An international fund that supports women’s, girls’ and trans people’s movements around the world.

For Mama Cash and our grantees, change is not a buzzword or a distant dream. Change is the work we do every day to end exclusion and violence in homes, villages, cities and countries – and in our own social movements. Change is what we ask of ourselves, not just what we demand of others. Mama Cash was the first international women's fund in the world. Today, we fund and support women's rights initiatives around the globe that challenge the root causes of injustice. Activists and donors join with Mama Cash to advance social change that starts with gender equality and respect for the human rights of everyone. Each year, Mama Cash supports about 100 courageous groups, organisations, networks and women's funds that are led by women, girls and trans people. Our grantees are at the forefront of the fight for the rights of those who have most often been ignored or rejected not only by society but also by more mainstream funders. 
 
 Advance social change that starts with gender equality and respect for the human rights of everyone.

Mama Cash 

As one of the leading transgender organizations in the Asia Pacific region, APTN has established a great network of partnerships.

As one of the leading transgender organisation operating in the Asia Pacific region, in the 12 years of operations APTN has established a great networks of partnership with both community and leading donors working the health and advocacy space.

For the next years, APTN will increase its online presence online with 2 digital platforms: one for e-learning in the health, working with medical professionals and one for hate and violence monitoring. APTN plans to leverage more our online marketing with its grant with Google for Non Profits.

APTN has an extensive experience throughout the years, with international development donors like (DRL), Global Equality Fund (GEF), Robert Carr Fund for Civil Society Networks (RCF), Global Fund HIV Multi-country Grant. For a complete list feel free to ask.

Mission and major program areas:

APTN provides a platform for trans and gender diverse people to engage in community-to-community learning, build organisational capacity through workshops, and develop programme planning, implementation and evaluation of projects.

Major Fields of Interest: Civil Society; Health; Human Rights

Areas of Interest: Civil Society: Capacity building; Civil Society: Volunteerism; Education: Research; Education: Training & Conferences; Environment: Policy & Advocacy; Health: Hospital/Clinic

 Asia Pacific Transgender Network Foundation

Give Us The Floor nurtures a safe online peer-led community that supports LGBTQ youth in distress in their challenges.

We provide LGBTQ youth in distress with the peer-positive human connection that they are too often missing. We help LGBTQ youth deal with distress through inclusive, innovative and unique online peer Supportive Group Chats that provide constant contact and anonymity in a safe youth-only community, breaking the isolation and shame cycles they are experiencing. Trained youth facilitate the confidential groups and participants help each other with prevalent mental health and social issues such as depression, isolation, anxiety, identity, discrimination, bullying, relationships, domestic violence, and body image. 
Within the Supportive Group Chats:
- Youth in distress from all backgrounds and geographies have 24/7 access to peer support in a safe, non-judgmental, and confidential environment.
- Members communicate anonymously as often as they wish via closed group chats - no one on one communication is possible
- They share daily life struggles, insights and accomplishments, encourage each other and provide non-judgmental feedback without fear of stigma, taboo or shame
- Groups are organized by age and primary discussion topic to keep the chats relevant and relatable
- Youth who need adult help are quickly identified and given resources to help them.

Research reveals that increased isolation is contributing to the rapid deterioration of mental health and wellbeing. It’s affecting youth way more than adults: Experiencing social isolation and loneliness [during adolescence/ childhood] increased the risk of depression up to 9 years later. *

LGBTQ youth are suffering

50% of LGBTQ youth age 13-17 seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year and 18% of them did attempt suicide:**
LGBTQ youth of color reported higher rates than their white peers: 12% of white youth attempted suicide compared to 21% of Native / Indigenous youth, 20% of Middle Eastern / Northern African youth, 19% of Black youth, 17% of multiracial youth, 16% of Latinx youth, and 12% of Asian / Pacific Islander youth**
LGBTQ youth who had access to spaces that affirmed their sexual orientation and gender identity reported lower rates of attempting suicide **
60% of LGBTQ youth who wanted mental health support in the past year were not able to access care, including nearly 3 in 5 transgender youth and more than 3 in 5 cisgender youth**

In 2022, 87% of Give Us The Floor participants reported suffering from anxiety, 74% from loneliness, 73% from depression, 54% from self-harm and 59% had suicidal thoughts.

After only 1 month in the program:
- 91% of the participants reported that the group chat had helped with their struggles - 79% say they are not sure or sure they couldn’t have gotten the help from somewhere else
- 84% reported that the group chat had helped them feel less lonely
- 79% reported that the group chat had improved the way they feel about themselves

- 99% of the participants reported that they feel that their group is a safe place
- 92% reported that they feel comfortable sharing their personal challenges

You can learn more in our 2022 Impact Report https://giveusthefloor.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Give-Us-The-Floor-2022-Impact-Report.pdf


*Rapid Systematic Review: The Impact of Social Isolation and Loneliness on the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in the Context of COVID-19, Loades and colleagues
**National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health 2022 - The Trevor Project

Give Us The Floor

We help LGBTQI people escape persecution and violence around the world. 🏳️‍🌈🌎  You can help save lives.

Rainbow Railroad is a global not-for-profit organization that helps at-risk LGBTQI+ people get to safety worldwide. Based in the United States and Canada, we’re an organization that helps LGBTQI+ people facing persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics. In a time when there are more displaced people than ever, LGBTQI+ people are uniquely vulnerable due to systemic, state-enabled homophobia and transphobia. These factors either displace them in their own country or prevent them from escaping harm. 

Rainbow Railroad

Maine's only trans advocacy organization, supporting and empowering trans people to create a world where they can thrive.

Our mission is to support and empower transgender people to create a world where they can thrive.

MaineTransNet is a community based organization led by transgender people for transgender people. We provide peer-to-peer support groups, social and community events, advocacy for the transgender community across Maine, and transgender cultural competency training for medical, mental health, and social service providers. We engage transgender people and our allies across Maine in the practice of community building and organizing for mutual liberation. Our work is rooted in a deep desire to care for one another, which leads us to focus our efforts on building systems of mutual support on a bedrock of accessibility, inclusivity, and hospitality. We view structures of power and oppression as interlocking, and believe in finding our leadership from among those people who experience this as a reality in their daily lives.

MaineTransNet

Support economic empowerment for queer entrepreneurs: the power of the Pink economy!

The Queer & Allied Chamber of Commerce Africa (QACC Africa) was established to create an ecosystem that facilitates and promotes commercial relationships and widen supply-chains between queer owned and/or operated businesses, entrepreneurs and their allies, in nations throughout Africa. Although QACC Africa was formally registered in 2022, the underlying concept has been in existence since early 2021 when the three co-founders met and organised their first safe queer community event in Nairobi, Kenya. Our advocacy focuses on the principal of economic inclusion. To achieve its objectives, QACC Africa works closely with businesses, professional associations, multilateral business groups, and international, national, regional and community queer organisations. QACC Africa is the gateway for queer owned businesses and entrepreneurs throughout the continent to increase sales and strengthen business opportunities. Creating a strong network of queer and allied businesses and entrepreneurs, allows members to take their business further, finding opportunities with other queer entrepreneurs, businesses and potential investors. In time, QACC Africa will grow to be an incubator for queer start-ups and entrepreneurs to access both grants and investment. QACC Africa will establish a process and platform to certify queer owned and/or operated businesses, and those business allied to the community, that are truly inclusive. This will promote supply chain collaboration and procurement opportunities. Furthermore, QACC Africa will bring community members and allies together, and highlight the right resources for queer business owners, operators and entrepreneurs to be even more successful by providing professional capacity development through training, mentorship and the nurturing of talent. VISION: To facilitate a diverse and inclusive economy in Africa by establishing a dynamic and thriving commercial ecosystem for queer-owned and allied- operated businesses. MISSION: To promote and support the growth of queer-owned and/or operated businesses across Africa through training and capacity building, partnership formation, and networking in order to raise awareness about the impact of the queer economy and facilitate investment opportunities. OBJECTIVES: 1. To build and nurture queer and allied business trade, collaboration, procurement partnerships and supply chain corridors. 2. To strengthen queer owned and/or operated businesses and formalize queer entrepreneur's businesses. 3. To be an incubator for queer start- ups and entrepreneurs and be the hub for investors in queer and allied businesses. 4. To provide certification for queer owned and/or operated businesses, and allied corporates that actively support the queer community. 5. To advocate for economic inclusion and equality of access for the queer community. PROBLEM STATEMENT:  It is hard to truly know the statistics of the queer community in countries throughout Africa, however we all understand that just because people (and their businesses) may not be overtly "out and proud", the LGBTQ+ population in various African countries, as a percentage of population, can be considered and compared to other nations where statistics are available. If we consider Canada, which has a population of 38 million, smaller than most African nations, Canada is home to over 100,000 LGBTQ+ owned businesses. These businesses generate over US$16 billion in economic activity and employ over 435,000 Canadians. Therefore it is safe to assume that untapped LGBTQ+ business in Africa is big business and can be a driving force for economic activism and driving change on the continent: the power of the Pink Coin (Shilling, Franc, Dollar, Rand, etc). Throughout Africa, LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs face barriers, including having to hide who they were in business dealings to avoid losing opportunities, and the potential for exploitation by competitors, clients, employees, and government bodies. There is a growing number of individuals, organisations and companies looking to build business together – one connection at a time. A community of LGBTQ+ businesses, and even diverse procurement practices, will help tip the scales. QACC Africa incorporates all of these positive forces, quietly advocating amongst community and allied members, to make a more inclusive African economy, whilst recognising the challenges of each country on the continent.

Queer & Allied Chamber of Commerce Africa (QACC Africa)

Committed to ending discrimination based upon gender identity and expression, and achieving equality for transgender people.

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund is committed to ending discrimination based upon gender identity and expression and to achieving equality for transgender people through public education, test-case litigation, direct legal services, and public policy efforts.

Our strategies include pathbreaking trans rights cases and "friend of the court" briefs regarding the key issues of employment, health care, education and public accommodations. We seek to coordinate with traditional civil rights organizations and other LGBT civil rights organizations. We also provide public education on transgender rights.   

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund

Improving the quality of life for Trans folks through assistance programs and referrals to physicians.

Nu Trans Movement Inc, provides assistance, training and education to local and state institutions to increase understanding of Transgender people. In Dallas, Texas the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country with about 7.5 million residents, NTMI works to improve the quality of life for Trans folks through Hiv/Aids prevention & care, identity document assistance programs and referrals to physicians that provide hormone replacement and mental health therapy.

Nu Trans Movement Inc, envisions a world in which Transgender people are valued as a contributing member of society. We envision a world in which trans people of color are not murdered for simply living their truth. For this vision to become a reality, we must work together to rebuild a system and culture that was designed to exclude many groups of people.

Nu Trans Movement, Inc was founded in 2016 by a Transgender activist for the specific purpose of improving the quality of life for Trans-folk in Dallas, Texas. Starting out as a Facebook group, she quickly noticed the urgent need for services in the Transgender communities across the state of Texas. With continued support from the community, we now have 3  staff people, over 100 active volunteers and we are currently seeking our first office space.

Nu Transgender Movement, Inc

Collective that seeks to address the global crisis of violence by providing resources and meals to Black Trans people worldwide.

The Okra Project is a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People wherever we can reach them. 

The Okra Project

Dedicated to the betterment of the lives of transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons.

T-time Transgender Support Inc creates safe environments for  transgender, intersex and other gender non-conforming individuals, their family, friends and allies to come together and express themselves and share their experiences, concerns and hopes. T-time also acts to help increase visibility and understanding of the transgender, intersex and gender diverse community, both within the LGBTQ community and in the wider public sphere.

T-Time Transgender Support

Grassroots, completely transgender founded and led non-profit based providing support, resources, education, and advocacy.

TransPonder offers several monthly meetings, special events for trans/gender diverse folks and allies, inclusivity trainings, and consultation services to professional organizations and businesses.
TransPonder’s vision and commitment is to: address root causes of discrimination in the trans/gender diverse community; deconstruct intersectional discrimination of all underrepresented/oppressed groups within and outside of our organization; increase allyship and accomplices through relationship building and education; foster leadership within the trans/gender diverse community across generations; promote access to health by fostering expertise in mental, physical and spiritual healing communities; network with legal counsel knowledgeable about the trans/gender diverse community.

TransPonder

Devoted to ending discrimination and violence against transgender people.

The National Center for Transgender Equality is a national social justice organization devoted to ending discrimination and violence against transgender people through education and advocacy on national issues of importance to transgender people.   By empowering transgender people and our allies to educate and influence policymakers and others, NCTE facilitates a strong and clear voice for transgender equality in our nation's capital and around the country.

National Center for Transgender Equality

BAGLY is committed to creating, sustaining and advocating for programs, policies and services for the LGBTQ+ youth community.

BAGLY: The Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth, is a youth-led, adult-supported social support organization, committed to social justice and creating, sustaining, and advocating for programs, policies, and services for the LGBTQ+ youth community. 

BAGLY

Founded by Sheryl Lee Ralph as a vehicle to inform, educate and reduce the stigma attached to HIV/AIDS.

The D.I.V.A. Foundation is a nonprofit 501c (3) charitable organization founded by Sheryl Lee Ralph in 1990 as a memorial to the many friends she lost to HIV/AIDS while in the original Broadway company of Dreamgirls. The organization focuses on generating resources and coordinating activities to create awareness of and combat against HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses. The D.I.V.A. Foundation produces and utilizes televised and digital health awareness content (music, entertainment programming, panels, and discussions) as vehicles to inform, educate and erase the stigma still attached to this disease. The D.I.V.A. Foundation’s signature fundraising event “DIVAS Simply Singing! Raising Health Awareness” is the longest consecutive running HIV/AIDS and Health Awareness benefit concerts in the U.S.

Over the 32-year history of The D.I.V.A. Foundation, Sheryl Lee Ralph has had a long-standing commitment to raise awareness, work to erase stigma, and empower and support individuals in owning their health. In 2005, Sheryl Lee Ralph and The D.I.V.A. Foundation received the first Red Ribbon Leadership Award at the United Nations on World AIDS Day for the unique use of the arts in fighting HIV/AIDS. The D.I.V.A. Foundation has raised over $3M dollars to conduct awareness programs and partner with and support organizations to provide critical services to all members of the LGBTQ+ community, women and children, and are inclusive of persons of color. 

The DIVA Foundation

Critical assistance for low-income and homeless transgender people living in Massachusetts.

Founded in 2008, by Jesse Pack later joined by Chastity Bowick, the Transgender Emergency Fund is the only organization dedicated to supporting low income and homeless Transgender individuals in Massachusetts. The Transgender Emergency Fund assists with homelessness prevention, shelter assistance, nutrition assistance, prescription co-pay assistance, transportation and escort to medical appointments, etc. All services are contingent on the availability of funds. The Transgender Emergency Fund is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization and is operated solely on donations.

Transgender Emergency Fund Of Massachusetts

Dedicated to improving the quality of trans lives by responding to the critical needs of our community.

Trans Lifeline is a national trans-led organization dedicated to improving the quality of trans lives by responding to the critical needs of our community with direct service, material support, advocacy, and education. Our vision is to end trans suicide and improve overall life-outcomes of trans people by facilitating justice-oriented, collective community aid.

Trans Lifeline

The Surfus Foundation is an LGBTQ+ foundation in Grand Rapids, MI focused on policy and research.

The Surfus Foundation is an LGBTQ+ foundation in Grand Rapids, MI focused on policy and research to advance and support the LGBTQ+ communities of West Michigan and beyond. Previously known as The Council for Human Rights, The Surfus Foundation is named after our Founder and President Dr. Chris Surfus. Past successes include education and advocacy efforts that led to Holland, MI adopting an LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinance, which then led to similar protections in Grandville, MI. Additionally, The Surfus Foundation has assisted corporations in becoming more inclusive of the LGBTQ+ community, advocated for anti-bullying policies, and worked to improve the quality of life of the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.

For more information, please refer to the website: www.surfus.foundation or www.surfus.org

The Surfus Foundation

We are providing informational and educational resources for the transgender community in Israel

Join us in supporting Trans Wiki (transwiki.co.il), the cornerstone resource empowering the Trans* (broader transgender) community in Israel with vital information and resources. As the largest and most authoritative knowledge base for this community, Trans Wiki provides guidance on healthcare, legal support, and community connections. 

This project has been brought to life through the collaborative efforts of Maavarim and the Gila Project, Israel's leading Trans* organizations. The mission of T Hub Initiative, our dedicated 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in California, focuses on publishing and maintaining the Trans Wiki platform, ensuring it remains an up-to-date and reliable resource. Generously financed by the European Union, the project is backed by expertise of staff and volunteers from our partner organizations.

Now, we reach out for your support to fuel our progress and mission. Your generous contribution of $5,000 will guarantee Trans Wiki's resilient growth over the coming year, covering operational costs and essential development. Our passionate volunteer team maximizes every dollar, utilizing cost-effective software and translation solutions to make a wider impact with minimal cost.

Your contribution fuels this initiative, maintaining and expanding the reach of Trans Wiki. Every donation goes directly towards enhancing the platform and ensuring that the information remains available to all

T Hub Initiative

Legal services by-and-for queer and trans folks.

Lavender Rights Project (LRP) advances a more just and equitable society by providing low-cost civil legal services and community programming centered in values of social justice for trans and queer low-income people and other marginalized communities.

Through direct representation and community programming, our by-and-for services aim to radically re-imagine the legal landscape for LGBTQ+ people while building community resilience, encouraging self-advocacy, and asserting the rights of marginalized populations.

Lavender Rights Project

TAKE (Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering) is a Black trans-led org supporting trans POC in Alabama.

TAKE Center

We provide opportunities for a higher quality of life for transgender people in Baltimore City living in survival mode.

Baltimore Safe Haven seeks to provide opportunities for a higher quality of life for TLGBQ people in Baltimore City living in survival mode.

We envision a world in which every transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (TLGBQ) person is able to live a healthy, self-determined, and self-sufficient life free from stigma, violence, and oppression. 

To achieve this vision, we connect with the most vulnerable members of our community while challenging structural barriers to health, safety, and prosperity. Baltimore Safe Haven provides compassionate harm reduction and upward mobility services, advocacy, and community engagement that is respectful, non-judgmental, and affirms and honors individual power and agency. Our programs include community outreach, drop-in, and housing services.

Baltimore Safe Haven

ACCELERATE ART is a charitable 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to uplifting emerging artists in the Web3 space.

Founded in 2021, ACCELERATE ART was created establish a supportive environment for the development of artistic practice in Web3. Our mission is to provide resources for artists and to support reflection and dialogue on art.

We are committed to supporting the ever changing definition of art by presenting a wide range of practices that engage a timely and critical exploration of art and technology. Through exhibitions, public engagement, educational programming and career opportunities, our objective is to support art's cultural, historic, social and political impact.

A2 Accelerate Art

Building LGBTQ power to create safety in the Bay Area since 1979! // Desarrollando el poder LGBTQ para crear seguridad en el Area de la Bahia desde 1979!

Founded in 1979, Community United Against Violence (CUAV) works to build the power of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) communities to transform violence and oppression. We support the healing and leadership of those impacted by abuse and mobilize our broader communities to replace cycles of trauma with cycles of safety and liberation. As part of the larger social justice movement, CUAV works to create truly safe communities where everyone can thrive.   ************ Fundada en 1979, CUAV trabaja para construir el poder de LGBTQ (lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transgénero, y queer) las comunidades para transformar la violencia y la opresión. Apoyamos la curación y el liderazgo de las personas afectadas por el abuso y movilizar a nuestras comunidades más amplias para reemplazar a los ciclos de trauma con los ciclos de la seguridad y la liberación. Como parte del movimiento por la justicia social más amplio, CUAV trabaja para crear comunidades verdaderamente seguras, donde todos puedan prosperar.

CUAV

Stand with Trans empowers and supports transgender youth and their loved ones.

Our vision is a world where gender diverse youth are validated and celebrated.

Stand with Trans

1st National nonprofit Organization of African American transmen solely focused on equality, advocacy and empowerment of transmen.

Since 2011, Black Transmen Inc has firmly planted ourselves on the forefront of organizing the modern movement for Black trans equality.  Still too often, black transmen are overshadowed in the fight for social equality.   Founded by Carter & Esperanza Brown, Black Transmen, Inc. (BTMI) takes pride in its role as the first national nonprofit social advocacy organization with a specific focus on empowering African American transgender men by addressing multi-layered issues of injustice faced at the intersections of racial, sexual orientation, and gender identities.

Our Motto: “One Is Not Born A Man HE Becomes One”

Black Transmen Inc. sponsors a new black trans equality movement, that includes the power and admiration of black transmen living life in spite of societal and/or traditional expectations of gender identity. We affirm and celebrate the beauty, strength and uniqueness of the transmasculine community.

Black Transmen Inc National Headquarters is located in Dallas, Texas and lead by Founder & Executive Director Carter Brown who called for visibility and leadership of black transmen to create global social change thru work focused on humanism, awareness, equality, advocacy and empowerment.

Our Mission
Our mission is to ensure that all transgender men and TLGB individuals are acknowledged and provided equal access and protection under the law thereby enabling them to contribute towards a productive society.

Vision Statement
Our vision is to build an organization that secures a quality reputation that is socially responsible and economically beneficial for the transgender community; To remain the indispensable source that brings together people who both need and provide reliable resources that support a healthy identity and; To educate and inspire a social movement that secures human rights, nurtures the human experience and uplifts the soul.

Black Transmen Inc

Support and protect LGBTIQ+ people in Europe.

Forbidden Colours collects and raises funds to support initiatives that help LGBTIQ+ people to fully live their lives in freedom with self-respect and dignity in Europe. They are also a leading advocate in exposing anti-LGBTIQ+ initiatives in Europe, and therefore conduct extensive advocacy with media, EU-institutions and member states. 

Forbidden Colours is a NPO linked to a fund managed by the King Baudouin Foundation, the major Belgian public benefit foundation, whose mission it is to contribute to a better society. 

We want all LGBTIQ+ persons to be able to get up every morning feeling it is okay to be who they are. We use our extensive network in the European institutions, and in several member states of the EU, to address the backlashes on LGBTIQ+ rights. With our media contacts across the world, we expose anti-LGBTIQ+ initiatives. By putting pressure through the media, we were able to put several cases higher on the political agenda.

The organization is considered as one of the most effective organizations to protect LGBTIQ+ rights on the European level. By closely monitoring the geopolitical forces behind state-sponsored anti-LGBTIQ+ campaigns, Forbidden Colours was able to expose several European governments for scapegoating the LGBTIQ+ community as a deception for their anti-democracy campaigns. 

They revealed cases such as the anti-LGBTIQ+ propaganda law in Hungary, an anti-LGBTIQ+ education reform in Poland and the needs of LGBTIQ+ persons fleeing Russia's war with Ukraine in the international media. With this, Forbidden Colours has gained the attention of the world media and has been featured in amongst others The Guardian, VICE & Sky News. The non-profit has led a campaign aiming to take down Hungary's infamous anti-LGBTIQ+ propaganda law. After 1,5 year of campaigning by Forbidden Colours, the Hungarian government was taken to the Court of Justice of the European Union. For the first time in the history of the EU, a member state was taken to court on the basis of violations of human dignity and human rights. Forbidden Colours was also able to convince the largest group of member states ever to intervene in a lawsuit against another member state.   

They also help organisations from all over the world to advocate more successfully at the European Union institutions and, for example, also works with local partners on the EU Global Human Rights Sanction Regime. Besides its political advocacy work, Forbidden Colours also works with the corporate world to create a more diverse, equal and inclusive workplace. They give trainings, keynotes and develop projects to raise awareness to the issues of the LGBTIQ+ community within the company. They also develop 'corporate social responsibility'-projects about LGBTIQ+ rights together with the corporate world. This helps companies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Visit their website for more info:  https://www.forbidden-colours.com/

Forbidden Colours

Let's stand up together for rights and wellbeing of LGBTIQ people

It is time to STOP the anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric in Eastern Europe.

Do you remember the joy you felt when the Supreme Court fulfilled your deepest dream and made marriage equality the law for all Americans? We wish to feel the same joy and happiness and fulfill the dreams of millions of LGBTIQ people in Eastern Europe. Instead we are victims of growing anti-LGBTIQ attacks, rhetorics and sentiment thanks to "Kremlin like" politicians who use us as scapegoats for their political victory.  However we can put STOP to this. We can give LGBTIQ people in this region HOPE. We can win marriage equality in the Czech Republic. If it is possible in the Czech Republic, it will be possible in other parts of this region.  To make that happen, in April 2017 we launched a national campaign to secure a 'Yes' to freedom to marry in the Czech Republic.  WHY CZECH REPUBLIC?  
 
 67% of Czechs  agree with marriage equality 
 
 210 000 people  signed a petition for marriage equality 
 
 82 businesses  support the campaign
 
 We lead a conversation on marriage equality in the Czech Parliament since 2018: 
 The Parliament started to discuss a bill in November 2018 and continued the discussion in March 2019. 
 
 On April 29th, 2021 the bill passed the first vote in the Parliament after 1052 days  and was sent for further discussion in its Committees. 
 
 2021 General elections scrub all this work and we needed to start from the beginning!  
 
 On June 8th 2022  the bill on marriage equality was presented to the Czech Parliament for the 2nd time and waits for its reading. 
 
 Despite the fact that the conservative opposition is though and fuelled by evangelical resources, the society is behind the change and we will win it!  
 
 WHAT WOULD VICTORY MEAN FOR THE REST OF THE REGION? 
 Hope to million of LGBTIQ people in the region that change is possible and reachable! 
 "A slap" in the face of conservatives who are using LGBTIQ people as scapegoats! 
 WE NEED YOUR HELP! Become our International ChangeMakers,  donate and make marriage equality reality in the Czech Republic and bring a message of hope and dignity to so many LGBTIQ people in this post-communist region.  

 By achieving a 'Yes' to marriage equality here in the Czech Republic we can help to create a wave of equality change across Eastern Europe.   

Thank you for your support. 

Czeslaw Walek 
Director of the We are fair campaign 

Prague Pride

Artists' Television Access is an all-volunteer, artist-run, underground and experimental media arts gallery founded in 1984.

Artists’ Television Access is a San Francisco-based, artist-run, non-profit organization that cultivates and promotes culturally-aware, underground media and experimental art. We provide an accessible screening venue and gallery for the presentation of programmed and guest-curated screenings, exhibitions, performances, workshops and events. We believe in fostering a supportive community for the exhibition of innovative art and the exchange of non-conformist ideas.

Artists' Television Access

We provide in-depth, highly relational mindfulness education for youth and the parents and professionals who support them.

Young people deserve our best attention and the greatest support we can offer, especially when it comes to teaching them the tools and resources they need to nurture their minds, spirit, and bodies.

We stand on the foundation of a 35-year lineage of teen mindfulness which began with retreats offered in Barre, Massachusetts in 1989. Since our humble beginnings, we have grown to be the national leader in immersive mindfulness education with our beloved teen retreats having been offered to 4,000+ alumni.

With a belief that justice and equity are at the center of youth wellbeing, our offerings also include specific programs for affinity groups such as BIPOC and LGBTQIA+. Programs aimed at more systemic impact include our internationally accredited Teacher Training program and custom programming in partnership with schools and youth-serving organizations across the country. Our programs seek to complement and amplify the impacts of in-school programs and to expand the value and capacity that youth-serving professionals have for sharing in-depth mindfulness experiences with youth.

At their core, the diverse community of Inward Bound teens and adult leaders seek to create healthier inner and outer worlds. They come from the edges of toxic dominant cultures with the belief that another way of living is not only possible, but a fundamental right. Our extensive network of 120+ staff, teachers, health coordinators, and mentors are experts in the fields of youth development, mental health, and education, and have lived experiences that deeply reflect the teens they serve. They exemplify authenticity, compassion, and respect, upholding a strong code of ethics. In fact, some of our leaders today were participants in the first teen retreats offered in 1989.

Perhaps our most distinctive capacity for success is our Collaborative Leadership (CL) System which emphasizes shared decision-making and robust feedback, and creates more pathways for community members, especially youth, parents, and partners, to have increased input and investment. This organizational structure, which has no Executive Director, is the result of our equity commitments and examinations of how power is distributed within our organization. It was researched and developed for three years with the consult of international leaders in the field before being fully launched in January 2020. At the core of the CL System are the full-time staff and five standing committees that include a 9-member Youth Advisory Committee and 6-member Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee. Need-based stipends are available to support committee member participation.

Inward Bound Mindfulness

Phoenix Pride unites, educates, and engages people to support and empower the LGBTQ+ community and our allies.

Phoenix Pride unites, educates, and engages people to support and empower the LGBTQ community and our allies.  Phoenix Pride envisions a unified community where diverse individuals are celebrated and able to thrive as their authentic selves.

We S.E.E. the future.
As a community, we’ve come a long way. And we know that progress has been hard fought. At Phoenix Pride, we also recognize that we still have more to accomplish. So we continue moving forward.

Phoenix Pride has distributed more than $1 million in grants and scholarships since the program’s inception in 2008.

Phoenix Pride

PURE is a global NPO founded to bring educational opportunities closer to the economically disadvantaged children and youth.


PURE, People for Urban and Rural Education, is a not for profit organization founded in year 2016 to bring educational and livelihood opportunities closer to the economically disadvantaged children, at-risk youth and special populations.

We at PURE …
- strive to address the insufficiencies in disadvantaged rural and urban schools, children’s shelters and special need centers.
- diligently work to facilitate sustainable empowerment through education with complete transparency and accountability to the sponsors.
- aim to empower special populations through education and gifts of mobility, reaffirming our belief in quality life for all.
- aspire to bring students from diverse socio-economic and geographical backgrounds together for a better tomorrow.
PURE is built on four pillars – TeamPURE, PUREGurus, PUREVolunteers and PURESponsors

PURE - People for Urban and Rural Education

Cultivating a resilient and inclusive Pacific Northwest community.

We are a philanthropic incubator (fiscal sponsor) for grassroots, community centered projects. We provide tools, guidance and services so that all Cascadians can develop and deliver solutions that meet the needs of their communities at all scales. We envision positive, place based action for an inclusive and unified Pacific Northwest with a recognizable culture of bioregional sustainability.

Since 2015 we have served over 40 grassroots project in every state in Cascadia! We currently have almost 20 projects focused on
● Arts & Culture - Cascadian artists spreading joy through art!)
● Community Connectedness  - Inclusive Cascadia in action!
● Education - Learning for Cascadian adults and youth.
● Health & Wellness - For the healthiest Cascadia and beyond!
● Stewardship - Actively caring for our bioregion and beyond.
● Bioregionalism - Celebrating Cascadia!

Your charitable gift cultivates grassroots projects across the bioregion. Our projects are lead by hundreds of volunteers who put in thousands of hours a year to make Cascadia and the world a better place. Donations can be made to CascadiaNow! to help us support our projects or your gift can be designated to any of our projects directly (please email projects@cascadianow.org to help us account for your donation directly to a project properly.)


CascadiaNow

Our mission is to protect LGBTQ+ youth in Poland from the harms of homelessness and refugeehood. 

The Warsaw House Foundation's mission is to protect homeless and refugee  LGBTQ+ youth in Poland and provide them with the tools they need to live independently. Our inspiration was the  Ali Forney Center  (AFC)  n NYC, which is largest organization in the world offering support to homeless LGBTQ+ youth. We are honored that Carl Siciliano, the AFC's founder is on the board of the Warsaw House Foundation and works as an advisor. We place extra attention on HIV and STI education, support and prevention with the help of board member Dr. Joanna Kubica and the Smart Life Clinic in Warsaw.  After we took in our first LGBTQ+ youth to house on February 14th, 2023  we have been flooded with calls for housing and support from young people in need.  These are Polish Trans 18 year-olds from the Polish countryside in desperate need to escape their abusive and intolerant homes, young queer people with PTSD and untreated mental illness who need housing and support immediately, LGBTQ+ refugees from Ukraine and several young gay men from Iraq who suffered torture in their homeland, were detained and imprisoned at the Polish/Belarussian border for up to two years, and are now trying to build their lives in Poland.  We are also housing and supporting young LGBTQ+ people from Uganda and Egypt,  We are raising money to support the young people under our care, to house and feed them and pay for their medical needs and courses needed for them to start an independent life,  We are also raising money to hire staff (all of WH's work is now done by volunteers), to continue the renovation of our residential building and for short term emergency rentals.  We have a committed and professional team and a well planned strategy for both emergency and long term care.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!! We will be in regular contact if you'd like to hear of our progress and  if you'll be in Warsaw, we'd be delighted to meet with you personally and show you the work we do.

Warsaw House Foundation

A democratic ensemble of L.A. theatre artists dedicated to creating high-caliber, original work.

Theatre of NOTE is a democratic ensemble of L.A. theatre artists dedicated to creating high-caliber, original work that challenges both its ensemble and audiences.  We aspire to more accurately reflect LA's cultural make-up, to make our work resonate more deeply and honestly with our audiences, and better enable NOTE to tell more culturally diverse stories.

Theatre of NOTE is a non-profit democratic company that stagedives the arena of theatre arts. Founded in 1981, our ensemble-based organization is dedicated to providing a creative environment in which to collaborate and develop maverick theater.

NOTE produces an average of four mainstage shows a year, with a focus on premiere productions — shows that are brand new to the world, to the West Coast, to California, or to Los Angeles. NOTE also produces the annual Hollywood Performance Marathon, the NOTEworthy new play development workshops, and our educational outreach program, the Young Writers Project.

NOTE has consistently been commended by both Los Angeles and national press, including American Theatre Magazine, and has earned countless accolades, nominations, and honors from every award-granting theatrical organization in Southern California.

Stick your hand in L.A.’s NOTEorious black box theatre — you never know if you’ll get licked… or bitten.

Theatre Of Note

Equality Community Center is a non-profit organization. It is based in Portland, ME. It received its nonprofit status in 2018.

The Equality Community Center is a collaborative workplace for LGBTQ+ and allied social justice seeking non-profit organizations.

We strive to be a safe and inclusive gathering space that provides social and educational programming for all, while supporting the most marginalized in our communities.

Equality Community Center

Inclusive, equitable sliding fee scale K-12 access to musical instruments, instruction, performance and recording programs.

SLAM enriches kid's lives, instilling:

• Diligence and time management
• Cooperation and teamwork
• Self-respect through achievement

SLAM maximizes your donation with matching fund grants from Foundations, City, County and State agencies.  SLAM's multiple award-winning team of rock, jazz, classical, bluegrass, folk, pop, and electronic music mentors provide safe, fun, productive access to:

• Musical instruments and equipment
• Instruction from up to Ph.D. teachers 
• Performances at venues and festivals
• In-studio and home recording programs

SLC Magazine   2016, Best of the Beehive
City Weekly       2014, Best of Utah
SLC Magazine  2009, Best of the Beehive
City Weekly      2007,  Best of Utah
City Weekly      2006, Best of Utah
City Weekly      2005, Best of Utah

Salt Lake Academy Of Music (SLAM)

InterPride brings together Pride networks and individual Pride organizations around the world.

InterPride is the international organization that advances the Pride movement by coordinating with global partners that share our values.

We are uniquely suited to carry out our work because InterPride:

- Works with and supports the visibility and development of Pride networks around the world, thereby contributing to the presence and influence of Pride efforts at regional and local levels.
- Gathers regional Pride platforms dedicated to producing Pride events for diverse global SOGIESC (Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Expressions, and Sex Characteristics) communities to learn and grow with each other.
- Manages, supports, and awards WorldPride™, global grant programs, and related initiatives.
In 1982, the National Association of Lesbian and Gay Pride Coordinators was formed in Boston, USA, with an initial membership of six USA Pride organizers. Over time membership has grown to include Pride organizers around the world, becoming InterPride in 1999. In 2021, membership totaled over 300 organizations from more than 60 countries. This growth has been matched by increasing diversity of membership. Since 2015, non-North American members have grown from 21% to 49%. This trend primarily reflects increased participation from Oceania and Global South (Africa, Asia, and South America).

The Pride movement continues to evolve. Pride has gained a presence in locations where it was previously absent or under-developed. There has also been significant growth in structures that gather Pride organizers together at a national or international level (known as Pride Platforms). This trend has created opportunities for InterPride to identify ways to better leverage regional knowledge to advance the rights of SOGIESC communities.

InterPride - International Association of Pride Organizers

Holy Covenant Church MCC is a LGBTQ+ nonprofit religious organization located in Brookfield, IL. Nonprofit status granted in 1973.

Holy Covenant MCC is an open and affirming Christian community of faith that has been serving the Chicagoland area since March 30, 1975. We celebrate our call to embody the spirit of hospitality. It is in this spirit that we welcome people of all genders, races, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages and socio-economic means to participate in the full life and ministry of our church.

We explore our faith in a safe, non-judgmental environment. We celebrate the contributions of Christianity and other faith traditions to our understanding and experience of the Divine, Just, and Creative Presence many call “God.”

The Worship Team nurtures the corporate worship life of our congregation as inspiring, celebratory, and centered on the faithful proclamation of Scripture and communion celebration. We celebrate an open communion, which means you do not have to be a member of Holy Covenant or any other church to participate. Everyone is welcome to the table with whatever beliefs or doubts they may have.

Our Sunday hybrid worship service is held at 10:00 a.m., and is live on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HolyCovenantMcc. It is followed by our social hour which includes food and invigorating conversation. 

You can sign up at our website for our weekly newsletter which includes volunteer, service, fundraisers and other information going on at the church. The sign-up information is at http://www.holycovenantmcc.org on the left side of the page.

Holy Covenant MCC is part of Metropolitan Community Churches, an International Christian denomination representing approximately 300 congregations. We provide a home to all who are seeking to discover and express their unique spiritual journey

Holy Covenant Church - M C C

Ensuring the wellbeing of children in an increasingly online world. 


One in three children will be bullied this year.  It could be yours.  It could be the child of someone you know.  The effects can last a lifetime.

We need to take action now to prevent the bullying and cyberbullying that so many of us endured when we were at school. Your support allows us to bring our award winning No Bully program to schools everywhere.  Teachers and school leaders trained by us are able to solve 90% of the incidents on their campus.

Give childhood a chance.

Power of Zero

Help us heal and empower queer people and their place in the world! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzXj-I12Ka0

we.are.village in Berlin is creating new ways that queer communities can connect, transform and heal. For the last eight years, we have operated a unique space for queer masculinities and femininities, transgender, non-binary, genderfluid, intersex and other gender non-conforming people.


Our goal is to help queer people create and embrace healthier, better connected and purposeful lives. We do this by nourishing individual and collective growth through working with the body, mindfulness, artistic expression, consent and a range of self-empowering tools and strategies. In the process, we tackle loneliness, lack of self-esteem, intimacy and addiction issues, dealing with discrimination and other intersectional challenges that limit and impact queer lives.


We have created a diverse and continuously adapting program of weekly and monthly events, community evenings, weekend trips as well as art exhibitions, performances, salon discussions and offerings via our online platform.


Although it was never our focus, we  have become a model for other cities and countries. We regularly host visitors and participants from all over the world and have seen an increase in international interest from individuals, other organizations, activists, artists, politicians or other practitioners wanting to find out more about our innovative model and methodologies.

Please contribute to our fundraiser that will support this international vision through our Queer Bridges Berlin and Village Academy Training programs.

Download the PDF with our vision, goals and summary of our past successes here!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/66zmtyp86uub1tt/2023-WAV--KL-EN-DIN-A4%20.pdf?dl=0

We very much appreciate your time and attention!
Thank you !!
Kai Ehrhardt
Founder

we are village - queer matters

Organization that advocates for the equality of transgender veterans and active duty service members

Transgender American Veterans Association is a grassroots organization that advocates for the equality of transgender veterans and active duty service members to receive fair and equal treatment in areas such as healthcare, benefits, and open transgender military service. We help veterans change their name and gender within the Department of Veteran affairs, update their DD 214 name and characterization of discharge, and provide services such as our transgender support locator, which offers local support for transgender persons. TAVA is committed to equal rights for all veterans.

TAVA is active by having our voice heard at key VA and DoD high level meetings. We also provide community and comradeship through our membership and social media platforms. 


Transgender American Veterans Association

Benefits trans people around the world through gender-affirming support programs that empower them to live more authentically.

Point of Pride offers an Annual Transgender Surgery Fund, a Free Chest Binder Donation Program, a Free Trans Femme Shapewear Program, an Electrolysis Financial Support Program, an HRT Access Fund, and other community-building support initiatives for trans youth and adults.

We also advocate for health care reform and the national adoption of inclusive health care policies that protect and serve our community.

Point of Pride

The primary source of information and networking for the FTM community worldwide.

FTMInternational responds to letters, calls and emails for help from FTM families every day with personal assistance, resources, information, networking and support. They sponsor, provide workshops, seminars, planning and support, and is a community partner for transgender health conferences. FTM International publishes the FTM Newsletter for community connection worldwide. It has become the most widely circulated and most respected publication exploring the FTM experience. They also provide legal resources.


Female-To-Male International Inc

Providing services, education, support, and advocacy improving the health, safety, and life experience of the trans community.

Our Vision:

• to serve as a bridge to other LGBTQ+ and ally communities
• to provide a focus for matters of concern to the Ohio transgender community and their allies by providing open, affirming, visible and tangible support
• to promote opportunities and networking that increase awareness of the Transgender and gender-nonconforming community’s needs and concerns such, as discrimination and violence
• to increase lesbian, gay, bisexual, heterosexual, and ally understanding and cultural awareness of the Ohio Transgender community
• to help ensure that Ohio educational programs and services are inclusive and supportive of Ohio Transgender issues, perspectives, and concerns
• to provide social activities that are inclusive of all LGBTQ+ and ally communities, access to safe-spaces, people, forums for confidential discussion, support, and local and national resource information
• to foster Ohio Transgender community pride

Transohio

Providing advocacy, support, and education to create coalitions that empower transgender and gender non-conformist communities.

Transgender Michigan’s primary mission is to provide advocacy, support and education while serving to create coalitions in the state of Michigan to unify and empower transgender and gender non-conformist communities.

The organization educates Michigan about gender identity and expression as well as injustices faced by transgender individuals and significant others, families, friends, and allies (SOFFAs);  advocates for equality, social justice and inclusion of transgender individuals, significant others, families, friends, and allies, and those who are perceived as gender variant; and provides support for transgender individuals, significant others, families, friends, and allies, and those who are perceived as gender variant. 

They also offer a help line. 

Transgender Michigan

Dedicated to advancing human rights in southern Africa, with a particular focus on LGBT people.

We are a grant-maker and a fundraiser to expand resources available for defending and advancing the rights of LGBTI people in Southern Africa.  
 
The Other Foundation  is a community foundation that protects and advances the human rights, well being, and social inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people in southern Africa. It gathers support for those who are doing this work and gives support in a smart way that helps groups to work better for lasting change.  Currently, our primary purpose is to expand resources available for defending and advancing the rights of LGBTI people in  Southern Africa . We do this by working both as a grant-maker and a fundraiser. As a grant-maker, we support change through others, rather than directly ourselves. So we provide direct support to partners, while facilitating the building and sharing of knowledge. As a fundraiser, we focus on raising resources from a wide range of potential givers – particularly from within the region. One of the ways we intend to do this is by supporting campaigns to build awareness and reinforce appreciation for LGBTI people to enjoy their rights within a broader human rights framework. At present, we are located in Johannesburg, South Africa. 
 
 Contribute to a self-sustaining human rights movement in Southern Africa.

Other Foundation 

An organization focused on human and civil rights. It received its nonprofit status in 2021.

Atlanta Black Pride Inc

To secure equal protections for LGBTQ Utahns and their families

Working for a fair and just Utah!  Find us on Twitter and Instagram: @equalityutah

Equality Utah

We envision a world that centers the experiences and leadership of young women and gender-expansive youth of color.

Sadie Nash Leadership Project’s mission is to strengthen, empower, and equip young women and gender-expansive youth of color as agents for change in their lives and in the world. Operating at the intersection of love and rigor, we use popular education to build community, critical consciousness, and college and career readiness.

Sadie Nash Leadership Project

HRAPF provides free legal services to LGBTI persons and other marginalised persons in Uganda and engages in strategic litigation.

About HRAPF
Founded in August 2008, HRAPF uses the law as an entry point to contribute to a better legal and policy environment for LGBTI persons and other marginalised groups. We do this through enhanced access to justice, advocacy, research, strategic litigation, knowledge development, capacity enhancement and strategic litigation and strategic partnerships within Uganda. We are also actively engaged in the East African, Pan African and International human rights mechanisms, processes and movements.

Our vision
A society where the human rights of all persons including marginalised persons and key populations are valued and respected.

Our Mission
To promote respect and protection of the human rights of marginalised persons and key populations through enhanced access to justice, advocacy and influencing, research, strategic litigation and knowledge development, and capacity enhancement.

Our Slogan
“Taking Human Rights to All”

Our target constituencies

1. LGBTQ+ persons
2. Intersex persons
3. Sex workers
4. Persons who use and inject drugs (PWUIDs)
5. Refugees facing gender-based violence issues
6. Women and health workers in conflict with the laws on abortion
7. Vulnerable women, girls and the elderly facing land justice concerns
8. Women living with HIV/AIDS

Theory of change
HRAPF believes that increasing access to inclusive legal services, effectively advocating and influencing legal and policy reform, increased evidence and joint strategising, strategic engagement of duty bearers at local, national and regional levels and greater investment in strengthening capacities of marginalised groups and Key Populations to challenge oppressive norms, power structures and legal systems that normalize discrimination, will enable for marginalised groups and Key Populations to be fully afforded their rights and create a world where rights of all persons including marginalised persons and key populations are valued, respected and protected is built.

Our outcome areas
What we do
HRAPF has five major goals (outcome areas)

1. Sustained access to justice for marginalised persons and key populations
HRAPF champions equality and non-discrimination for marginalised persons and key populations by promoting and facilitating access to justice. A team of lawyers and a network of paralegals is always on standby to respond to emerging cases in order to redress violations that marginalised persons and key populations continue to face. We engage law enforcement agencies on violations of rights of our constituencies and document all violations and initiate interventions that seek to hold perpetrators of these violations accountable. We support the training and facilitation of community paralegals across the country and all our target constituencies to continue providing legal aid services through their structures.

2. Development of knowledge and jurisprudence for the promotion and protection of human rights of marginalised persons and Key Populations
We continue to be a key leader in the generation of knowledge on various dimensions of human rights of marginalised persons and key populations. Having merged some components of access to justice and research and advocacy, HRAPF is set to build a Centre for Law and Marginalisation to champion research and strategic litigation and provide robust legal solutions to violations of rights of marginalised groups and key populations.

3. Inclusive laws and policies promoting and protecting rights and the well-being of marginalised persons and key populations
We speak out and amplify the voices of marginalised persons and KPs in policy and legal development processes as well as challenge discriminatory practices and systemic and institutionalised marginalisation through advocacy and influencing strategies. We create, nurture, and or strengthen partnerships on the one hand with national bodies that are concerned with human rights. Through these partnerships, we will seek to influence the agenda on non-discrimination and equality at district, national, regional (East African and Continental) and international levels.

4. Transformed knowledge, skills and attitudes of marginalised persons and KPs and duty bearers leading to the promotion, respect and protection of the human rights of marginalised persons and Key populations
We consolidate all empowerment and capacity-building efforts through organising and conducting issue-based human rights training workshops and meetings targeting marginalised persons, key populations ((LGBTI persons; sex workers; women, girls and service providers in conflict with abortion laws; drug users; people living with HIV and; refugees) and duty bearers (police officers, media, judicial officers (specifically magistrates), parents, local leaders and health providers as well as state prosecutors and prison warders) to champion non - discrimination and reduce the marginalisation of key populations.

5. Strong and sustainable human rights organisation
HRAPF continues to strengthen its operational efficiency and financial independence buttressed by effective governance, sustainability, prudent risk management, internal development and a clear staffing structure that suits the organisation for sustainability, transparency, accountability, effectiveness and efficiency in delivering on our mandate.

Major Strategies
HRAPF’s five outcome areas are achieved through the following major strategies:

1)	Legal aid service provision: HRAPF facilitates access to justice in respect of violations of the rights of LGBTI persons and other marginalised persons and key Populations and health service providers through legal representation, mobile legal aid camps, alternative dispute resolution/mediation, community paralegals and documenting violations of the rights of marginalised persons and Key Populations.

2)	Advocacy and influencing: HRAPF challenges laws, policies, regulations, guidelines and practices that curtail and violate the rights of marginalised persons and Key Populations and proposes other possibilities. We also advocate for the integration of human rights in policies, laws, operational guidelines, frameworks and regulations and the application of constitutional values and principles and the rights-based approaches in the implementation of services. We do this through dialogues, public education, coalition building, and engaging with national, regional and international human rights spaces and mechanisms.

3)	Building and Strengthening Capacities: Using legal and human rights frameworks, HRAPF develops human rights awareness, promotion and advocacy capacities of CBO’s, NGOs and networks of marginalised persons and Key Populations groups and NGOs working on human rights issues. HRAPF also develops the capacities of duty bearers (including: political leaders, law and policy makers and implementers, law enforcement officers, judicial officers, local councils, families and communities and health service providers), prison warders on the rights of marginalised persons and Key Populations and their duties in the promotion and safeguarding these rights. We build capacities of rights holders, duty bearers, communities and key stakeholders to enable them pursue greater rights for marginalised persons and Key Populations. We do this through: training, tailor-made technical support, internships and mentorship, and legal awareness outreach sessions.

4)	Knowledge Development: HRAPF invests itself in expanding the pool of knowledge and encouraging debate through regularly undertaking legal analyses, simplifying and translating and disseminating knowledge resources such as: laws, policies and bills; position papers; human rights violations reports; research and baselines.

5)	Strategic Litigation: HRAPF challenges laws, practices and actions that violate the rights of marginalised persons and Key populations through the filing of cases before courts of law and tribunals. These are reinforced through research and documentation of human rights thereby enriching jurisprudence for the rights of a marginalised persons and key populations.

6)	Partnership Development: Nurturing and participating in strategic partnerships at the national, sub-regional, Pan African and global levels for the strengthening of the rights-based approaches and utilisation of legal and human rights mechanisms. This we do through coalitions and alliances, lobby meetings, engaging at regional and international human rights mechanisms and strategic interest litigation at national, EAC sub-regional and Pan-African regional levels.

7)	Programme Support: Building a sustainable organization that operates in an effective, efficient, professional and accountable manner. This we do through: prudent corporate governance; attracting and retaining a competent staff team; robust monitoring, evaluation and learning; resource mobilisation and risk management.

Website: www.hrapf.org
Twitter: @hrapf-Uganda

Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum

Arts Business Collaborative Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on community development. It is based in Elmhurst, NY. It received its nonprofit status in 2018.