Alliance Fund

12-1-11
Alliance Fund announces 2012 Grant Awards. Click here for more info.

8-4-11
Alliance 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.

3-30-11
The Alliance Fund was fetured in a Tucson Observer story. Click here to download a copy.

2-23-11
The Alliance Fund awarded the Queer Youth Initiative grants. Click here to read more.

1-13-11
The Alliance Fund awarded its 2011 grants at a Gala Reception! Click here for more info.

11.5.10
The Alliance Fund helped Ethica host a converence on LGBT Adoptions in Tucson. Click here for details.

10.31.10
Guidelines and forms for proposals for funding for the Alliance Fund's Queer Youth Initiative are available at the "grants" tab on this website. Click here for related story.

9.30.10
The Alliance Fund was recently awarded new grant funds. Click here for details.

7.6.10
Doug Noffsinger was named Chairperson of the Alliance Fund, succeeding Randy Soderstrom. Click here for details.

5.7.10
The Alliance Fund held its 10th Anniversary Evening with Music and Friends on May 7th. Click here for details.

2.8.10
Farewell to Maurice Grossman. Click here for info.

1.7.10
Aboud, Fitzsimmons and Hoby Headline 2010 Alliance Fund Award Event. Click here for more details.

11.15.09
The Alliance Fund announces 2010 grant recipients! Click here for more info.

11.7.09
The Alliance Fund presented Kate Clinton at the Temple of Music and Arts. Click here for the story.

11.5.09
The Alliance Fund was on KUAT! Listen here.

5.1.09
Click here to read about our 6th Annual Evening with Music and Friends.

1.8.09
Alliance Fund gives $30,000 to eleven projects in Southern Arizona, click here to learn more about the funded organizations.

Doug Noffsinger comments on his appointment and the critical role of an involved community:

“I am proud to be the Chairperson of the Alliance Fund, and I am even prouder of the $405,000 that our donors have distributed through our Fund to worthy projects that benefit the LGBTQ and wider communities in Tucson and Southern Arizona. The real credit goes to committed members of our community who include LGBTQ projects in their philanthropic plans and activities.

Doug Noffsinger At the Alliance Fund Board, we try to facilitate that commitment by seeking the very best projects each year in our annual competitive grant round. We take accountability seriously, and try to be sure each donor is proud of specific projects that they made possible. Those projects have made life better for thousands in our communities, one person at a time.”

“Without the annual and long-term investment of time and resources by our LGBTQ and “straight” donors, there would be no Alliance Fund.”

Noffsinger also commented on the future. “The priorities of our donors remain the same. They want to eliminate the chronic under-funding of projects that benefit the LGBTQ community. The Alliance Fund, in association with the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, helps reach such goals in two ways. We manage an annual grant competition that has averaged $40,000/year in awards over the last decade. And we work with our donors to create multi-year funds, endowments, and legacy bequests that give truth to a major theme: ‘We will always be there.'”

And a last observation. “Two people have left our community in the last year that we remember and honor. Maurice Grossman was a founder of and long-time contributor to the Alliance Fund and a giant in this town and state. Joel Meister was a long-time member of our Board and a long-time contributor and gadfly for our efforts. Despite the great sadness we have on their exits, their examples will inspire and motivate us and the community of donor-philanthropists who care about fairness for the LGBTQ community.”

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