Recent Highlights
1-12-12The Alliance Fund awarded its 2012 Grants in a reception at the Hacienda del Sol. Click here for more info.
8-4-11Alliance Fund Requests grant applications for 2012. Click here for the full story.
5-15-11“Evening with Music and Friends” Celebrates Alliance Fund Donors. Click here for the full story.
3-30-11The Alliance Fund was fetured in a Tucson Observer story. Click here to download a copy.
2-23-11The Alliance Fund awarded the Queer Youth Initiative grants. Click here to read more.
1-13-11The Alliance Fund awarded its 2011 grants at a Gala Reception! Click here for more info.
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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Straight (LGBT&S) Alliance Fund is a special project of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (CFSA). The Fund was created in 1999 in partnership with the National Lesbian and Gay Community Funding Partnership.
The Alliance Fund addresses the chronic pattern of underfunding of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender programs and supports efforts to address these issues through philanthropy and endowment building.
The Alliance Fund connects donors with projects that benefit the LGBT community through annual competitive grant rounds. The Fund has become known for making grants available at critical times during the development of an organization's infrastructure. Since its inception, the Fund has awarded more than 100 grants to more than 40 different organizations totaling a half-million dollars.
Awards have supported such diverse programs as:
- Queer Youth Initiative -- 4-6 grants per year to projects that benefit LGBTQ youth in an effort to build a network of safety and sanity for our young
- Ethica's production of an LGBT adoption manual, available here
- The theatrical productions “Falsettoland” and “The Wrestling Season”
- Bisbee Pride Celebration
- The annual Sex and Scholarship Symposium organized by the University of Arizona's Committee on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Studies
- The YWCA's Journey to a Hate-Free Millennium
- Habitat for Humanity's Rainbow Build
- Wingspan's Southern Arizona Gender Alliance
- Planned Parenthood's Teen Advisory Group
- Bisbee Coalition for the Homeless' Emergency Homeless Shelter
- Open Inn, Inc.'s LGBT Youth Emergency Housing Project
- Providing healthcare to the underinsured through the Pima Community Access Program
- VOICES, Inc.'s 110° Magazine
- SAAF's Sexual Education Series for Wingspan/EON's LGBTQQS Youth
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