Deadline: 9/18/17
Amount: See full RFP (on website)
(In addition to this general operating grant they also have rapid response grants)
The purpose of this program is to ensure that frontline trans activists and organizations have the financial resources and engagement needed to advance the safety, security, and rights of trans people. Projects must go beyond providing services, and must feature organizing efforts, advocacy, and other community empowerment activities. Funding will be provided in the form of general operating support.
The program is rooted in the following values:
  • Moving beyond equality to justice
  • Intersectional feminism grounded in queer, trans, and gender non-conforming communities of color
  • Commitment to addressing the root causes of transphobia, misogyny, racism, classism, and homophobia
  • Focus on the resilience of trans communities and leaders of the trans movement
  • Commitment to solidarity, collaboration, and transparency

Priority will be given to:

  • Organizations and work based in intersectional feminism, and led by and focused on the needs of trans girls and women
  • Organizations and work grounded in and responsive to communities
  • Strategic organizing and advocacy models that build the power of trans communities
  • Generative work that builds on the accomplishments and progress made so far, while building a stronger, more strategic movement for the future
  • Organizations that are led by and/or serving those that have historically been excluded from national funding, including trans people who are girls and women of color, youth of color, rural activists, elders, incarcerated and/or formerly incarcerated people, people with disabilities, and indigenous people
  • Work based in hope and joy