Alliance Fund Announces 2012 Grant Awards

The LGBT&S Alliance Fund, a special project of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, announced the recipients of its 2012 round of grants to organizations supporting the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight people.  The Alliance Fund is proud to report a record $42,000 is being awarded to worthy projects.

These grant awards, given as the result of a competitive process, are intended to fund innovative, ground-breaking, and far-reaching efforts to help underserved youth and community members, and to promote the integration of LGBT issues within the straight world.  Winners in this years' round of grants include:
•  Wingspan's EON Youth Lounge, for its program to promote leadership among youth.
•  Southern Arizona Aids Foundation (SAAF), for its program providing health education to homeless and near homeless youth.
•  Tucson Jewish Community Center, for its Fabulous Faygeleh LGBT Film Series of the Tucson International Jewish Film Festival.
•  University of Arizona Institute for LGBT Studies, to help underwrite its Miranda Joseph public lecture series.
•  Wingspan's Southern Arizona Gender Alliance, for its nationally recognized program for transgender people.
•  Habitat for Humanity Tucson, to support its “Rainbow Build II”, in which the LGBT community will cooperate to build a home for a deserving low-income family.
•  NEW ARTiculations Dance Theatre, for its project entitled “There Is No Dance From Which We Are Absent”, celebrating LGBT experiences.
•  University of Arizona's Office of LGBTQ Affairs, for its Safe Zone training program, in which campus allies are trained in providing supportive environments for LGBTQ students.
•  Casa Libre en la Solana, in support of its project “Made for Flight”, bringing recognition to transgender people who have been murdered over the years.
•  Wingspan, for its program “Rainbow CONNECT” and “Rainbow on the Road”, which provide safe people and places throughout Southern Arizona, and a “warm line” for LGBTQ youth to speak to a peer about their fears, issues and concerns.
•  Southern Arizona Aids Foundation (SAAF), for its “Project ALLY (Life Links for Youth) Gatekeeper training that includes suicide-prevention training.
•  Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault (SACASA), for its Safe Streets Arizona, LGBTQ Youth Public Harassment Safety Project.

Over the more than ten years since it was founded, the Alliance Fund has awarded more than 100 grants totaling about $500,000.  A portion of this year's grant program, the Queer Youth Initiative, has been facilitated by a gift from the Funders for LGBT Issues, a foundation in New York.

“Evening with Music and Friends” Celebrates Alliance Fund Donors

On a lovely Sunday evening, many of the people whose gifts and projects make life better for the LGBTQ community gathered at the historic Stillwell House and Garden in downtown Tucson May 15th for the 8th annual, 2011 edition of the Alliance Fund's  “Evening with Music and Friends.”   Good feeling, food, drink, and music prevailed.

The music for the “salute to donors” was provided by the jazz trio Reno del Mar and by songwriter-composer Curt Beall.  Kent Burbank, Director of the Victim Services Division of the Pima County Attorney's office and an old friend of the Alliance Fund, served as master of ceremonies.  He recounted the history of over ten years of cooperation among community donors and the Alliance Fund in channeling $445,000 in grants to over 100 projects that assist the LGBTQ community and celebrate diversity.

Two people who run current projects described the impact of donor's gifts on the lives of members of the queer community.  Jennifer Hoefle, Director of the Office of LGBTQ Affairs at U of Arizona, talked about the training program that provides “safe zones” for LGBTQ kids who need aid or counseling; Casey Condit, Youth and Family Programs Coordinator at Wingspan, talked about funding that supports youth activities at the Wingspan LGBTQ Community Center.

Doug Noffsinger,  Alliance Fund Chairperson, closed the short program by describing progress in the Queer Youth Initiative (QYI).   Projects included in the QYI are possible because of donor gifts that match funds provided in a grant from the Funders for LGBTQ Issues.  The Alliance Fund's QYI focuses on projects that make LGBTQ youth safer and saner in Southern Arizona.  $15,000 were invested in such projects this year.

In addition to Stillwell House, several long-time supporters of the Alliance fund helped sponsor the event, including:  Arizona Flower Mart, Eyelink Designs, Sir Speedy, Sunstreet Mortgage, Tucson Association of Realtors, Brenda Nowlan Photography, Casey and Cullen Cassidy, and members of the Alliance Fund Board.

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2011 Grants Presented
In a reception held at the beautiful Hacienda del Sol resort, the Alliance Fund presented its 2011 round of grants to Southern Arizona non-profit organizations serving members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight community.

Grants awarded in this round will run during the calendar year 2011, and will provide the organizations with critical support for serving members of the LGBT&S population.

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Alliance Fund Announces Nine 2011 Grant Awards to Southern Arizona Community Groups

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight (LGBT&S) Alliance Fund will distribute $28,303.00 in grant awards to nine southern Arizona community organizations.  The Alliance Fund, a special project of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, announced the awards on November 8.  The funds will be applied to one-year projects starting in 2011.  Organizations and projects receiving awards include the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault (SACASA), the Tucson Jewish Community Center's LGBTQ film festival, the LGBTQ Behavioral Health Coalition, VOICES, Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF) program at Wingspan EON lounge, Wingspan' EON youth lounge, Southern Arizona Gender Association at Wingspan, the Institute for LGBTQ Studies at University of Arizona (UA), and the Office of LGBTQ Affairs, also at UA.

These valuable awards are the outcomes of an annual competitive grant round, and they will be presented to recipients at a donor reception in early January.  The Alliance Fund also announced that the LGBTQ Behavioral Health Coalition project to train mental health professionals in LGBTQ issues and care will be designated the winner of the Noel Matkin-Jim Sincox Tribute Award,  and that the first Jim Leos-Clint McCall award will be shared by the SAAF-Wingspan EON program and by the UA Office of LGBTQ Affairs Safe-Zone program.  The two special awards honor long-time activists and contributors to activities and projects that benefit the LGBTQ community in Southern Arizona.

The LGBT&S Alliance Fund also announced it has received a grant from the Funders for LGBTQ Issues organization to allow its participation in a national Queer Youth Initiative.  The grant requires matching funds and the proceeds will underwrite projects that support LGBTQ youth.   A matching-fund campaign has begun and deliberations are also underway on best use of the award.  Information and funding application information is available at www.alliancefund.org/Grants.htm.


Alliance Fund Awarded New Grant Funds

The Funders for LGBTQ Issues announced from New York that the Tucson-based Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight (LGBT&S) Alliance Fund will receive one of its four matching grants.  The grant, a part of the national Queer Youth Initiative, will provide $22,500 to the Alliance Fund.  The Fund must match that amount.  The Alliance Fund has already begun to seek donors who are passionate about helping LGBTQ youth and who want to help raise the matching funds. 

The new grant will provide support to efforts that benefit LGBTQ youth, with emphasis on youth of color, young women, youth involved in gender issues, low-income youth, and youth in rural areas.  Talks have already begun to involve leaders of organizations that serve LGBTQ youth to identify ways and places to use the grant funds that will maximize support for the safety and self-image of kids.  LGBTQ youth are also being asked to participate in defining goals and making grant decisions. 

The Alliance Fund also announced that an annual grant will be made in the names of Jim Leos and Clint McCall.  The life partners have made a substantial gift to the Fund that will support the grant and also benefit the Alliance Fund Legacy Society.  Leos and McCall have been long-time and major philanthropists for causes that benefit the LGBTQ community, and the Alliance Fund salutes them.  Their effort is the latest in the Alliance Fund push to establish perpetual funding for projects that aid the LGBTQ community, including its legacy group, and the established endowment funds (Matkin-Sincox Fund and Award, Walt Whitman Fund, LGBT&S Endowment Fund, and Funk-Noffsinger Fund) that help support the organization's annual competitive grant round.

The Alliance Fund also received with gratitude recently a grant from the Tucson Association of Realtors to support its 2011 Awards Event.  You can click on the organization's logo below to access their website.

Noffsinger Now Heads the Alliance Fund

Doug Noffsinger, a three-year member of the LGBT-Straight Alliance Fund Board of Advisors and co-chair of the annual competitive Alliance Fund grant-making round, became chairperson of the Fund at its July 7, 2010, Board meeting.  He succeeds Randy Soderstrom who was the able chairperson for the group over the previous three-plus years. 

Noffsinger is a retired faculty member at UCLA School of Medicine and previously had clinical and administrative duties in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affair's Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.  Doug's long-time partner, Roger Funk, is an attorney and a community volunteer and former Board member at Wingspan.  For some of Noffsinger's observations on assuming his new role, click here.

Alliance Fund's  2010 Evening Celebrates and Thanks Generous Donors

On a beautiful May 7 evening, the LGBT-Straight Alliance Fund hosted its annual “Evening with Music and Friends” at the striking home of Mike Myers and Chas Baumgardner.  Tony Paniagua of Arizona Public Media served as MC for a program that included music from Rob Paulus' jazz ensemble ‘Uber Jam,' song and guitar from Curt Beall, and vocals by Greg Stickroth.

On its 10th anniversary, the Alliance Fund dedicated the program to its steadfast donors who have supported the Fund's effort to help solve the problem of chronic under-funding of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender projects and organizations.  Melissa Griebel represented previous grant recipients and related how grants to her organization, Ethica, have allowed development of a web-based guide and conferences on ethical LGBT adoption.  Support of Ethica in the last two years of the Alliance Fund's annual competitive grant round is but part of the $404,000 that has been granted to 90 projects since 2000.  Additional comments of gratitude were directed to the large group of donor- supporters by Randy Soderstrom, the Fund's chairperson, and by Kristen Birner, a Board member who organized the evening's gala with help from Felipe Caldeira, project coordinator for the Alliance Fund, and John Jackson of the Board.

Alliance Fund grants are awarded following a competitive grant round that includes site visits.   The philanthropy serves as a vehicle for both “straight” and LGBT donors to find worthy community projects they would like to support.  Although grants go to projects that provide benefit to the LGBT community, they often are valuable to a wide segment of the population of Southern Arizona.

Sponsors of the Alliance Fund, including Gallery of Food, Eyelink Design, Sir Speedy-Tucson, Special Events Table Linens, Arizona Flowers, and Casey Cassidy-Barmaster, helped make the evening special.  See links to them as well as Alliance Fund news and information at www.alliancefund.org .  The Alliance Fund is a successful special project of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona www.cfsoaz.org .  

If you would like to talk with an Alliance Fund Board member about getting involved with the philanthropy or donating to an effort you wish to support, get in touch with our project coordinator, Felipe Caldeira, at  admin@alliancefund.org  and he will arrange a meeting.

Farewell to Maurice Grossman: A Founder and Friend in Finery

He was hard to miss, and not only because he was seemingly everywhere. It was also the crazy hat, the gaily-colored boa, the sparkles, and the incandescent smile. As someone said at the celebration of his life, it did not seem possible that he could leave us, but his physical self did on January 21, 2010.

In his adopted spiritual world of Buddhism, Maurice was a Bodhisattva. Among the mysteries and varieties of Buddhism, the description of bodhisattva that rings true for Maurice is a person who has made progress toward his own ultimate enlightenment and through compassion strives to bring along others to liberation. He worked constantly to convince us to be better people and to care. He rejected second-class citizenship with a grin and a voter-registration form. He practiced ceramics and ceramic sculpture with a fierce joy and determination, and led many into its spell of concentration and beauty. He gave and gave of himself and his resources until time ran out.

He could do a spot-on imitation of every stock character in Kurosawa's films. He could perfectly imitate the sounds of languages of which he didn't understand a word. A friend said he once danced with Maurice on the roof of a Greek chapel while singing a song consisting entirely of the names of Greek foods they enjoyed. He could also talk about life and commitment and art and politics and love with a startling intensity that alerted one to listen carefully. He was a compassionate man who cared about us. Even the young who are immune to thoughts of death and tragedy listened to Maurice.

Maurice helped found the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight Alliance Fund. He supported it and celebrated its success. He strived for it to become an endowed and sustainable philanthropic source available to help his beloved LGBT community in Southern Arizona. He was the indispensable celebrant at our grant-award celebrations and rejoiced at the successes of its grantees.

Full enlightment, heaven, for this bodhisattva is attainable in our memories of his goodness. Maurice is there.

D. Noffsinger

Aboud, Fitzsimmons and Hoby Headline 2010 Alliance Fund Award Event

In a small ceremony on January 7, 2010, at the YWCA Tucson, the LGBT&S Alliance Fund awarded one-year funding grants to seven organizations that were chosen from the Fund's annual competitive grant round. The projects are described following this announcement. Organizations getting grants included Ethica as the 2nd annual Noel Matkin-Jim Sincox Tribute Endowment award winner, the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance, the Southern Arizona HIV-AIDS Foundation, the Tucson Jewish Community Center, Planned Parenthood Arizona, Open Inn Inc, and VOICES. The grants were presented by Alliance Fund Board members Scott Neeley, Kristen Birner, and Doug Noffsinger. Noel Matkin and Jim Sincox presented the grant award made in their names.

The Honorable Paula Aboud, Arizona State Senator, gave the keynote address and stressed the importance of supporting projects that assist the LGBT community and that encourage diversity in Southern Arizona. A tribute was also paid to David Fitzsimmons, award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Arizona Daily Star, for his support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community over the years.  Ms Hoby spoke to the successful history of the Alliance Fund over ten years. (Abridged portions of Senator Aboud's, Mr. Fitzsimmons' and Ms Hoby's comments are available here.)

The Alliance Fund grants were made possible by generous support from individual donors in Southern Arizona and from throughout the country, from Board contributions and fundraising events, and from funds available through the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, where Alliance Fund operating and various endowment funds are held.

With the year's awards on the 10th Anniversary of the Alliance Fund, the organization has now invested more than $400,000 in projects that benefit the LGBT and wider communities that celebrate diversity. The Fund also stressed its commitment to a long-term effort to guarantee funding for projects that benefit the LBGT&S community and promote diversity in Southern Arizona. A campaign to help community members create and build revenue-producing endowments is part of the Alliance Fund's strategy to be a perpetual source of support for the community.

The Alliance Fund Presents its 2010 Grant Recipients!

The Alliance Fund is proud to announce the results of its grant-round competition for projects that will be done in 2010.  Total awards exceed $28,000, and are derived from individual donations, funds obtained from events, and resources from the Alliance Fund Endowment, the Matkin-Sincox Tribute Endowment, and the Walt Whitman fund.

Ethica:  to do a workshop centered on its LGBT ethical adoption manual and a discussion with experts of the many issues involved.  This project is the Noel Matkin-Jim Sincox Tribute Endowment awardee for 2010.

Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF):  for support of its education series with LGBTQQS youth at Wingspan's Eon youth lounge.

Southern Arizona Gender Alliance:  to provide staffing assistance for a Wingspan-based gender alliance that has become a national resource for the gender-issues community.

VOICES:  for support of an educational program that provides life support and professional skills to youngsters who need help in finding their voices and growing their lives.

Planned Parenthood Arizona: to continue support of the Teen Advocacy Groups—trained teenagers who provide education and help to peers on healthy including same-sex relationships and safe sex.

Open Inn: to develop dedicated living quarters and guidance/case management for homeless LGBTQ kids.

Jewish Community Center:  to support the Fabulous Faygeleh Film Festival that presents LGBT films/filmmakers to a wide audience as part of the Jewish Community Center's annual film festival.

The Alliance Fund on KUAT

Want to know more about the Alliance Fund and the impact we have on our community? Listen to the interview below with Tony Paniagua from KUAT that aired on November 5th, 2009.

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The Alliance Fund Presents Kate Clinton!

K8 (Clinton) a Big Success

Kate Clinton was uncharacteristically and temporarily speechless at her November 7, Alliance-Fund-sponsored, Tucson appearance: The audience greeted her in the Temple of Music and Art with a lusty and off-key version of “Happy Birthday”.  On the eve of her 62nd birth anniversary, Clinton grinned, thanked the crowd, and then launched into an evening of the kind of biting political and social satire that made her famous. And makes her audiences think.  Few inviting targets escaped attention, and the listening crowd alternated between squirming and howling with laughter.  Afterward, Clinton's friend and host, Kristen Birner of the Alliance Fund, produced a birthday cake and the two worked the house at an after-show party.  As usual, beyond the laughter, there was a message of strength and hope.  May she live to deliver it for another 62 years.  Special thanks to our sponsors Royal Elizabeth, Visual Dimensions and Pronto Printing; and to Felipe Caldeira, Casey Cassidy, Mark Rasdorf, Don Gest, Dan Uroff and Monica Gonzalez  for their assistance.  Click on their logos for more info about our sponsors.

The 6th Annual Evening with Music and Friends Celebrates a Decade of Alliance Fund's Successes

The LGBT-Straight Alliance Fund held its “Evening with Music and Friends” annual fundraiser at the elegant home of Chas Baumgardner and Michael Myers on May 1, 2009.  Ernesto Portillo Jr. served as the master of ceremonies for a nice crowd on a beautiful evening that celebrated the Alliance Fund's philanthropy.  Ken McKinley and Nancy Panico of Open Inn provided narrative on how the Alliance Fund's grant to their organization had been leveraged into a major funding success, and Portillo summarized the Alliance Fund's efforts since 2000.  Grants totaling $376,363 have been distributed among more than 70 projects that benefit the LGBT community or contribute to the support of diversity in Tucson and Southern Arizona.

Randy Soderstrom, the Alliance Fund Chairperson, also took the stage to thank the many individual and business sponsors of the Fund's efforts, including Pronto Printing, Eyelink Design, and Special Events Table Linens.  He also introduced prominent members of the community in attendance including City Council member Rodney Glassman and representatives from Council member Karin Uhlich's office.  Recognition and gratitude were extended to three leaders of important service organizations who attended—Jason Cianciotto of Wingspan, Wendell Hicks of the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF), and Scott Blades of the Tucson Interfaith HIV-AIDS Network (TIHAN).  Michael Hutchins capped the formal program with a review of why philanthropy is rewarding and important to the LGBT community and to celebrating diversity in Southern Arizona.

Music by a young jazz group from the Tucson Jazz Institute, the “Blue Note Combo,” was heard throughout the event that featured delicious fare from The Gallery of Food and was colored by arrangements from the Arizona Flower Market.  Alvaro Mendizabal closed the evening with commentary and performance of works for classical guitar.

The Alliance Fund Gives $30,000 in Grants at Reception with Jim Kolbe

The LGBT-Straight Alliance Fund distributed $30,000 to eleven organizations at its annual award event.  The guest speaker, former U.S. Representative Jim Kolbe, lauded the group for its efforts to infuse funds into worthy projects that promote diversity in the Southern Arizona/LGBT communities.  The Alliance Fund has made awards totaling nearly $400,000 over the last decade, with emphasis on projects that benefit the LGBT community. 

The event was held in the Frances McClelland Learning Center at YWCA Tucson.  In addition to Kolbe, Randy Soderstrom, Alliance Fund Chairperson, Edna Aguirre, Community Foundation for Southern Arizona's Coordinator of Community Philanthropy, and Kathy Campbell, Alliance Fund Board member and organizer of the event, spoke about the importance of contributing to diversity in Southern Arizona and emphasized the Alliance Fund's mission:  "to develop and enhance resources that benefit the LGBT-Straight community in Southern Arizona through philanthropy, endowment building, and collaboration with straight allies and friends."   

Sponsors (food, flowers, linens) were Blue House Catering, Arizona Flower Market, and Special Events Table Linens.  A highlight of the evening was the first annual presentation of the Matkin-Sincox Tribute Award.  The award, which was made possible by contributions to an endowment fund from individuals throughout the country, honors partners Noel Matkin and Jim Sincox, pioneers in nurturing the LGBT community in Southern Arizona.  Matkin and Sincox presented the award to Voices for its "110 degrees After School Magazine."  Stephanie Balzer, the "Voices" executive director, accepted for the organization and expressed delight at being the first recipient of the annual award. 

The LGBT-Straight Alliance Fund awards for 2009 were presented by Dianne Van Tasell, co-chair of the Fund's grant panel.  For more information on all the projects funded, click here.

5th Annual Evening with Music and Friends Salutes Noel Matkin and Jim Sincox, Opens New Fund in Their Honor

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight (LGBT&S) Alliance Fund held its 5^th annual "Evening with Music and Friends" on April 18, 2008, at the home of Randy Soderstrom and Steve Quinlan. A group of 150 celebrated a year of successful philanthropy and heard the announcement of a major new initiative, the Noel Matkin-Jim Sincox Tribute Endowment Fund and Awards. Named for two leaders of the Southern Arizona LGBT community and backed by $250,000 in pledged funding in an ongoing campaign, the Matkin-Sincox Awards will be granted annually by the Alliance Fund to outstanding projects that promote and celebrate diversity in Southern Arizona. Drs. Matkin and Sincox, domestic partners, will help choose the awardee organizations. Matkin is a member emeritus of the Alliance Fund's Board of Advisors, and Sincox is a former long-time member of the Board of Directors at Wingspan. Tributes to the pair were made by major donors to the fund and a certificate citing their many accomplishments, signed by Mayor Walkup on behalf of the City of Tucson, was presented by Kathy Altman and Ivy Schwartz.

Ernesto Portillo, Jr., was master of ceremonies for the evening which featured vocals by Marianne Dissard and jazz guitar by Naim Amor. The Alliance Fund awarded $41,308 this year to 15 projects that benefit the LGBT community. Since 2000, the LGBT-Straight Alliance Fund has given over $340,000 in awards to 72 projects.

Among the guests for the gala evening were Noel Matkin and daughter Cyndy Lazarz, Jim Sincox, Scott Blades, Executive Director of Tucson Interfaith HIV-AIDS Network, Wendell Hicks, Executive Director of Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation, Jason Cianciotto, Executive Director of Wingspan, Randy Soderstrom, President of the LGBT-Straight Alliance Fund, Cathy Busha, Director of LGBTQ Affairs at University of Arizona, Laura Penny, Executive Director of the Women's Foundation, and Lori Hoby, Executive Director of the Center for Planned Giving, Community Foundation for Southern Arizona. In addition to hosts Soderstrom and Quinlan, other founders of the Matkin-Sincox Fund present were Brian Bateman and Thom Melendez, Bill Haller and John Jackson, and Roger Funk and Doug Noffsinger. Founders not present were Dianne Van Tasell and Steve Eggimann, and Margo Barnes and Vicky Stromee.

Information on the LGBT-Straight Alliance Fund grant-making round for this year and on the new Matkin-Sincox Fund will be available at this website later in Summer 2008.

LGBT-Straight Alliance Fund Gives $40,000 to Community Projects

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender(LGBT) and Straight Alliance Fund, a special project of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, awarded $40,000 in grants at its annual awards ceremony at the home of Vicky Stromee and Margo Barnes on January 9, 2008. In ceremonies featuring food from Blue House Catering and flowers from Arizona Flower Market, funds were awarded to projects that promote diversity and benefit the LGBT community. Recipients included the Southern Arizona Chapter of the American Red Cross, Kore Press, Bisbee Pride Celebration, Borderlands Theater, the LGBTQ Behavioral Health Coalition, Women's Transition Project of Bisbee, Pan Left Productions, Pima Community Access Program, Planned Parenthood Arizona, Reveille Men's Chorus, Wingspan Arts Project, the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance, YWCA of Tucson, and Wingspan Senior Pride.

Randy Soderstrom, Chairperson of the Alliance Fund, and Steve Alley, President and CEO of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, greeted the award recipients and guests. The award ceremony was moderated by Dianne Van Tasell and Doug Noffsinger, Co-Chairs of the Alliance Fund's 2008 grant round. Noel Matkin, Past-Chairperson of the Alliance Fund, gave closing comments that highlighted the effort by the LGBT-Straight Alliance Fund to remedy the chronic under-funding of projects that benefit the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. The Alliance Fund has awarded $360,000 to 72 projects in Southern Arizona since 2000. Information on the LGBT&S Alliance Fund is at http://www.alliancefund.org/engine.php and on the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona website at www.cfsoaz.org