It is official: your incredible support has made possible another record-breaking year for Pride Foundation! We are thrilled to announce that we have awarded $550,000 to 96 organizations across the Northwest—the largest amount we have granted through our Community Grants program in our history. This investment supports the remarkable organizations in our region who are building a
Today is a day for celebrating generosity around the world. On #GivingTuesday, we wanted to take time to share our gratitude for all of you—our community of supporters who are transforming our region and who make Pride Foundation’s work possible. In these final weeks of 2018, I have been reflecting on all the stories of strength,
Yesterday kicked off another special season of thankfulness, and at Pride Foundation, we continue to be so grateful for all of the volunteers that make our work possible year after year. In this time of warmth, we want to share an opportunity to extend that sense of gathering and connection into 2019 and beyond. Would
Today, on Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember and honor the trans and gender diverse people in our communities whose lives were taken as a result of violence, hatred, and systemic discrimination. Each of these people were loved and important members of our community. Every single one of them should be with us right now.
On Sunday we woke up to yet another attempt to undermine our humanity and the humanity of the people we love. This time it was a leaked memo from the Trump administration that seeks to define trans and gender diverse people out of existence. Earlier this month it was the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh
Early last year, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced $33 million in funding to ten communities to participate in the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP)—a multi-year program intended to help communities reduce the number of youth experiencing homelessness. Of the 130 cities across the country that submitted applications, Seattle/King County and Anchorage were 2 of the 10 selected communities. Since then, Pride Foundation staff have been fortunate enough to support both of these efforts.
In June 2017, we were thrilled to announce that Pride Foundation would be partnering with filmmaker Jesse Ayala Jr. of Fovrth Studio on creating a Virtual Reality (VR) film as part of Oculus’s VR for Good Creators Lab. This recently established project pairs filmmakers and nonprofits to make great VR in the name of social good.
Last week, the Washington State Department of Health released a new rule that adds a 3rd non-binary gender marker to birth certificates. I sat down with TRANSform WA Project Director and WA SAFE Alliance Coordinator, Jeremiah Allen, to learn more about the change.
We are at a pivotal point in our work to create a more fair and equitable world. We must unite to protect our recent policy wins and further build on them to create safe, affirming communities for all of us. To make possible a bolder and more innovative movement for equality in Oregon, Equity Foundation
Just weeks before the devastating attack on the LGBTQ community in Orlando, Nadir*—a Pride Foundation scholar, Iraqi refugee, and member of the Muslim LGBTQ community—reached out to me to share his story. We scheduled time to meet the Tuesday following the massacre in Orlando, not knowing what the weekend would bring. Feeling heavy, Nadir and