(LONDON) – GiveOut today announced its Partnership Portfolio 2020, highlighting the charity’s new grants to 24 LGBTQI organisations and grassroots initiatives around the world.
In just over two years, GiveOut’s supporters have provided more than £250,000 of new funding to the global struggle for LGBTQI human rights, supporting the movement across five continents.
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, this support is needed now more than ever, as LGBTQI organisations adapt their ways of working and develop new services for their communities and approaches to activism.
“Around the world, LGBTQI people continue to face appalling human rights abuses for being themselves. They rely on the support of courageous activists, who risk their lives and livelihoods to defend their communities and campaign for equality,” said Claire Tunnacliffe, Grant-making Officer at GiveOut.
“With our Partnership Portfolio 2020, we are proud that GiveOut’s supporters are now funding 24 LGBTQI activist-led organisations and initiatives globally. During the COVID-19 crisis, our community around the world will rely more than ever on the support of these organisations. And these organisations will rely more than ever on the support of our community globally.”
GiveOut’s Partnership Portfolio 2020 reflects the diversity and vibrancy of the global LGBTQI movement in geographic reach, organisation type, focus area, and approach, prioritising support to LGBTQI groups based in or focused on the Global South and East, where access to funding is most difficult.
The charity’s new grant partners include the Intersex Human Rights Fund, GiveOut’s first grant partner focusing on intersex human rights; and Access Chapter 2, a lesbian-led South African organisation that has launched Advocacy Week to train a new generation of LGBTQI activists.
GiveOut continues to support the movement in the Caribbean through a new grant to the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG). And the charity has expanded its geographic reach in the Middle East and North Africa, with grants to the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality, and the Arabic Media Project with OutRight Action International.
The new portfolio also sees GiveOut strengthen its ties across Eastern Europe and Central Asia through supporting the Creating Opportunities programme with ILGA-Europe, and welcoming its first grant partners in the Czech Republic and Armenia, with Trans*parent and Pink Armenia respectively.
“Thank you so much to GiveOut’s incredible supporters for standing shoulder to shoulder with our grant partners around the world. In particular, thank you to the generous sponsors of our Special Focus Funds – Antonia and Andrea Belcher, Suki Sandhu, Steve Wardlaw and Emerald Life, and GAY TIMES,” said Rupert Abbott, GiveOut’s Executive Director.
“And thank you to our grant partners for allowing GiveOut to partner with you in your tireless work supporting and defending our community around the world, especially at this time of crisis,” he said.
GiveOut’s Partnership Portfolio 2020 can be viewed above or is available to download here. For more information on the charity’s grant-making work and dedicated pages on each grant partner, visit our grant partners page. Over the coming weeks, GiveOut will share information and stories from each grant partner across social media channels.
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GiveOut (@GiveOut_Org) is an award-winning charity working to grow giving to support the global struggle for LGBTQI human rights. The organisation enables individuals and businesses to give in one place to support LGBTQI human rights activism worldwide, pooling these donations and distributing them as grants to activist-led organisations around the world. The charity identifies grant partners through a rigorous process of consultation, due diligence and vetting, overseen by its Grant-Making Advisory Panel and Board of Trustees. To support the global struggle for LGBTQI human rights, donate here.
The COVID-19 LGBTQI Global Solidarity Fund is a world first appeal launched by GiveOut in March 2020 to support LGBTQI organisations around the world adapt their ways of working, support their communities and develop new approaches to activism in the face of the COVID-19 crisis. For more information and to support the LGBTQI movement in responding to the pandemic, donate here.