Horizons Foundation recently announced the newest round of Community Issues Grants to 42 projects and organizations. All of us at the San Francisco Bay Times congratulate the grantees and thank Horizons President Roger Doughty and his team for their work that continues to benefit so many of us here in the Bay Area.
The slate of grantees represents a diverse group of organizations and individuals. Grants were awarded in the arts, advocacy and civil rights, as well as in health and human services, community building and leadership. They encompass programs that focus on youth, the elderly, immigration, trans rights, LGBTQ history, and capacity-building. Sixty percent of the grants are being awarded to LGBTQ-specific organizations, with the remaining forty percent distributed to organizations that have specific LGBTQ programs, arts, or cultural projects.
“Horizons’ grantees are a reflection of the LGBT community’s perseverance and movement forward towards equality for all,” said Francisco Buchting, Vice President of Grants, Programs, and Strategic Initiatives. “Each of our grantees, whether it is a small LGBTQ organization or an LGBTQ program within a larger organization, do so much good throughout the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties that Horizons serves.”
“The Community Issues grants have long been at the heart of Horizons’ grant-making,” said Doughty. “It is always Horizons’ honor to partner with some of the most effective, inspiring, and creative organizations, leaders, and activists in our community—and that is certainly true this year.”
In 2017, Horizons awarded approximately $2.6 million in grants and other discretionary funding. In addition to its flagship Community Issues Grants program, Horizons made grants through other funds, giving circles, and scholarships.
Recipients of Horizons Foundation’s 2017 Community Issues Grants
Adolescent Counseling Services, Redwood City
For support of Outlet, a program that provides services, training, and leadership development in English and Spanish to LGBTQ youth
API Equality Northern California, San Francisco
For developing Asian Pacific Islander leadership and increasing visibility of API LGBTQ in the Bay Area
Archive Productions, San Francisco
For providing free archival video services to LGBTQ nonprofits
Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits (BAAITS), San Francisco
For programs to restore and recover the role of Two Spirit individuals in the American Indian/First Nation community
Bay Area Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC), Oakland
For empowering lesbians 60 and over through consciousness raising, social support, community building, and political action
Californians for Justice, San Jose
For elevating LGBTQ youth voices in advocating for positive school environments
Caminar (Family and Children Services of Silicon Valley)
For support of LGBTQ Youth Space, a hub of queer youth arts in the South Bay
Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco
For providing non-judgmental, sex-positive sexuality education and support to diverse populations
Child Advocates of Silicon Valley, Milpitas
For recruitment, training, and support of Court-Appointed Special Advocates, who are specially trained to support LGBTQ foster youth in Santa Clara County
Chrysalis Printmaking Studio, San Francisco
For support of Queer Ancestors Project, an annual 18-week workshop for LGBTQ artists between the age of 18–26
Colectivo Acción Latina de Ambiente, San Jose
For performance and community programs for Latinx LGBTQ people
Curry Senior Center, San Francisco
For technology education for LGBTQ elders
El/La Para TransLatinas, San Francisco
For direct services, referrals and advocacy efforts for TransLatinas
From Baghdad to the Bay, San Francisco
For this feature-length documentary about a gay Iraqi refugee who ends up as a role model for the underground LGBTQ communities of the Arab world
GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco
For support to launch the “History is Resistance” membership drive
HOMOBILES, San Francisco
For support of the LGBTQ car share service to provide free and low-cost options for members of the trans communities for medical visits related to their transition
Jewish Family and Community Services, Berkeley
For support of LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees
LGBTQ Black Immigrant Justice, Oakland
For support of the Volunteer Legal Representation Project
LYRIC, San Francisco
For increased giving support for their Grassroots Social Justice Fundraising Initiative, with the goal of increasing youth leadership capacity
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, San Jose
For support of We Can Be Heroes, an interactive theater production written by Bay Area Latinx LGBTQ writers
Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, Oakland
For Oakland’s first intergenerational, multi-ethnic, multi-generational, and multi-cultural LGBTQ community center
Oasis Legal Services, Oakland
For programs to provide quality legal immigration services to under-represented low-income groups from the LGBTQIA+ community.
On the Move, Napa and Sonoma
For support of LGBTQ Connection to expand services for LGBTQ youth in Napa and Sonoma and for specific support of LGBTQ Latino youth
Pacific Center for Human Growth, Berkeley
For support of an increased giving initiative targeting individual donors; the organization is focused on mental health issues in the LGBTQ community
Peacock Rebellion, San Francisco
For performance arts programs that promote social justice to LGBTQ communities of color
PRC, San Francisco
For support of data migration and integration of donor databases related to the ongoing merger of PRC, AIDS Emergency Fund, and Baker Places
Q Foundation (dba AIDS Housing Alliance), San Francisco
For support of the new donor initiative The Walk for Homelessness
Queer Cultural Center, San Francisco
For building community through the arts
Queer Rebels Productions, San Francisco
For asserting the presence and critical contributions of Queer people of color through innovative performance and productions
Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County, Concord and El Cerrito
For support to implement a comprehensive donor engagement strategy
RYSE Center, Richmond
For providing a safe space for LGBTQ youth and empowering LGBTQ people of color
San Francisco Trans March, San Francisco
For support for the annual march
Sojourn Chaplaincy, San Francisco
For implementation of a curriculum for Hospital and Hospice Spiritual Care providers around transgender issues
Somos Familia, Oakland
For building intergenerational leadership to create environments for Latina/o/x LGBTQ youth and their families
Sunny Hills Services, Hayward
For support of the Our Space program, supporting LGBTQ youth in the East Bay affected by poverty, homelessness, and the child welfare and juvenile justice systems
The Spahr Center, San Rafael
For LGBTQ senior programming in Marin County with a specific focus on leadership-building, health, and well-being of women
Tenderloin Museum (Uptown Tenderloin, Inc.), San Francisco
For support of the interactive play Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, chronicling the 1966 event that jumpstarted the LGBTQ equality movement
Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco
For support of the production and development of theater that speaks to the LGBTQ experience
Topsy Turvy Queer Circus, San Francisco
For multidisciplinary circus arts featuring queer artists of color
Women’s Audio Mission, San Francisco
For support of the LGBTQ Women of Color Artist Residency Program
Young Women’s Freedom Center, San Francisco
For support of Queer on the Inside, a program that supports incarcerated young cis and trans women
Z Space, San Francisco
For support of the world premiere of The Brother(s), an interactive production by Colman Domingo that brings the audience physically and emotionally closer to the trans and Filipino-American communities
Other Horizons Funds, Giving Circles and Scholarships
Global Faith and Equality Fund:
Glide Foundation
Ipas
Media Matters for America
OutRight Action International
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Political Research Associates
Southern Poverty Law Center
The Fellowship Global at the YA Flunder Foundation
Together for Transformation Project at Fellowship of Reconciliation
HYPE (Horizons Young Professionals for Equality)
Red Envelope Giving Circle
Joseph Towner Fund for Gay and Lesbian Families
No Hate SF
eQuality Scholarship Fund
Juan Marques Memorial Fund Scholarship
Markowski-Leach Scholarship Fund
Thomas H. Steel Fellowship Fund
For more information about Horizons, please visit: https://www.horizonsfoundation.org/
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