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Pride Foundation announces new rapid response advocacy fund for organizations working for LGBT equality |
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| Pride Foundation announces new rapid response advocacy fund for organizations working for LGBT equality | ||
| The Pride Foundation is pleased to announce a new fund - The Pride Foundation Advocacy Fund - which will provide rapid response grants to organizations in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington, to address the current needs of LGBT and allied organizations working on equality issues in the Pacific Northwest.
A core group of Pride Foundation donors has contributed $25,000 to match donations made to the Advocacy Fund. Pride Foundation plans to raise at least $50,000 before March 31st. To take advantage of this matching offer, Pride Foundation will begin accepting donations immediately for the fund, and intends to make initial grants by April 1st. "It is and will continue to be a history-making year in Washington state," says Audrey Haberman, executive director of the Pride Foundation. "Our community worked for 30 years to protect LGBT Washingtonians from discrimination, celebrated one night, and before our balloons even had time to lose air, we were faced with someone wanting to take away those hard-earned rights." Haberman is referring to a referendum filed by Tim Eyman to repeal ESHB2661, the newly-passed legislation which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. If Eyman is successful in gathering enough signatures, and his measure were to pass, it would be legal to fire or deny housing to a person simply because of his or her sexual orientation.. "Our Northwest states are uniquely positioned to advance equality. Not only does every state in the Northwest face an ongoing challenge to equality, but also we know that people in every northwest state overwhelming support fairness and equal rights for LGBT people," says Roey Thorpe, executive director of Basic Rights Oregon. "Also businesses know that a diverse workforce attracts and retains the best and brightest." Pride Foundation sees the needs of our community first hand through the grant applications we receive and our work in communities outside of urban areas. "Pride Foundation is going to do what we have always done best-provide resources to as many organizations working on these issues as possible-we'll do the fundraising so they can do the work." says Kevan Gardner, regional outreach director for Pride Foundation. "The groups that are helping youth, educating the public and creating safe communities are already working with limited resources, so we will continue to support their great work and create additional opportunities when extraordinary circumstances arise." Pride Foundation suggests a two-prong approach for donors. We encourage you to give directly to your local organizations and to the Pride Foundation Advocacy Fund, so that you continue to support organizations you know and begin to support others that you may not know or are new to the cause, but urgently need your support. One gift to this fund helps many organizations in our region. Donations can be made online at www.pridefoundation.org, by phone at 206-323-3318 or 800-735-7287, or by mail at: 1122 E. Pike St., PMB 1001, Seattle, WA 98122. A Pride Foundation press release |
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