The L&G Partnership supports Santa Fe Mountain Center’s Adventure Out program for gay and lesbian youth. Photo by Juan Dixon

The Lesbian and Gay Community Funding Partnership was established in  1997 through a generous grant from the National Lesbian and Gay Community Funding Partnership.  The Santa Fe site is now one of 38 partnerships throughout the country and since its inception has made 73 grants totaling $343,765 to 35 non-profit organizations.

2009 Lesbian & Gay Funding Partnership Grant Awards

Four organizations in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico received $17,000 in grants.

IMPACT Personal Safety:  $3,000 for classes for LGBT youth in safety skills, violence awareness and avoidance, verbal strategies, boundary‐setting, and easy‐to‐execute physical defense techniques.

New Mexico Community AIDS Partnership:  $5,000 to train youth peer educators to speak to students, teachers and parents about sexuality, sexual identity and sexually transmitted diseases.

Santa Fe Mountain Center:  $5,000 to educate school communities about homophobia
and discrimination and develop strong Gay/Straight Alliances.

Youth Shelters and Family Services:  $4,000 to build a Gay‐Straight Alliance (GSA) at the Street Outreach Program, available to current clients and the community.

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LESBIAN AND GAY FUNDING GRANT PROGRAM

Grants are available for programs serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and  transgendered [LGBT] population.  

Lesbian and Gay Funding Grant Priorities:

Through these grants SFCF hopes to raise awareness of issues affecting LGBT people in Northern New Mexico.  We seek a collaborative, visionary, and reflective of our region's cultural and geographic diversity.  We are interested in helping nonprofits that serve LGBT people streamline their internal operations.

SFCF is interested in supporting organizations and programs that:

•  Identify creative approaches to addressing the needs of LGBT populations

• Use collaboration and partnerships with other organizations

•  Provide access to counseling, education, mentoring and other resources

•  Foster safe schools and social spaces

•  Work toward prevention of teen suicide

•  Have a potential and lasting impact

•  Respect cultural values and use culturally appropriate means

Lesbian and Gay Funding - Fields of Interest:

•   Youth

Opportunities for building peer relationships; increase awareness and dissemination of information on LGBT community needs and issues; and assistance with family and legal issues.

•   Elderly

Programs and address immediate needs for senior LGBT population and programs that increase the understanding and sensitivity to senior LGBT issues among service providers.

•   Community Building

Advancement of equal rights; opportunities for safe congregation and/or social events; strengthening avenues for networking and information sharing; providing culturally appropriate services for minority groups; research to support needs of LGBT people; creative forms of arts and expression used to increase public awareness, understanding and appreciation of LGBT concerns and deepen LGBT self-identity; fostering a climate of understanding through community education and other outreach efforts, including with faith-based communities; and training of service providers and community leaders.

•   Health and Mental Health

Services addressing the health needs of youth, adults, and the elderly and programs and services that provide care in a safe and respectful setting.

For more information contact:
Christa Coggins, Program Director at 505.988.9715, ext. 2.
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SFCF provides grants to eligible applicants so long as funds are available, without regard to the race, creed, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, country or place of origin, ethnicity or citizenship status of the applicants.