
#200
Los Angeles, California 90057

Contact Info

Phone:

Notes

"Our mission is to stop the AIDS epidemic in Black communities by engaging and mobilizing Black institutions and individuals in efforts to confront HIV."
National programs include "We The People: A Black Plan to End HIV in America"; "Black Treatment Advocates Network" (a national network of HIV/AIDS stakeholders who mobilize Black communities across the country to confront HIV); planning bodies, task forces, and working groups around issues particular to health departments; “CUT THE STIGMA” (a campaign to combat HIV discrimination, in partnership with Lambda Legal.)
Los Angeles programs include "A Clinic for Us" (provides access to primary and specialty HIV biomedical prevention and clinic services from a uniquely and unapologetically Black point of view); and "Revolution in Color" (a group of young, Black, men who lead each other to personal success and development.)