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Our Commitment to Trans Communities in Action: Call for Proposals

4/30/2020

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Version in Spanish below // En Español abajo

Third Wave Fund, Borealis Philanthropy’s Fund for Trans Generations, and Destination Tomorrow’s TRANScend Community Impact Fund are announcing the launch of the COVID-19 Collective Fund for Trans Communities to get financial resources to trans-led organizations and transgender, gender nonconforming, and non-binary communities who are organizing in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
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These three funders are collaborating in order to ease burdens for trans-led organizations applying for grants amidst the COVID-19 crisis. The collective has created a common application for potential grantees so that they can submit one application to one place for review. Funders will review applications and collectively decide how to resource prospective grantees. If you have already applied to FTG’s Rapid Response Fund, Third Wave Fund’s Mobilize Power Fund, or Destination Tomorrow’s TRANScend Community Impact Fund, your application will be shared across these funding partners.

“As funders, we recognize the need to get life saving resources out to our communities as soon as possible." said Ana Conner, Co-Director of Third Wave Fund. 'We want to thank in particular the Transgender Law Center for helping us identify the community’s immediate needs and formulate a response. Throughout history, trans and other oppressed communities have offered the light that can serve as a beacon of hope for everyone, and we are committed to helping that light shine long and bright."

The total amount of money we have available for grantmaking by this collective of funders is over $1 million, and growing. 
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Third Wave Fund, The Fund for Trans Generations, and TRANScend Community Impact Fund bring long-term, trusted relationships and connections with trans and queer communities and movements, valuing and centering the leadership of trans communities and leaders in our grantmaking. 

This collective of funds will prioritize trans-led organizations across the U.S. with a strong racial justice focus and youth/intergenerational leadership, with particular consideration for those who lack access to national and/or local funding streams. 

“As this global health crisis evolves every day, we see how COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting trans and gender non-conforming communities, in particular Black and brown people,” said Alex Lee, Program Director for Grantmakers United for Trans Communities (GUTC) at Funders for LGBTQ Issues. “Our communities are already made vulnerable because of disinvestment from society and government. This is a moment for funders to increase investment in the kind of intersectional, power-building, and innovative trans-led organizing that will win liberation for all of us.”
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Some examples of activities that may be supported by this collective’s grantmaking include, but are not limited to:
  • Mutual aid and care support networks
  • Healing and virtual wellness spaces
  • Online/virtual programming needs 
  • Living stipends for members and/or staff
  • Survival needs i.e. food, rent support, shelter, utilities
  • Organizing and advocacy

Grant sizes will range based on requests for funding, and there is no budget cap for applicants. 
If you are a donor interested in contributing to this collective, please contact [email protected]. 

How to Apply:
Click here to access the common application.

Applicants can begin applying for funding via the common application on Thursday, April 30. The application will be open as long as funds are available. 

Applicants will receive responses to funding inquiries within two to four weeks. 

Grant range: up to $10,000; larger grants can be made on a case by case basis. For example, partnerships or coalitions can request up to $20,000. 

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Third Wave Fund, El Fondo para Generaciones Trans de Borealis Philanthropy, y el Fondo de Impacto Comunitario TRANScend de Destination Tomorrow anuncian el lanzamiento de el Fondo Colectivo para Comunidades Trans durante COVID-19, para dar recursos financieros a organizaciones lideradas por personas trans y a comunidades trans, no binarias y de género no conforme que están organizando en respuesta a la crisis de COVID-19.

Estos tres financiadores están colaborando para poder aliviar la carga de organizaciones lideradas por personas trans que están solicitando subvenciones en medio de la crisis de COVID-19. El colectivo a creado una solicitud en común para que posibles copartícipes puedan entregar una solicitud a ser revisada en un solo lugar. Los financiadores revisarán las solicitudes y decidirán de manera colectiva cómo asignar recursos a los potenciales participantes de fondo. Si ya ha solicitado al fondo de respuesta rápida de FTG, el Mobilize Power Fund de Third Wave Fund, o el Fondo de Impacto Comunitario TRANScend de Destination Tomorrow, su solicitud se compartirá entre estos financiadores asociados.

"Como financiadores, reconocemos la necesidad de llevar recursos que salven vidas a nuestras comunidades lo antes posible", dijo Ana Conner, codirectora de Third Wave Fund. "Queremos agradecer en particular al Centro de Derecho Transgénero por ayudarnos a identificar las necesidades inmediatas de la comunidad y formular una respuesta. A lo largo de la historia, las comunidades trans y otras oprimidas han ofrecido la luz que puede servir como un faro de esperanza para todos, y estamos comprometidos a ayudar a que esa luz brille por mucho tiempo."

La cantidad total de dinero que tenemos disponible para concesión de subvenciones por parte de este colectivo de financiadores es de más de un millón de dólares, y sigue creciendo.

Third Wave Fund, El Fondo para Generaciones Trans, y el Fondo de Impacto Comunitario TRANScend traen conexiones y relaciones de confianza de mucho tiempo con movimientos y comunidades trans y queer que valoran y centran el liderazgo de las comunidades y líderes trans en nuestra concesión de subvenciones.

Este colectivo de fondos va a priorizar a organizaciones lideradas por personas trans a través de los EEUU con un fuerte lente de justicia racial y liderazgo de juventud/intergeneracional, con consideraciones particulares para aquellxs que no tienen acceso a fuentes de financiamiento a nivel local y/o nacional.

“A medida que esta crisis de salud mundial se desarrolla cada día, vemos como COVID-19 está impactando desproporcionadamente a comunidades trans y género no conformes, en particular a personas negras y de color,” dijo Alex Lee, Director de Programas para Grantmakers United for Trans Communities (GUTC) en Funders for LGBTQ Issues. “Nuestras comunidades ya están vulnerables por la desinversión de nuestra sociedad y gobierno. Esto es un momento para que financiadores incrementen su inversión en el tipo de trabajo organizativo innovador, interseccional y que construye poder liderado por personas trans, que es lo que nos va a ganar la liberación para todxs.”

Algunos ejemplos de actividades que pueden ser apoyadas por la concesión de subvenciones de este colectivo incluye, pero no está limitado a:
  • Ayuda mutua y redes de apoyo y cuidado
  • Espacios virtuales de sanación y bienestar
  • Necesidades de programación en línea/virtual
  • Estipendios de manutención para miembrxs y/o personal
  • Necesidades de supervivencia, por ejemplo: comida, apoyo de renta, albergue y servicios.
  • Trabajo de organización y defensa

El tamaño de las subvenciones oscilarán basado en los pedidos de financiación, y no hay límite de presupuesto para lxs solicitantes.

Si usted es unx donante interesadx en contribuir a este colectivo, por favor contacte a [email protected].

Cómo solicitar:
Presione aquí para accesar la solicitud común.

Solicitantes pueden comenzar a pedir fondos a través de la solicitud común el jueves, 30 de abril. La solicitud estará abierta siempre y cuando hayan fondos disponibles.

Solicitantes recibirán respuesta a su pedido de fondos dentro de dos a cuatro semanas.

Espectro de subvenciones: hasta $10,000; se pueden hacer subvenciones mayores en casos particulares. Por ejemplo, colaboraciones o coaliciones pueden pedir hasta $20,000.
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Meet Our Winter 2019/Spring 2020 Mobilize Power Fund grantees

4/22/2020

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We want you to meet our Winter 2019/Spring 2020 grantees through our Mobilize Power Fund! 

Although some of the grants we uplift in this email cover a time before coronavirus was officially declared a pandemic, these groups have been working diligently to create a safe and flourishing world well before quarantine.


From decarceration campaigns, to organizing healthcare access, to housing and feeding un(der) employed community members, folks are deepening the meaning of “home,” “family,” and “interdependence” in these socially isolated and physically distant times. We urge you to read on to see why we’re undoubtedly creating a new and thriving world together.
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Black Feminist Futures
Atlanta, GA | Oct 2019 | $10,000
Black Feminist Futures is creating the Abolishing Patriarchal Violence in Black Communities Innovation Lab,  building strategy and infrastructure to create solutions and interventions from a Black feminist lens. 

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Knoxville Abortion Doula Collective 
& Carolina Abortion Fund
Knoxville, TN | Oct 2019 | $20,000
​In response to increasing legislative restrictions around abortion access, Knoxville Abortion Doula Collective is partnering with the Carolina Abortion Fund to provide hands-on trainings for community-based pelvic care practitioners to build mutual aid networks.

​Black Phoenix Organizing Collective
Phoenix, AZ | Oct 2019 | $10,000
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​Black Phoenix Organizing Collective is organizing and building the leadership of young, Black community members to gain seats on the first Civilian Review Board in the City of Phoenix, which will monitor police activity in the city. 
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Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition
New Orleans, LA | Nov 2019 | $15,000 
In response to efforts to re-open a temporary detention center and turn it into a permanent prison facility, Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition is mobilizing and organizing their community to make sure that no new jails are built.

Power to Live Campaign 
Oakland, CA | Nov 2019 | $15,000
In response to the PGE power shut offs and wildfires that have been taking place in California, they are organizing emergency mutual aid support as well as resources to build local, climate crisis preparedness and climate justice infrastructure led by trans and queer disabled people of color. 

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo
& WA Immigration Solidarity Network

Burien, WA | Nov 2019 | $10,000
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is organizing a series of caravans and direct actions in support of DACA in response to the November 12th Supreme Court hearing, as well as the final ruling in the Summer of 2020. 
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Dissenters at their convening in January, 2020. Photo provided by Byul Yoon, Dissenters.
Dissenters
Chicago, IL | Dec 2019 | $10,000
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With recent uprisings and militarized responses by certain state powers, along with the recent military coup in Bolivia, Dissenters is convening & building the leadership of 15 young Black & Brown femmes who have been personally impacted by war and militarism to build an anti-militarism movement on their college campuses.
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Justice for Jason & People Against Police Brutality
New Haven, CT | Dec 2019 | $20,000
In response to ongoing police violence against young Black people, Justice for Jason & People Against Police Brutality is developing a series of direct actions, know your rights trainings, and legal defense for two young Black people who have been targeted by the police. 

Newburgh LGBTQ Center
Newburgh, NY | Jan 2020 | $10,000
Newburgh LGBTQ Center is mobilizing their communities to improve public transportation with leadership made up by and for Black and Brown LGBTQ young people in Orange County, NY.


Semillas Healing Project
San Juan, PR | January 2020 | $20,000
Semillas Healing Project is organizing a network of Puerto Rico-based organizations leading mutual aid, community care, and healing justice to address the physical, emotional, and logistical trauma of ongoing earthquakes.

Alimentacion Segura Infantil (ASI)
Dorado, PR | February 2020 | $10,000
Alimentacion Segura Infantil (ASI), a 2018 MPF grantee, works towards food safety for infants, children, and parents. In response to the impacts that the ongoing earthquakes in Puerto Rico have had on parents’ and families’ access to basic needs such as water, electricity, and food, they are providing support on safe infant feeding, train brigades and relief workers as safe infant and young child feeding first responders.

Editorial Casa Cuna
Hormigueros, PR | Feb 2020 | $7,500
In response to the social, economic, and structural challenges experienced by trans and non binary youth in accessing housing resources and humanitarian aid with the impacts of ongoing earthquakes in Puerto Rico, Editorial Casa Cuna is providing shelter, food, and healing resources by and for trans and non binary youth while collaborating with other groups to create LGBTQ-specific wellness and emergency support infrastructure.

Fannie Lou Hamer Center for Change
Europa, MS | Feb 2020 | $10,000
With widespread and ongoing violence against young men, women, and LGBTQ students in Europa high schools, and the lack of safety that existing white, male resource officers provide in response, the Fannie Lou Hamer Center for Change is organizing a campaign to get two community-based women of color whom students have existing relationships with into the positions of female resource officers.
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Red Canary Song
Brooklyn, NY | Feb 2020 | $10,000
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In response to the rise of gentrification in Chinatowns across the country and the specific building of a 725-unit development with zero affordable housing in Los Angeles Chinatown, Red Canary Song is organizing a series of public speak outs, actions, and strategy-based working groups for Coast to Coast Chinatown Coalition members.

Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
Detroit, MI | March 2020 | $17,000

Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition is organizing an Indigenous and women of color-led summit that integrates healing and transformative justice in the fight toward environmental justice in Michigan and beyond.
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Sueños Sin Fronteras de Tejas
San Antonio, TX | March 2020 | $10,000
With 60,000 migrants subjected 
to the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), an inhumane policy that forces asylum-seeking adults, children, and infants to live in dangerous Mexican states while they await their tent-court hearings, Sueños Sin Fronteras de Tejas is mobilizing their community and collecting data & research to end the enforcement of MPP.

Trans(forming)
Atlanta, GA | March 2020 | $10,000

In response to the roll back of hard won protections for trans people within Georgia state “women’s” prisons, Trans(forming) is developing the leadership of incarcerated members while creating a path to community and movement building on the outside.
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​In the past two weeks alone, we received $650K in rapid response requests ranging from bailing out and housing trans sex workers locked up at Rikers to healing justice and mutual aid strategies. This is almost 10 times the amount that we usually get — prior to the pandemic, $350K is what we budgeted for all of 2020. We are committed to resourcing folks fighting for safe, healthy, and thriving communities as best we can.

But we need help to support this work.
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Our responsibility during covid-19 is real — and we need you.

4/16/2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the global response is a magnifying glass on every systemic inequity that low income Black and brown communities, trans and gender non-conforming folks, sex workers, sick and disabled, undocumented, and incarcerated communities, and so many others have been fighting against forever.

For us at Third Wave Fund, our responsibility right now is clear — we will continue to support, fight for, and take care of our people in the best ways we can. That means in this moment, we are moving more rapid response dollars than before.

We increased our Mobilize Power rapid response fund from $375,000 to $500,000 (and growing!). We partnered with a team of public foundations to double down on our commitment to trans communities. We will continue to support our long-term grantees for the long haul because we know the economic and community impacts of this pandemic will persist beyond 2020. And we have made these shifts because we are committed to making sure that young, low income communities of color, queer, trans, and intersex folks have the resources and tools they need to safely take care of their communities, and to create the new, thriving world we all so desperately need.

In the past two weeks alone, we received $650K in rapid response requests ranging from bailing out and housing trans sex workers locked up at Rikers to healing justice and mutual aid strategies. This is almost 10 times the amount that we usually get — prior to the pandemic, $350K is what we budgeted for all of 2020. We are committed to resourcing folks fighting for safe, healthy, and thriving communities as best we can. But we need help to support this work. 

Now is a time for us all to take action. The only way Third Wave can meet the flood of requests, is if we all do what we can to stretch in our resourcing, show up for our local communities and grassroots organizations with generosity, give as much as possible to social justice intermediaries, and double down on your commitments this year, if you can.
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Here are some concrete ways you can plug in:

+ Give directly to any of our grantees, they are all doing amazing work

+ Pledge your stimulus check through #ShareMyCheck

+ Donate a one-time gift to help us meet our $350K rapid response goal

+ Commit to a sustained monthly gift to make sure we keep showing up for communities

​If we've learned anything from the last financial crisis, it is that individuals are the lifeboat for many organizations during moments like these. Y’all got Third Wave Fund and our grantees through the last recession, and every day since — because of your consistent commitment to resourcing grassroots brilliance that centers the experience and wisdom of the folks closest to the issue. That’s why we are asking you to show up again, to take care of those in our communities who need support, and make sure we all survive to build the world that we not only need, but dream of.


We are so grateful for you.
We are thinking of you.
We wish you resiliency through this.

Third Wave Fund
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