Funding Opportunities

Updated LGBT International NGO Funders List (July 2008)

Below are links to comprehensive directories of funders—who can be approached by LGBT NGOs—provided by IGLA, ILGA-Europe and FLGI. IGHLRC has added other funding opportunities not contained in those sources. We advise you to read through their individual lists as well as our additions to find the funds that would best meet your needs.

Directories

• ILGA:
  http://doc.ilga.org/content/download/4101/25369/version/6/file/Funders.pdf
  List of donors collected by the International Gay and Lesbian Association
• ILGA Europe:
  http://www.ilga-europe.org/europe/funding_capacity_building/funding_opportunities
  List of donors developed by the European Region of the International Gay and Lesbian Association
• Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues:
  http://www.lgbtfunders.org/programs/global.cfm
  A United States’ based organization that provides lists of funders tailored to an organizations specific needs.

Funding Opportunities

• ALERT
  (youth groups only)
  Contact Person: Maarten can der Drift
  2301 GC Postbus 16122
  Leiden
  The Netherlands
  Email: alert@alertfonds.nl
  Website: http://www.alertfonds.nl
  Alert is an independent fund that supports progressive projects by and for youth. Alert supports youth initiatives all over the world with small-scale subsidies.
  
  
• FrontLine—The International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
  81 Main Street
  Blackrock
  Co Dublin
  Ireland
  Telephone: (+353) 1 212 3750
  Facsimile: (+353) 1 212 1001
  Email: info@frontlinedefenders.org
  Website: http://www.frontlinedefenders.org
  Front Line runs a small grants program to provide for the security needs of defenders. Front Line mobilizes campaigning and lobbying on behalf of defenders at immediate risk. In emergency situations, Front Line can facilitate temporary relocation.
  
  
• National Endowment for Democracy
  1025 F Street NW, Suite 800
  Washington, District of Columbia 20004 USA
  Telephone: (+1) 212 378 9700
  Website: http://www.ned.org
  The NED is a private, nonprofit organization created to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. The Endowment is guided by the belief that freedom is a universal human aspiration that can be realized through the development of democratic institutions, procedures, and values. With its annual congressional appropriation, it makes hundred of grants each year to support prodemocracy groups in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
  
  
• Queer Youth Fund (of Liberty Hill Foundation)
  Contact: Ms. Lina Paredes
  Director of Programs
  c/o Liberty Hill Foundation
  2121 Cloverfield Boulevard, Suite 113
  Santa Monica, California 90404 USA
  Telephone: (+1) 310 453 3611
  Facsimile: (+1) 310 453 7806
  Email: lparedes@libertyhill.org
  Website: http://www.libertyhill.org/qyf/
  The Queer Youth Fund makes multi-year grants to grassroots, local, state and national nonprofit organizations located anywhere in the United States working to improve the quality of life among gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth.
  
  
• War on Want
  Room D63
  37-39 Great Guildford Street
  London, SE1 OES
  United Kingdom
  Telephone: (+44) 171 620 1111
  Facsimile: (+44) 171 261 9291
  Email: wow@gn.apc.org
  Website: http://www.waronwant.org
  War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalization. They campaign for workers' rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice.

Specialized Funding Opportunities and other Services with LGBT Organizations

• International Human Rights Internship Program
  c/o Institute of International Educational
  1400 K Street, NW Suite 650
  Washington, District of Columbia 20005
  USA
  Facsimile: (+1) 202 326 7763
  Internships with other NGOs.
  
  
• Witness
  c/o Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
  330 7th Avenue, 10th Floor
  New York, New York 10001
  USA
  Website: http://www.witness.org
  Funding for video equipment and other documentation tools
  
  
• Hellman/Hammett Funds
  (for writers awards only)
  Human Rights Watch
  485 Fifth Avenue
  New York, New York 10017-6104
  USA
  Website: http://www.hrw.org/about/info/helham.html

Other Free Resources for Groups in Developing Countries

• Fenner Brockway House
  37/39 Great Guildford Street
  London, SE1 OES
  United Kingdom
  Telephone: (+44) 171 401 8231
  Facsimile: (+44) 171 401 2124
  Email: ukaidscon@gn.apc.org
  Directory of European Funders of HIV/AIDS projects in Developing Countries and Guide to Technical Support available to HIV/AIDS projects in Developing Countries published by the UK NGO AIDS Consortium.
  
  
• Funding Human Rights
  Published by the:
  Human Rights Internet
  c/o Human Rights Centre
  University of Ottawa
  57 Louis Pasteur
  Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
  Canada
  Website: http://www.hri.ca
  An international directory of funding organizations and human rights awards.
  
  
• Human Rights Institution Building: A handbook on establishing and sustaining human rights organizations
  Published by The Fund for Peace in association with The Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights. To order copies please write to:
  The Fund for Peace
  823 United Nations Plaza, Suite 717
  New York New York 10017
  USA
  Telephone: (+1) 212 661 5900
  Facsimile: (+1) 212 661 5904
  Email: ffpeace@igc.apc.org
  Website: http://www.fundforpeace.org