Annual Repo rt 2009 The creation of a more just and humane world, The Arcus Foundation is a leading global foundation advancing pressing social justice and conservation issues. based on , Specifically, Arcus works to advance LGBT equality, diversity equalityas well as to conserve and protect the great apes. and fundamental respect .1 Dear Friends, Recently I was among the throngs of people lining 5th Avenue in New York City to witness the 40th annual LGBT Pride March. The energy and joy in the parade was palpable. I was surprised by the intensity of emotions I experienced. I’ve been to the parade before, but this time it seemed more significant to me, as if our movement had finally come of age and was fully embraced by our world, with senators, members of Congress and even police and fire departments marching with us. The participants seemed to represent all cultures and religions from all corners of the planet.
In many ways we are witnessing the maturing of the LGBT movement here in the United States. Many of our national organizations are well-established and well-funded. Many mainstream civil and human rights organizations are finally including us in their work. We have recently made significant victories in the Lutheran and Episcopalian churches, among others. And there is a wonderful surge in the growth of LGBT People of Color organizations around the country. For the most part, it seems that many levels of our government are slowly bending toward the arc of justice that we seek. And I must say that President Obama is clearly the most supportive president in our movement’s history.
While the pride march was a testimony of hope and love for the kind of world we are working toward and a clear indicator of our progress, in many ways the day was an illusion. The reality on the ground in many places on the planet remains grim for those brave enough to express any form of nonconforming gender expression or sexual orientation. The sad reality is that many of the marchers I witnessed would likely be persecuted or even killed if they ever revealed their identities in a similar way in their countries of origin. The joy and love they displayed in the parade would be summarily ground out and extinguished in many parts of the world. We have made great strides in LGBT equality, but these are not times to become complacent.
Many of us in the U.S. are not aware that, in more than 70 nations, consensual sex between people of the same sex is punishable by sentences ranging from one month in prison to… yes… even the death penalty. Just as startling, organizations working for the human rights of LGBT populations receive extremely little to no international development aid. To add to this painful news, it is now known that some of our very own American-based evangelical churches actively blend hatred and fear of gays into their “gospel” while work- ing in places like Uganda, Rwanda and Nigeria, fanning the flames of fear and hatred toward LGBT people.
Fortunately, hate crimes, government-led persecution and other forms of injustice cannot remain hidden as easily as in the past because of the work of bloggers who are harnessing the speed of the Internet to rapidly broadcast events to the world. Because they are so important to today’s LGBT struggles, we have chosen in this annual report to publish the words of a few of the many bloggers who work in our diverse program areas. Bloggers are developing the capacity to be significant change-makers in revolutionary ways. We hope their writings will give you a sense of the many dimensions of the work Arcus is engaged in to aid and support those working to bring about change. The spectrum of the challenges we face and the courageousness of the activists we support leaves me breathless.
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Uganda: Harbinger of Hope or Hate? BY Jim Burroway | May 2010
Last year, three American Ugandans have experienced constraints of Christian activists spasms of anti-gay hysteria colonial rule, conducted an anti-gay in the past, but this one but the legacy of conference in Kampala, proved more enduring, Western evan- Uganda. They later met leading to the introduction gelism remains. with members of Uganda’s in Uganda’s Parliament Despite the Parliament to urge of a new draconian Anti- good work of “strengthening” of Homosexuality Bill that today’s mis- Uganda’s law, which would impose the death sionary clinics, criminalizes homo- penalty for gay people under hospitals, sexuality with a certain circumstances, orphanages and 20-year-to-life prison and criminal penalties for schools, toxic term. One activist boasted those who support or advo- antigay politics of delivering “a nuclear cate for gay people. The continue. a dangerous precedent bomb against the gay bill even calls for three for other African nations Amidst international agenda” in Africa, and in years’ imprisonment for to legislate LGBT people condemnation and threats fact the fallout couldn’t failing to report gay family out of existence. But if it of economic sanctions, have been more disastrous. members and friends. fails, it could represent Uganda’s political leaders Ugandan pastors took to the homophobia’s high water More than 80 countries continue to debate the bill. airwaves to publicly “out” mark in Africa. worldwide criminalize Some American pastors private individuals, and gay Jim Burroway is the editor homosexuality, 38 of have denounced it, but people found their photos of the blog “Box Turtle Bulletin.” Activists celebrate LGBT them in Africa, largely others urge Uganda to Read Burroway’s report “Slouching decriminalization, India published in local tabloids. Towards Kampala: Uganda’s via legal remnants of quickly pass it into law. Many were blackmailed or Deadly Embrace of Hate” at sexual mores imported Both sides see the legisla- boxturtlebulletin.com/slouching- fired; others were arrested by foreign missionaries. tion as a harbinger for the toward-kampala, a collection of and mistreated by police. more than 200 posts that tells the Since 1951, Africans have rest of Africa. If the bill story of one nation’s quest to leg- Saving Lives, Promoting Democracy, One arrest in Mbale ended largely shaken off the legal passes, it could represent islate gay people out of existence. Alleviating Poverty, and Fighting AIDS: with a suspicious death. The Case for Funding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Populations BY Liz Galst | Excerpt from an Arcus operating foundation report | March 2010 for Global Advocates for ORAM-Organization globalhumanrights.org International LGBT Rights Trans Equality for Refuge, Asylum & Washington, DC Program | 21 grants totaling Individuals with a same-sex sexual orientation or transgender But change is possible. “The decriminalization has GRANTS globaltransadvocates.org Migration Tides Foundation New York, NY $150,000 identity make up between 5 and 7 percent of the populations completely changed everything here,” says attor- G $3,193,968 $200,000 International Gay and oraminternational.org for ARC International of countries that receive development aid. But, organiza- ney Anand Grover, who directs the Lawyers Collective, an Lesbian Human Rights San Francisco, CA American Jewish Gender DynamiX arc-international.net Commission tions empowering LGBT populations receive Indian NGO that led the legal challenge that last summer World Service Public Interest Projects San Francisco, CA $75,000 $400,000 less than one one-hundredth of one percent of overturned India’s sodomy law. The law, known as Section $150,000 genderdynamix.org.za $250,000 University of California for general operating support the total aid donated by countries affiliated 377, was first codified by the British Imperial government in ajws.org Capetown, South Africa for the Council for Global Williams Institute on iglhrc.org Equality Sexual Orientation Law New York, NY Global Fund for Women with the Organization for Economic Cooperation the 1860s. “Section 377 was often exploited by the New York, NY globalequality.org and Public Policy Astraea Lesbian and Development. police and others to harass, extort money from, $200,000 Lesbian and Gay New York, NY Foundation for Justice $20,000 009 globalfundforwomen.org Equality Project 2 blackmail and even rape men who have sex with The Equal Rights Trust law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute
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l Columbia University the Middle East and the Caribbean punish consensual their rights,” explains the Web site of the Naz Foundation globalrights.org New Israel Fund Human Rights Center for the Study of The Fund for Global ua Washington, DC same-sex sex. Sentences range, deplorably, from Trust, an Indian NGO that collaborated with the Lawyers Human Rights $35,000 Human Rights $150,000 nn Heartland Alliance one month in prison to the death penalty. This Collective on the legal case. $28,968 for support of Al-Qaws $200,000 urgentactionfund.org for Human Needs alqaws.org Boulder, CO hrcolumbia.org for work in Africa, most extreme form of punishment is found in five Navanethem Pillay | UN High Commissioner and Human Rights Washington, DC New York, NY the Middle East and Brief descriptions countries – Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan for Human Rights | December 2008 $300,000 Nonprofit Enterprise Southeast Asia Creating Resources distinguish grants and Yemen – as well as in several states within Nigeria for the Global Equality and Self-sustainability globalhumanrights.org for Empowerment awarded to fiscal No human being, simply because Network Team Washington, DC and a number of Somalian districts; the Ugandan and Action heartlandalliance.org sponsors or multiple LGBT $125,000 The Fund for Global Parliament is currently debating legislation that would of their perceived sexual orientation or gender $150,000 Chicago, IL grants to the same nesst.org Human Rights creaworld.org organization. Visit offer similar egregious sentences. identity, International Gay Turlock, CA may be denied their New York, NY $250,000 the Arcus Foundation ARCUS FOUNDATION | A and Lesbian Human to advance global decrimi- Web site for full grant Read the full report online at arcusfoundation.org. Rights Commission human rights. nalization of homophobia descriptions. 10 ‘‘ ’’ $50,000 11 International LGBT Rights Program Blogging behind closed doors b y Michael k. lavers | May 2010 | Excerpt from aN article first published in the online Magazine “guidemag.com.”
Khalid knows how frightening it can be to live in a country and others around the world. But this online activism where being gay is taboo. is often dangerous. Some countries in which gay bloggers work ban homosexuality. Laws designed In 2007, Khalid agreed to appear on the inaugural cover of to curb homosexual activity often carry steep prison the first gay magazine in Jordan. But the shirtless photo of sentences – and sometimes the death penalty. the young man caused a stir after the tabloids caught wind of it. The outcry was so fierce the magazine never published. Khalid eventually returned to Jordan, where he launched the monthly webzine My Kali to give Arab gays “a better image “I was still in school at the time,” Khalid said from his home to look up to.” “Most of the people here look to English, in Amman. “People were talking about it in my school, and European and American publications,” Khalid said. “Those they didn’t know it was me at the time. It was very scary images don’t really apply here. I wanted to give people a because there was no one in the whole Arab world who was different image to which [they] can relate. out in the media.” “At the time it was very big because no other media was Although Khalid says he never felt his life was in danger, he by Pegah Emambakhsh talking about homosexuality,” Khalid said. “But now, everyone did face blackmail attempts from those who threatened to If the British government could prove to me that I would be safe in Iran and would be able to lead a normal life and to be in Jordan is talking about it. That’s a big step in two years.” out him to his parents. He hid out in neighboring Lebanon myself I would be very happy to go back to Iran. I had to leave my old father, my ill mother and young sister. I have two until the scandal had passed. Read the entire article Blogging behind closed doors at lovely children which their father took away from me. I had to give this all up because my life was at risk. Mr. Lavers’ blog found at http://boyinbushwick.blogspot.com. Khalid is one of a growing number of gays around the world At the moment I am safe because I am in England but my life is very difficult. I miss my family and more than anything is the national news editor for the EDGE who have launched online publications. Their sites serve as Michael K. Lavers I am that the police will suddenly arrest me and send me back. Media Network and managing editor of the Fire Island News. His work worried all the time virtual community centers and are an increasingly important has appeared in The Advocate, the Village Voice and many gay and Visit LGBT Asylum News at madikazemi.blogspot.com to learn more. source of news and information for gays in their own countries mainstream publications. ‘‘Pegah Emambakhsh is an Iranian lesbian who was threatened by the British government with deportation.
International ’’ LGBT Rights Map A selection of international LGBT blogs, courtesy Michael K. Lavers: ➊ My Kali Magazine, Amman, Jordan: mykali.weebly.com Gay Uganda, Kampala, Uganda: gayuganda.blogspot.com n Homosexual acts illegal ➋ n Homosexual acts punishable ➌ I’m Gay, Got a Problem With That?, Manila, Philippines: baklaako.com with death penalty ➍ Diario de un Gay Guanaco, San Salvador, El Salvador: diariodeungayguanaco.blogspot.com ➎ Predrag Azdejkovic, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia: www.azdejkovic.com ➏ “Gay Boy” Weekly, Kuwait City, Kuwait: gayweekly.blogspot.com ➐ Mazaj, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic: mazaj75.blogspot.com ➑ A Colourful Life of a Gay Kenyan, Nairobi, Kenya: colourful-cuppatea.blogspot.com I would like to acknowledge the courage of those bloggers who often put themselves at personal risk to blog about LGBT issues in their respective countries. Several of them shared their stories with me for the guidemag.com story, but their work continues to pro- vide a virtual – and even literal – lifeline for those who log onto their Web sites. – Michael K. Lavers
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– both from unjust laws and violent acts. tution mean nothing if we do not protect those rights that the rights afforded every citizen under our Consti not only to inflict harm, but to instill fear. You understand are meant not only to break bones, but to break spirits – You understood that we must stand against crimes that (applause) – and all who toiled for years to reach this day.Ted Kennedy who fought so hard for this legislation – organized and refused to give up, by the late Senator held vigils and led marches, by those who rallied and Shepard, by the family of James Byrd, by folks who the struggle continued, waged by the family of Matthew shepard-and-james-byrd remarks-president-reception-commemorating-enactment-matthew- from: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/ Retrieved House. 28).October TheWhite (2009, Secretary. of the Press Office Attribution:
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- Washington, DC pflag.org $40,000 and Gays Friends of Lesbians Parents, Families and Athens, OH oloc.org $25,000 for Change Old Lesbians Organizing New York, NY actuporalhistory.org History Project for the Act Up Oral $100,000 Film Festival Gay Experimental New York Lesbian & Washington, DC thetaskforce.org $1,600,000 Lesbian Task Force National Gay and press/press_releases_media_advisories/2009/HUDNo.09-206 from: http://portal.hud.gov/portal/page/portal/HUD/ Retrieved Development. Urban and 21). October (2009, U.S.Development. Housing Urban and U.S. Housing Attribution: rental and sale of housing. national study of discrimination against members of the LGBT community in the In addition to issuance of the proposed rule, HUD will commission the first-ever n n n opportunity for public comment. The proposed rule will: The initiatives announced today will be a proposed rule that will provide the based on sexual orientation or gender identity.” qualified individual and family will not be denied housing choices end,” said Donovan. “President Obama and I are determined that a housing choices in our nation based on who they are and that must “The evidence is clear that some are denied the opportunity to make programs are open to all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. van today announced a series of proposals to ensure that HUD’s core housing WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Dono pecify that any FHA-insured mortgage loan must be based on the credit- equire grantees and those who participate in the Department’s programs to larify that the term “family” as used to describe eligible beneficiaries of our
S R C as sexual orientation or gender identity. worthiness of a borrower and not on unrelated factors or characteristics such tion or gender identity; and comply with local and state nondiscrimination laws that cover sexual orienta or gender identity. programs are available to all families, regardless of their sexual orientation new regulations will clarify family status to ensure its subsidized housing families to rent an affordable home. The Department’s intent to propose HUD’s public housing and voucher programs help more than three million eligible lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) individuals and couples. public housing and Housing Choice Voucher programs include otherwise
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Washington, DC truechild.org $100,000 TrueChild San Francisco, CA transgenderlawcenter.org $50,000 Transgender Law Center San Francisco, CA equalityacrossamerica.org for Equality Across America $50,000 Center Tides Cambridge, MA thetheateroffensive.org $60,000 Theater Offensive New York, NY sageusa.org $510,000 Elders Bisexual & Transgender for Gay, Lesbian, Services and Advocacy
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sensitive support and services. ment and provision of culturally level to assist them in the develop providers at the state and community tions and mainstream aging services resources for both LGBT organiza provide information, assistance and Resource Center for LGBT Elders will the needs of this group. The new orunfamiliar uncomfortable with services to older individuals may be press/2009pres/10/20091021a.html from: http://www.hhs.gov/news/Retrieved 21). October (2009, HUD. Development. Urban and of Housing U.S. Department Attribution: older. individuals are age 60 and 1.5 to 4 million LGBT estimateExperts that as many as individuals. (LGBT) lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender vide services and support for older the country in their efforts to pro center to assist communities across the nation’s first national resource today announced plans to establish HHSKathleen SebeliusSecretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | OCT 21 2009 21 OCT | RELEASE IMMEDIATE FOR and Transgender Elders Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Resource Center for to Create a National Health and Human Services
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17 LGBT 18 ARCUS FOUNDATION | Annual report 2009 Michigan LGBT Rights Program Unity, B “The Bilerico Project” found at bilerico.com. found Project” Bilerico “The Amy Hunter immensely powerful word, without which, nothing much is possible. The principal contributor to victory inwas Kalamazoo fight for equality is ongoing and ever-evolving – us did not begin at Stonewall or end with the passage of Ordinance #1856. The cease when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The road to equality for not end with the Women’s Liberation movement. Racial discrimination did not The struggle for gender equality did not begin with Women’s and Suffrage did those rights for granted. of good will, who believe in justice and equal human rights, but naively take important as we move forward: unity with our straight allies and with all people thatWhile may be an oversimplification of the issue, it speaks to what is truly or refused service at a restaurant because you are gay or transgender. people did not know that it was possible to be denied employment, or evicted, gender citizens were not protected by law from discrimination. a disproportionate number of them did not know that gay and trans- equally. But I also discovered a disturbing dark side to that open-mindedness: azoo residents overwhelmingly believe everyone should be treated fairly and As part of the campaign team for Ordinance #1856, I saw firsthand that Kalam- pass one of the nation’s strongest municipal nondiscrimination ordinances. gays, bisexuals, transgenders and our allies come together as never before to Arguably, 2009 was a great year for Kalamazoo. our straight allies. than any of them: But I believe there is something more crucial to the movement worthy of our attention. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act are all any number of issues around which to rally – the Defense of Marriage Act, Today, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied communities can choose Y Y a m y h un
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‘‘ constant onslaught of 8&feature=channel. on YouTube: speech Steps” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHXogI0fDo Center. Text the “Capital from Resource excerpt Gay / Lesbian Kalamazoo David Garcia Antonio dropped out abused. on our playgrounds. I want to know why we are still playing “Smear the Queer” team into some sort of heightened machismo. That needs to stop. who use words like to young male athletes who are shamed and silenced by coaches thrown at their heads to the student in our schools who faggot and dyke, which I’m sure we have all heard, to bottles being least strongest support of the nine issues: the issue. married – finds Michigan voters statistically split on The ninth issue – allowing gays and lesbians to get the nine issues have broad support among Michigan voters. different gay and lesbian rights issues in Michigan. Eight of Michigan voters were asked if they support or oppose nine May Gay and Lesbian Rights Issues Broad Support For Michigan LGBT Rights Survey 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2009 | © | 2009 Allow gay/lesbian couples to get married. other states. Recognize gay/lesbian marriages from Allow gay/lesbian couples to adopt children. a civil union. Allow gay/lesbian couples to get lesbian government and university employees. Extend Extend domestic partnership bene because they are gay/lesbian a hate crime. Make a crime committed against a person lesbian partners. Extend inheritance rights to deceased gay/ deny housing based on gay/lesbian. Illegal to partner in the hospital. Guaranteed right to visit a gay/lesbian b lesbian students inlesbian our who schools are being I have received countless e-mails from young gay and The chart below lists the strongest support to the fi y And that abuse ranges anywhere from being called G re an individual from a job or
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of Nine 92.2 70.9 70.0 71.2 S 65.5 63.7 53.5 p u 57.5 46.5 p o (%) t r ’’ Opp 48.0 41.2 35.9 31.1 26.5 26.9 26.0 29.7 6.0 o s e (%) e s Detroit, MI miroundtable.org $50,000 Inclusion for Diversity and Michigan Roundtable Lansing, MI mpafoundation.org $84,930 Michigan AIDS Coalition Allendale, MI gvsu.edu/lgbtrc $150,000 University Grand Valley State Grand Rapids, MI GaysInFaithTogether.org $55,000 Gays in Faith Together Detroit, MI cfsem.org $100,000 for Southeast Michigan Community Foundation Ann Arbor, MI afsc.org $80,000 Service Committee American Friends Detroit, MI aclumich.org $195,000 Union Fund of Michigan American Civil Liberties Ferndale, MI outcenter.org Benton Harbor for the OutCenter of $68,200 Affirmations Ferndale, MI michiganfairnessforum.org Fairness Forum for the Michigan $55,000 Af Association Foundation Michigan Psychological Ferndale, MI michiganaidscoalition.org $100,000 G fi GRANTS rmations $1,950,982 16 grants totaling Michigan LGBT Rights Program descriptions. Web site for full grant the Arcus Foundation organization. Visit grants to the same sponsors or multiple awarded to fiscal distinguish grants Brief descriptions Detroit, MI tri.org Education Fund with Michigan Equality for merger support $70,000 The Triangle Foundation Kalamazoo, MI kglrc.org $25,000 Resource Center Kalamazoo Gay/Lesbian Collaboration Special Fund for Detroit, MI tri.org for general operating support $500,000 The Triangle Foundation Highland Park, MI ruthelliscenter.com $150,000 Ruth Ellis Center Kalamazoo, MI ppscm.org $249,352 South Central Michigan Planned Parenthood of Ann Arbor, MI oasisministrymi.org $18,500 Michigan Oasis Ministry of
19 LGBT Religion and Values Program
And Grace Will Lead Me Home ELCA Removes All Barriers to Gay Inclusion By Dr. Mark Achtemeier | Theologian and author, presbyterian church Louise Brooks By Rev. Candace chellew-hodge | may 2010 (U.S.A.) | Excerpt from an address delivered to the Covenant Network IntegrityUSA Earlier this year, after 25 years of deliberation and without left the denomination, upset that gay and lesbian ministers of Presbyterians 2009 Conference At General Convention 2009, a lot of fanfare or notice from the media, the Evangelical are being accepted. Understanding homosexuality as an alternate our church took a valiant and Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) removed the final It reminds me of a question my conservative Christian sister form of the divine gift… yields a Bible that makes brave step forward to state barriers to full participation for gay and lesbian people. that it will no longer allow asked me long ago when denominations were just begin- powerful and life-giving sense. ‘‘ Specifically, the church is now allowing people in same- ning this process of accepting LGBT people into the pews, I am committed to praying and working with all of you for the day when the lives and vocations of the sex relationships to serve as rostered leaders, and has and the pulpits. She worried aloud, “If all these churches the whole church comes to recognize and embrace this, consecrating the LGBT faithful to be bargaining changed its rules on ministry, striking celibacy restrictions accept gays and lesbians, where will I go to church?” marriages of our gay sisters and brothers, and confirming their calls to all chips in global on “ordained ministers who are homosexual.” The new rule the ministries of Christ’s church. Anglican politics. “Don’t worry,” I told her. “There will always be churches reads: An ordained minister who is in a publicly For the full transcript of Dr. Achtemeier’s address, visit the Covenant Network of Presbyteri- that refuse to accept gay people that you can go to.” And accountable lifelong, monogamous same-gender ans Web site at covnetpres.org/2009/11/and-grace-will-lead-me-home/. Since 1974, IntegrityUSA has been a faithful so there are, and will continue to be, those churches and witness of God’s inclusive love to the Episcopal relationship is expected to live in fidelity to his denominations that will refuse to see that LGBT people Church and the LGBT community. Read more or her partner, giving expression to sexual inti- at http://walkingwithintegrity.blogspot.com. are also God’s children – made, blessed and called. But it’s macy within a publicly accountable relationship wonderful to see the bigger, more progressive denomina- By Jay Michaelson | July 2010 | nehirim.org that is mutual, chaste and faithful. tions finally getting it – that we are one body, one blood, “Now is a historic moment in the Orthodox Jewish ’’ Outcry among opponents has been muted. Indeed, only and we are stronger when we serve together. community, long committed to a strict, anti-gay reading of Scripture. one member of the council abstained from the vote. Recently, 90 Orthodox rabbis signed a statement condemning homophobia Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge is a regular contributor to the and calling for greater inclusion. Nehirim has created a task force, including online magazine “Religion Dispatches” found at religiondispatches.org, A new church, the North American Lutheran Church, is the grass-roots activists who helped craft the statement, to work for change, and is the founder/editor of “Whosoever: An Online Magazine for GLBT being formed from churches and individuals who have Christians,” at http://whosoever.org. She also currently serves as associate empower change-agents, and enable LGBT Orthodox Jews to share their pastor at Garden of Grace United Church of Christ in Columbia, South Carolina. stories with their communities.”
Views About Homosexuality 2008 | ©The Pew research center | U.S. Religious Landscape Survey | www.pewforum.org Gay & Lesbian Alliance National Gay and Unitarian Religious and Values Program Against Defamation Lesbian Task Force Universalist United National Total ■ GRANTS 21 grants totaling Nations Office $150,000 $152,625 Homosexuality G $2,939,278 glaad.org thetaskforce.org $124,500 Protestant should be Los Angeles, CA Washington, DC uu-uno.org Evangelical Churches accepted New York, NY by society Auburn Theological Dignity USA Greenberg Quinlan New Ways Ministry Mainline Churches Rosner Research Universal Fellowship ■ Seminary $36,000 $93,345 Historically Black Churches of Metropolitan Homosexuality $191,598 dignityusa.org $168,400 newwaysministry.org greenbergresearch.com Mount Rainir, MD Community Catholics should be
009 auburnmedia.org Medford, MA Churches discouraged by 2 New York, NY Washington, DC Mormons t Douglas Gould Progressive society Integrity Christians Uniting $30,060 or Baptist Peace Fellowship and Company Orthodox ■ ufmcc.com
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ua Charlotte, NC New Rochelle, NY Foundation Lutherans Concerned Los Angeles, CA Jews Don’t know/ nn Center for American Equality Maryland $75,000 refused Progress Foundation Reconciling Ministries $200,000 www.radicallyinclusive.com Muslims for general operating support Network $100,000 $122,760 San Francisco, CA Buddhists americanprogress.org equalitymaryland.org lcna.org $300,000 Washington, DC Silver Spring, MD St. Paul, MN RMNetwork.org Brief descriptions Hindus Chicago, IL Congregation Beth Family Diversity Projects Lutherans Concerned distinguish grants Other Faiths Soulforce awarded to fiscal LGBT Simchat Torah $40,000 $75,000 Unaffiliated sponsors or multiple $350,000 familydiversity.org for policy work during the $300,000 grants to the same cbst.org Amherst, MA Churchwide Assembly soulforce.org organization. Visit For exact percentages and sample sizes, visit religions.pewforum.org/comparisons.
ARCUS FOUNDATION | A lcna.org Austin, TX New York, NY Sample question wording: Now I’m going to read you a few pairs of statements. For each pair, tell me whether the first statement or the second St. Paul, MN the Arcus Foundation 20 Web site for full grant statement comes closer to your own views – even if neither is exactly right. 1 – Homosexuality is a way of life that should be accepted by society. 21 descriptions. 2 – Homosexuality is a way of life that should be discouraged by society. Data for Muslims from “Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream,” Pew Research Center, 2007. Racial Justice, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Program
Racial Justice, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Program GRANTS 24 grants totaling G $2,990,589 Al-Fatiha Foundation Let’s Breakthrough Inc. $60,000 $100,000 al-fatiha.org breakthrough.tv Washington, DC New York, NY Austin Latino Lesbian & Progressive Populist Gay Organization Education Fund $50,000 $100,000 allgo.org ProgressiveLeaders.org National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Austin, TX Washington, DC Alliance (NQAPIA) Applied Resarch Center Queers for Economic Justice www.nqapia.org $300,000 The Space Between BY Pam Spaulding | may 2010 arc.org $250,000 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are among the New York, NY q4ej.org New York, NY When it comes to discussing the fact that I’m a multiple minority is seen conversations on my blog go fastest growing minority groups in the nation. More and more Audre Lorde Project intersection of communities of color rendered invisible. It’s difficult to awry when transgender issues come lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) AAPIs $50,000 Research Foundation of the City University are coming out, yet they still face invisibility, isolation, and alp.org and the LGBT community in relation examine the internal biases that keep to the fore. The lack of understanding Brooklyn, NY of New York stereotyping within AAPI and LGBTQ communities. to social justice issues, the truth is us from seeing the big picture. Unless that gender identity is relevant or CenterLink $257,694 that we acknowledge, respect and value even related to racial or LGB equality for the Sociology Department, few people are prepared to The lives of LGBTQ AAPIs involve complex intersections of being $90,000 The Graduate Center lgbtcenters.org speak frankly. our differences, we cannot find the shows that much more work needs sexual, racial/ethnic, linguistic, gender, immigrant, and economic rfcuny.org Fort Lauderdale, FL space between in order to bridge to be done in pursuing a common minorities. Two-thirds of all Asian Americans are foreign-born and New York, NY COLAGE There is great benefit in opening 80% speak a language other than English in their homes. A third Southerners on that gap. understanding. $75,000 the lines of honest communication (34%) are not citizens. Approximately one million Asian Americans New Ground colage.org $75,000 between LGBT people and People of Straight racial minorities might take We must deepen understanding are undocumented. San Francisco, CA southernersonnewground.org Color. The criminal justice system, for granted their heterosexual privilege between all groups that we are all in After 9/11, immigrants, particularly South Asian immigrants, have FIERCE Durham, NC housing and employment are just – the ability to place a picture of their the same fight for human rights, not been targets of racial profiling, detentions, and deportations. As a $100,000 Sylvia Rivera fiercenyc.org a few key areas where sexual and spouse on a desk, for instance, or to just for the rights of the groups we result, 34 LGBTQ AAPI organizations across the nation have formed. Law Project New York, NY $150,000 racial minorities can agree there is discuss what they did on the week- inhabit. We can deepen that kind of The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) was Gay-Straight srlp.org a long way to go to achieve equality end to a colleague. A white member understanding through one-on-one founded as a federation of LGBTQ AAPI organizations to help build Alliance Network New York, NY $50,000 and fairness under the law. of the LGB community might not conversations, small group engage- the organizational capacity of local groups, develop leadership, The Just Media Fund gsanetwork.org $75,000 have considered the effects of racial ment, panels and offline and online invigorate grassroots organizing, and challenge homophobia San Francisco, CA As a black lesbian activist, it’s and racism. twospirits.org discrimination, not only for straight discussions to get closer to that Heartland Alliance Denver, CO painfully clear to me that even for Human Needs minorities, but for People of Color in space between us on the way to Queer Asian Compass, Tides Center when laws are passed to protect and Human Rights the LGB community. common ground. a descriptive directory of $190,000 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and $200,000 for the National Queer Asian our rights, they don’t change for the National Asylum Pam Spaulding is the editor and pub- Transgender (LGBTQ) Asian and Pacific Islander Alliance hearts and minds. That requires And equally unexamined is the privi- Partnership on Sexual lisher of the blog “Pam’s House Blend,” found American, South Asian, nqapia.org Minorities fundamental change in the way both lege of both groups when it comes at pamshouseblend.com. Honored as “Best and Pacific Islander (AAPI) San Francisco, CA heartlandalliance.org LGBT Blog” twice by the Weblog Awards, The organizations can be found groups see each other. I’ve been to gender identity and expression. I Chicago, IL Tides Center Blend averages 240,000 visitors a month. at http://nqapia.org involved in conversations where the cannot tell you how many times I’ve Hispanics in $112,500 Philanthropy for Flexible Leadership Investment Program $130,395 tidescenter.org hiponline.org San Francisco, CA 009 San Francisco, CA 2
t Two Spirit Society LGBT Rights and Advocacy: Hmong American or FIERCE of Denver Messaging to African Partnership ep Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community $10,000 r American Communities $20,000 denvertwospirit.com l Empowerment is a membership-based organization build- for Shades of Yellow by Cornell Belcher and Donna Victoria Edgewater, CO ua shadesofyellow.org ing the leadership and power of lesbian, gay, bisexual, Arcus Operating Foundation report | 2009
nn Western States Center transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth of color in New St. Paul, MN While African Americans surveyed would be less likely to sup- $175,000 York City. We develop politically conscious leaders who Al-Fatiha is dedicated to Muslims of all cultural and ethnic International Federation port marriage equality than other Americans (67% opposed) of Black Prides westernstatescenter.org are invested in improving ourselves and our communities this does not mean they are more hostile to other LGBT equality backgrounds who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, $270,000 Portland, OR through youth-led campaigns, leadership development issues. They show strong support for hate crimes protection intersex, queer, and questioning or exploring their sexual ori- ifbprides.org Brief descriptions distin- Washington, DC
programs, and cultural expression (80% favor), protection against job discrimination (77% entation and/or gender identity (LGBTIQQ), and their families, guish grants awarded to LGBT through arts and media. FIERCE is favor) and housing discrimination (74% favor), and health friends and allies. Al-Fatiha promotes the progressive Just Detention fiscal sponsors or multiple dedicated to cultivating the next care and pension benefits for unmarried couples (60% favor). International grants to the same orga- Islamic notions of peace, equality and justice. We $100,000 nization. Visit the Arcus ARCUS FOUNDATION | A A solid majority of 54% of African American survey respondents generation of social justice move- justdetention.org Foundation Web site for support allowing gays and lesbians to serve in the military openly. envision a world that is free from prejudice, injustice and dis- ment leaders who are dedicated Los Angeles, CA full grant descriptions. 22 crimination, where all people are fully embraced and accepted 23 to ending all forms of oppression. Full report available at arcusfoundation.org. into their families, faith and communities. Michigan Special Opportunities and Initiatives
Kalamazoo College Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership The mission of the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership is to support the pursuit of human rights and social justice by developing emerging leaders and sustaining existing leaders in the field of human rights and social justice, creating a pivotal role for liberal arts education in engendering a more just world. Michigan Racial and Economic Justice Initiative Working in Kalamazoo, the headquarters of the Arcus Foundation, has given us an opportunity to create a learning community among the leaders of local nonprofit organizations focused on racial and economic disparities. Arcus is providing direction and resources to this grassroots group as they work at policy change and create a more diverse and just community. 009 2 t or ep r l ua nn MICHIGAN ARCUS FOUNDATION | A 24 25 Arcus Atrium at Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo College Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership
Dr. Joia Mukherjee, chief medical officer of Partners in Health, delivered the inaugural keynote lecture of Kalamazoo College’s Kalamazoo College Arcus Center Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership. Dr. Mukherjee’s talk focused on Partners in Health’s community-based approach to delivering health services, in light of both Haiti’s historical impoverishment and the recent earthquake. for Social Justice Leadership GRANTS Our vision is to locate Kalamazoo College at the forefront of leadership development G It’s wonderful to be in a place where there is an ethos of for human rights and social justice. In pursuit of this vision, the Arcus Center for Michigan Special social justice. One thing I’ve learned…is that we lead Social Justice Leadership will model a just and sustainable community. By realizing Opportunity arm in arm. We don’t lead one person in front of another. And as 3 grants totaling this vision, we will help bring about a world in which this movement for social justice grows – between community and academia, n every person’s life is equally valued, $2,510,000 between black and white, rich and poor – that will be something n the inherent dignity of all people is recognized, for the Kalamazoo College Arcus Center for Social we take forward arm in arm, moving together. n the opportunity to develop one’s full potential is available to every person, and Justice Leadership n systematic discrimination and structural inequities have been eradicated. Watch a video of Dr. Joia Mukherjee’s lecture at Kalamazoo College youtube.com/watch?v=_IXgipAkYKc As currently envisioned, the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership will offer an $2,100,000 to support initial programming array of programs, including lectures by individuals who are recognized for their and operating costs work in the field of social justice; short-term residencies for scholars, artists and activ- kzoo.edu ists who will interact with the campus and the local community; opportunities for the Kalamazoo, MI Notes from Kalamazoo I believe learning to navigate change with grace is the greatest development of new courses and leadership programs in the area of social justice and Kalamazoo College leadership skill, because everything changes all the time. I am $200,000 BY adrienne maree brown | may 2009 influenced by science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler’s concept in human rights; and conferences that address major issues related to the creation of a for initial planning her novel “Parable of the Sower” that “God is change” – I love that. more just world. kzoo.edu With its dedication to social justice leadership, Kalamazoo Kalamazoo, MI College’s new Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership is an Another key skill is the ability to facilitate. I think that’s more
009 “We are honored by the Arcus Foundation’s trust in our vision and thrilled to be Rockefeller powerful than public speaking and other skills more traditionally
2 ideal medium for growing the ideas of nonviolent direct action
t able to make this vision a reality,” says Kalamazoo College President Eileen Philanthropy Advisors and the power of networks. thought of as essential to strong leaders. For really out-of-the- or Wilson-Oyelaran. “The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership will provide $210,000 box leaders, develop facilitators! By training people to facilitate,
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r Networks are organic bodies, with each community doing its to hold listening and truth and reconciliation practices, you transformative experiences to our students and has the potential to bring national strategic assistance l rockpa.org own work but then connecting to share practices and information. develop facilitative leaders, who will be more effective in working
ua and global prominence to the college.” New York, NY The strength of the network lies in the ways that each participat- with networks. nn “We are confident the Arcus Center will be a place where ing group brings its own perspective, insights and strengths to Brief descriptions the table. Creating a network of people with a shared experience The sweet spot for where to focus leadership in your community inspired and passionate new leaders will discover, debate distinguish grants offers the world much more than the sum total of what the is the place where passion and interest meet your skill set and and take action on the issues, approaches, challenges and awarded to fiscal converge on the need. It’s a triangle. sponsors or multiple groups could do working individually.
opportunities that will bring the nation and the world ever MICHIGAN grants to the same Adrienne Maree Brown is the executive director of The Ruckus Leadership has more to do with having a strategic mind than a closer to the realization of human rights and social justice for organization. Visit the Society, which brings nonviolent direct action training and action support Arcus Foundation strategic plan. Flexibility and facility are key in the ever-changing all people.” Urvashi Vaid | Arcus Foundation former Executive Director to communities impacted by economic, environmental and social Web site for full and quickly changing world. oppression. Her blog can be found at http://adriennemareebrown.net/blog
ARCUS FOUNDATION | A Read more about Kalamazoo College and the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership by visiting https:// grant descriptions. reason.kzoo.edu/csjl. 26 27 Michigan Racial and Economic Justice Initiative Poverty, Race, Place and Health: The Big Picture
n Poverty1 and racial minority2 status are often accompa- nied by poorer health and health disparities. n Health disparities are differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality and burden of diseases among specific population groups. n 14% of Michigan’s population is classified as living in poverty compared to the national average of 13%. In Kalamazoo County, 16% of residents are poor. In the city of Kalamazoo, 35% of residents live in poverty. n The poverty rate for non-Hispanic whites and for blacks in Kalamazoo County is 13% and 40% respectively. This compares to 10% for whites and 31% for blacks, statewide. n In the city of Kalamazoo, 30% of white residents are poor, compared to 52% of black residents.3
1 Poverty data are from the 2007 American Community Survey, as compiled by the Lewis Walker Institute. These data are BY Barbara storms Granner estimates compiled by the Census Bureau. See http://www. Uniting for Social Change February 2010 haltpoverty.org/research_kalamazoo 2 Comparable local data for Hispanics and other groups in The data show that there are serious Kalamazoo are not available. Ramon Berlanga-Rodriguez of the Hispanic American Council is deeply committed to social and economic justice. 3 These figures include college students living in the city. health disparities among Kalamazoo But, like many nonprofit executives, his focus is on meeting his clients’ immediate needs – in this case, helping Although it is not possible to estimate precisely, a large county residents depending on residents’ percentage of white residents of the city who are poor are Kalamazoo-area Hispanics with education, health and housing issues. “I concentrate on putting out fires,” he says. college students. race, neighborhood and income. He and leaders from several other Kalamazoo nonprofits have been given a unique opportunity to look beyond immediate needs and work for long-term change through the Arcus Foundation’s Michigan Racial and Economic Poverty rates by race/ethnicity: U.S.A., Michigan, Kalama‘‘zoo County and City, 2007 Justice Initiative, a three-year pilot program that has brought together disparate organizations to work collaboratively % 52% Latino poverty for social and economic justice. data not available 50 for Kalamazoo The nonprofits participating in the collaborative represent a cross-section of Kalamazoo’s diverse populations County and CIty 40% and needs, and include faith-based organizations, a community development association, youth-oriented agencies, 40 ’’ 35% and organizations representing the African American, Hispanic and homeless populations. 30% 31% 30 ■ Each nonprofit applied for a capacity-building grant to strengthen their ability to work for structural and policy 25% 25% U.S.A. 21% change, both individually and on collaborative projects designed to promote racial and economic justice. 20 16% 16% ■ For many members of the collaborative, simply getting to know one another has been a big reward. For some, 13% 14% Michigan 9% 10% the capacity grants provided basic office resources, without which getting anything accomplished can be a challenge. 10 ■ Several organizations were able to hire additional staff, enhance programming and increase services. Kalamazoo County 0 The result has become a strong foundation for real collaboration in Kalamazoo. ■ Total White Black Latino Kalamazoo City
Three collaborative initiative projects are: ➊ The Institute for New Leadership, to prepare the next generation of leaders by providing leadership and Kalamaz oo County Health Indicators Disaggregated by Race, Place and Socioeconomic Status | by Annie Wendt, Epidemiologist, Kalamaz oo County Department of Health and Community Services, Timothy Ready, Lewis Walker Institute for the Study of Race community organizing training to young people from low-income neighborhoods who have “aged out” of traditional and Ethnic Relations, Western Michigan University and Ann Miles, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University. youth programming. Prepared for Kalamaz oo Matters Community Health Discussion, April 1, 2010 ➋ A Workers’ Rights Center, with Northside and Eastside locations, to combat wage theft, advocate for 009
2 hard-to-employ workers, support expungement of criminal records and work for less-restrictive employment laws for t ex-offenders. or
ep ➌ Edison United, also known as “Ordinary People for Extraordinary Change,” to teach organizing skills and r GRANTS Michigan Racial and Economic Justice Initiative | 8 grants totaling $331,220 l empower young residents to work for social and economic change in their own neighborhood.
ua G nn Organizations participating in the Michigan Racial and Economic Justice Initiative: Boys and Girls Clubs of ERAC/CE Interfaith Strategy for National People’s Action Brief descriptions Greater Kalamazoo $40,000 Advocacy & Action in $30,000 distinguish grants n n ISAAC (Interfaith Strategy for Advocacy & Action Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kalamazoo $45,000 eracce.org the Community (ISAAC) for Michigan People’s Action awarded to fiscal n Douglass Community Association in the Community) bgckzoo.org Kalamazoo, MI $25,000 michiganpeople.org sponsors or multiple Kalamazoo, MI isaackalamazoo.org Chicago, IL grants to the same Hispanic American MICHIGAN n ERAC/CE (Eliminating Racism and Claiming / n Michigan Organizing Project organization. Visit Douglass Community Council Kalamazoo, MI Northside Association n the Arcus Foundation Celebrating Equality) Michigan People’s Action Association Michigan Organizing for Community $50,000 Development Web site for full grant n Hispanic American Council n New Latino Visions $50,000 hispanicamericancouncil.org Project $42,020 descriptions. n douglasscommunity.org Kalamazoo, MI $49,200 ARCUS FOUNDATION | A Northside Association for Community Development Kalamazoo, MI miorganizingproject.org Kalamazoo, MI Barbara Storms Granner is a freelance writer based in Evanston, Ill. 28 Kalamazoo, MI northsidenacd.com 29 Arcus Great Apes Program 009 2 t The long-term survival of humans and the great apes or ep
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ua nonhuman animals and our shared natural resources. nn The Arcus Foundation seeks to improve respect for and recognition of the rights and value of the great apes and strengthen protection from threats to the apes and their A habitats. The highlights in this section address the urgent pes
ARCUS FOUNDATION | A need for global conservation and great ape preservation. 30 31 Resident gibbon at the International Primate Protection League sanctuary, Summerville, SC Great Apes in the Wild: Habitat Conservation Great Apes Mapper Village Enterprise Fund
As a micro-enterprise development organization, we work with the poor – often subsistence farmers – in rural areas of Kenya and Uganda. Most struggle to feed their families and have no other means of support. We provide business train- ing, funding and mentoring to help them create and sustain income-generating small businesses. These three elements are key to VEF’s unique economic development model used over the last 20 years in East Africa, and provide an effective platform for collaboration with great ape conservationists.
The Budongo Forest Reserve in western Uganda is an important chimpanzee habitat and poten- tial habitat corridor link. Here, in partnership with the Jane Goodall Institute, the Budongo Conservation Field Station and Great Apes everywhere are in need of other conservation organiza- tions, we have expanded our model: protection. This portal (in development) provides ◗ Required initial business training includes conservation concepts, a one-stop shop for information on great apes, their ◗ Funds are only given to “sustainable” businesses (for example, habitats, the threats they face and existing conser- carpentry businesses have been turned down until a sustainable vation activities as a service to all organizations and source of wood is found), individuals concerned with the long-term survival of ◗ Mentors have conservation backgrounds. our nearest relatives. Visit apesmapper.org and click on a region to start using the mapper. In three years, we have trained and mentored 2,200 small business blog post from lola ya owners (five per business) and launched 440 businesses in roughly Global Witness’ Forest Campaign bonobo sanctuary via 40 villages surrounding the Budongo Forest Reserve. Typical busi- Join the Fight to Save the wildlifedirect Forests are not like other resources: people live in and depend on them – the poorer nesses include cash crops, animal husbandry, skilled service, and Mountain Gorillas retail kiosks. Conservation partners are reporting positive shifts in the people, the greater the dependence. Forests are one of the last defenses against We have the pleasure of Welcome to iGorilla!, the first iPhone app attitude and decreases in illegal activities. Formal assessments of dedicated to supporting the plight of climate change. Despite this, the almost automatic response from the international sharing with you this short the Budongo project are planned for fall 2010-spring 2011. community and producer countries is to regard export-based industrial logging update on the reintroduction Africa’s endangered mountain gorillas. Now you can follow the daily lives of the as a key economic driver that can kick-start the economies of poor countries. of a first group of bonobos In other areas of Uganda, our most recent Impact Assessment rehabilitated at Lola ya (2006) demonstrated that a single VEF business impacts the lives gorillas and stay up-to-date with the efforts of the park rangers as they protect the gorillas and the habitat that The major problem with this approach is that it doesn’t work. In virtually every Bonobo Sanctuary, in of 25 people in these ways: ◗ Increase in meals consumed per day from 1.8 to 2.4, is so important to their survival. Select a gorilla family, country where it has been tried, illegal logging and corruption have triumphed the swampy primary forest ◗ Increase in the number of children in school, with enrollment find out about their individual members and follow them of the DRC. We had been over economic theory, resulting in vast revenue loss, exacerbation of poverty, increasing from 76% of school-aged children in school to 95%, through written reports and videos directly from Virunga human rights abuses, environmental destruction and, too often, full scale timber- preparing the reintroduction ◗ Increase in the value of livestock from $56 to $405, a primary National Park. Download iGorilla! and a portion of the fueled war. for several years now, and form of savings in rural Africa. proceeds will go directly to the field. the release of this first Global Witness is working to change international thinking group is a landmark in our on forest exploitation to ensure that forests are a benefit to the communi- efforts. It is the first time Great Apes in the Wild: Lincoln Park Zoo The Nature Conservancy for conservation work with ties that depend on them and are regarded as an international asset. ever that bonobos are Habitat Conservation $64,934 $299,542 chimpanzees in Nigeria and reintroduced in their GRANTS 14 grants totaling for great ape health work tnc.org Cameroon in Africa Lansing, MI sandiegozoo.org/conservation
009 The Amazon and Democratic Republic of Congo possess the two largest remain- former habitat, and by San Diego, CA
2 G $2,267,914 lpzoo.org Village Enterprise Fund t ing tropical forest blocks, and Global Witness believes the world cannot afford to all accounts the results Chicago, IL Zoological Society
or African Wildlife Global Witness Limited $100,000 put these global assets at risk by subjecting them to tried and tested theories that of San Diego are very encouraging… Foundation Max Planck Society villageef.org ep $300,000
r for the Advancement do not work. Despite many initiatives surrounding forest law enforcement and globalwitness.org San Carlos, CA $97,884 l $310,000 Read more at http://lolayabonobo. of Science for conservation and awf.org London, U.K.
ua Wildlife Conservation attempts to ban the trade in illegal timber, deforestation increases every year. wildlifedirect.org research in the Ebo forest, Washington, DC $45,500 Society
nn Greenpeace Fund for the Department of Cameroon American Association Evidence suggests that an entirely new approach is necessary. Global Witness’ $300,000 Primatology $122,238 sandiegozoo.org/conservation of Zoological Parks and wcs.org forest campaigns work to change international and producer-government percep- greenpeaceusa.org eva.mpg.de/primat San Diego, CA Aquariums Bronx, NY Washington, DC Leipzig, Germany tion about the role and management of the world’s forests to arrive at a scenario $100,000 WildlifeDirect Brief descriptions International Institute Oxford University, for the Ape Taxon Advisory distinguish grants that first and foremost benefits forest-dependent people, their home countries for Environment and Department of Zoology, $30,000 Group awarded to fiscal A
Development Wildlife Conservation wildlifedirect.org pes and the environment, while tackling illegal logging, the trade in conflict timber aza.org sponsors or multiple $299,000 Research Unit Washington, DC and unsustainable forest use. Silver Springs, MD grants to the same iied.org $160,396 Zoological Society organization. Visit
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In 2004, a group of committed conservationists led by Dr. Richard Leakey became convinced that the Internet could provide the best opportunity for securing wildlife’s future. WildlifeDirect was established in 2006 to link conservationists on the ground in Africa with anyone, anywhere, interested in playing a direct, interactive role in the survival of the world’s most precious species.
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Clutching the shirt she had been given the day before as her only source of security, the frightened gorilla just laid on the ground in a tense ball.
My maternal instincts kicked in, and I scooped her up into Conservation Education Centre in the Democratic Repub- BY Dr. jan ramer Confiscation in Walikale March 2010 my arms. She immediately began biting and struggling, lic of Congo. She will be in quarantine, away from other but I sat quietly making calming gorilla noises and groom- gorillas, for a month – we want to be sure the other gorilla Last Friday morning, we learned that there was a young, ing her like her mother would do. We sat and rocked, and residents, Mapendo, Amani and Kighoma, do not catch orphaned gorilla in Walikale, which is a plane flight north she began to calm down. She finally unwound enough anything from her. In the meantime, she will be in and west of our home in Goma, Democratic Republic of and reached for a bit of pineapple – that small victory felt the loving hands of her new caregivers at Congo. Whenever we get news that there may be a gorilla wonderful. all times, and will learn to trust again, but “confiscation,” or rescue, we Gorilla Doctors must be After a thorough examination, and after spending some it will take time and patience. Once we are sure ready, because rescued gorillas are very stressed, fright- more quiet time with her, I was comfortable that our little she is healthy, she will be introduced to Mapendo, Amani ened, and sometimes badly injured or very ill. patient’s health status was relatively good. Reluctantly, I and Kighoma so that she can have a new family. This little After a flurry of phone calls, texts and e-mails, we still knew it was time for me to hand her to her new caregivers, gorilla is safe now. didn’t know the age or gender of the gorilla, how long he who will stay with her day and night to give her the love, Dr. Jan Ramer is the regional veterinary manager for the Mountain or she had been in human care or the gorilla’s physical care and consistency she needs. Gorilla Veterinary Project (MGVP). MGVP works to improve the sustain- ability of mountain gorilla populations in Rwanda, the Democratic condition. We did know that Walikale is considered a “red Republic of Congo, and Uganda. Read more posts from the field on Now the task is to get her settled into her new home at zone” – a dangerous area of DRC where army and rebels gorilladoctorsblog.org. the newly constructed Gorilla Rehabilitation and often clash – but we needed to try to rescue this Dr. Eddy Kambale takes the frightened little gorilla out of her travel crate. helpless little gorilla.
Our partners in DRC scrambled to put together the Great Apes in Captivity: Sanctuaries in finances and a team for the confiscation. In spite of bad Great Apes Habitat | 3 grants totaling Special Opportunities: Ol Pejeta 009 GRANTS GRANTS
2 weather, a cancelled flight, political demonstrations and Kenya, Africa | olpejetaconservancy.org t $610,000
or G G a military presence, a frightened infant gorilla was finally
ep delivered to our Congolese in-country field veterinarian,
r Gunung Palung Orangutan Land Empowerment Ol Pejeta Conservancy For the identification, recruit- l Dr. Eddy Kambale. Dr. Kambale stayed with her all night Conservation Program Animals People – U.S. Limited ment and employment of a
ua Development Programs Manager in his hotel room, and the next morning they got on an $70,000 $340,000 $179,423 nn savegporangutans.org leapspiral.org For the care of chimpanzees Ol Pejeta Ranching Limited airplane and headed to Goma. Yarmouth, ME Oakland, CA living at the Ol Pejeta Conser- $350,000 International Primate vancy chimpanzee sanctuary Program related investment loan Brief descriptions distinguish I was with Sandy Jones, manager of confiscated gorilla Protection League and for community develop- for conservation of wildlife, grants awarded to fiscal ment activities to support local providing a sanctuary for care, when the little gorilla arrived. She was only about a $200,000 sponsors or multiple grants residents ippl.org chimpanzees and supporting year old, and in amazingly good condition, but very fright- to the same organization. A
Ol Pejeta Conservancy community development in the pes Summerville, SC Visit the Arcus Foundation ened. Dr. Kambale took her out of the travel crate and sat Limited greater Laikipia region Web site for full grant her on the ground to see if she would like to explore, but descriptions. $87,600 ARCUS FOUNDATION | A Dr. Eddy Kambale and head caregiver Jean Paul meet with the new caregivers. she was so tense she could only lie in a ball in the grass. 34 35 Great Apes in Captivity: North American Sanctuaries Great Apes in Advertising and The Entertainment Great Ape by Patti Ragan | founder and executive director, Center for Great Apes | Florida Protection centerforgreatapes.org Courtesy the h u m an e so ci e ty Act Using great apes in advertising and entertainment may be of the united states successful for the trainer, the studio or the advertising agency, August 2010 but it often means a life of misery and uncertainty for the apes. T he Great Ape Protection Act (HR 1326/S3694), Apes used in the entertainment business are taken away from their mothers when only weeks or months old and then raised by humans and taught unnatural behaviors and tricks. But introduced by Rep. Towns they only have a working “shelf life” of six to eight years. Since chimpanzees can live (D-NY) and Senator in captivity for over 60 years, where do they go after their working career is over at age eight, Cantwell (D-WA), will and still a juvenile? phase out invasive research on chimpanzees in The sad fact is that, for decades, some of these famous simian actors who made us laugh laboratories, retire the approx- have ended up as experimental subjects in biomedical research or in shabby roadside zoos or imately 500 federally owned in tiny backyard cages or in breeder compounds in which their own babies were pulled from them to repeat the whole process of working young apes for entertainment. chimpanzees to permanent sanctuary, and codify NIH’s Today more ex-entertainment apes are finding their way into legitimate sanctuaries where administrative ban on the they can live with their own species in enriched environments with good nutrition and without breeding of chimpanzees Save the Chimps, Ft. Pierce, Florida exploitation. But the nine or 10 great-ape sanctuaries in North America are all currently at or for invasive research. over capacity. Since the trainers and owners of these apes rarely provide any funding to the Approximately 1,000 sanctuaries to take their apes, the sanctuaries have the entire responsibility of providing the chimpanzees are living lives financial care for these former entertainers for the next 50 years after their retirement from show business. of deprivation and misery, languishing in six laborato- Make a Chimp Smile In an age when processes like animatronics and digital animation allow filmmakers and TV ries across the U.S . The producers to create animal likenesses on computers and computer-animated movies like BY Brandon Wood | may 2010 vast majority of them are not Happy Feet and King Kong were box-office successes, there is no need to ruin the lives being used in active research of chimpanzees and orangutans for their entertainment value. My name is Brandon and savethechimps.org and When you adopt a chimp the sanctuary. I am protocols, but instead are I am 9 years old. I love all I learned a lot. Everyone you are helping Save the going to keep trying Sanctuaries work to protect these orangutans and chimpanzees and provide a future for them. being warehoused, costing animals. But since I have should go there, look at the Chimps care for them. The to raise awareness But the next and most important need is for the public – i.e., you – to object to the use of apes taxpayers millions of dollars been learning about the pictures and read where money is used for vet care, in entertainment and to let the “users” (movie producers, ad agencies, TV studios) know that each year. Chimpanzees, about what is this is no longer acceptable to an enlightened generation! an endangered species, are great apes, chimps have the chimps came from. food and whatever else the happening to the become my favorite. I have chimps need. It costs a lot highly intelligent, socially Then my goal was to help great apes. complex and long-lived learned so much that I of money to care for the migrate a chimp named number of Chimpanz ees in Laboratories and sanctuaries in the U.S. creatures. Many chimps started a blog, “Make a chimps so every little bit Please donate if you can Boy to the Save the Chimps Courtesy the humane society of the united states 30 currently warehoused in Chimp Smile.” helps. It is $120 to adopt and send your friends to Sanctuary in Florida. Boy WA Bioqual research facilities have lived a chimp and $2,500 to my page so they can learn OR At first my goal was to get was lucky enough to be for decades behind bars, migrate one. about chimps and donate 3 some since well before a chimp as a pet. I started migrated before I could Chimpanzee and MD 8 KY 11 too. Don’t forget to come Human Communication CA man first landed on the to learn all about chimps. raise enough money. My plan for 2010 is Institute, Central Chimps, Inc NM Primate back and see how much GA Rescue Center moon. Visit hsus.org to After lots of Google This was great! to keep fundraising Washington University TX LA money I have raised. Let’s FL learn more. searches and reading, I My new goal is to adopt for Save the Chimps. make 2010 a great year for 7 found out that chimps are Chimpanzee Sanctuary 96 NOTE
009 Elway! He is one of the There are still lots the chimps! Northwest 2 better and happier in the Yerkes National ■ There are additional chimpanzee t chimps available for adoption of chimps that need Primate Research sanctuaries located in the U.S. This
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r 47 Alamogordo research. l Wildlife Weigh Station Primate Facility 275 ■ Numbers of chimpanzees in ua Save the Chimps laboratories are approximate. It is
nn difficult to determine the exact Great Apes in Captivity: Save the Chimps Brief descriptions numbers as up-to-date numbers 30 are not made readily available by North American Sanctuaries distinguish grants 3 166 $74,400 Center for the facilities. GRANTS awarded to fiscal Cleveland Amory Southwest National 123 4 grants totaling for technical assistance Black Beauty Ranch Primate Research Center Great Apes savethechimps.org sponsors or multiple Chimp Haven Disclaimer G grants to the same ■ Facilities on this map labeled $3,401,893 Fort Pierce, FL “sanctuary” are self-described organization. Visit 61 180 A Save the Chimps is a 9-year 339 sanctuaries and their presence pes Center for Great Primate Rescue the Arcus Foundation Brandon Wood Primarily Primates M.D. Anderson chimpanzee laboratories old student in Kissimmee, Florida. Cancer Center New Iberia on this map does not indicate an Apes Center $3,162,493 Web site for full grant Research Center chimpanzee sanctuaries He started the blog “Make a endorsement by The HSUS. $115,000 $50,000 for high quality care descriptions. ARCUS FOUNDATION | A Chimp Smile” to raise money for 16 centerforgreatapes.org primate-rescue.org savethechimps.org Wild Animal Orphanage Arcus grantee Save the Chimps. Updated May 2010 Wauchula, FL Nicholasville, KY Fort Pierce, FL 36 Visit his blog at makeachimpsmile. 37 blogspot.com Great Apes and Ethics
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Physicians Chimps Used in Experiments Develop Plea for the Chimpanzee Committee for Psychological Disorders By Wayne Pacelle | May 2010 Responsible Physicians committee for responsible medicine | pcrm.org Medicine Confined for decades in barren housing. Subjected to invasive For all of these reasons and more, the Humane Society of experiments causing them distress and suffering. the United States is advocating for policies that would forbid Founded in 1985, the Chimpanzees are humankind’s closest relatives. They share much of our DNA using chimpanzees in experiments. The chimps currently in Physicians Committee and, like us, have complex social relationships and suffer physical and mental pain. That is the tragic life of more than 1,000 of our closest living for Responsible Medicine laboratories must be retired to appropriate sanctuaries, where PCRM scientists recently confirmed that many chimps formerly used in experi- relatives – chimpanzees kept for research purposes in six they can live in peace away from the torments and privations (PCRM) is a nonprofit U.S. laboratories. organization that promotes mental research display behaviors very similar to the signs of post-traumatic of the laboratory. stress disorder, depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder preventive medicine, Many chimps in U.S. labs were captured from the wild as In the wild, chimpanzees are highly endangered. We’ve learned conducts clinical research, commonly seen in traumatized humans. babies and have had their own infants taken for use as research so much about their behavior, emotions, and cognitive abilities, and encourages higher subjects. Others were used in entertainment or kept as pets. and yet we continue to fall short of any meaningful standard of PCRM’s director of research policy, Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H., and colleagues standards for ethics and Some of these hapless creatures have been held in labs for ethical treatment in their care. effectiveness in research. conducted an observational study involving more than 100 chimpanzees previously more than 50 years. held in experimental laboratories who now reside at a sanctuary in the United We can do better by our endangered next of kin, and The United States is the only industrialized nation that we must. States. Many chimps displayed symptoms that overlap with psychiatric continues to use chimpanzees in invasive research. And disorders, such as repetitive and ritualistic acts, social withdrawal, lack of interest, it does so at a great moral cost to the nation and a substantial Wayne Pacelle is president and CEO of The Humane Society of the cost to American taxpayers. United States, an Arcus grantee. Since 2007, he has maintained a daily irritability, agitation, increased arousal and avoidance. The study results were blog, “A Humane Nation.” Visit the blog at humanesociety.org/wayne. presented at the International Primatological Society in Scotland in August 2009. GRANTS Today, many researchers concede that chimpanzees are not all that useful as subjects for experiments. A long list of G Dr. Ferdowsian was inspired to conduct this study by her work with human torture scientists and researchers agree that it is no longer survivors. She found significant similarities in the ways that humans and Great Apes and Ethics scientifically justifiable to use these animals in laboratories. 4 grants totaling nonhuman animals respond to trauma. Like humans, other animals are $719,113 capable of experiencing tremendous emotional and mental anguish in addition to physical pain. Dr. Ferdowsian notes that many people have rationalized the use of Jane Goodall Institute $200,056 animals in experimental research by citing their similarities to humans. “However,” Timeline of janegoodall.org she adds, “it is precisely the common potential for mental and physical suffering International Chimpanzee Belgium bans 009 Arlington, VA that makes it an ethical dilemma.” Experimentation Legislation
2 experiments on
t Lincoln Park Zoo Austria bans great apes or $308,700 “No one doubts that confining and experimenting on unconsenting humans is Australia policy experiments on
ep for privately owned great ape statement limits chimpanzees r wrong,” Dr. Ferdowsian says. “But humans are not alone in their capacity to feel
l advocacy experiments on lpzoo.org chimpanzees ua terror and helplessness and to carry the consequences of abuse with them for Spanish Parliament Chicago, IL nn many years.” resolution urges Physicians Committee Japan places Balearic Islands Spain to grant great for Responsible Medicine The study served as an introduction for Dr. Ferdowsian to her new role as director moratorium on grant chimpanzees apes legal rights $190,289 Sweden bans experiments on legal rights chimpanzees pcrm.org of research policy for PCRM. As director, she leads PCRM’s scientific and policy The Netherlands experiments on chimpanzees Washington, DC efforts promoting alternatives to animal experimentation and the allevia- United Kingdom New Zealand bans experiments 2008 bans experiments on chimpanzees bans licenses for 2007 A The Humane Society tion of suffering. experiments on on chimpanzees 2006 pes of the United States chimpanzees 2003 $20,068 Dr. Ferdowsian also will continue as associate director for the Washington Center for Clinical 2002 Research, which conducts clinical research focusing on the role of diet in health promotion and disease ARCUS FOUNDATION | A hsus.org 2000 Washington, DC prevention and management. 1997 courtesy physicians committee for responsible medicine | pcrm.org 38 39 Great Apes Identification Chart with Threat Status and Population Estimates
Superfamily Hominoidea
Family Family Hominidae Hylobatidae
Subfamily Subfamily Homininae Ponginae 4 Genera of Gibbons
Hominini
Hoolock spp. Nomascus Hylobates Siamang spp. spp. Western Hoolock spp. Siamang (Hoolock hoolock) Black-crested gibbon Pileated gibbon (Symphalangus ENDANGERED: (Nomascus concolor) (Hylobates pileatus) syndactylus) no overall wild CRITICALLY ENDANGERED: ENDANGERED: population estimate. ENDANGERED: with a wild population no wild population with a wild population of over 40,000 indi- estimate in Red List. Eastern Hoolock estimated at 1,300 to viduals. (Hoolock leuconedys) 2,000 individuals. VULNERABLE: Bornean gibbon no overall estimate Southern white- (Hylobates muelleri) of wild population cheeked gibbon ENDANGERED: (Nomascus siki) HOMO Human PAN Chimps & Bonobos GORILLA Gorillas PONGO Orangutans available but likely with conservative to be between 5,000 ENDANGERED: estimates of wild and 10,000. no overall population population between estimate. 250,000 to 375,000 individuals. Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) Kloss’ gibbon CRITICALLY (Hylobates klossii) ENDANGERED: ENDANGERED: with a wild population latest estimates of just 20 individuals. 20,000 to 25,000 in the wild. Eastern black-crested/ Cao Vit gibbon Javan gibbon (Nomascus nasutus) (Hylobates moloch) CRITICALLY ENDANGERED: Human Chimpanzee Bonobo Eastern Gorilla Western gorilla Bornean Sumatran ENDANGERED: an estimated 4,000 to 35 to 50 individuals. 4,500 wild individuals. (Homo Sapiens) (Pan troglodytes) (Pan paniscus) (Gorilla beringei) (Gorilla gorilla) orangutan orangutan 009 ENDANGERED: ENDANGERED: ENDANGERED: CRITCALLY (Pongo pygmaeus) (Pongo abelii) Yellow-cheeked Agile gibbon 2 6.83 billion individuals t in 2009 4 subspecies; No subspecies; the 2 subspecies; ENDANGERED: ENDANGERED: CRITICALLY gibbon (Hylobates agilis) no wild population IUCN Red List states overall population 2 subspecies; no 3 subspecies; ENDANGERED: (Nomascus gabrielle) or ENDANGERED: estimate in the that speculative unknown due to lack accurate estimates wild population No subspecies;
ep ENDANGERED: wild population 2008 Red List due estimates of between of data on ‘eastern’ of wild population. estimated to be the most recent r with no overall unknown according l to large areas with 29,500 and 50,000 subspecies; while between 45,000 and estimates suggest population estimate. to Red List. little data. The most should be ‘considered mountain gorillas 69,000 individuals. a wild population ua recent estimate was with the ‘highest number some 720 of between 6,500 Northern white- Bornean white-
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