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We’re proud to announce the recipients of our 2026 Community Grants, investing a total of $1,004,000 in 103 organizations working to strengthen LGBTQ+ communities across Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington!  This year’s awards continue our commitment to multi-year funding, providing sustained support to organizations over a three-year period. This year’s grants mark the third year of our 2024–2026 Community Grants

We’re excited to announce our 2026 Pride Foundation Scholars! This year, we’re awarding $1,032,500 in scholarships to 121 student leaders across Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington — marking the first time in Pride Foundation’s history that we’ve exceeded $1 million in scholarship awards. For more than 30 years, Pride Foundation’s scholarship program has invested

Pride isn’t just a celebration of who we are today, but a reminder of the people who fought to create the possibility of a different future.  Pride didn’t begin as a celebration, it began as resistance — a response to criminalization, harassment, and the systemic oppression of LGBTQ+ people. Trans and gender-expansive people — particularly trans women of color — were at the forefront

Each year, Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) invites us to pause and celebrate the brilliant lives, joy, and leadership of trans people. In moments like this, visibility matters not only as recognition, but as resistance. As a way of saying: we are here, we define ourselves, and our stories belong to us.  Visibility isn’t just about being seen — it exists within a broader

At Pride Foundation, we know that lasting change comes through the combined efforts of people and groups working together toward a shared vision. Across our region, people are working in many ways to support one another:   Grassroots organizers mobilize communities and respond quickly to emerging needs.  Direct service providers offer care, support, and essential resources.   Advocacy organizations work to change policies and

Legacy is often shaped in quiet, intentional ways. It lives in the values we hold, the people we protect, and the care we choose to extend beyond our own lifetime. In our community, legacy is rarely about recognition, it’s about ensuring the people and causes we love are supported long after the moment we’re in has passed.  For many, legacy giving

Across the country, people are watching the places they call home become sites of surveillance, criminalization, and state violence. The events in Minneapolis are not isolated moments, they’re part of a broader pattern of rising authoritarianism and militarization that is destabilizing communities nationwide.   Here in the Northwest, increased federal presence in Washington and Oregon

Each January, we pause to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His words are quoted widely yet often stripped of context and softened into something more comfortable, more palatable, less demanding.  But Dr. King’s message was never meant to be comfortable.  Too often, he’s remembered only through a single refrain, “I have a dream”, without reckoning with the truth that

Today is World AIDS Day, a day the global community has honored since 1988 to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, support those living with HIV, and remember the loved ones we’ve lost. This moment comes at the same time federal funding cuts are disrupting HIV prevention and treatment programs, threatening the progress so many fought for,