Stonewall’s reach is national. Here, folks from grantee partner Black and Pink prepare for the Black Trans Lives Matter March in Omaha, Nebraska.
Stonewall Community Foundation strengthens the LGBTQ Movement by making values-driven investments in dynamic organizations, projects, and leaders. And as a public foundation, we do so in close partnership with donors and the very people working on the front lines of progress. We fund over 200 nonprofits a year, in more than 30 issue areas. We also house five scholarship programs, including the largest in the country created to support LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers.
Our grantmaking is complemented by intensive capacity building and training programs that equip leaders and the organizations you care about with the tools they need to be effective change agents. These include free consulting, coaching opportunities, and monthly workshops. In all we do, our priority is making sure community dollars make the greatest difference where they are needed most.
2020 and 2021 have not been the years we expected, nor have they been easy for our community. Our grantee partners rose to the challenges of a global pandemic, doubling down on their own service provision, speaking out with proud voices, supporting each other at the intersections of queer liberation, racial justice, and economic equity. Our fund partners heard the call and helped us move more resources: cash, capacity building, technology, even emotional support out into the world.
Stonewall is a community foundation. We listen to our neighbors, our siblings, and our friends. We trust them not only to know their needs better than we do but also to tell us. We work to answer in kind. Stonewall is also a national movement and symbol: our work in the last two years has reached every corner of the United States and many corners of the larger world.