Community is at the heart of everything we do at Pride Foundation. Since day one of the COVID-19 pandemic, our community’s response across the Northwest has been to take care of one another—a value that has been at the forefront for decades.
COVID-19’s Impact on LGBTQ+ Communities
Now years since the first case of COVID-19, we have important data about how the pandemic has affected LGBTQ+ families and communities. It confirms what we already knew to be true—that COVID-19 has exacerbated the barriers and inequities that already existed for LGBTQ+ people and communities.
Across all social indicators—health, healthcare, housing, employment, child and family care, and more—the data indicates that COVID-19 has only compounded already existing inequities. The good news is that we now have a clearer picture of what LGBTQ+ people are facing—and how we can keep showing up best for our communities. Read more about this impact and the data surrounding it here.
Pride Foundation’s Response
Alongside generous individual supporters and philanthropic partner organizations, we acted quickly in 2020 to invest boldly in the organizations who work day in and day out to meet the critical needs of LGBTQ+ people and our families.
We launched the Crisis Community Care Fund in March of 2020 as part of our efforts to support community groups and organizations responding to COVID-19, and whose work was impacted by the factors surrounding the pandemic. All of our efforts in response to COVID-19 focused on one primary goal: to provide support to LGBTQ+ groups and organizations in the ways they need it most—fast, and with no strings attached.
Not only did this fund support organizations on the frontlines of the pandemic, it also provided resources to Black-led and centered organizing work around racial justice efforts in the Northwest, as these efforts address the systemic racism that resulted in the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on Black people and communities.
This fund awarded well over $1 million to more than 80 organizations prior to its final grant awards in the spring of 2022. Check out our 2020 report to learn even more about these efforts!
Crisis Community Care Fund Grantees
Alaska
Alaska AIDS Assistance Association (Four A’s) – $5,000
Alaska Poor People’s Campaign – $5,000
Choosing Our Roots – $10,000
Covenant House Alaska – $5,000
Identity, Inc. – $29,000
Native Movement – $20,000
YWCA Alaska – $15,000
Idaho
Add the Words Idaho – $15,000
Black Liberation Collective – $10,000
Centro de Comunidad Y Justicia – $5,000
Idaho Harm Reduction Coalition – $5,000
Inclusive Idaho – $15,000
Inland Oasis – $20,000
Intermountain Fair Housing Council, Inc. – $5,000
North Idaho AIDS Coalition (NIAC) – $25,000
Montana
EmpowerMT – $5,000
Glacier Queer Alliance – $15,000
Great Falls LGBTQ+ Center – $5,000
Montana Gender Alliance -$25,000
Montana Two Spirit Society – $15,000
Open Aid Alliance – $3,000
The Center – $25,000
The Montana Racial Equity Project – $10,000
Tumbleweed – $5,000
Oregon
Beyond These Walls – $7,500
Black & Beyond the Binary Collective – $30,000
Bradley Angle – $5,000
Brown Hope – $5,000
Cascade AIDS Project – $5,000
Causa Oregon – $5,000
Causa/Oregon DACA Coalition – $15,000
Daisy C.H.A.I.N. – $10,000
Don’t Shoot PDX – $5,000
Imagine Black – $5,000
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon – $5,000
Familias en Accion – $5,000
Freedom To Thrive – $10,000
Friendly House/ SAGE Metro Portland – $25,000
Greater Portland Trans Unity – $10,000
HIV Alliance – $5,000
Immigration Counseling Service – $5,000
Latino Network – $5,000
Ori Gallery – $25,000
Our House of Portland – $6,000
Q Center – $20,000
Rogue Action Center – $26,000
Rural Organizing Project – $10,000
Since Time Immemorial Fund – $10,000
Trans*Ponder – $35,000
Unite Oregon – $5,000
UTOPIA PDX – $25,000
Washington
AHAT Homecare – $5,000
Alphabet Alliance of Color – $10,000
API Chaya – $5,000
COVID-19 Relief Fund for WA Undocumented Folks – $10,000
Entre Hermanos – $5,000
Gay City: Seattle’s LGBTQ Center – $5,000
Gender Justice League – $10,000
Heartspark Press – $5,000
Ingersoll Gender Center – $5,000
Lavender Rights Project – $5,000
Liberation Medicine School – $25,000
Lifelong – $5,000
LifeWire – $5,000
New Horizons Ministries – $5,000
Oasis Youth Center – $5,000
Odyssey Youth Movement – $45,000
Pacific Northwest Black Business Coalition – $2,500
PCAF – $5,000
Peer Seattle – $5,000
People of Color Against AIDS Network (POCAAN) – $5,000
Pizza Klatch – $25,000
QTPOC Birthwerq Project – $15,000
Queer The Land – $5,000
Rainbow Center – $5,000
Recovery Cafe – $5,000
Rod’s House – $5,000
SAN – Spokane AIDS Network in Spokane – $25,000
Somos Seattle – $5,000
Spectrum Center – $10,000
Stonewall Youth – $37,000
Taking Black Pride – $2,500
The #BlackTransPrayerBook – $15,000
Trans and Gender Diverse Emergency Community Aid (UTOPIA, Ingersoll) – $10,000
Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network – $35,000
UTOPIA Seattle – $40,000
WA Therapy Fund Foundation – $5,000
WA Black Trans Task Force – $80,000
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network – $5,000
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience – $2,500
Yakima Pride – $20,000
