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Sex workers have always been an integral part of collective liberation struggles, whether or not we receive credit or recognition. We created this report, Creating Community is a Threat to Power: Three Years of Resourcing Revolution and Liberation at the Sex Worker Giving Circle, to share some of the brilliance of our Sex Worker Giving Circle, and to document the SWGC’s model of participatory sex worker grantmaking along the way.

In this report, you’ll learn about how the SWGC got our start, and how the sex workers who lead our grantmaking and fundraising have changed the funding landscape of the U.S. sex worker movement. You’ll also get a snapshot of our grantees’ leadership, key organizing areas, and the strategies they use to build sex worker liberation, including mutual aid, healing justice, decriminalization, prison abolition, migrant justice, leadership development, and political education.

We created this report because we wanted to support other funders and donors in resourcing the incredible sex worker movement in the US, and to share out insights from doing participatory grantmaking by and for sex workers impacted by oppression. You can read the report in both English and Spanish.

​This report was written by Christian Giraldo and Maryse Mitchell-Brody, with support from Third Wave Fund staff, Itzel Corona Aguilar, Adrienne Wong, and insights from all of the SWGC Fellows and grantees, as well as our community of funders and donors.
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This report was designed by Grae Rosa, cover art by Rebeca Soto, with supplemental artwork throughout by Andy Moon, JB Brager, and Kae Goode.

​We welcome feedback and questions about this report and our work at [email protected].

Lxs trabajadorxs sexuales siempre han sido una parte integral de las luchas de liberación colectiva, aunque si o no recibamos crédito o reconocimiento. Creamos este informe, Crear comunidad es una amenaza al poder: tres años de respaldar la revolución y liberación en el Círculo de donaciones de trabajadorxs sexuales, para compartir algo de la brillantez del Círculo de donantes de trabajadorxs sexuales y para documentar nuestro modelo participativo de subvenciones que es liderado por trabajadorxs sexuales en el camino.

En este informe, aprenderá cómo se inició el CDTS y cómo lxs trabajadorxs sexuales que lideran nuestra concesión de subvenciones y recaudación de fondos han cambiado el panorama de financiación del movimiento de trabajadorxs sexuales de EE. UU. También obtendrá una imagen instantánea del liderazgo de nuestrxs recipientes, las áreas de organización clave y las estrategias que utilizan para construir la liberación de lxs trabajadorxs sexuales, incluida la ayuda mutua, la justicia curativa, la despenalización, la abolición de las cárceles, la justicia migratoria, el desarrollo del liderazgo y la educación política.

Creamos este informe porque queríamos apoyar a otrxs financiadorxs y donantes en la búsqueda de recursos para el increíble movimiento de lxs trabajadorxs sexuales en los EE. UU. y para compartir las ideas de la concesión participativa de subvenciones por y para lxs trabajadorxs sexuales afectadas por la opresión. Puede leer el informe tanto en inglés como en español.

Este informe fue escrito por Christian Giraldo y Maryse Mitchell-Brody, con el apoyo del personal de Third Wave Fund, Itzel Corona Aguilar, Adrienne Wong y los conocimientos de todxs lxs becarixs y recipientes de CDTS, así como de nuestra comunidad de financiadores y donantes.

Este informe fue diseñado por Grae Rosa, arte de la página principal diseñado por Rebeca Soto, con obras de arte a lo largo suplementadas por Andy Luna, JB Brager, y Kae Goode.

Agradecemos sus comentarios y preguntas sobre este informe y nuestro trabajo en [email protected].

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Earlier this year in May, United for a Fair Economy released their State of the Dream 2020 report, "Building a Fair Economy at the Intersections." The report features a collection of articles on gender and race in the fight for a fair economy, including an incredibly insightful interview with our Co-Directors, Ana Conner and Kiyomi Fujikawa. Keep reading for the full version of this interview, or read the shortened version in the PDF version of the report here.

​Sara: What inspired you to work in philanthropy? What brought you to the Third Wave Fund?
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Ana: I moved to New York for college where I was introduced to a group called FIERCE, and that was really my opening to intersectional racial justice and queer and trans justice organizing and movement building. I felt so at home, and ever since then I have been committed to that work. While I was at FIERCE, we had received a big grant to do national youth-led political education and movement building work. Long story short, our funding was pulled, and at that moment I was so furious with foundation funding. But I had also known of some foundations that were trying to transform philanthropy to better meet the needs of organizations and movements. Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice was one of those foundations, and was also where I landed my first job out of college.

Kiyomi: I grew up outside of San Diego, California where there was a lot of political activity around me. I got involved with anti-rape work that was happening on my college campus, which led me to really deeply understanding the outrageous racism of the criminal legal system and how it doesn’t actually protect survivors. And so then I moved to Seattle where I worked as a local organizer mostly with trans Asian Pacific Islanders and Immigrant and Refugee populations around domestic and sexual violence. At that time, I was funded by Borealis Philanthropy to do some of that work and I ended up seeing a remote job opening at Borealis, so I don't think I was ever like “philanthropy is the place for me,” but it worked out, and then I met Ana. We ended up applying to the Third Wave Fund together, and the history took on from there.

S: How do your personal experiences living within our current systems and structures of power around gender, race and class inform your work and approach to philanthropy?

A: I know we’re two Black and brown queer and trans folks coming into this work with a lot of ideas, but also we don't know everything and we don't represent all of the communities that we are a part of. So we understand some of the most powerful and beautiful work is collaborative and leaderful and that we can't do this from a top-down-only way. I feel the most in my power when I'm making a decision that is backed by multiple conversations and it's not just coming from me. Sometimes making the decision is difficult, but it's important to have full buy-in. Also, a lot of organizations that I was either a part of or was in community with were hit by the financial crisis and let’s be real, we know that there's another economic crisis coming. That’s something that has made me think a lot about how we can sustainably commit to our goals in the long-term and make sure our communities are abundant and safe.

S: What kind of groups and folks does Third Wave give grants to?

A: We have several pillars of grantmaking, including rapid-response grantmaking all the way to a 6-year long general operating support grantmaking pool. We have a two year grant-making pool that's for grantee-led capacity building, and those dollars can be used for a variety of things, like if folks want to learn about finances or are going through a leadership transition. And we also do a lot of philanthropic advocacy, which is this idea that philanthropy wasn't made for us but we have the tools and the power and the means to shift the status quo. We act as a sounding board for what movements are telling us needs to shift within both institutional philanthropy and individual fundraising. And then there’s a third pillar, which is leadership development.

K: Leadership development really speaks to the participatory grant-making that we do. For example, with our Sex Worker Giving Circle, we have several month-long series of workshops and trainings that we do with 11 or 12 Fellows each year who are current or former sex workers. Those Fellows then make decisions about where money goes for groups that are sex-worker led. Through the Fellowship, we build a collective understanding of the landscapes of organizing, break down how philanthropy works, and build the fundraising skills and leadership of folks across the board. 

​We fund groups that are on the smaller side, and almost all are led by young women of color or trans and gender-nonconforming people of color. We are a pipeline for folks to get their first grant in philanthropy. We often introduce groups to larger funders if they want to be introduced, and help them build up their capacity. And, with the exception of the Sex Worker Giving Circle, we really took away all the silos within our funding model, because with siloed funding a lot of groups can fall through the cracks. For example, if a trans group that's doing reproductive justice work is applying to a reproductive justice fund, they might not be taken as seriously as a group who is just doing reproductive justice. What we see in philanthropy is a lot of the groups that we feel like are doing the most powerful work are falling in between the cracks because they don’t fall into a specific funding silo. 

S: How does Third Wave define gender justice? And how is Third Wave Fund supporting movements working for gender justice? Can you give us some examples of projects Third Wave is funding?

K: I think of a group like Trans Queer Pueblo that’s based in Arizona who do a lot of organizing work around the intersections of queer immigration. They do direct support for folks in detention centers and they also do just a lot of work both within queer community and more broadly sort of pushing the political landscape around what the power building looks like for immigrants and undocumented folks. But they also do things like a health clinic where they serve mostly undocumented queer and trans people who don't go to hospitals because they don't know what it's going to look like.

There are so many horror stories of folks being turned over to ICE while they’re in an emergency room, and so they built their own clinic that offers hormone replacement therapy, queer and trans reproductive care, etc. I feel like they really illustrate for us a gender justice lens because, to go back to the silos, it’s easier for folks to see you as either a service provider or an organizer, and there’s little room for both. But if we’re centering the folks that are most marginalized, we need to provide services for the organizing to happen. That’s why I love this image we use that explains how gender justice is often seen as women's liberation, reproductive rights and queer and trans rights, but actually it has so much to do with racial justice, health and disability justice, immigrant rights, education justice, healing justice and criminalization. 

A: To understand gender justice we have to understand all of the different complexities that people are bringing to this work. We have to consider all the different identities people bring to this work and how complicated it makes a conversation around gender justice. 

S: How does Third Wave approach grant-making in a way that disrupts the problematic power dynamics and racist, sexist, classist, etc systems that exist within many foundations? What challenges and opportunities have you experienced working in fundraising?

A: Some of the very concrete ways we try to disrupt it are by providing long-term funding, general operating support, and to trust that folks are doing the work that they need to be doing. We commit to those very basic things that folks have been asking for forever. We also take applications in many different ways. Typical funding applications take so long and basically requires multiple degrees to write in the ways that philanthropy asks, so to make the process more accessible we take phone calls, written applications, selfie videos, and have different ways that folks can apply for the money that don't require you to be able to write in a specific sort of way. And we take applications in English and Spanish.

K: It’s really about trust. Sometimes funders will be like, “I have a vision, we're going to focus on these eight states and do these 10 things,” and it's basically like they're hiring their grantees as contractors to fulfill their vision of what change-making looks like. Our approach is that folks on the ground own change-making strategies. So I just think the best way is to really reflect trust in grantees versus some of the strategies that can be so top-down. Third Wave is never going to move all of the money that's needed for movements; what we can best do is offer a possibility model and leverage some other sources of funding to do that moving too. 

To answer your question about challenges and opportunities, I don't want to sugarcoat the fact that usually when Ana and I walk into a philanthropy room people do not look like us. As far as we know, Ana is probably one of the youngest director level people in philanthropy, as far as we know there aren't any other trans women in philanthropy in the US on a director-level. We know that it’s not all about identities, but there are definitely challenges with that.

A: Part of how we’re able to do what we do is because of how we think about who has power and who should have power within philanthropy. In order for us to transform philanthropy, it’s critical that the folks who are the most marginalized have the power to decide where dollars go. When we recognize that low-income folks are philanthropists too, we can really transform how we think about philanthropy. That gives us the basis for what we can do and makes it possible for us to do the grant-making in the ways that best meet the needs of movement building.

S: On Third Wave’s website, you share some data about how little funding in the US goes to LGBTQ people of color, and support for the transgender community. Why do funding gaps like these exist, and what kind of world would be possible if more funding was going to intersectional gender justice organizing?

K:  I think that this funding gap really ties back to the racial wealth disparities and gender wealth disparities in society. I mean, thinking about just what the US economy is really built on, which is stealing land, stealing people, stealing labor and you know, some folks getting really wealthy off that. Also across philanthropy the frame is such around a charity model versus a model of trust or of actually trying to change the conditions or through reparations. 

A:  Private philanthropy has hoarded wealth from the exploitation of people and land, and they can use that wealth to continue to implicitly and explicitly perform white supremacy. An example of this is who is seen as an expert in philanthropy. We’ll pay people with PhDs to make all these decisions about people who have been saying forever what communities need and want, and it means that so much money gets put in the wrong places. And because it's a field that was never meant to give away all of its resources (they only have to get away 5%; they could give away more, but generally 5% is what they give away) it means that the hoarding of wealth will continue indefinitely, so it works in such a way that it's against philanthropies self-preservation to actually fill funding gaps, you know what I mean?

S: To take a little bit of a positive note what would be possible if more funding was going to intersectional gender justice organizing?

K:  We see a lot of requests around healing justice work and we don't see a ton of funding for it, but just the level of healing work across the board that could support in building some of that equity too. We know there is deep historical and current trauma that folks need to be responding to, processing and healing from. And also my vision for the world, which I feel is a vision shared by a lot of our grantees, is one without prisons, without such a wealth disparity, with fair and livable conditions for workers, healthcare, housing, and yeah, birth justice and control and reproductive choices.

S: What do you think are the most important questions to be asking about the intersections of gender, race and economic inequality right now? How have recent movements like Black Lives Matter, Me Too, the Women’s March, etc impacted the small organizations you partner with?

K: I’m proud of Third Wave because we gave Tarana Burke one of her first grants many years before #MeToo became the movement that we know today, and so many of our groups have been fundamental parts of the Black Lives Matter movement or the Women's March. So we actually see it on the flipside. We see how those small organizations are the building blocks to national movements that help to spark a big, nation-wide conversation about these issues. But it’s a time where we’re under such vicious attacks from the current political powers-that-be, and it’s like they have an intersectional play-book on how they want to target communities. So I think we should be asking ourselves not only how we respond to those attacks but also how we open up some of the vision of what could be possible and what the other systems are that we can make.

A: I also think about how movements for climate justice have been screaming at the top of their lungs for so long about how deeply connected that work is to gender race and economic inequality, and how the climate crisis is going to become one of the biggest questions and fights that we have in our lifetimes. How do we continue this amazing legacy of youth-led, queer and trans led, Black and brown led work and make sure that we're creating a world that we want to live in and can live in?

K: Yeah, in Puerto Rico we've had several grantees that were impacted by climate disaster, a man-made climate disaster, and the emergency responses aren't particularly set up to support queer and trans folks, low-income folks, you know, and it is similar to what we saw in Katrina or in so many other places in regards to the disproportionality of how folks with different identities are able to navigate when a disaster hits.

S: What role do people like myself, a person with class and wealth privilege, have in supporting gender justice work and advocating for more funding for this work? Can you share some examples of the ways you partner with donors and folks in philanthropy to try to impact the wider landscape of funding?

A:  One way is understanding that giving away your money and therefore passing along your say over where dollars go, is one really critical step to shifting power. And, because we understand that we are all complex, full people no matter how much wealth we have, there are so many other ways besides giving money that can resource organizations. We often ask our folks to strategize on how we can bring in more people, or to share access to knowledge about investments and the stock market, or to support us with party planning. There are an infinite amount of ways to plug in to make sure this work can happen and is resourced. 
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One example of how we’ve partnered with folks with wealth is our work with the Men's Gender Justice Giving Circle which was made up of men that organized to specifically think about changing internal patriarchal misogynistic practices and the best way to show up for and resource movements for gender justice. We partnered with them, provided fundraising trainings, shared learnings and that sort of thing. It’s not often the case that a group of mostly white cis guys come together to think about funding queer trans people of color and women of color. I think things like that really transform the relationship between a community foundation and who are its supporters. We have to understand that we’re all in this together, and so that's how we approach it.

S: Okay last question, is there anything else you would like to share or bring up about the topic of gender, race and economic inequality?
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K: In thinking about the racial wealth divide, the gender pay gaps and things like that, I think a lot about also centering women and specifically Black Trans women in that pay gap. Sometimes I think when folks look at wealth inequality they see it kind of has a math equation, but also that it’s not just a different set of dollars for any of those folks but actually it translates into a different set of life choices that are available and honestly life expectancy at the end of the day. There’s a tendency to focus on the numbers rather than the actual levels of stress or threats to people's livelihood and quality of life and the things that got us there. And, not to knock those things or to say they count for nothing because I do think in many cases they are important, but they really shouldn’t be the focus so much as what’s going to tangibly change the conditions for folks’ lived experience.

Our 2020 rapid response fund, Mobilize Power Fund, has been busy this year! We’re breaking our own records by double, and getting ready for an important transition after the September cycle! 

As of April, we began to receive an unprecedented amount of applications to the Mobilize Power Fund, reflecting the urgency and need experienced by young queer and trans BIPOC organizers and their communities in response to COVID-19, and the movements to end all forms of anti-Black violence. We saw and felt the need to be deeply responsive to the moment and spent down our entire year's rapid response budget just within the month of April and May.

With care, communication, and cross-organization support, we were able to continue to meet both the growing needs and dreams of BIPOC communities - centering those who are youth, trans, disabled, sex workers, incarcerated, undocumented, and unhoused- visioning towards community care, abolition, and collective liberation. As a result, so far this year we have given out over $720,000 in rapid response funds to over 70 different grantees from all across the country and U.S territories. This was a huge jump from 2019, when we gave out over $366,000 through 43 grantees, which at the time, was the highest amount of funding we've given out through the Mobilize Power Fund since its inception in 2015. As a public foundation who raises every dollar we make in grantmaking, this year has been huge! 

We want to fully recognize and celebrate the amount of record-breaking resources we have been able to mobilize to our communities in such a short amount of time! We also need  to make sure our capacity and practices are sustainable for what's needed up ahead. In order to do both, we are closing the Mobilize Power Fund for October, November, and December of this year in order to rest, reflect, and revise.

September 8th is our last deadline of 2020 before the Mobilize Power Fund closes for the year. The Mobilize Power Fund will re-open in early 2021 and will be more ready and well-rested to resource the rapid response needs of our movements in real-time. 

In Solidarity, 
Third Wave Fund Programs Staff

We call upon all non-Black colleagues, siblings, and friends to join us in taking action. 
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At Third Wave, we know that all gender justice wins have been rooted in the legacy of Black liberation and racial justice movements. Philanthropy needs to respond to this moment with the main resource that we’ve continued to hoard, and that people continue to demand—our dollars. Check out the Movement for Black Lives for a myriad of ways to show up.

 To wealthy folks: Do everything you can to liberate your wealth for Black lives.

• Write a check so big that your hands sweat. Commit to that level for multiple years. Leave contact information and be open to being asked for more.
• Endow Black-led organizations, community foundations, or invest in a capital campaign.
• Build power within your family foundation to gain strategic control over your wealth, then release it through a reparations lens. 
• Educate yourself, your family, and your community on how critical it is to #DefundThePolice and Invest in Black-led health and safety strategies.

You might make mistakes, but don’t let that stop you from acting because the biggest mistake is continuing to hoard your resources. Get clear on who you are accountable to, keep it moving, and keep learning.

To working class folks: Individuals and institutions with wealth should take notes from the audacity and generosity of your giving. We see you leading these critical strategies:

• Making one-time and sustaining monthly gifts to address the urgency of this moment and resource this work over the long term. 
• Spearheading DIY matching gift campaigns. Calling for accountability and transparency posting screenshots of gifts and calling on others to do the same.

Some groups in Minneapolis have been flooded with small dollar gifts to the point where they have been redirecting funds. You moved millions to grassroots organizing and community bail funds in a matter of days. You have more control over philanthropy than you realize—thank you and let’s keep it going. 

 To foundations: Release your endowments for Black Lives. 

• Only 0.6% of philanthropic dollars went to women of color in 2016. Reprioritize your budget.
• Commit to increasing your giving beyond the 5% legal minimum for foundations. Do this with a racial justice lens to ensure this goes to Black-led organizing. Commit to that for at least three years. Get your CEO and boards aligned.
• Divest your endowed dollars from the police, prisons, arms industry, and the criminal legal system. You can read up on the Divest/Invest strategy here.

We’re done with the “now more than ever” language, because clearly that’s not getting the message across. We need to turn up with our dollars now—it’s overdue.  

Say their names: Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, David McAtee, Nina Pop, James Scurlock, and countless others. May you rest in peace and power.

 With love and rage, 
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Third Wave Fund

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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.