Today we are celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a day focused on honoring the legacies, histories, and cultures of Native American and Indigenous communities. On this day and every day, Pride Foundation is committed to lifting up the voices, experiences, and brilliance of Indigenous peoples’, and sharing our gratitude for the way their views and values
3 Cool Things this September: Scholarship Celebrations, Regional Gathering, and Resistance in Montana
At Pride Foundation, we find grounding in the connections we have to our community across the Northwest and the incredible ways LGBTQ+ people show up for one another—and that’s our theme for our 3 Cool Things happening in Pride Foundation’s ecosystem this month: After many years of having to pause them, we are bringing back
Visioning + New Youth Initiative + CARE
I hope beautiful summer days have brought you joy and comfort through an incredibly challenging year for our communities. We are in the midst of fighting back against so many pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation that passed this past cycle while we prepare as a community for all 2024 might bring. I am finding so much
Pride Foundation and Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Announce Partnership to Invest in LGBTQ+ Youth Across Washington
SEATTLE – AUGUST 2, 2023 – Today, Pride Foundation and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation announced $1.6 million in funding to support LGBTQ+ youth-serving organizations. The two-year pilot program is focused on Washington state, funded by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, and implemented by Pride Foundation, the only LGBTQ+ community foundation serving the
3 Cool Things this June: Pride, Celebration, Action
As we wrap up Pride month, I am filled with gratitude for all our community has done and offered to Pride Foundation and to one another this year. As LGBTQ+ communities continue to face big challenges in schools, in healthcare settings, in legislatures throughout our region and beyond, I am heartened by the many forms
Introducing the 2023 Pride Foundation Scholars!
We at Pride Foundation are so grateful that we completed yet another amazing application cycle for our community of scholars! We are now happy to announce that we are awarding 113 applicants with 154 awards totaling a landmark amount of $759,600! Our scholars come from and are going into a vast array of fields, using
Community, Advocacy, Research, and Education Across the Northwest
By New Year’s Day 2023, dozens of anti-LGBTQ+, and especially anti-Trans, legislative bills had already been drafted for introduction across the country. In our region, from Southern Oregon to Northern Alaska, classrooms, clinics, court rooms, and school boards continued to erupt into battles bleeding onto the legislative floor, no less than in businesses and individual
3 Cool Things this April
2023 has already held so much for LGBTQ+ communities in the Northwest and beyond. While much of what has transpired has been devastating, I am continually bolstered by how beautifully fierce our community continues to be in the face of it all. As we continue to take stock of all that’s happening, I invite you
“Home Is My Body”: Celebrating Trans Day of Visibility and Action 2023
Celebrating Trans Day of Visibility and Action 2023 Visibility is most necessary when it makes cruelty, indifference, and irresponsibility impossible. Last year for #TDOV, we asked “what is this the year of for you.” In response, we heard that it was a year of combatting misinformation about transgender people, a year of centering healing and
QTBIPOC Community Care Fund, Scholarships, and Tend Save the Date!
I don’t know if I’ve ever felt so grateful to see the little purple crocuses popping up everywhere after what has felt like a never-ending winter, but friends they are here! (And if they are not there yet where you are – they are coming, I promise!) With these little glimpses of spring coupled with