Annual Report Contents Vision/Mission

2014 ANNUAL REPORT CONTENTS VISION/MISSION

Letter from Executive Director...... 3 In 1977 a group of women came Achievements...... 4 together across racial and class differences to build a truly just social Unique Collaborations Fueled the Global Movement movement that prioritized the needs for LGBTQI Rights ...... 5 and vision of lesbians and women of CommsLabs: Defending Human Rights Through Media and Tech....6 color. In order to do so, they realized they would need to fund the work Grantee Partners in Action...... 11 themselves. Their uncompromising Art to End Silence...... 11 vision became the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Building an LGBTQI Movement in West Africa...... 12 Undocumented, Unafraid and Organized...... 13 Astraea remains true to this founding lesbian feminist ethos, supporting In Colombia, Trans* Women Demand Changes from Cops...... 14 movement building through four Thank You!...... 15 strategic pillars: Financial Statement of Activities ...... 21 1. Grantmaking 2. Capacity Building and Board and Staff List...... 22 Leadership Development Letter from Board Chair...... 23 3. Media and Communications 4. Philanthropic Advocacy

Today, Astraea works at the intersections of racial, gender and economic justice, connecting across issues, borders and generations to secure human rights and dignity for LGBTQI people everywhere.

Activists protest the Indian Supreme Court’s reinstitution of the country’s colonial era anti-sodomy law. Image courtesy of Sappho. DEAR FRIEND,

So much of our work is centered on long-term systemic change. Still, there are moments when our reach across borders, movements, stakeholders and strategies provides immediate insight that our unique role is not only neces- sary but working. It was a joy to lead Astraea though a year when the seeds of collaboration, advocacy, artistic intervention, research, travel, and community organizing bore so much fruit.

Astraea has been making grants for thirty-seven years. In 2014 we not only had our largest grantmaking cycle ever, but also awarded over 40% of our grants to first-time grantees! We’re leaning into our exper- tise to reach more folks, support more work and remain nimble and relevant.

We take our table-setting seriously! When we talk about our philanthropic advocacy, we recognize the responsibility of being the only and longest-running public foundation in the world doing this work. How do we leverage the strengths of individuals, institutions, governments, artists and activists to ensure more resources flow where they are most needed? Through partnership and collaboration.

This was the inaugural year of Funding Queerly, a dynamic group of philanthropists under the age of 40, who believe the best resources are those that get to the frontlines of social change. Astraea is home to the LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund, a collaborative fund dedicated to ending racial disparities in the United States; we proudly chair the Global Philanthropy Project, a consortium of international funders of LGBTQI rights; and 2014 marked the second year of our LGBT Global Development Partnership with USAID.

Our grantee partners continue doing the most groundbreaking work around the globe. Astraea is committed to developing leadership and building capacity in order to sustain movements and momentum despite repressive laws, unequal access to services and health care, employment discrimination, the lack of family recognition, challenges to the ability to organize, racial and gender profiling, and the ongoing threat of violence and incarceration.

Astraea insists innovation is often born where the need is the greatest. Our media and communications efforts were hugely successful in 2014. CommsLabs, our media, communications and technology initiative, came out of incubation. Fifty technologists and LGBTQI human rights defenders came together in Bogotá, Colombia for our first lab successfully sharing skills and strategies across analog and digital technologies, and geographic and political borders.

And finally, the collaborations without which none of this stellar work could happen: 890 individuals and institutions invested from $5 to $1.7 million dollars because of their confidence in the efficacy of our work! I remain humbled and thrilled by the possibility of our co-creation. Please enjoy reading this glimpse into the incredible year we’ve shared.

In deep solidarity,

J. Bob Alotta Executive Director ACHIEVEMENTS This year Astraea and grantee partners: • Broke grantmaking records. Obama to take executive action in Fast Company states, 2014 was our biggest grantmaking November 2014. year yet. We made over $3 mil- “After raising and • Started to build the legal foun- lion in grants to 81 partners in 35 dation for a challenge to criminal- giving away $20.5 countries. ization of LGBTQ communities in • Monitored and closed “de-ho- Kenya. million in grants to mosexualization clinics” in • Launched Fueling the 1,400 organizations Ecuador and advocated to reform Frontlines, a three-year $20M the health code to regulate private campaign to support the incredible in 43 states and 85 and public clinics. work we do worldwide. • Fueled the #BlackLivesMatter countries, it’s fair • Raised national profile of trans* movement for racial justice via women in immigration detention to say that Astraea radical community organizing and and held direct actions to demand uplifting the voices of black queer alternatives. Lesbian Foundation for leaders. • Secured the first-ever resolution Justice is quite literally • Promoted the enforcement at the African Commission on of Supreme Court rulings on Human and People’s Rights on putting a new face on trans* rights in India, including the sexual orientation and gender identity creation of state welfare boards for philanthropy.” (SOGI) issues, condemning violence trans* Indians. based on SOGI in Africa. • Passed the New York Community • Fueled the largest march for Safety Act, the first law in the US trans* rights in Turkey. to create an enforceable ban against police profiling based on sexual • Secured partial adoption rights orientation and gender identity. for same sex couples in Colombia. • Led a constitutional challenge • Achieved a seventh resolution that successfully overturned the on LGBTI rights in Latin America. Anti-Homosexuality Act in Uganda. • Created the first CommsLabs. • Received a four-star rating Astraea launched the first-ev- from Charity Navigator. Astraea er Media, Communications and received a four-star rating from Technology Lab (CommsLabs) Charity Navigator, America’s largest in Bogotá, Colombia as part of and most-utilized independent eval- the LGBT Global Development uator of charities. Partnership with the USAID.

• Guaranteed relief to some 4 mil- Trans* is a term used to refer to the entire range of possible gender identities that fall under the broad lion undocumented immigrants definition of trans*, including many specific to local in the US via vibrant queer and *trans cultures and contexts. participation in #Not1More cam- LGBTQI** is the inclusive term Astraea uses to refer to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, Queer and Intersex paign, which encouraged President communities. SASOD member Ulelli Verbeke at the 1st Caribbean Women and Sexual Diversity 4 | 2014 ANNUAL REPORT Conference. Image courtesy of SASOD. UNIQUE COLLABORATIONS FUELED THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR LGBTQI RIGHTS

“I’m excited to be a donor to Philanthropic Advocacy

Astraea and part of the Funding As a philanthropic advocate, Astraea advances the work Queerly Giving Circle they support of preeminent institutional partnerships: the LGBT Global Development Partnership, the Global Philanthropy because of its history of funding the Project (GPP), the LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund (RJF) most courageous and boundary-pushing organizing and the Funding Queerly Giving Circle—all dedicated to increasing resources for LGBTQI human rights. in the LGBTQ community.”

—Jason Franklin, Astraea donor and member of Funding Queerly Giving Circle, 2014 The LGBT Global Development LGBTI Partnership Model GRANTS MOVEMENT Astraea Grants The LGBT Global Development Partnership harnesses BUILDING Astraea’s track record as a leading philanthropic advocate, representing the first-ever relationship between the federal government and a public foundation to expand international LGBT rights. The Partnership brings to- MEDIA, gether the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Swedish International LEADERSHIP COMMS, Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the & TECH CAPACITY ase Astraea ea C St Astraea Foundation, the Gay & Lesbian Victory ra ud CommsLab Victory Institute st ie A s , & Institute (GLVI), the Williams Institute, and Olivia Political Training y

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Astraea works closely with RFSL, the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights, in the development and implementation of their Rainbow Leaders training. Rainbow Leaders is an intensive leadership development program for emerg- ing and experienced LGBTI activists alike. As a result of Astraea’s outreach, nearly half of the participants in the May 2014 training came from Astraea grantee partners in Partnership countries.

Astraea grantee partners and other LGBTI leaders at a Rainbow Leaders convening in Sweden. 2014 ANNUAL REPORT | 5 COMMSLABS: DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH MEDIA AND TECH CommsLabs Bogotá, Colombia. Photo credit: Ben Parker

In July 2014 Astraea launched the At the CommsLabs in Colombia, CATTRACHAS then follows up, first-everMedia, Communications Astraea grantee Red Lésbica opens a case and provides support and Technology Lab (Comms- CATTRACHAS, a collective whose with reporting and services for the Labs) in Bogotá, Colombia, as part main objective is to advance and survivors. Astraea grantee partners of the LGBT Global Development protect the human rights of LGBT Colombia Diversa, Caribe Partnership with USAID. With more people in Honduras, presented their Afirmativo and Santamaría than 35 activists from Latin America Observatorio tool. The Observatorio Fundación were also present at and 12 technologists and communi- is a database that CATTRACHAS the CommsLabs. These organi- cations practitioners from around the has used since 2008 to monitor and zations have been collaborating world, the group worked together identify trends in human rights vio- with CATTRACHAS since 2011, to create new media strategies and lations and violence against LGBT using the Observatorio to track digital advocacy tools specifically people; it works by grabbing tagged human rights violations in Colombia. designed to meet the needs of words (murder, gay, homicide, les- Together they’ve built a robust LGBT human rights defenders. bian) from online newspapers and system that allows them to monitor media outlets. violence and hate crimes against the LGBT community. Other organizations, such as No Tengo Miedo, The CommsLabs project aims to: a Peru-based grantee partner, and Mujer y Mujer, an Ecuador-based 1. Develop social networks, communications and organizational grantee partner, learned about the strategies that are accessible, secure, and relevant; Observatorio and its regional impact 2. Increase skills among the next generation of LGBTQI activists; for the first time atCommsLabs , and have made plans to implement it in 3. Create a radical network of activists and technologists that strength- their countries. As a direct result of ens the defense of LGBTQI human rights; the CommsLabs, CATTRACHAS 4. Solidify partnerships and alliances between LGBTQI communities strengthened the Observatorio with and human rights defenders using technology; and, support from one of the trainers, and was able to make it available online 5. Build innovative tools to monitor incidents of violence against for other organizations to use. LGBTQI people.

“I’m particularly excited about the work Astraea is doing around building the technology and communications capacity of community based organizations.” —Surina Khan, Astraea donor

6 | 2014 ANNUAL REPORT “I see the Internet and social media in general as a tremendous tool for movement building and informa- tion sharing. But I also see the importance of face to face organizing, research and publishing, convening (es- pecially across difference), and sharing of every sort. A movement cannot rely on just one of these forms of networking and strategizing.”

—Jean Hardisty, Astraea donor

CommsLabs Bogotá, Colombia. Photo credit: Ben Parker 2014 ANNUAL REPORT | 7 Arts & cultural change Immigrant rights 16 grantee partners 12 grantee partners $342,113 $285,000 ASTRAEA 10 countries 1 country/7 states SUPPORTED 81

Trans* rights 33 grantee partners GRANTEE PARTNERS $621,200 18 countries Anti-criminalization & freedom from violence 50 grantee partners Economic justice $1,604,713 IN 35 COUNTRIES, 23 grantee partners 14 countries $622,000 10 countries

MAKING $3.1 Anti-discrimination protections 49 grantee partners $800,797 MILLION IN GRANTS 23 countries

*Astraea grantee partners work on multiple issues, so a single grant often contributes to multiple thematic areas. Grantmaking Astraea funds grassroots LGBTQI organizations working for racial, economic and gender justice. In all of our grantmaking, we prioritize the leadership of lesbians, trans* people, and people of color. This year, our grantmaking strategically focused on the following thematic concerns:

Anti-Criminalization and Freedom Immigrant Rights In the United from Violence Astraea supports groups States, Astraea fuels the grassroots led by LGBTQI youth, sex workers and peo- LGBTQI immigrant movement that ple of color that organize against police and is building a new generation of lead- state violence, educate communities about ers, fighting harsh deportation and their rights, and fight laws and policies that detention policies, and demanding criminalize LGBTQI lives. self-determination for all.

Anti-Discrimination Protections Astraea Trans* Rights As a feminist and gen- supports grantee partners working to der justice funder, Astraea supports change laws and policies so LGBTQI peo- trans* activism that works to build ple can live with safety and dignity, including the power of trans* communities and family protections, anti-discrimination provi- secure human rights for trans* and sions, and equality in health and education. gender non-conforming people.

Arts and Cultural Change Because Economic Justice Astraea sup- societies must change along with laws ports organizations and campaigns and policies, Astraea supports progressive advancing economic justice for LGBTQI artists and organizations that use LGBTQI communities, including se- arts and media as tools for transforming so- curing access to housing, education, cial attitudes and envisioning new realities. employment and welfare.

8 | 2014 ANNUAL REPORT Voices of Women in Roma Women’s Center Comunidad Diversidad Grantee Western Kenya “Rromnjako Ilo” La Paz, Bolivia Kisumu, Kenya Novi Becej, Serbia Corporación Promoción Partners ASIA & PACIFIC Sarajevo Open Centre de la Mujer/Taller de Alternative Law Forum Sarajevo, Bosnia & Comunicación Mujer AFRICA Bangalore, India Herzegovina Quito, Ecuador Forum for the Side by Side LGBT Empowerment of Women GALANG Encuentro Lésbico Johannesburg, South Africa Quezon City, Philippines International Film Festival Feminista de LAC Saint Petersburg, Russia Bogotá, Colombia Freedom and Roam Nirangal SKUC-LL Uganda Tamil Nadu, India Femme en Action Contre Ljubljana, Slovenia Kampala, Uganda la Stigmatisation el la Nirantar Discrimination Sexuelle Stichting T-Image Gender Dynamix Delhi, India Port au Prince, Haiti Amsterdam, Netherlands Johannesburg, South Africa Nutongxueshe – NTXS Fundación de Desarrollo Transvanilla Transgender Iranti-Org Hong Kong, China Humano Integral Causana Johannesburg, South Africa Association Quito, Ecuador Sangama Budapest, Hungary Limpopo LGBTI Proudly Bangalore, India Fundación Sentiido Rana Plaza Donors Trust Bogotá, Colombia Out Sappho for Equality Limpopo, South Africa Fund c/o International Kolkata, India Labour Organization Grupo Latinoamericano Genève, Switzerland National Gay and Sayoni de Estudio Formación Lesbian Human Rights Singapore, Singapore y Acción Feminista - Commission Latin America and the GLEFAS Nairobi, Kenya Transgender Resource Caribbean Bogotá, Colombia Center ÁGORA Club None on Record Hong Kong, China Pasto, Colombia Grupo Safo Nairobi, Kenya Managua, Nicaragua Vikalp Women’s Group Aireana - Grupo por los Queer African Youth Gujurat, India Derechos de las Lesbianas International Network of Network - QAYN Asunción, Paraguay Women’s Funds Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Women’s Coalition of Mexico City, Mexico Hong Kong Asociación Silueta X Rainbow Women of Kenya SAR, Hong Kong Guayaquil, Ecuador Lesbianas Independientes, Mombasa, Kenya Socialistas y Feministas EUROPE Caribbean Forum for Lima, Perú Social, Health and Liberation and Acceptance Empowerment Feminist Centre for Equality and Movimiento de Acción Liberty for the LGBT of Genders and Sexualities Collective of Transgender Caribbean Lésbica Feminista Women of Africa Community in Kosovo Aguascalientes, México East London, South Africa Pristina, Kosovo Caribe Afirmativo Cartagena, Colombia Mujer y Mujer The OTHER Foundation CURE Foundation Guayaquil, Equador Johannesburg, South Africa Sarajevo, Bosnia and Coalition Advocating Herzegovina for Inclusion of Sexual Mujeres Al Borde Trans Bantu Association of Bogotá, Colombia Gayten-LGBT – Center for Orientation Zambia Port of Spain, Trinidad and Lusaka, Zambia the Promotion of LGBTIQ Mujeres Y Cultura Human Rights Tobago Subterránea, A.C. Transgender and Intersex Belgrade, Serbia Colectiva Lésbica Todas Nezahualcoyotl, México Africa Somos Guatemala Pretoria, South Africa Kampania Przeciw Mulabi - Espacio Homofobii - KPH Guatemala City, Guatemala Latinoamericano de Transgender Education Warsaw, Poland Colectivo No Tengo Miedo Sexualidades y Derechos and Advocacy - TEA Lima, Peru Guadalupe, Costa Rica Nairobi, Kenya Lesbian Organization Rijeka - LORI Colectivo Sentimos Organización de UHAI - East African Rijeka, Croatia Diverso Transexuales por la Sexual Health and Rights Dignidad de la Diversidad LGBTIQA Association Okvir Quito, Ecuador Initiative Rancagua, Chile Sarajevo, Bosnia and Nairobi, Kenya Colombia Diversa Herzegovina Bogotá, Colombia

2014 ANNUAL REPORT | 9 Organización Trans Chicana Latina Foundation Missouri GSA Network† Reinas de la Noche Burlingame, CA St. Louis, MO Donor Advised Fund Guatemala City, Guatemala Grantees CODE2040 National Center for Red Lésbica San Francisco, CA Lesbian Rights Marsha Day Memorial ‘CATTRACHAS’ San Francisco, CA Fund Tegucigalpa, Honduras Colorado Anti-Violence Project New Orleans Workers’ BRAC USA New York, NY Santamaría Fundación Denver, CO Center for Racial Justice†† GLBT New Orleans, LA EDGE Funders Alliance Fractured Atlas Cali, Colombia New York, NY San Francisco, CA Nollie Jenkins Family Society Against Sexual Center, Inc.†† Grameen Foundation Orientation Discrimination El/La Para Translatinas Jackson, MS San Francisco, CA Washington, DC - SASOD PFLAG Portland Black Georgetown, Guyana Familia: Trans Queer African Women’s Chapter† Liberation Movement Development Fund USA United and Strong Portland, OR San Jose, CA Castries, Saint Lucia Los Angeles, CA Power Inside The Feminist Press Freedom Inc.† Woman’s Way Foundation Baltimore, MD New York, NY Paramaribo, Suriname Madison, WI Project South: Institute for The Middle Project Funders for LGBTQ Issues†† the Elimination of Poverty MIDDLE EAST New York, NY New York, NY alQaws for Sexual and and Genocide†† Gender Diversity in Gay-Straight Alliance Atlanta, GA Project Enterprise New York, NY Palestinian Society Network†† Providence Youth Student Jerusalem, Israel San Francisco, CA Movement-PrYSM† Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund – SMWF-USA Aswat - Palestinian Gay Gender Expansion Project† Providence, RI Missoula, MT New York, NY Women Racial Justice Action Haifa, Israel Gender Justice Los Center†† Pass the Butter Fund Istanbul LGBTT Angeles† Atlanta, GA Coalition on Istanbul, Turkey Los Angeles, CA Homelessness Resource Generation San Francisco, CA UNITED STATES Grantmakers Concerned New York, NY Affinity Community with Immigrants and Southeast Immigrant Roots and Wings Fund Services† Refugees Rights Network (SEIRN) Lambda Legal Defense Chicago, IL Sebastopol, CA College Park, GA and Education Fund New York, NY All Out Hearts on a Wire Southerners on New New York, NY Collective Ground Lesbian Herstory Archives Philadelphia, PA Atlanta, GA Brooklyn, NY Allgo† Austin, TX Immigrant Youth Coalition Trans Youth Support National Center for Los Angeles, CA Network† Lesbian Rights Arcoiris Liberation Team San Francisco, CA Phoenix, AZ International Gay and Minneapolis, MN Lesbian Human Rights National Women’s Health Arizona Queer Transgender, Gender Commission Variant, and Intersex Network Undocumented Immigrant New York, NY Washington, DC Justice Project† Project – AZ QUIP† AZ International Human Oakland, CA The Lesbian, Gay, Rights Funders Group United We Dream Network Bisexual and Transgender Audre Lorde Project New York, NY – Queer Undocumented Community Center New York, NY New York, NY Juvenile Justice Project of Immigrant Project Black and Pink Louisiana†† Washington, DC †In partnership with the Funding Boston, MA New Orleans, LA Queerly Giving Circle Victory Institute ††In partnership with the Racial Washington, DC BreakOUT!† Making Money Make Justice Fund New Orleans, LA Change / Resource Williams Institute Casa Ruby Generation Los Angeles, CA Washington, DC New York, NY

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GRANTEE PARTNERS NIRANTAR VIKALP/ IN ACTION PARMA In addition to Sappho, Astraea supports 5 LGBTQI grantee partners in India that SAPPHO FOR are fighting at state ALTERNATIVE ART TO END SILENCE and national levels for EQUALITY decriminalization and LAW FORUM human rights in India, often In 2011, in rural West Bengal, India, Swapna Mondal, 23, in alliance with feminist, human and Sucheta Mondal, 19, lay down in a field, their waists rights and social justice movements. tied together with a hand-woven towel. They drank from a bottle of pesticide and were discovered dead the following morning, along with a five-page suicide note. NIRANGAL SANGAMA

“We love each other,” the note read. “We decided to commit suicide as our relationship was not accepted by society. We request that we be cremated together.” Sappho created a 16-minute documentary about the The two women had been in a relationship for four years. facts, subsequently producing a narrative film that imag- After villagers began to suspect that the two were ro- ines what Swapna and Sucheta’s lives would have been mantically involved, Sucheta’s parents forced her to mar- like if they’d lived. ry a neighborhood boy. Six months later, the lovers killed themselves. Local newspapers printed contradictory “The film is part of the public program held in rural reports, some claiming that the deaths were murders. villages,” said one of Sappho’s founders, Shubhaghata Ghosh. “We screen the fact and the fantasy. After That’s when Sappho, a West Bengal-based group that the screening we host a public conversation with the works primarily with lesbians, bisexual women and trans students and their parents and friends.” This is radically men, decided to launch its own investigation. Sappho different from when Sappho was formed in 1999. “Back members interviewed Swapna’s parents, Sucheta’s then,” according to Ghosh, “discussing sexuality was a mother and husband, local police and neighbors. taboo and the word lesbian was not recognized.”

But the struggle continues: in 2013, India’s Supreme Court overturned a 2009 Delhi High Court decision that decriminalized homosexuality, reinstating a section of the Indian Penal Code that criminalizes sexual activities “against the order of nature.”

“We can only plan two years at a time because we don’t even know if we will be shut down,” says co-founder, Minakshi Sanyal. “Activists and academics are expecting a lot from Sappho. Despite our grief, we have to hope Image courtesy of Sappho for the best and see what happens in 2016.”

“We can only plan two years at a time because Astraea has been funding Sappho for 8 years we don’t even know if we will be shut down.” (1996-present).

2014 ANNUAL REPORT | 11 BUILDING AN LGBTQI MOVEMENT IN WEST AFRICA

“We realized there was no magazine that was bringing in different voices and perspectives of queer life or showing the richness of queer life on the African continent,” says Mariam Armisen, founder of Queer African Youth Network (QAYN) and Q-zine, the only arts and culture publication for LGBTQI African youth. When so much of the discourse about LGBTQI life in Africa is negative, oversimplified and generated outside the continent, Q-zine provides a creative forum for queer communities “to talk about our lives and to take ownership over the discourse that shapes our identities and lived realities.”

This kind of platform is particularly meaningful in West Africa, a region that is deeply under-resourced and where nascent LGBTQI organizers face significant isolation. Based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, QAYN was founded in 2010 to build a movement and community of queer activists to end this isolation. They are a feminist and queer women-led network working to support and build the leadership of young LBQ women (ages 17-35) in the region. They’ve run a successful leadership incubator program since 2012, and their Q-zine magazine reaches close to 7,000 readers. They build knowledge by producing research on the landscape Image courtesy of QAYN, illustrated by Xonanji. for LGBTQI rights in francophone West Africa, and their work is helping to open up space for LGBTQI activism to grow and flourish. “We realized there was no magazine that They recently ran a powerful 16 Days of Activism social was cultural, bringing in different voices and media campaign with audiovisual narratives highlighting violence against gender non-conforming queer women. perspectives of queer life or showing the QAYN brought together researchers, interviewers, richness of queer life on the continent.” illustrators, audio technicians and survivors of violence to produce 16 personal stories of LBQWSW* survivors of violence, which were published and amplified each day Astraea has funded QAYN (Queer African Youth of the campaign. The overwhelmingly positive response Network) for 2 years (2013-present). garnered 400 new followers and sparked much discussion.

In their print publication on the campaign, QAYN wrote: *QAYN uses the acronym LBQWSW for “lesbian, “This campaign is a call to action...to ensure that victims bisexual and queer women, and women who have sex of violence no longer suffer, in silence, in shame and guilt with women” to include those who may not self-identify - and above all, they are not resigned to this reality.” as LBQ women.

12 | 2014 ANNUAL REPORT UNDOCUMENTED, UNAFRAID AND ORGANIZED

“LGBTQI people are not outsiders, SONG and Familia at the #Not1More march. Photo credit: Namita Chad we are not ‘things,’ and we are tired of being asked to prove that “We support Astraea we are not ‘criminals.’ We live in a ONE OUT country that criminalizes our very because we are existence,” said Astraea grantee OF EVERY partner Southerners on New THREE LGBTQI able to reach Ground (SONG) in a recent statement. SONG works to highlight the IMMIGRANTS small grassroots impact of immigration enforcement IS UNDOCUMENTED — organizations doing vital work on LGBTQI people in the American A TOTAL OF 260,000 South, a region that has seen a fighting gender and sexuality- striking number of anti-immigrant PEOPLE IN THE US. measures in recent years. Because According to Immigration based oppression, both in queer and trans* immigrants are and Customs Enforcement the US and around the world, more likely than their peers to come (ICE), Secure Communities into contact with law enforcement, (S-Comm) led to the that we would never be able and less likely to have access to deportation of more than status through family relationships, 368,000 immigrants before to find on our own.” they are disproportionately undocu- being discontinued. —Astraea donors, Hosea Baskin mented, detained and deported. and Sarah Buttenweiser

This year, SONG joined the recourse, SONG, Familia: Trans will be excluded from the President’s #Not1More campaign to bring an Queer Liberation Movement, relief because they cannot access end to unjust deportations. LGBTQI and ally Transgender Law Center family reunification and because they immigrants in detention centers report that “many LGBTQI detainees continue to be profiled and targeted experience appalling human rights simply give up, accepting deporta- by law enforcement. Astraea grantee violations, including violence, rape, tion rather than continuing to fight partners SONG, Familia and many and torture in the form of solitary for the asylum for which they qualify.” others will continue to fight until confinement. While trans* women LGBTQI immigrants no longer have make up only 1 out of 500 detained In part due to organizing efforts to live in fear. immigrants in the US, they comprise from the #Not1More campaign one-fifth of all confirmed sexual and others, President Obama took assault cases in state detention executive action in November 2014, Astraea has been funding SONG facilities. Further, findings by the offering limited relief to some 4 for 19 years (1996-present). Congressional Research Service million undocumented immigrants. showed that as many as 40 per- Astraea grantee partners celebrated Astraea began supporting cent of sexual abuse allegations this victory brought about by the de- Familia in 2014 through our occurring in state ICE detention termination and sustained organizing newly launched LGBTQI immi- centers are not reported. Dispirited of communities coming together. grant rights cohort. by the abuse and their lack of legal Unfortunately, many LGBTQI people

2014 ANNUAL REPORT | 13 IN COLOMBIA, TRANS* WOMEN DEMAND CHANGES FROM COPS

A common issue faced by Santamaria Fundación marches for trans women’s visibility and rights at the Marcha Fuscia in Colombia. Colombian trans women is extremely Image courtesy of Santamaría Fundación. high levels of violence: between 2008 and 2013, the number of murders of trans people in Colombia “Thanks to Astraea, we have an office to talk about all this was fourth-highest in the world. Despite these deaths and other stuff and politicize ourselves,” Skenassy said. “More than an violent assaults, no one person has been charged, according to office, it is actually our home.” Santamaría Fundación’s Director of Institutional Processes, Déborah To counter this trend, Santamaría about 40 women of diverse ages and Skenassy, “trans women don’t have Fundación met with 35 trans wom- ethnicities to explore topics such as access to health or justice because en to discuss recent violations by the civil rights, sexuality and gender diver- our bodies aren’t legitimized. We police. Their recommendations com- sity, and political participation. exist at the margins of the state.” prised a formal proposal to be presented by members of Santamaría The police, she adds, are often part Fundación to Cali’s police captain. MORE THAN 1,250 of the problem, denying help or arresting trans women without jus- Santamaría Fundación builds trans MURDERS OF tification.Santamaría Fundación women’s leadership by offering pro- TRANS PEOPLE has documented 150 accounts of grams like the escuela de formación HAVE OCCURED police abuse that have so far been políica, or political education. Twice ignored by superiors. a month the initiative brings together IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA SINCE 2008.

Santamaria Fundación organizes and hosts a police training in Colombia. Source: Transgender Europe’s Image courtesy of Santamaría Fundación Trans Murder Monitoring Project, 2014

Astraea is Santamaría Fundación’s most constant funder and the only one providing general operating support. Astraea has funded Santamaría Fundación for 4 years (2011-present).

14 | 2014 ANNUAL REPORT THANK YOU!

Astraea supports activists and organizations globally where the opportunities, the needs, and, often, the risks are greatest. And we could not do it without you. Your generosity empowers change-makers all over the world, fostering powerful collaborations, growing leadership capacity, and fueling the grassroots movements required to create a world where everyone can live with dignity.1

Fueling the Frontlines is the Astraea’s 3-year, $20 million campaign to provide critical resources and support to grassroots LGBTQI activists and organizations across the globe. The campaign supports activism and action in areas where the need for resources is greatest, with Astraea’s support often representing the first major infusion of funding for a vast majority of our grantee partners. Campaign supporters are individuals, institutions, government agencies, donor alliances and private-sector companies committed to achieving justice, respect and equality for everyone. We invite you to join us in this work.

Leadership Giving Circle: Open Society Foundations Amy Laura Cahn Denise Sobel Jody C. Cole Visionary ($25,000 + ) Naomi Sobel Jeanne Cordova & Lynn H. Ballen Anonymous (2) United States Agency for International Susan M. Davis Adam & Rachel Albright/ARIA Development M. Quinn Delaney & Wayne D. Jordan Foundation Barbara J. Wright & Dee Kenny Fred Eychaner Arcus Foundation JVH Fund Kobi Conaway & Andrew Owen Kicking Assets Fund/Tides Foundation Dreilinden gGmbH Leadership Giving Circle: Daniel J. Lee Ford Foundation Catalyst ($10,000+) Michael Leppen Institute of International Education Anonymous (2) Allison Littlefield Amy Mandel & Katina Rodis/Morton Mika Albright & Renee Rueda/ARIA Levi Strauss Foundation and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation Libra Foundation Foundation Henry van Ameringen Foundation Kerry Lobel & Marta Drury/girls just want New World Foundation Alexandra Barrows to have funD/Horizons Foundation

1Astraea is deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed money, time, or talent to support this work. We have taken great care to check all names and giving levels in this report. We apologize for any errors, and ask that you please let us know if our records are not correct.

Astraea supporters at Chicago Fueling the Frontlines Awards. Image courtesy of Mystic Photography.

2014 ANNUAL REPORT | 15 Jason Franklin • Rosalind Dutton & Jill Gates Smith Nancy Meyer & Marc N. Weiss Christopher Norman Frantz • Megan Fannin • Danielle Feinberg • Lea Michael Katherine Hawes Will Fertman & Minda Berbeco • Holly Susan Penick/Albert Penick Fund HCROA: A CFC Human and Civil Fetter • Kate Fitta • Gillian Francis & Nancy D. Polikoff & Cheryl Swannack Rights Federation Sarah Salm • Regina Gonzales • Carol Emily Rosenberg & Darlene de Manincor Rusty Hernandez Gunby • Pan Haskins • Judith Helfand Nan Schaffer & Karen Dixon Ambassador James C. Hormel • Suzanne Hendrich • Kris Hermanns Adam Shaw-Vardi & Ron Jenkins Emily D. Howe & Merri Baldwin • Alice Y. Hom • Clara Jon Stryker Jessan Hutchison-Quillian Jaeckel • Xylor Jane • Carol Jaspin & Sam Tabet & Maggie Chestnut Sarah Kinicki Rhonda Santamour • Kathleen Kelleher Ted Snowdon Foundation bex kolins • Evan King • Keiko Koizumi • Alice M. Leonard W. Kolins & Faye E. Goldman Krause & Sally Cowan • Michael Lavelle Leadership Giving Circle: Courtney Lake • Tina Lear & Elena Terrone • Legacy II Kathy Levinson & Naomi Fine/Jewish Philanthropic Fund • Jonathan Lehman Groundbreaker ($5,000+) Community Federation of San Francisco & Zachary Huelsing/New Prospect Anonymous (2) Nancy Levit & Cathy Underwood Foundation • Jarrett Lucas • Sarah Mann Aquila Fund Elizabeth McKnight & Dalila Fridi • Hannah Mason • Natalie Mattison Nancy Baker Barbara Meislin/Jewish Community • Julie McVeigh & Patrick McVeigh • Rebecca Balter & Bri Kaplan Endowment Fund Metropolitan Tennis Group, Inc. • Kate Cynthia Beard O’Hanlan-Walker LGBT Equality Fund Mitchell • MRG Foundation • Anna Isaac Bloch Leanne Pittsford A. Mudd • Bernice NeeCee Murphy Evette Cardona & Mona Noriega Polk Brothers Foundation • Mildred Murphy • Ragnar D. Naess Katherine D’Amato & Darcy Baxter Sharon Rich & Nancy Reed/The & David Charles • Joyce G. Newstat The Danielson Foundation Daughters Fund/Combined Jewish • Huong Ngyuen • Meg Niman • Jane Courtney Frantz Philanthropies of Greater Boston Clayton Oakes & Joa Dattilo • Melissa Elspeth Gilmore & Helen Stillman Diane Sabin & Jewelle Gomez Ong • Eleanor Palacios • Catherine Liz Hirsch & Karen Pratt Mary Beth Salerno & Denise Kleis Perez • Miriam Zoila Pérez • Kate A. Elizabeth B. Hirsch Fund at the Jewish Jean Saul & Carla Ficke Poole • Barbara P. Rothberg • Cynthia Communal Fund Ellen Shapiro & Carol L. Page Rothschild • Robert & Pamela Rothstein Trish Houck & Lyssa Jenkens Sparks Fund for Equity and Innovation/ • Lisa Sbrana • Katrina E. Schaffer • Dave McClure Horizons Foundation Ernest Schultheis • Nan Schwanfelder Dr. Diane Mosbacher & Nanette Gartrell/ Jessie Spector • Scott/Courtney Fund of Horizons Under 1 Fund/Horizons Foundation Beth P. Stephens & Elly Bulkin Foundation • Shlenker Block Fund at the Nathan Cummings Foundation Rachel Tiven & Sally A. Gottesman Houston Jewish Community Foundation Shad A. Reinstein & Jody Laine White UHAI-EASHRI* • Katherine Seligmann • Sidney Kohl Laura Ricketts Underdog Fund/Rose Foundation Family Foundation • Sigrid Rausing Alix Ritchie & Marty Davis Urgent Action Fund* Trust* • Michael Stansbury & Krista Lee Michael Seligmann Eric Ward Hanson • Wendy Stark • Susan A. & John & Mary Taylor Christy Webber Landscapes Donald P. Babson Charitable Foundation Butch Weaver Susan Wefald & Fred Doolittle • Eli Szenes-Strauss • Leslie Tabet • Shana Weaver Wells Fargo Community Support Brian Tate • Karen Trilevsky • Becca Campaign Weaver • Chris Welch • Estelle Weyl • Leadership Giving Circle: Shelley Young Reid Williams • Darrell Windle • Caitlin Advocate ($1,500.00 + ) Karen B. Zelermyer & Tami Gold Elizabeth Wraith Anonymous (2) Katherine T. Acey Associates ($500+) Partners (up to $499) J. Bob Alotta & Toshi Reagon Anonymous (10) • Susan S. Allee & Anonymous (44) • Sam Abeysekera • Carol B. Alpert Karen Krahulik • Marlene Alotta • Susan Paula A. Aboud • Kronda Adair • Teresa The Chrysalis Fund Andrews • Ward Auerbach & Andy Adams • Kyle Ahlers • Stephanie A. Joni Anderson & Yvonne D. King Baker • Venoncia & Carol Baté-Ambrus Ainbinder • George Akerly • Gregory Miriam Barnard & Melea Seward • Jill Bendziewicz • Mary Ayres & Merrill Alexander & Hanita Alexander • Joseph Alvin H. Baum, Jr. Black • Elizabeth Bremner & Karen Crow Alexander • Syed Aftab Ali • Anjali Jennifer M. Brier & Kathryn J. Hindmand • Stephen Brier • Arlene E. Bronstein Alimchandani • Jamie Allison • Sylvia W. Karen Burkhardt/K.O. Burkhardt Fund • Victoria C. Brush • Beth Burkhurt • Alpert • Oswald Alvarez • Shannon K. Citizens for Cassidy (IL) Sarah Buttenwieser & Hosea Baskin • Andrews • Daniel A. Andries • Patricia Theodora Yang Copley Maria Cadenas/Cream City Foundation Ang • Tracy Apps • Isabel Arcones • Deborah Drysdale Fund/Women’s • Alexandra Chasin/Rockefeller Cynthia & Geri Armine-Klein • Sara Foundation of California Philanthropy Advisors • Win Chesson Armstrong • Urooj Arshad • Anna Marie Somjen Frazer & Andy Bowen • Laurette Cisneros • Michelle Clarkin Asbury • Jill Austin • Charlotte L. Avery & Sue Goldwomon • Tiara Cruse • Nancy E. Cunningham Arden Eversmeyer • Mary Ayres & Merrill Reverend Jan Griesinger • Estelle Disch • Martina Downey & Black • Eleanor J. Bader • Christian Baer Patricia M. Fontaine Tawanna Sullivan • Sarah H. Draper • LaGenia Bailey • Maura Bairley &

16 | 2014 ANNUAL REPORT Elizabeth Shipley • Angela Barnes • De Jesus & Grace Knobel • Judith Hester • Bradley Hienz • Karen Higgins & Susan Barnes • Monica Barron • Leslie DeGroat & Larry Boyette • John D’Emilio • Jack Higgins • Amy E. Hirsch & Jessica van Barselaar • Molly Baskin • Risa Batta Christine Desrosiers • William Devine • M. Robbins • Debra Hirshberg & Jamie L. • Lenore Beaky • Sue Beckwith & Jules Joanna Dillon • Amina Doherty • Maryrose Hecker • Mark Hodgson & Sydney Levy • Assata • James L. Bennett & Terry L. Dolezal • Jasmine Dominguez • Diana Dyron Holmes • Saydeah Howard • Diana Vanden Hoek • Mindy S. Benowitz • Dr. Doty • Sarah Dougan • Peg Downey • Hsu • Lori Hsu • James Hubbard • Linda Bernhard • Tamiko Beyer & Kian Veronica Drantz • Jenny Drucker • The Christina Hunnicutt & Marlo Kern • Kathy Goh • Raja Bhattar • Douglas Bigham & Honorable Thomas K Duane • Robert Hutton • Abbie Illenberger • William Isasi Shawn Law • Laura Bilzarian • Graham Dugan • Ellen Dugger & Gale Winn • • Suzanne Israel • Alma Izquierdo • Janyce Blackman-Harris • Evelyn Blackwood • Stephanie Dukes • Kit B. Durgin & Elaine Jackson • Michael P. Jacobs & John Stephanie K. Blackwood • Lukas Blakk & McKinley • Mary Ann Dutton & Jean Veta • Calhoun • Ganessa James • Jan Zobel Jennifer Worley • Esther Blanchard • Lori Julie Eckenwalder • Elizabeth E. Edwards Lesbian Values Fund of Horizons Blonn • Ife Blount • Emma Blumer • Terry • Dr. Herman Efron • Jesse Ehrensaft- Foundation • Linda Jane • Sophie Jelen • L. Boggis • Peter G. Bohmer • Agnieszka Hawley • Hilla P. Elkind • Eve Ellis & Sally Jesmonth • Alexis Johnson/Lexi Gift Bojko • Laura A. Bollettino • Gary W. Annette Niemtzow • Cindy B. Ewing & Fund at Schwab Charitable Fund • Booher • Debra Borkovitz • Normand Luchie Ticzon • Robyn Exton • Paul R. Jermaine Johnson • Liana S. Johnson • Boulanger • Nancy Boutilier & Christa Fairchild • Tucker Pamella Farley • James Natalie Johnson • Scott Johnson • Lynne Champion • Diann Bowoman • Benjamin M. Fauntleroy • Ariel Federow • Ann Joyrich • Melissa J. Kahn • Veronica Boyles • Bill Bragin & Lisa Philp • Melanie Ferguson & Carol Shea • Ashley Kanczes • Jocelyn Kaplan • Sheryl Kaplan Braman • Graham Bridgeman & Frances Ferguson • Mel M. Ferrand • Harold • Teresa Karamanos • Reena Karani • Felske • Eugenia Brooks • Bernadette J. Fessenden • Jessika Fessenden • Jonathan Kardon • Panteha Karimi • Brooten • Adrienne Brown • Jason Brown Elizabeth Fiden • Kinuyo Figikawa • Kristen Kaza • Owen J. Keehnen • Sheila • Michelle Elizabeth Brown • Tona Brown Katherine Palmer Finn & Tara Palmer Finn Kelly & Carol Friedland • Amanda Keton • • Mara Brown-Fisher • Gilda Bruckman • • Frank Fishella • Kathryn R. Fitzgerald & Dr. Deidre Kidder • Debra M. King • Naomi Brussel • Carol L. Buell & Olivia Rita Alverez • Helen Fitzsimmons & Laura Rachel Kirschen • Sidney & Rachelle Hicks • Charlotte Bunch & Roxanna M. Mamo • Nathan Fleming & Abby Mohaupt Kivanoski • Jennie & John Kixmiller • Kim Carrillo • Paul Buono & David R. • Sol Flores • FlynnBoyle Family Fund/ Klausner • Valerie Klemme • Shira Kline • Conchado • Florie M. Burke • Jodi Burke • Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund • Atha Fong Amie Klujian • Peggy Kocoras • Raymond Richard D. Burns • Thomas Burrows • • Jane E. Foote & John M. Tartaglia • Kim Koenig • Donna A. Korones • Jeanne Lizzie Busch • Sarah Bush • Jill C. L. Ford • Lisa French • Gabriel Foster • Kracher • Sara E. Krakauer • Kate Kroeger Campbell • Mary & Warren Campbell • Susana T. Fried & Debra Liebowitz • • Joanna Labow • Daisy Lalwani • Emily Lori Cannon • Jenna Capeci & Anna Cynthia E. Funk & Janice Kuhagen • Ellen Lam • Marilyn Lamkay • Sara Langen • Taylor-Shih • Rosemarie Cappabianca • Gallagher & Allyson Goose • Linda David Lanier & Gilbert Fouchard • Robin Mona C. Cardell & Berta Britz • Erin Garber & Barbara Blinick • Susan D. Langer • Terry Lawler & Chris Straayer • Carlston • Katherine F. Carmichael • Gedanke • Bonnie Genevich • Mary L. Glorianne M. Leck & Susan Savastuk • Megan Carney & Michal Eskayo • Rodrigo Gerger • Alison Gerig • Sheila Gershen & Vanessa Mijo Lee • Michelle Leisy & Tim Carrillo • Amy Carroll • Robin Carton & Sy Margaret Baldwin • Julie Gieseke • Ilsa Leisy • Leslie Leone • Johanna Lessinger Meredith Smith • Joan T. Casale • Anne Gilbert • Andrea Gittleman • Bryan Glover • Joan Lester & Carole L. Johnson • Adam Casscells & Susan S. Ketcham • Judith • Maryann Goetsch • Miles Goff • Caitlin E. Levine • Susan Levinkind & Elana Casselberry & Juanita Colon • Lorraine M. Going • Nancy Golden • Wilma Dykewomon • Mike Lew & Thom Harrigan Cetto • Namita N. Chad • Darlene Chaleff Goldenberg • Marilyn R. Goldfarb & • Ruth Lipschutz • John Litchfield • Tracey • Gilen Chan • Vivien Chan • Deanne Amanda Baker • Julie Goldscheid & Little • Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins & Judy Chen • Maggie Chestnut • Jess Chock- Penelope Damaskos • Vivian Gonzalez • Boals • Claire Lovell • Stephanie Lowitt • Goldman • Prajna Choudhury & Ang Debrah Goodman • Melinda Goodman • Andrea R. Lurie & Nancy Rosen • Andi Hadwin • Jun-Fung Chueh • Debra Taryn Goodman • Sara Gould & Rick Lyons & Janka Bialek • Maureen Mahon • Cleaver • Lori Clement • Alexis Clements Surpin • Katherine Grainger • Laurel Jennifer Malkowski & Katherine Mason • • Travis Clipston • Eileen B. Cohen • Grauer • Jessica Green • Caronina L. David Mandelbrot • Lydia Mann • Ariel Constance Cohrt & The Rev. Deacon Grimble • Shaun Grogan-Brown • Marcy • Chandler Marino • Francis Marino Amy Reichman • Allison Coleman • Adrian Richard Grusin & Abby Ceppos • Michele • Carol Marker • Linda Nathan Marks & R. Coman • Carolyn Confer • Jacqueline Gudger • Manuel Guerrero • Sarah Berenice M. Fisher • Shelley Marlow • L. Cook • Michelle Cook • Thomas A. Gunther • Ellen Gurzinsky • Luis Gutierrez John Martinborough • Gitadinda Copeland • Will Cordery • Alisa • Betsy Gutstein • Sharon Haar & Robin Martohardjono • Raimi Marx • Tony Cordesius • Jean Corigliano & Penny Wagner • Sophie Hagen • William Haines Marzani & Harry Schroder • Gladys Mati • Rubin • Theresa Corrigan • Emilia Cosma • Aden Hakimi • Katy Hall • Aileen Ben Francisco Maulbeck • Alison Mazer • • Clare M. Coss & Blanche Weisen Cook Hammond • C. Hammtime • Naa Hamper Emily & Eric McAllister • Laura McAlpine • Isabel Cotalero • Gail Cowie • Heather • Christopher M. Harris & Therese Giglia • & Jeanne Kracher • Michael McBride • Cox • Brenda Crawford • Martha Katie E. Harris • Jessica Hazel • Sheila Stephen McFadden • Patricia McGarvey • Crawford & David Amarel • Raymond Healy • Jenna Heath • Carol Sue Hedtcke Karen McLaughlin • Meadowlark’s Crossman • Maggie Crowley & Mel & Katherine F. Carmichael • Rebecca S. Charitable Fund • Felicia Mednick • Sue Larsen • Madeleine Cule • Ann Hemperly • Vicki Hendricks • Mary Rose Medrano • Karla Mejia • Alan Mendelsohn Cvetkovich • Ryan Li Dahlstrom • James Hennessy • Ariel Herrera • Ruth Herring & & Mindy Sue Shapiro • Adrienne J. Darby • Alfonso Davis • Dana Davis • Pam Peniston • Barbara Herzfeld • Susan Mennis • Jason Mergen • Emily Metcalfe • Ronnie Davis • Marie de Cenival • Daisy J. Hessel & Karen Dahle • Susan R. Ann Meyer • Elizabeth A. Meyer • Jennie

2014 ANNUAL REPORT | 17 Mignone • Virginia Miller • Taryn Miller- Michael D. Siever PhD • Noah Silas • Gifts made in honor of Stevens • Theodora Minucci • Jacqueline Alexandra Silets • Malc Gin-Hopwood Y. Katherine Acey I. Mirkin & Edith Daly • Joey Mogul • Silva • Laurie Silverman & Betty Mayo • J. Bob Alotta Victoria Momashina & Esmira Dolic • Becky Silverstein • Rae L. Siporin • Maria Carol Alpert Glynis Moody & Jacky L. Hardy • Shannon Sjodin • The Reverend Stan J. Sloan • Isaac Block Moran • Claudia Mosier • Geoffrey Helen Smiler & Marlene Johnson • Mark Jennie Brier Mosley • Mary Mulherin • Sharon Mylrea • Smith • Valerie Smith • Adam Sobel • J.C. Arlene Bronstein Urvashi Nagrani • Gail Nalven & Patricia Sobel • Myra Sobel & Charles Sobel • Elly Bulkin & Beth Stephens S. Rudden • Betsy Narvaez • Brandon Cynthia Solie • Cindy Solomon • Randi M. Ann Cammett & Marcie Gallo Neese • Adriana M. Nevarez • Theodore Solomon & Julia R. Cohen • Laura Michelle Chamuel Nielsen • Lisa Noon • Susan Nowelsky • Sommer • Catherine Spath & Katherine Will Cordery Deborah Nurse • Charles O’Donnell • A. Kruckemeyer • Joanne Sprague • Tova Roz Dutton Kathleen O’Mara & Liz Morrish • Jenni D. Stabin & Anne Miller • Patricia Staszak Chuck & Emily Dziuban Olson • Jo Oppenheimer • Gabriel A. • Valerie Steen • Linda Stein & Helen Debra East Ortiz • Ana I. Otis • Ben Owen • Joseph Hardacre • Linda Sue Stein • Laura the Equality Initiative R. Pabst • Jennifer Pagonis • Kyle Stempel • Rebecca Stilling & Jean Arden Eversmeyer Palazzolo • Julie Paradise • Janet Parrish • Reeves • Lisa E. Stone & Scott Cantor • Barbara Feldman Janet Paskin & Jennifer Friedman • Krystal Beth Strachan • Margie E. Struble & Sarah Gunther Peak • Sandra Perez • Susan Perley • Christina Solari • Bonnie Sugiyama • Aspen Hancock Rosalind Petchesky • Patricia Petrocelli • Sunah Suh • Anthony Sullivan • Aaron Elaine & Suse Herting-Beale Barbara Phillips • Penelope Philpot & Tabak • Christian Tabet • Irene Tang • Mary Rita Hurley Stephanie Covington • Sally Pick/ Lauren Tanner • Lee Tanner • Leslie A. Margaret & Mary Bass Hussman Chicago Community Foundation • Jae Taylor • Joao Teixeira • Virginia Thackwell • Dr. Kerri Johnson Ponder • Rachel Popkin • Elin Posner • Leslie Thiel • Laura Thomas • Reverend Christopher Kozak Starr Potts • Retha Powers • Jennifer Paul K. Thomas • Ken Thompson & Otts Lisa Laczhazy & Laura Lynaugh Pressman • Letitia S. Quinn • Mary-Anna Bolisay • Rosealie Tolatino • Myrna S. Dr. Susan Lanser Rae • Heather Raich • Gloria Ramirez • Tortorello • Linda Tran • Patricia Trolley • Mike & Terri Leisy Joanna Rankin & Mary Fillmore • Uma Rao Carla Trujillo & Leslie Larson • Natalie Audre Lorde • Imani Rashid • Rosemary Rasmussen • Patrice Tucker • Kay Turner • Shannon Leslie Mah Marion Regnier • Reid Williams Turner • Aimee Uchytil • Carmen Ulloa • Marla Meislin & Tiffany McIndoe Foundation • Cynthia Renfro • Judith C. Andie Ulrich • United Way of New York Heather & Dawn Mosley-Young Rice • Linda Rice & Candice Boyce • City • Dona Upson • Urvashi Vaid & Kate Rachel Nielsen Renauda Riddle • Danae Ringelmann • Clinton • Modesto T. Valle • Anne-Marie Trina & EJ Olson Andrea Ritchie • Marie Roberts • Ann Vanier • Mario Velo • Melissa Faye Villain • Zahara Raine Robeson • Amy J. Robinson • Sandra J. Edgar Villanueva • Linda M. Villarosa & Toshi Reagon Robinson & Juanita Deans • Alfred Roca • Jana Welch • Vanessa Vinson • Judene Martina Robinson Manuel Rodriguez • Wanda Rodriguez • Walden • Robert Walsh • Alexia C. Ward Sandra Robinson & Juanita Deans Deborah Rogers • Mary Ann M. Rose • • Joanna Ware • Amanda Warr • Sharon J. Julio Rodriguez Robin Rosenbluth & Tracy Scott • Jessica Washington • Shelton Watson • Jennifer Robin Rosenbluth & Tracy Scott Rossman • Stephanie L. Roth & Kimberly Watt • Barbara M. Webb • Ellen Weber • Jessica Rothberg Klein • Melissa A. Rothstein • Lisa L. Monica Wehrle & Harriet A. Miller • Jackie Cynthia Rothschild Rudman • Catherine Ruggles • Elizabeth Weinberg • Judith Weisenfeld • Jessica R. Michael Seltzer & Ralph Tachuk Rush • Elizabeth O. Sadler • Stephanie Weissman & Louise P. Kelley • Weller Naomi Sobel Sadowski • Victor Salvo • Ronald San Investment Company • Rebecca Wellisch the Supreme Court Marchi • Sharday Sanchez • Ronnie • Denise Wells & Eileen Hansen • Alfonso Zoe Walsh Sandler • Am Santos • Tema Sarick • Jane Wenker • Wendy Wenner & Janet P. Shana Weaver A. Sasseen • Curtis & Cheryl Sawyer • Gocheman • Rebecca E. Weybright • Gabrielle Wellman Heather Sawyer • Ronora Sayaman • Kathleen Whelan • Jan Whiteley • Alexis Janice Schachter • Lizbeth Sue Schalet & Whitman • Natasha Wilder • Anna J. Andrea Bernstein • Teresa E. Scherzer • Williams, Ph.D. • Laura Williams • Noelle GiFts made in memory of Charles B. Schewene • Jonathon L. Williams • E. Williger • Moira Wilmes • Dr. Rita Arditti Schilling • Cora Schmid • Alicia Schmidt • Debra A. Wilson • Dillon Winchell • Lynn Campbell Jean L. Schmidt • Henry Schneiderman • Michelle Windhausen • Lorin A. Wiseman Debra Dew Dara L. Schur • Kevin Schwanfelder • • Ari Wohlfeiler • Susan M. Wolford & Michele Forsten Julie Schwartzberg • Nora Scully • Delores M. Komar • Denise Womak • Vernita Gray Amanda Searles • Janice Sears & Ellen Julian Wong • Nina G. Wouk & Jessie Rose Hill Alpert • Karen R. Sebastian • Audrey Ap’Neva • Jen Mei Wu • Mark B. Wyn • Hutson Iniss Seidman • Bret Sepulveda • Sandy Natalie Yallouz • Monona Yin & Steve Leon Jackson Shapiro • Allison Shaw • Risa Shaw • Dr. Fahrer • Paul Zabelin • Barbara Zacky • Marion McGrath Eugene C. Sheeley • Robert G. Sheets • Arlene Zarembka & Zuleyma Tang- Elke Mueller Jayne B. Sherman & Deby Zum • Jerald Martinez Rick Olson Paul Shing & Duane Diviney • Alix Kates Fred Phelps Shulman & Scott York • Sandra Sick • Dr.

18 | 2014 ANNUAL REPORT Matching Gifts Giving Circles Philanthropic Collaborative Initiatives Aon Foundation Kitchen Table Giving Circle provides Global Philanthropy Project Levi Strauss Foundation philanthropic support to Black/African Anonymous Marguerite Casey Foundation Descent Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, American Jewish World Service Oracle and Queer (LBTQ) women-led projects Arcus Foundation Pearson and organizations that are working to Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Polk Brothers Foundation improve the lives of Black/African LBTQ Dreilinden gGmbH S.H. Cowell Foundation women. Ford Foundation United Way New York City Fund for Global Human Rights United Way New Mexico The Funding Queerly Giving Circle is a group of young donors under 40. In Hivos partnership with Astraea, they mobilize Mama Cash Donor Advised Funds financial resources for small LGBTQI Open Society Foundations Arcus Foundation community organizing groups across the Other Foundation Heller-Bernard Fund United States to address the root causes Sigrid Rausing Trust Marsha Day Memorial Fund of injustice facing LGBTQI people. UHAI-East Africa Sexual Health and Rights Martina Fund Initiative Pass the Butter Fund Donor advised funds and giving circles Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights Purple Lady Fund allow you to actively participate in Right Action Fund grantmaking. To find out more about LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund Roots and Wings Fund how you can establish a fund at Astraea, Anonymous Tamar Fund contact Astraea’s Development team Arcus Foundation Teresa Rose at (212) 529-8021 x814 or email Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice and Maria J. Rintrona Fund [email protected]. Ford Foundation

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2014 ANNUAL REPORT | 19 Legacy Giving Nona Hungate • Trishala Deb • Jelena Djordjevic • We Will is a legacy society for those Sheryl Kaplan Marta Drury & Kerry Lobel • Pat Ewert who have made planned gifts and Barbara Karwhite • Melissa Extein • Paul Fairchild • State bequests to Astraea. Members’ legacy Jennifer Knight & Maria J. Cartagena Representative Sara Feigenholz • Mel gifts contribute to the sustainable future Donna A. Korones Ferrand • Kat Fitzgerald • Dalila Fridi of LGBTQI movements around the Marilyn Lamkay & Elizabeth McKnight • Marcia Gallo • globe. To join We Will and designate Marjorie Lightness Bookda Gheisar • Vivian Gonzalez • Sha Astraea as a beneficiary of your estate, Karyn J. London Grogan-Brown • Linda Guinee • Kathy contact Astraea’s Development team Genevra K. Loveland* Guzman & Debbie Sciortino • Jessica at (212) 529-8021 x814 or email Leonard Manheimer* Halem • Christopher Harris • State [email protected]. John Manzon-Santos Representative Greg Harris • Yuling Hu Joseph Mattes* • Kim Hunt • Alma Izquierdo & Michelle Shaya Mercer Figueroa • Kayron & C.C. Carter- We Will Circle Jane Clayton Oakes & Joa Dattilo Fortenberry • Anna Kirey • Michael Anonymous (4) Lily Olán A. Leppen • Zhen Li • Lisa Martinez • Kimberly Aceves Suzanne Pharr Zavé Martohardjono • Natasha Jiménez Katherine T. Acey Kay F. Quam & Jo Leir Mata • Alderman Deb Mell & Christin Jomal M. Alcobar Barbara Raab Baker • Kellea Miller • Lepa Mladjenovic Mary Alford Nusrat R. Rabbee, Ph.D. • Johanna Moffitt • Miriam Molnar • Carol B. Alpert Shad A. Reinstein & Jody Laine White Mary Morten & Willa Taylor • Katherine Ward Auerbach & Andy Baker Joni Ross* Pease • Jabulani Pereira • Kenita Dr. Sharon L. Aukerman Stephanie Roth Placide • Zahara Raine • Uma Rao • C. Edwin Baker* Stephanie L. Roth & Kimberly Klein Cynthia Renfro & Margherita Vacchiano David P. Becker* Dorothy E. Sander • Julio Rodriguez • Robin Rosenbluth Sara Berger Sarina B. Scialabba & Tracy Scott • Jane M. Saks & Gail S. Bernstein Dr. Claire E. Selkurt Emma Ruby-Sachs • Dorothy Sander Melanie E. Berzon Rosalind Shapiro • Dr. Nan Schaffer & Karen Dixon • Sylva Billue* Dixie M. Sheridan Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky • Stephanie K. Blackwood Barbara Shollar* Lolan Sevilla • Lilach Shafir • Svati Shah Evelyn Blackwood Phyllis K. Steiner & Lois Fink • Alexandra Silets • The Reverend Stan Elissa Breitbard Cindy Sterling J. Sloan • Mistinguette Smith • A. Sparks Elizabeth Bremner & Karen Crow Catherine Tinker • State Senator Heather Steans & Leo B. Jean Brown* Ann Vittala Smith • Beth Strachan • Ken Thompson Denslow Brown & Linda Smith Léonie Walker & Dr. Kate O’Hanlan & Otts Bolisay • Modesto Tico Valle Pamela Calvert Alida Walsh • Edgar Villanueva • Léonie Walker & Mary Ellen S. Capek & Susan Hallgarth Joan W. Watts Kate O’Hanlan • Jackie Weinberg • Maria J. Cartagena Jessica R. Weissman & Louise P. Kelley Jana Welch & Linda Villarosa • Rebecca Donna Cassyd Remsen Wolff* Wisotsky • Jackie Woodson & Juliet Judith N. Clarke Mark B. Wyn Widoff • Barbara Wright • Wei-ting Wu • Rhonda Copelon* Karen B. Zelermyer & Tami Gold Bin Xu Theodora Yang Copley Jan Zobel Jeanne Cordova & Lynn H. Ballen Jennifer A. Dryfoos Sally Duplaix* Special Thanks To Rosalind Dutton & Jill Gates Smith Kara Andrade • Ana Artigas • Tracy Elana Dykewomon & Susan Levinkind Baim • Kellan Baker • Angela Barnes Tucker Pamella Farley & Sofia Anastopoulos • Hope Barrett Edrie Ferdun & Jan Felshin • Juanita Belmar • Jim Bennett & Terry Tracy Duvivier Gary & Inka von Sternenfels Vanden Hoek • Maia Lis Benson • Sheila Gershen & Sy Margaret Baldwin Amy Bloom • Jennifer Brier & Kat Dipti Ghosh & Meggy Gotuaco Hindmand • Elly Bulkin • Alderman Miles Goff James Cappleman • Evette Cardona & Sue Goldwomon Mona Noriega • State Representative Jewelle Gomez & Diane Sabin Kelly Cassidy & Kelley Quinn • Jeff Kristine Haglund* Chartrand • Michelle Clarkin • Cathy Astraea was rated 4 out of 4 stars Joan R. Heller* & Diane L. Bernard Cohen & Beth Richie • Tatiana Cordero by Charity Navigator Debra Hirshberg & Jamie L. Hecker • Telesh Cordero • William Cordery

20 | 2014 ANNUAL REPORT FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES Based on audited financial statements for the year ending June 30, 2014.

Temporarily Permanently Unresticted All Funds FUNDING SOURCES Restricted Restricted 10% FUNDING SOURCES Net Investment Return 3% Grants and 1,933,133 3,254,850 5,187,983 Other Contributions 5% In-Kind In-kind Contributions 292,571 292,571 Contributions Net Investment Return 25,587 600,289 625,877 Other Income 91,209 74,831 196,040 Total Revenue 2,372,500 3,929,970 6,302,470

Net Assets Released 3,914,735 (3,914,735) - From Restrictions Total Revenue after 6,287,235 15,235 6,302,470 Releases G ran 82% ions ts and Contribut

Expenses EXPENSES Program Services Grants Awarded 3,145,152 3,145,152 4% 8% Other Program 1,974,891 1,974,891 Administration Fundraising Services & General Total Program 5,120,043 - - 5,120,043 Services

Supporting Services Administrative and 477,285 32,520 509,806 General Fundraising 587,099 587,099 Total Supporting 1,064,384 32,520 - 1,096,904 Services 88% Programming Total Expenses 6,184,427 32,520 - 6,216,947

Changes in Net Assets 102,808 (17,285) - 85,523 Net Assets as of June 557,572 5,518,117 2,958,315 9,034,004 30, 2013 Net Assets as of June 660,380 5,500,832 2,958,315 9,119,527 30, 2014

2014 ANNUAL REPORT | 21 BOARD AND STAFF LIST as of January 2015

STAFF Naomi Sobel Campaign Council Editor J. Bob Alotta Development Officer, Jennifer Brier Bridget de Gersigny Executive Director Major Gifts Jeff Chartrand Jayson Berkshire Brenda Salas Neves Will Corderey Copy Writer Executive Assistant Grants Manager Ryan Li Dahlstrom Puck Lo, Research Action Michelle Blankenship Gina L. Taglieri Maria De La Cruz Design Finance Consultant Director of Development Marcia Gallo Designer Sangeeta Budhiraja Simone Williams Christopher Harris Ivy Climacosa, Design Director of Institutional Administrative Assistant Jarrett Lucas Action Collective Partnerships Dorothy Sanders Graham Bridgeman Executive Director A. Sparks Emeritus Printer Development Officer, Judene Walden Union Solidarity Graphics Individual Gifts Katherine Acey Barbara Wright Namita Chad BOARD Printed with vegetable Program Officer Annual Report based inks on paper with Miriam Zoila Pérez Ana Conner Team Contributors recycled content Development Assistant Board Chair J. Bob Alotta mónica enríquez- Jarrett Lucas Michelle Blankenship enríquez Vice Chair & Board Graham Bridgeman Program Officer Secretary Sangeeta Budhiraja Ariel Federow Wendy Stark Namita Chad Development Associate Board Treasurer Bridget de Gersigny Sarah Gunther Cynthia Rothschild mónica enríquez-enríquez Director of Programs Audit Committee Chair Ariel Federow Jalise Hackle Ryan Li Dahlstrom Sarah Gunther Junior Accountant Board Recruitment & Joy Michael Denise Kleis Education Committee Kellea Miller HR Consultant Chair Brenda Salas Neves Joy Michael Maria De La Cruz Naomi Sobel Senior Accountant Board Secretary Gina Taglieri Kellea Miller Urooj Arshad USAID Consultant Jennifer Brier Susan Neiman William Cordery Chief Financial Officer Iimay Ho Janhavi Pakrashi Prerna Lal Communications Nitika Raj Assistant Judene Walden Susan Wefald

22 | 2014 ANNUAL REPORT DEAR FRIEND,

In many ways it’s hard to believe that I’ve been on the board of Astraea for 6 years, but in other ways it’s incredible it’s only been that long. When I joined the board in 2009, the organization was at the beginning of a major phase of transition. Katherine Acey, long-time Executive Director and powerhouse leader, was transitioning out of her role. The new leader had yet to be identified, and of course, our economy and political climate were going through seismic change on the heels of the economy crashing and President Obama’s election. No biggie.

I joined as a still (relatively) young person in the movement, and think that in many ways Astraea has given me more than I’ve given in the time since. It’s been an incredible honor serving this organization during such a pivotal time. Over these years I’ve seen so many dedicated people step up in service of the mission: building resources and power for an international LGBTQI movement. Even as we were dealing with major organizational change, our Astraea foremothers were always in the room, and the values that guided them have stayed with us as the board has navigated all the change of these last years.

The beauty of this moment is being able to reflect back and see how far we’ve come. While change is likely the only constant, Astraea is no longer in transition, and instead solidly into its next amazing era under the helm of J. Bob Alotta, a visionary leader I’ve had the pleasure of working with during my time as Board Chair. Alongside an incredible staff, I’m constantly awed by the leaps Astraea is taking in her journey toward building an even larger base of support for the global LGBTQI movement. The Fueling the Frontlines campaign is just one ex- ample of the bold moves Astraea is making, and I know it will be just one of many more to come.

While my time on the Astraea board is soon coming to a close, I know my relationship with Astraea is just beginning. Thank you for being such an integral part of this movement and the Astraea family. I look forward to the building with you through all that is to come for our community.

En solidaridad,

Miriam Zoila Pérez Board Chair CREATE THE WORLD YOU WANT TO LIVE IN JOIN ASTRAEA IN FUELING THE FRONTLINES FOR GLOBAL LGBTQI JUSTICE

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