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COMMUNITY GRANTS

Black & Indigenous Harm Reduction Alliance

The Black Indigenous Harm Reduction Alliance is a group of community workers of diverse experience who wish to draw attention to the need for access to self-determined and holistic health services within our communities.

Black Mental Health Connections

Black Mental Health Connections Montreal (BMHC MTL) is an alliance of organizations and individuals focused on the mental health and well-being of the English-speaking Black community in Montreal.

Sistering

Sistering is a multi-service agency for at-risk, socially isolated women and trans people in Toronto who are homeless or precariously housed.

The Bridge Youth & Family Services

The Bridge Youth & Family Services Society is a not-for-profit, registered charity that has provided innovative and quality programming to the children, youth and families of the Central Okanagan since 1969.

Fernie Pride Society

The Fernie Pride Society supports and connects the LGBTQ community in the Elk Valley. Incorporated in December 2016, the Society is a hub for LGBTQ people and their allies, programming special events as well as providing resource referrals.

Grow Centre

Grow Centre works together to plan, promote and execute many classes, art, teachings and community gatherings with elders, health care workers, the two spirit community and the lgbtqia2+ community in the region.

Ker Nomade

Ker Nomade is an Afro-feminist collective founded in 2018 to forge links between women (cisgender and transgender) and non-binary Afro-descendant people in Quebec, elsewhere in Canada and around the world.

Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group

NSPIRG is a student-led social and environmental justice resource centre, the only PIRG (public interest research group) east of Montreal.

Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre

Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective Core members supports Indigenous contemporary artists, curators, designers, educators, and culture workers, as well as the dialogue, criticality, and vision associated with this practice.

PEERS Alliance

PEERS Alliance supports those living with and at risk for HIV, Hep C and all sexually transmitted infections in PEI by offering a variety of programs and services targeted diverse communities.

Pride & Less Prejudice

Pride & Less Prejudice provides age-appropriate LGBTQ-inclusive books to PreK - 3rd grade classrooms in Canada and the United States.

Thatz Showbiz Theatre Project

Thatz Showbiz brings Broadway-class training to York Region and promotes self-confidence, empathy, presentation skills, creative thinking, communication skills and social activism and change through theatre.

Queer Making Community Collective

The Queer Making Community Collective is an ad-hoc LGBTQ2S+ collective based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario which brings together queer folks over crafting and art.

Shades of Colour

Shades of Colour (SOC) is a grassroots group that exists to advocate for queer and trans Black folks in Alberta.

House of GG

House of GG, an Arkansas-based organization, nurtures the leadership of transgender women of color living in the U.S. South.

The Okra Project

NYC’s Okra Project provides meals and therapy for Black transgender people free of charge. In June 2020 they launched the Nina Pop and Tony McDade funds to support mental health recovery in Black communities.

SnapCo

Solutions Not Punishments Collaborative (SnapCo) is a Black, trans-led, broad-based collaborative to restore an Atlanta where every person has the opportunity to grow and thrive without facing barriers from the criminal justice system.

Youth Breakout

Youth Breakout works to end the criminalization of LGBTQ+ youth in New Orleans, Louisiana through leadership development.

LGBTQ+ Freedom Fund

The LGBTQ+ Freedom fund fights the overincarceration of LGBTQ+ people. At present they are providing bail funds to LGBTQ+ people in 15 states.

Brave Space Alliance

Providing services and educational programming to LGBTQ+ people and relief for those impacted by police violence and unjust arrests.

ABO Comix

ABO Comix’s mission is to help amplify the voices of our most marginalized community members inside prisons by helping them become published artists with credentials, portfolios, a significant community following, and letters of recommendations.

Affinity Community Services

Affinity was founded by Black queer women and provides services to that underrepresented community, particularly the COIL program which carries out HIV prevention education.

artThrust

artThrust was foundedas the first non-profit organization that employs art-based, trauma-informed programming to the address psychosocial needs of LGBTQ+ youth in Louisville, KY.

Beyond these Walls

Beyond these Walls are an organization supporting incarcerated LGBTQ+ people. They are developing the LGBTQ Prisoner Crisis Line, to open line of communication for prisoners endangered by the fact that all non-essential personnel (volunteers, chaplains etc.) are barred from entering.

Black Excellence Collective

The Black Excellence Collective uses art, direct action and education to empower LGBTQ+ communities of color.

Connect to Protect Detroit

C2P is a diverse and passionate coalition committed to creating structural changes to prevent Detroit’s youth from being vulnerable to HIV by fostering collaboration between various community partners.

Visions of Pride - Fierte Fredericton Pride

Visions of Pride is a collaborative community art project providing small, free art kits to LGBTQ+ folk of all ages who register to participate.

Gender Equity Association

GEA is a school organization run by youth that lobbies for LGBTQ+ rights and holds LGBTQ+ educational courses among other activities.

LGBTQ Center OC

LGBTQ Center OC’s Youth Empowered to Act (YETA) Program is a coalition of LGBTQ youth and allies that work toward a more inclusive Orange County through organizing and educating the larger community.

Magic City Acceptance Center

MCAC supports LGBTQ+ youth ages 13-24 and is moving drop-in hours and social supportive programs online to an age-appropriate distant socializing digital space.

OKEQ

Oklahomans for Equality (OKEQ) seeks equal rights for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) individuals and families through advocacy, education, programs, alliances, and the operation of the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center.

OUTMemphis

For the last 33 years, OUTMemphis has been serving the LGBTQ+ Community of the Mid-South, working to empower, connect, educate and advocate for the vibrant Memphis community.

Pride Center San Antonio

Pride Center San Antonio’s (The Center) mission is to serve the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV communities by connecting them and their families to community resources and organizations related to health, wellness, support, education, activities, and advocacy.

Pridelines

With locations in both the city of Miami and Miami Beach, Pridelines recognizes the urgent need for community services that support LGBTQ+ individuals. Through a range of programs and resources, they provide a safe and inclusive environment for youth and adults. From support groups to education and advocacy initiatives, Pridelines is committed to meeting the unique needs of the LGBTQ+ community in South Florida.

Queer Kentucky

Queer Kentucky is a diverse LGBTQ+ run nonprofit based in Louisville, Kentucky working to bolster and enhance Queer culture and health through storytelling, education, and action.

Queer Kid Creative

Queer Kid Creative designs remote learning programs focusing on LGBTQ+ and social justice topics for elementary schoolers.

Queer Making Community Collective

The Queer Making Community Collective is an ad-hoc LGBTQ2S+ collective based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario which brings together queer folks over crafting and art.

Somos Familia Valle

Somos Familia Valle is a San Fernando Valley community-based organization created and led by local, low-income, first- generation college students who are LGBTQ+ people of color and immigrants.

Southern Arizona Gender Alliance

SAGA is a small nonprofit that provides support, education, resources, and advocacy for Southern Arizona’s diverse community of trans and gender nonconforming individuals.

Stand with Trans

Stand with Trans is committed to ending isolation for trans youth and their families, providing life-saving connections and resources, eliminating the stigma of being trans and having a trans child and building resilience for our marginalized youth who are significantly more likely to attempt suicide than their non transgender peers.

Taking Charge of Our Health

Taking Charge of Our Health provides online workshops and resources for LGBTQ people about healthcare navigation and self-advocacy.

TAP Virginia

TAP Virginia works with trans people across the Commonwealth of Virginia arming them with resources, funding, and most importantly: a safe place to lay their head while they work their way towards self-sustainability.

Telling Queer History

Telling Queer History are adapting queer storytelling gatherings into multiple virtual formats: Sharing audio archives, creating a system for live virtual gatherings, additional research around gathering themes, and feedback loop for people to add oral histories.

Thrive with Pride - Dr. Annise Mabry Foundation

Thrive with Pride is the only pathway to high school diploma for LGBTQ youth in Georgia who do not have a high school diploma.

Voix Noire

Voix Noire is a mutual aid organization that provides a safe space for Black women, LGBTQ+, marginalized genders and children to seek and receive assistance via reparations from non-Black individuals.

Ending Violence Association of BC

The Ending Violence Association of BC is a provincial association training and supporting close to 300 anti-violence programs and cross-sector initiatives across the province that respond to sexual and domestic violence, child abuse, and criminal harassment.

Northwest Network

The NW Network is a civic & social organization working to support the self-determination and safety of bisexual, transgender, lesbian, and gay survivors of abuse through education, organizing, and advocacy.

Montrose Center

The Montrose Center empowers the community—primarily lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals and their families—to live healthier, more fulfilling lives by offering one-stop access to behavioral health and support services, adult primary care and psychiatry, and free wellness programs that empower individuals to proactively participate in their own care.

Network La Red

The Network/La Red is a survivor-led, social justice organization that works to end partner abuse in LGBTQ+ communities.

Trans Lifeline

Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

LGBTQ+ SUMMER CAMPS

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Camp True Colors, One Heartland (Minnesota)

Since 1993, One Heartland has been creating life-changing camp experiences for youth facing social isolation, intolerance or serious health challenges. The camps provide a welcoming, bully-free environment where children, youth and young adults can feel completely accepted for who they are—often for the first time in their lives. At One Heartland, young people develop self-acceptance, life-long friendships and the courage to face the world.

Camp Outright (Vermont)

The Mission of Outright Vermont is to build safe, healthy, and supportive environments for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth ages 13-22. Camp Outright is a six day/five night residential summer camp program for queer, trans, questioning, and allied youth. Campers that range from age 13 to 17 and counselors-in-training ages 18-19.

Camp Laurel (California)

The Laurel Foundation’s Camp Laurel program is the nation’s first free summer camp program specifically for trans/GNC youth. Camp Laurel’s Trans/GNC Summer Camp is based on traditional camp programs, yet caters to the unique mental and physical health of trans/GNC youth. The program will host 60 youth from all over the country, empowering them in a safe, brave and accepting environment,

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Brave Trails (California)

Brave Trails operates one of the only LGBTQ+ focused youth leadership camps in the country for youth ages 12-20, with older teens and young adults (ages 17-20) having the opportunity to join our Unicorn Justice League (UJL), a counselor-in-training program. Brave Trails use workshops, adventure, creative programming, service projects, peer connections, and positive role models to create a safe space where youth can thrive.

Camp OUTdoors (Arizona)

For the past 11 years, Camp OUTdoors has created a life changing camp experience for LGBTQ+ youth ages 11 to 24. Camp OUTdoors is dedicated to helping LGBTQ+ youth develop leadership skills, work in collaborative ways, and develop a strong sense of self and community. Camp OUTdoors works to break down barriers of access that LGBTQ+ youth often face in outdoor education. Now in its twelfth year, Camp OUTdoors is the largest LGBTQ+ summer camp program of its kind.

Camp Lilac (Ohio)

Camp Lilac’s mission is to provide a safe, welcoming space for trans youth to be themselves in a positive, supportive, youth-focused environment. Trans youth often face stressful, unwelcoming, and even hostile environments in their day to day lives, and depression, anxiety, and suicide are much higher among them. Camp Lilac, a TransAction program, provides an overnight camp with all the camp trappings (boating, arts and crafts, bonfires, etc.) where trans kids can be themselves in a much needed respite from outside life.

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Camp Ten Trees (Washington)

Since its founding, Camp Ten Trees (CTT) has sought to create a socially-just, youth-empowered camp community for youth of LGBTQ+ and nontraditional families, LGBTQ+ youth, and their allies. CTT is the only program of its kind within the U.S. Pacific Northwest. They ground themselves in a social justice framework, working to acknowledge and combat ways that people with different identities, experiences, and backgrounds are unjustly divided. Camp Ten Trees strives to bring healing, support and empowerment to youth through the organized camping experience.

Project 10 (Quebec)

Since 2001, P10 has been offering a weekend summer camp to allow youth to get out of the city to connect with peers and themselves for three days. P10 has focused on offering trans/NB-inclusive recreational, sports, and arts-based activities, as well as opportunities for youth to connect to mentors, and workshops offered by youth. P10 has been returning to Base Plein Air de Bon Depart for a number of years, as their terrain allows physically disabled campers to descend into the water, ride on boats, and take nature hikes.

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Trans Tipping Point (British Columbia)

The Trans Tipping Point is in its third year of providing arts-based community building, personal development, and political engagement retreats for trans, two-spirit, and non-binary youth aged 10 to 18. The retreats include extensive opportunities for the youth to work with trans, two-spirit, and non-binary mentors and are supplemented by networking between the youth that carries on throughout the year between retreats. The content, focus, and scheduling of each year’s retreats is youth-directed.

CampOUT! (British Columbia)

CampOUT! is a social justice summer camp for queer, trans, Two-Spirit, questioning, and allied youth ages 14-21 from across BC & the Yukon. The camp is held on Gambier Island, unceded Coast Salish territories. In affiliation with the University of British Columbia, the camp provides opportunities to develop leadership skills, build self-esteem, foster hope and resilience, and connect with resources to support health and well-being (physical, mental, social, sexual, educational, and spiritual).

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Sacred Earth Camp (British Columbia)

Sacred Earth Camp is a two-week residential environmental leadership program for diverse youth and young adults of spirit and faith on Coast Salish Territory. In addition to usual camp activities like hikes, swimming, games, Sacred Earth Camp focuses on environmental justice issues in the lower Fraser Watershed and the skills and resources to respond. Sacred Earth Camp is open to youth and young adults 13-25.

Rainbow Camp (Ontario)

Rainbow Camp® is a camp for young people who are 2 spirited, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer questioning (2SLGBTQ+) and allied youth, their siblings and children in Queer families. WFA's Rainbow Camp® is committed to developing a camp community which honours creativity, individual choice, and social justice while having fun!

Camp Aurora (Manitoba)

Camp Aurora is Manitoba’s only 2SLGBTQ+ summer camp, and has run for 11 years. Over four days, 48 campers (aged 14-19), 12 Cabin Leaders, and a team of volunteers and staff spend attend Variety’s Camp Brereton in Whiteshell Provincial Park. Camp programming includes canoe trips, swimming, recreational games, art projects, identity-affirming workshops, a talent show, and a drag show and dance. Camp activities encourage youth to connect with one another, build community, and make connections with positive role models in the 2SLGBTQ+ community.

Camp fYrefly (Alberta)

Camp fYrefly is a 4-day overnight summer camp for LGBTQ2S+ youth, organized and planned in part by a diverse committee of LGBTQ2S+ youth and run through the Centre for Sexuality. Camp provides youth with an opportunity to learn about themselves and their identities, build skills and develop community in a safe and transformative space. Programming at Camp fYrefly this year will include queer and trans inclusive sex education, a panel on indigenous/two-spirit identities on July 1st, a queer history scavenger hunt and a trans and body positive swim, as well as many more workshops that are decided through the youth committee.

Odyssey Teen Camp (Massachusetts)

Odyssey Teen Camp helps teenagers build meaningful relationships with their peers while embarking on their unique journeys of self-discovery. Campers experience the pure exhilaration that comes from being included, honored, and celebrated for who they are. They leave the camp instilled with the confidence to reimagine their place in the world.

Rock the Rez (South Dakota)

Rock The Rez aims to empower Indigenous girls, two-spirited, transgender, and gender-diverse youth to build self-esteem and find their voices through unique programming that combines music education and performance, empowerment and social justice workshops, creative collaboration, positive role models and leadership skill building. Rock the Rez is committed to serving the Pine Ridge Reservation community, and hopes to expand to serve more reservations in the future!

Gender Generations Camp (British Colombia)

The Gender Generations Project works to empower trans, two-spirit, non-binary, and other gender diverse youth so that they can recognize their potential to be leaders in their own communities throughout British Columbia, and the rest of the world. The project fosters connections between the youth and adult mentors with shared or similar gender identities and backgrounds who can support and inspire them to live their truths in spite of adversity. In retreats, and through all workshops and other group activities, they work to build creative projects that provide meaningful ways for both the youth and mentors to engage in self-expression, as well as bring awareness to their diverse community.

LGBTQ+ INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS

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DonorsChoose.org

The Tegan and Sara Foundation is partnering with DonorsChoose.org to increase access to LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum in public schools nationwide.

QUEER HEALTH ACCESS

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TSF partners with GLMA to create a database of culturally competent providers for the LGBTQ+ community.

QueerHealthAccess.com

The Tegan and Sara Foundation launched www.queerhealthaccess.com in September 2017 in an effort to reduce health disparities experienced by LGBTQ communities.

ADDITIONAL PARTNERS

Native Youth Sexual Health Network

The Tegan and Sara Foundation supports Native Youth Sexual Health Network's front-line community work serving Indigenous and two-spirit people in Canada.

Skipping Stone

The Tegan and Sara Foundation supporting Skipping Stone Canada’s work to connect trans and gender diverse youth, adults, and families with comprehensive and low barrier access to the support they need and deserve via mentoring, transportation services and more.

LGBT Youth Line

The Tegan and Sara Foundation supports operations for LGBT Youth Line, a toll-free Ontario-wide peer-support phone line for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirited, queer and questioning young people.

Supporting Our Youth

The Tegan and Sara Foundation supports SOY Toronto’s work to support the health and well-being of all queer and trans spectrum youth 29 years old and under through groups, programs and events and by providing one-on-one support.

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All Ages Pride

The Tegan and Sara Foundation supports the work of All Ages Pride to bring inclusive, accessible Pride celebrations to communities left out by the 21+ culture of Pride.

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Out On Screen

The Tegan and Sara Foundation supports Out On Screen’s mission of celebrating queer lives through film, education and dialogue.

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National Academy of Sciences: LGBTQ+ Consensus Study

The Tegan and Sara Foundation funded the National Academy of Sciences’ LGBTQ+ Consensus Study reviewing the available data and future research needs on persons of diverse sexualities and genders along multiple intersecting dimensions across the life course.

Canadian Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity

The Tegan and Sara Foundation supports CCGSD’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance Leadership Forum to convene GSA youth leaders and provide tools and training toward ongoing activism.

Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

The Tegan and Sara Foundation supports the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice and their work to advance LGBTQI human rights around the globe. Astraea fights for racial, economic, social, and gender justices by supporting partners in the U.S and internationally who challenge oppression and seed change.

The Audre Lorde Project

The Tegan and Sara Foundation supports The Audre Lorde Project's community support initiatives for LGBTQ people, including support circles, health and wellness programming and safe neighborhood initiatives for LGBTQ people of color.

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Equality North Carolina Foundation

The Tegan and Sara Foundation supports the following programs of Equality North Carolina Foundation: Transgender Speakers Bureau Training Program, Equality Means Business Program and the Community Education Program.

Egale Canada

The Tegan and Sara Foundation supports Egale Canada's Two Spirits, One Voice community-based initiative that seeks to bolster support for persons that identify both as LGBTQ and Indigenous – Two Sprit people.

Zebra Coalition

The Tegan and Sara Foundation funded six months of transportation for youth to access school, employment, medical and mental health counseling appointments at Zebra Coalition.