Thirty-six nonprofit organizations that serve the LGBTQ+ community in Greater Boston have received awards that total $336,000 from the Boston Foundation’s Equity Fund, whose mission is to advance LGBTQ+ equality. According to a report in Boston Business Journal, the Equity Fund has awarded 300 some grants totaling over $1.8 million since it started in 2012.
Reports BBJ:
Organizations that received grants from the Equality Fund include $12,000 to the Boston Alliance of LGBTQ Youth, $12,000 to Victory Programs Inc., and $12,000 to Fenway Health, among others.
The Equality Fund in April named M. Scott Knox as its first director. The fund is also guided by an 11-member advisory committee, composed of community and business members who work in collaboration with Knox.
The Equality Fund reviewed 55 proposals in total, and 36 were selected to receive grants, Knox said. Because the funds are not restricted, organizations can use the funding in a variety of ways to support the queer community, he said.
The 2023 grants include:
- Boston Alliance of LGBTQ Youth – BAGLY Inc.: $12,000
- Bisexual Resource Center Inc.: $7,500
- (B)MEN Foundation Inc.: $12,000
- Boston Pride for the People: $12,000
- Boston Theater Company Inc.: $7,500
- Citizens for Juvenile Justice: $7,000
- City Ballet of Boston Inc.: $7,000
- Coro Allegro: $7,000
- Dancing Queerly: $7,000
- Ethos: $12,000
- Fenway Health: $12,000
- FLAG Flag Football Inc.: $7,000
- GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc. (GLAD): $12,000
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc.: $12,000
- Greater Boston PFLAG: $7,500
- Health Law Advocates Inc.: $7,500
- History Project Inc.: $12,000
- Home for Little Wanderers Inc.: $12,000
- Jewish Big Brother Big Sisters of Greater Boston: $7,000
- Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition: $12.000
- North Shore Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth (nAGLY): $12,000
- OUT MetroWest Inc.: $7,000
- OUTstanding Life: $7,000
- Peter DiMuro Public Displays of Motion: $7,500
- Political Asylum Immigration Representation Project (PAIR) Inc.: $7,500
- Pride in Our Workplace Inc.: $7,500
- Portraits of Pride: $7,500
- Quincy Pride Inc.: $7,000
- Roxbury Youthworks Inc.: $12,000
- Silver Lining Mentoring: $7,000
- South Coast LGBTQ Network Inc.: $7,000
- Teach Plus Inc.: $7,000
- Theater Offensive Inc.: $12,000
- Trans Community of New England (TCNE): $12,000
- Victory Programs Inc.: $12,000
- Wily Network Inc.: $12,000
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