20132013 ANNUAL ANNUAL REPORT REPORT

ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ANNUAL REPORT 2013 1 OUR MISSION: THE ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE

is the only philanthropic organization working exclusively to advance LGBTQI human rights around the globe. We support hundreds of brilliant and brave grantee partners in the U.S. and internationally who challenge oppression and seed change. We work for racial, economic, social, and gender justice, because we all deserve to live our lives freely, without fear, and with dignity.

building a movement: 04 the toolS for global change 12 2013 grantee partnerS

supporting activists: 06 Grantee partners 16 giving at astraea

creating partnerships: 08 philanthropic advocacy 22 FINANCIAL STATEMENT

changing hearts and minds: 10 arts and cultural activism 23 STAFF, BOARD & PANELS

2 Cover image and illustrations throughout this report are from Global Arts Fund grantee Alixa García’s installation “Shadow Boxing.” Read more about García’s project on page 10. Images courtesy of Alixa García. Providing activists on the ground with the tools Dear Friend, they need

The world stands at a true tipping point with Our support goes directly to the people taking a stand regard to LGBTQI rights. for LGBTQI equality. We supply activists around the world with funding and programs that provide crucial Even as we celebrate recent legislative victories such research, training, leadership development and capacity as marriage equality, we remain vigilant of the still-dire building, connecting them to one another to share threats to LGBTQI people’s safety and well-being, as well resources and tactics. as the barriers that keep critical resources out of reach. Engaging philanthropy We know all too often it is the challenges, not the celebrations, that most immediately impact the lives of Astraea continues to lead groundbreaking initiatives such LGBTQI individuals, especially women, youth, trans* as the Global Philanthropy Project (GPP) and the LGBTQ people, and people of color. Racial Justice Fund. GPP aims to increase resources for LGBTI issues globally while building the knowledge, skills, For 36 years, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for and capacity of the world’s foremost foundations, while Justice has been busy building a movement that the LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund develops and strengthens advances human rights for all. strategic efforts to effectively address the needs of We connect activists, communities, and individuals LGBTQ communities of color. We couldn’t be happier to to critical resources, and to each other, through have these unique funds and partnerships managed by grantmaking, capacity building, arts advocacy, and the talented staff here at Astraea. technology initiatives. Thanks to you, the impact of our work has now been felt To build a truly cross-border movement for LGBTQI across 81 countries and 43 states, and we continue to human rights, we invest our resources for maximum put in place the building blocks for sustainable change. impact in the following areas: Last year, we granted over $1.5 million across the US and Shifting discriminatory attitudes & behaviors internationally to grantee partners serving the LGBTQI community, raising our historic grantmaking totals to Changing attitudes and behaviors begins with taking $18 million. down barriers to LGBTQI equality. With the launch of the Global Arts Fund, Astraea continues to amplify We thank you for your invaluable support in sustaining LGBTQI voices and experiences through arts and and expanding the mission and vision of Astraea and cultural activism. Next year, one of our first Global Arts helping to build a movement that advances human rights Fund grantees, Guyana-based artist Ulelli Verbeke, will for all. exhibit her provocative photography and story series With warmest regards, on queer Caribbean migrants in New York, Toronto, and Guyana.

Amplifying voices of activists Miriam Zoila Pérez J. Bob Alotta Board Chair Executive Director While marginalized, LGBTQI grassroots leaders drive lasting change and impact in the fight for inclusion and rights protections. They best understand and can untangle multiple forces at work: systemic discrimination, socio-economic and legal exclusion, trauma, and violence. Astraea works hand-in-hand with myriad grantee partners because we know they are best positioned to create the world we want to see.

LGBTQI is the inclusive term Astraea uses to refer to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, Queer, and Intersex communities. 3 *Trans is the inclusive term used to refer to all of the identities within the gender identity spectrum. Have you seen it? A movement is building, piece by piece.

Standing at the frontlines.

We bring fuel to a powerful grassroots movement of LGBTQI organizations and activists working in some of the most challenging environments on the planet.

• A pioneer in LGBTQI grantmaking, Astraea and its donors have awarded over $18 million to thousands of brave grantee partners on the frontlines of social change

4 BUILDING A MOVEMENT: THE TOOLS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE Enhancing investment Shifting discriminatory in LGBTQI rights. attitudes and behaviors.

We work to end the financial inequities LGBTQI We work to seed change in hearts and minds through the organizations around the world face by creating arts, media and communications. opportunity for philanthropic education and reversing disparate flows of capital to our communities. • A pioneer in supporting LGBTQI artists, researchers and writers, Astraea grantee partners are taking the • A leader in LGBTQI donor collaboration, Astraea conversation on LGBTQI human rights to global levels fosters fund development and education opportunities that support equal access, equal • Astraea’s media and communications trainings empower protection, and self-determination for us all grantee partners and allied organizations to tell their own stories and gain media-making strategy

ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ANNUAL REPORT 2013 5 It starts when one person Astraea Grantee Partner: Iranti-Org Johannesburg, South Africa stands up for Justice Jabulani C. Pereira, Co-founder

Less than two years since its founding, Iranti-Org, a lesbian, Supporting hundreds transgender, and intersex media advocacy organization of grantee partners based in Johannesburg, has already dramatically impacted LGBTQI activism in South Africa and surrounding countries. across the world Faced with sensationalist media reporting on regional LGBTQI human rights violations, Iranti-Org called an As the first foundation in the world to exclusively support ethical media strategy into action. Among many media LGBTQI human rights and the first public foundation in interventions, Iranti-Org uses video, photography, and the U.S. to support international LGBTQI issues, Astraea audio recording to document queer stories and destabilize Foundation has been at the forefront of a powerful global discrimination based on gender, sexuality, and sexual movement since 1977. orientation. Iranti-Org also strategically engages the police, journalists, and international allies in hate crime Moving LGBTQI rights forward requires providing critical monitoring to protect and advance LGBTQI rights. resources to organizations when they are just getting started. Our funding provides crucial, and often the first, Last year, Iranti-Org secured the passage of a resolution by support to our grantee partners working in some of the the European Union parliament holding the South African world’s most challenging environments. Last year, we government accountable for addressing hate crimes provided $1,599,859 in grants to 136 grantee partners against LGBTQI people and dismantling delays on hate across 31 countries. crimes investigations and prosecutions. In the face of heightened violence, fueled by waves of fundamentalist backlash and censorship, Astraea’s brave and bold grantee partners made great strides this year, securing legislative advances for increased access to healthcare, gender identity recognition, and the decriminalization of same-sex relations.

Using media advocacy, arts practices, coalition-building, youth-led initiatives, and on the ground activism, these groups brought LGBTQI human rights to the forefront in conversations about immigration justice, hate crime legislation and more.

6 supporting activists: Grantee partners

Photo by Bridget de Gersigny. Streetwise and Safe youth leaders rally with Communities United for Police Reform in New York City to ban racial and other discriminatory profiling by the police. Photo courtesy of Streetwise and Safe.

Astraea Grantee Partners at Work

Whether our grantee partners are fighting against collaboration between California police and national violence, taking action to monitor and shut down immigration enforcement, reducing a major source of forcible conversion clinics, or using film, theater and new deportations. visual art to bring light to LGBTQI perspectives, Astraea remains committed to supporting those whose progress In Illinois, Affinity Community Services rallied secures real change for all of us. the Chicago community into political action, bridging dialogue between LGBTQ Black American and immigrant In 2013, many of our grantee partners stood at the communities, and exposing the dangers of excluding forefront of crucial movements that significantly LGBTQ and African immigrants from proposed advanced human rights. immigration reform legislation.

In California, the Immigrant Youth Coalition and In Ecuador, Fundación Causana continues its march California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance to shut down lesbian conversion and torture clinics, organized undocumented LGBTQI youth leaders to aiding in the forced shutdown of 50 such facilities. Of increase visibility of undocumented immigrants. Through the 315 that still exist in Ecuador, Fundación Causana these alliances, groups stepped up local campaigns continues to perform rescue missions of detainees, and and testified to their experiences in a series of sit-ins, fights for justice in the courts and policy change on a marches, and poetry readings. Ultimately, the groups national level. built coalitions and began touring statewide on the “Undocubus,” attending press conferences and engaging These are just a few of the frontliners who stand up for in media outlets across California. Their efforts secured justice every day, for all of us. passage of the Trust Act, critical legislation that now limits

ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ANNUAL REPORT 2013 7 And GiveS StrengtH TO VOICE

Increasing funding to LGBTQI DONOR PARTNER & ACTIVIST: NAA HAMMOND Naa Hammond has been a donor partner to Astraea organizations and since 2012 but shares a long-standing connection to the foundation. “When I give to Astraea,” Naa says, “I’m initiatives worldwide giving towards the world we wish to see.” In her home country, Astraea was one of the first funders to Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe—a lifeline organization that was Did you know that funding for LGBTQI issues accounts for invaluable to Naa growing up. Now living in New York only 0.26% of the nearly $45 billion granted annually? City, she is a staff member and former youth member at That’s just 26 cents of every $100 invested.1 Furthermore, FIERCE, a grantee partner building leadership and power resources for LGBTQI organizations working on the of LGBTQ youth of color. Naa reports, “I get to connect margins of mainstream issues are rapidly diminishing. our strategies and struggles in New York City with other Astraea grantees around the world.” At Astraea, we are committed to increasing funding to LGBTQI organizations and initiatives worldwide through philanthropy and education.

As the leading foundation dedicated to global LGBTQI human rights, we skillfully leverage funds to enhance investment in LGBTQI equality and build strong, lasting partnerships with individual donors, institutions and organizations. In addition to our individual partnerships, our donor collaboratives and workshops and educational opportunities for activists support new ways to strengthen dialogue and enhance LGBTQI funding.

1 The Physics of LGBTQ Funding: Momentum, Resistance & Impact. (New York: Ben Francisco Maulbeck, Funders for LGTBQ Issues, August 2013)

8 creating partnerships: philanthropic advocacy Philanthropic Advocacy at Work

Our individual, corporate and institutional donor partners The Global LGBTI Human Rights Partnership between continue to expand LGBTQI movement building across Astraea and USAID represents the largest singular the intersections of the women’s movement, economic investment by the U.S. government to increase human justice, racial justice and trans* rights. rights, accountability, and protections to LGBTI individuals worldwide. The Partnership is designed to engage Last year, donor and grantee partners participated in multiple stakeholders to bring this critical work to fruition. skill building and leadership at six strategy sessions and eighteen philanthropic advocacy events and workshops The GPP, a collaborative of major institutional funders around the globe. This included sending activists working and philanthropic advisors to global LGBTI human rights, on anti-criminalization, immigration, and safety of works to increase resources for LGBTI rights by leading LGBTQI people of color to the Grassroots Institute for philanthropic advocacy and education efforts. This year, Fundraising Training in Oakland and the Allied Media the GPP helped organize an historic meeting of bilateral Conference in Detroit. Internationally, Astraea connected government funders in Berlin. A significant first, the effort donors and LGBTQI human rights activists at the ILGA brought many new countries to the table in support of World Conference in Stockholm. At Out & Equal’s Global global LGBTI human rights. LGBT Workplace Summit, Astraea advised corporate leaders interested in LGBTQI rights to consider, above all, A third collaborative, the LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund, is the people, communities, and movements impacted by a joint initiative of funders committed to addressing the corporate presence and investment in emerging markets. needs of LGBTQ people of color in the United States. In 2013, the Fund made its first round of grants. The Fund As a philanthropic advocate, Astraea joins U.S. Agency also provides resources through technical assistance and for International Development (USAID) to lead its capacity building. historic Global LGBTI Human Rights Partnership, and has advanced the work of preeminent institutional partnerships: the Global Philanthropy Project (GPP) and the LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund—all dedicated to increasing resources for LGBTQI human rights.

ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ANNUAL REPORT 2013 9 Word Travels and Movements are Born

ILLUMINATING GLOBAL STORIES

Global Arts Fund grantee Alixa García’s installation, “Shadow Boxing,” featured in the pages of this report, is a multidimensional experience. Built as a series of motion- Changing Hearts sensitive lightboxes, parts of the installation illuminate as visitors approach, revealing portraits of queer artists, and Minds activists, social justice workers, writers, thinkers, and religious leaders from around the globe. García’s interactive Astraea is committed to supporting art and leveraging work highlights stories of love and survival from LGBTQI media and communications networks to amplify immigrant lives. LGBTQI voices, spark a global conversation, shift cultural and social attitudes, and take down the barriers to LGBTQI equality.

Whether it is through disseminating crucial research studies, igniting dialogue through social media or making grants to individual artists, Astraea works every day to strengthen movement building through communication.

To date, Astraea has invested almost $4 million to support over 500 individuals and organizations using art as a viable tool for social change. In addition, upcoming communications and technology labs will provide grantee partners with the tools they need to achieve change.

Illustration from “Shadow Boxing.” Images courtesy of 10 changing hearts and minds: arts and cultural activism Alixa García. Activists and artists stage a public art installation during Johannesburg People’s Pride in 2013 to demand freedom from violence. Photo by Gugu Mandla.

The Power of Art and Communication at Work

This year’s Global Arts Fund continues Astraea’s 22-year impact; conducted landscape analyses detailing the legacy of supporting visual artists, writers, filmmakers, legal, lived, and cultural conditions of LGBTI people; and and arts organizations fighting for justice. The fund’s convened 30 media and technology leaders working inaugural theme, migration, connected impactful art by alongside human rights activists to envision global individuals and groups across the U.S. and the Global media and technology initiatives beneficial to our East and South, tracing past and present histories grantee partners’ work. This work will help Astraea to of migration and stories of resistance from queer scale up and deepen support to LGBTI movements in immigrants. Additionally this year, Astraea hosted or key regions in the Partnerships’ next phase—providing sponsored 13 film screenings, book readings, and other unprecedented cross-border partnerships for many arts events, including gatherings with grantee partners grantee partners. from Shanghai, Beijing, and Jerusalem.

Laying the groundwork for a multi-year grantee partner communications endeavor, last year Astraea identified key USAID Partnership countries and sub-regions where grantee partners have seeded opportunities for lasting

ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ANNUAL REPORT 2013 11 PARTNERS ON THE FRONTLINES In 2013, Astraea awarded over $1.5 million to 136 grantees in 31 countries. 20% of the total number of groups funded this year were new to Astraea.

Affinity Community Services Chicago, IL affinity95.org 2013 Grants Awarded Agisanang Domestic Abuse Prevention and Training (ADAPT) By Issue Area Johannesburg, South Africa

Aireana - Grupo por los Derechos de las Astraea supports multi-issue movement building. While Lesbianas Asuncion, Paraguay each grant awarded this year fell in one issue area, our aireana.org.py grantee partners’ work addresses multiple themes.

Alixa J. Garcia Brooklyn, NY HUBS & alQaws for Sexual and Gender NETWORKS Diversity in Palestinian Society 10% Jerusalem, Israel Multi-Year 25% alqaws.org ANTI-CRIMALIZATION & 21% FREEDOM FROM VIOLENCE Arizona Queer Undocumented ARTS & Immigrant Project (AZ-QUIP) CULTURAL ACTIVISM Phoenix, AZ TRANS* HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTIONS Comunidad Mujeres Creando Comunidad 13% La Paz, Bolivia 16% mujerescreandocomunidad.blogspot.com RACIAL JUSTICE 15% Aswat - Palestinian Gay Women ECONOMIC Haifa, Israel JUSTICE Multi-Year aswatgroup.org/en

Audre Lorde Project New York, NY Astraea distributed $513,559 to BreakOut! New Orleans, LA international organizations and Multi-Year youthbreakout.org $1,086,300 to national organizations.

12 2013 GRANTEE PARTNERS Multi-Year indicates multi-year grantee partners whose funding continued through 2012–2013. Brown Boi Project El/La Para Translatinas Gender JUST Oakland, CA San Francisco, CA Chicago, IL brownboiproject.org ellaparatranslatinas.yolasite.com Gender Justice Los Angeles California Immigrant Youth Erika Vivianna Céspedes Los Angeles, CA Justice Alliance (CIYJA) Oakland, CA gjla.org Los Angeles, CAUS Skip’s Sappho Award Multi-Year ciyja.wordpress.com Lynn Campbell Memorial Fund Award Partial Support for Astraea’s Global Arts Fund Cayetana Salao is provided by Skip’s Sappho Fund. In honor of Gender/Sexuality Rights Quito, Ecuador lesbian artist and Astraea supporter Skip Neal, Association of Taiwan the fund supports artists located west of the NEWMR Fund Award Taipei, Taiwan Mississippi River. Multi-Year China Queer Independent Films Femme en Action Contre Beijing, China la Stigmatisation el la The first Global Arts Fund grantmaking Discrimination Sexuelle (FACSDIS) Chinese Lala Alliance cycle awarded $55,000 to 6 U.S. based artists Port au Prince, Haiti Beijing, China and 5 artists and collectives in Latin America facsdis.blogspot.com and China. Colectiva Siluetas FIERCE Guatemala City, Guatemala New York, NY colectivasiluetas.blogspot.com Grassroots Institute for fiercenyc.org Fundraising Training (GIFT) Colombia Diversa Oakland, CA Free Gender Bogota, Colombia grassrootsfundraising.org Cape Town, South Africa Multi-Year GRIOT Circle Freedom and Roam Uganda (FAR-UG) Comunidad Diversidad Brooklyn, NY Kampala, Uganda La Paz, Bolivia faruganda.org Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudio Common Language Formación y Acción Feminista (GLEFAS) Freedom Inc. Beijing, China Bogotá, Colombia Madison, WI Multi-Year glefas.org aboutfreedominc.com Community United Against Grupo Safo Fundación de Desarrollo Humano Violence (CUAV) Managua, Nicaragua Integral CAUSANA San Francisco, CA gruposafo.doblementemujer.org Quito, Ecuador Multi-Year Multi-Year cuav.org Guang Zhou Sinner-B GuangZhou, China Funders for LGBTQ Issues Different Avenues New York, NY Washington, DC Immigrant Youth Coalition (IYC) lgbtfunders.org Los Angeles, CA Disability Funders Network theiyc.org GALANG Philippines, Inc Midlothian, VA Quezon City, Philippines disabilityfunders.org Instituto Runa de Desarrollo galangphilippines.org y Estudios sobre Género DJ Lynnée Denise Lima, Peru Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) Marietta, GA Multi-Year Johannesburg, South Africa runa.org.pe gala.co.za Dunia Kita Hong Kong, China Interaction Institute Gay & Lesbian Victory Institute dunikitahk.blogspot.com for Social Change Washington, DC Boston, MA victoryinstitute.org/home EDGE Funders Alliance interactioninstitute.org San Francisco, CA Gayten-LGBT, Center for Promotion edgefunders.org International Gay and Lesbian of LGBTIQ Human Rights Human Rights Commission Belgrade, Serbia New York, NY transserbia.org iglhrc.org

ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ANNUAL REPORT 2013 13 International Human Rights Making Money Make Change Queers for Economic Justice Funders Group New York, NY New York, NY New York, NY makingmoneymakechange.org q4ej.org ihrfg.org Management Assistance Group Red Lésbica ‘CATTRACHAS’ International Network of Women’s Funds Washington, DC Tegucigalpa, Honduras Mexico City, Mexico managementassistance.org calala.org inwf.org Movimiento de Acción Lésbica Feminista Rromnjako Ilo Intersections International Aguascalientes, Mexico Novi Becej, Serbia New York, NY elmaldeaguascalientes.blogspot.com intersectionsinternational.org Santamaria Fundación GLBT Mujeres Al Borde Cali, Colombia Bogota, Colombia sfcolombia.org mujeresalborde.org 76% of our grants were made to Sappho for Equality General Support Mujeres Y Cultura Subterránea, A.C. Kolkata, India Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico sapphokolkata.org 75% of our core** grants went to queer women’s organizations and projects Mulabi - Espacio Latinoamericano Sayoni 20% of our core** grants went to trans* de Sexualidades y Derechos Singapore, Singapore organizations and projects Guadalupe, Costa Rica sayoni.com mulabi.org Shanghai Nvai LBT Organisation National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Shanghai, China Iranti-Org Alliance (NQAPIA) Johannesburg, South Africa New York, NY Side by Side LGBT International iranti-org.co.za nqapia.org Film Festival Saint Petersburg, Russia Istanbul LGBTT Nutongxueshe (NTXS) bok-o-bok.ru Istanbul, Turkey Hong Kong, China istanbul-lgbtt.net leslovestudy.com Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, Organización de Transexuales por la Georgetown, Guyana All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG) Dignidad de la Diversidad sasod.org.gy Kingston, Jamaica Rancagua, Chile jflag.org transexualesdechile.org Southerners on New Ground Atlanta, GA Jolie D. Harris Organización Trans Reinas de la Noche southernersonnewground.org Tahoe Vista, CA Guatemala City, Guatemala reinasdelanoche.org.gt Streetwise and Safe Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (KPH) New York, NY Warsaw, Poland Out in Africa South African Multi-Year Multi-Year Gay & Lesbian Film Festival streetwiseandsafe.org Cape Town, South Africa les+ workshop oia.co.za Sunflower LGBT-Hangzhou Beijing, China Hang Zhou, China Pembe Hayat LGBTT Dayanisma Dernegi Lesbian Organization Rijeka LORI Ankara, Turkey Taijhet Nyobi Rockett Rijeka, Croatia pembehayat.org Oakland, CA lori.hr Emerging Lesbian Writers Award Providence Youth Student soundcloud.com/nyobi Lesbianas Independientes Movement (PrYSM) Feministas y Socialistas Providence, RI Trans Bantu Association of Zambia Lima, Peru Multi-Year Lusaka, Zambia Multi-Year prysm.us lifsperu.org Transgender and Intersex Africa Queer African Youth Network (QAYN) Pretoria, South Africa Maiana Minahal Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Honolulu, HI qayn-center.org

14 2013 GRANTEE PARTNERS Multi-Year indicates multi-year grantee partners whose funding continued through 2012–2013. Transgender Resource Center Grameen Foundation Lesbian Herstory Archives Hong Kong, China Washington, DC Brooklyn, NY tgr.org.hk grameenfoundation.org lesbianherstoryarchives.org

Transgender, Gender Variant, Green Bronx Machine International National Center for Lesbian Rights and Intersex Justice Project Bronx, NY San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA greenbronxmachine.com tgijp.org National Women’s Health Network North Fork Women for Women Fund Washington, DC TransLatin@ Coalition Greenport, NY nwhn.org Los Angeles, CA nfwfwf.net translatinacoalition.org The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Project Enterprise Transgender Community Center Ulelli Verbeke Bronx, NY New York, NY Georgetown, Guyana projectenterprise.org gaycenter.org

United and Strong Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund USA Teresa Rose and Maria J. Rintrona Fund Castries, St. Lucia New York, NY Audre Lorde Project United We Dream Network Pass the Butter Fund New York, NY Washington, DC alp.org unitedwedream.org Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco Political Research Associates Women Coalition of HKSAR San Francisco, CA Somerville, MA Hong Kong, China cohsf.org politicalresearch.org Multi-Year Purple Lady Fund FIERCE Wu Han Rainbow New York, NY Wu Han, China Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network Jewish Voice for Peace Xi An RELAX Tong Xue She New York, NY Oakland, CA Xi An, China glsen.org jewishvoiceforpeace.org

Young Women’s Empowerment Project National Center for Lesbian Rights National Domestic Workers Alliance Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA New York, NY ywepchicago.wordpress.com nclrights.org domesticworkers.org

National Gay and Lesbian Donor Advised Fund Grantees Task Force Foundation Washington, DC 95% OF OUR CORE** U.S. FUNDING WENT TO Kitchen Table Giving Circle ngltf.org ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE LED BY PEOPLE OF COLOR

GRIOT Circle Parents, Families and Friends Brooklyn, NY of Lesbians and Gays griotcircle.org Washington, DC community.pflag.org Shades Retreat: Personal You Smyrna, GA Roots and Wings Fund shadesretreat.org Children’s Music Network Marsha Day Memorial Fund Arlington, MA cmnonline.org African Women’s Development Fund USA San Jose, CA Lambda Legal Defense usawdf.org and Education Fund New York, NY BRAC USA lambdalegal.org New York, NY brac.net

** “Core” grants refer to funds excluding donor-advised funds and funding from partnerships ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ANNUAL REPORT 2013 15 housed at Astraea THIS GLOBAL MOVEMENT BEGINS WITH YOU. HAND-IN-HAND “Astraea has been a strategic part of our giving for 24 years. WITH ASTRAEA, YOU As donors, we know we are part of a community and a movement that is changing the lived experiences of LGBTQI CAN HELP ACTIVISTS people every day all across the world. We are proud to see CONNECT TOOLS, Astraea build new relationships, sit at new tables, and open STRATEGIES, AND new doors.” Léonie Walker and Kate O’Hanlan RESOURCES. Donors since 1989, We Will Circle members

When you give to Astraea, you are jumpstarting opportunities around the globe. Your contributions fuel LGBTQI human rights through arts and cultural activism, movement and network building, and strategic regional connection among activists. As a donor to Astraea, you directly impact the most pressing LGBTQI concerns today, including:

• Protecting the safety of communities under attack

• Securing access to comprehensive healthcare for lesbian, trans* and intersex people

• Addressing economic disparities faced by LGBTQI people such as unemployment, homelessness, and welfare discrimination

• Supporting rights of LGBTQI migrants

16 GIVING AT ASTRAEA Attendees gather at Writeous! for a night of performances celebrating Astraea’s Lesbian Writer’s Fund and Global LGBT Arts Fund. Photo by Angela Jimenez.

Thank You Astraea is able to support activists and organizations Astraea is deeply grateful to everyone who has globally where the opportunities, the needs, and often the contributed money, time, or talent to support this work. risks, are greatest. And we could not do it without you. We have taken great care to check all names and giving Your generosity empowers change-makers all over levels in this report. We apologize for any errors, and ask the world, fostering powerful collaborations, growing that you please let us know if our records are not correct. leadership capacity, and fueling the movements and grassroots organizing required to create a world where everyone can live with dignity.

Leadership Giving Circle: Leadership Giving Circle: Endowment Fund Visionary ($25,000+) Catalyst ($10,000+) Nancy Meyer & Marc N. Weiss Arcus Foundation†‡ Anonymous (3) Nancy D. Polikoff & Cheryl Swannack Atlantic Philanthropies† Mika Albright & Renee Rueda/ARIA Emily Rosenberg & Darlene de Manincor Adam & Rachel Albright/ARIA Foundation Foundation Ted Snowdon Foundation Dreilinden gGmbH† American Jewish World Service† Reid Williams Foundation Ford Foundation†‡ Amy Laura Cahn Barbara J. Wright & Dee Kenny Gill Foundation‡ Calamus Foundation Leadership Giving Circle: Heller-Bernard Fund Susan M. Davis Ground Breaker ($5,000+) Henry van Ameringen Foundation M. Quinn Delaney & Wayne D. Jordan Amy Mandel & Katina Rodis/Morton and Michael Field & Jeff Arnstein Anonymous (2) Barbara Mandel Family Foundation Fund for Global Human Rights† Nancy Lynn Baker & Cathy Hauer Open Society Foundations† Tracy Gary & Inka von Sternenfels/Kismet Meg Coward & Sarah Schwartz Sax/ Denise Sobel Fund/Triskeles Foundation Jersey Foundation Naomi Sobel Institute of International Education HCROA: A CFC Human and Civil Starry Night Fund Kicking Assets Fund/Tides Foundation Rights Federation Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Daniel J. Lee HIVOS† Barbara Meislin/Jewish Community Trish Houck & Lyssa Jenkens

† Global Philanthropy Project member ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ANNUAL REPORT 2013 17 ‡ LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund member Mama Cash† Léonie Walker & Dr. Kate O’Hanlan/ Company • Estelle Weyl • E. Frances White • Dr. Diane Mosbacher & Nanette Gartrell/ O’Hanlan-Walker LGBT Equality Fund/ Juliet Widoff & Jackie Woodson • Doreena P. Under 1 Fund/Horizons Foundation Horizons Foundation Wong & Jennifer C. Pizer • Margot P. Yapp & Susan Penick/Albert Penick Fund Joan W. Watts Koko P. Lin Nitika Raj Karen B. Zelermyer & Tami Gold John & Mary Taylor Partners (Up to $499) Associate ($500+) Anonymous (44) • Patricia Ackerman • Karen † Global Philanthropy Project member Anonymous (9) • Jamie Allison • Linda Akunowicz & LJ Johnson • Gregory Alexander ‡ LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund member Lee Alter • Ward Auerbach & Andy Baker & Hanita Alexander • Joseph Alexander • Leadership Giving Circle: • Miriam Barnard & Melea Seward • Jim Linda Allen • Marlene Alotta • Sylvia W. Advocate ($1,500+) Bennett & Terry Vanden Hoek • Jennifer Brier Alpert • Barrak Alzaid • Linda Anderson • & Kathryn Hindmand • Arlene E. Bronstein Kay Andrzejak • Angela Jimenez Photography Anonymous (2) • Victoria C. Brush • Karen Burkhardt/K.O. • Joey Apodaca • Mimi Arbeit • Cynthia J. Bob Alotta & Toshi Reagon Burkhardt Fund • Sarah Buttenwieser & Armine • Matthew Aubrey • Dr. Sharon L. Carol B. Alpert Hosea Baskin • Evette Cardona & Mona Aukerman • Jill Austin • Charlotte L. Avery & Susan S. Allee & Karen Krahulik Noriega • Emily Carter & Meg Leary • Merle Arden Eversmeyer • Mary Ayres & Merrill Estate of David P. Becker Chambers/Chambers Family Fund • Alexandra Black • Maura Bairley • Alberto Balestrieri • Charlotte Bunch & Roxanna M. Carrillo Chasin/Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors • Monica Barron • Lenore Beaky • Joseangel Maria Cadenas/Cream City Foundation Elizabeth Conant & Camille Cox/Community Bedoya • Lars Bedurke • Alliot Belgrave • Nivea Castro Foundation for Greater Buffalo • Jeanne Berlin-Gerber Partners Fund/Fidelity Cathy J. Cohen & Beth Richie Cordova & Lynn H. Ballen • Brenda Crawford Charitable Gift Fund • Dr. Linda Bernhard • Kobi Conaway & Andrew Owen • Nancy E. Cunningham • Martina Downey & Jennifer Bernheim • Tamiko Beyer & Kian Goh Theodora Yang Copley Tawanna Sullivan • Deborah Drysdale Fund/ • Douglas Bigham & Shawn Law • Larry Laurie Emrich & Gael Murphy/Tet Ansanm Women’s Foundation of California • Marta Bilick & Netsy Firestein • Michelle Billies • Fund/Tides Foundation Drury & Kerry Lobel/girls just wanna have Beth Black • Stephanie K. Blackwood • Lukas Miles Goff funD/Horizons Foundation • Rosalind Dutton Blakk & Jennifer Worley • Michelle Sue Goldwomon & Jill Gates Smith • Ezra Estes • Megan Blankenship • Terry L. Boggis • Laura Reverend Jan Griesinger Fannin • Patricia M. Fontaine • Gillian Francis Bollettino • Elsie Bolton • Gary W. Booher • James C. Hormel & Sarah Salm • Jean Hardisty/JVH Fund • Pan Rod Boren • Debra Borkovitz • Sandy Boucher Xylor Jane Haskins • Katherine Hawes • Alice Y. Hom • Diann Bowoman • Bill Bragin & Lisa Philp • Michelle Kweder & Denise Gorayeb • Emily D. Howe • Carol Jaspin & Rhonda Martha E. Brandwene & Rita M. McWilliams • Nancy Levit & Cathy Underwood/Fidelity Santamour • Laura I. Kramer & Deborrah Dr. Judith V. Branzburg & Amy Ryan • Stephen Charitable Gift Fund Markette • Andrew D. Lane • Terry Lawler & Brier • Eugenia Brooks • Bernadette J. Live Oak Fund/Horizons Foundation Chris Straayer • Tina Lear & Elena Terrone • Brooten • Consuella Brown • Nancy Sue Lynda Hart Memorial Fund Jonathan Lehman & Zachary Huelsing/New Brown • Shoshanah Brown • Gilda Bruckman Marsha Day Memorial Fund Prospect Foundation • Diane K. Lincoln • & Judith T. Wachs • Naomi Brussel • Sangeeta Jane Clayton Oakes & Joa Dattilo Mildred Murphy • Ragnar D. Naess & David Budhiraja & Rox Etheridge • Paul Buono & Amy K. Posner Charles • Mirta Ocana • Eleanor Palacios • David R. Conchado • Florie M. Burke • Judi Purple Lady Fund Tanya Paperny • Miriam Zoila Pérez • Kay Burle & Bunny Olsen • Sarah Bush • Eliza S. Sharon Rich & Nancy Reed/The Daughters F. Quam & Jo Leir • Esther Saks • Jane M. Byard • Patricia & Thomas Byrne • Ruth Fund-Combined Jewish Philanthropies Saks & Emma Ruby-Sachs • Jean Saul • Lisa Callard • Kiebpoli Calnek • Mary & Warren of Greater Boston Sbrana • Nan Schwanfelder • Bev A. Scott Campbell • Jennifer Camper • Jenna Capeci Right Action Fund & Courtney • Michael S. Seltzer & Ralph G. • Mary Ellen S. Capek & Susan Hallgarth • Roots and Wings Fund Tachuk • Ellen Shapiro & Carol L. Page • Mona C. Cardell & Berta Britz • Joan T. Casale Eve Rosahn Rosalind Shapiro • Jane M. Simoni & Karina L. • Kevin Cathcart • Lorraine M. Cetto • Karen Robin Rosenbluth & Tracy Scott Walters • Adam Sobel • Sulica Fund • Colleen Chang • Win Chesson • Dennis Chin • Prajna Diane Sabin & Jewelle Gomez & Geoff Tate/Tate Family Fund • Jill Tinmouth Choudhury & Ang Hadwin • Jil Clark • Eileen Mary Beth Salerno & Denise Kleis • United Way of New York City • Urvashi B. Cohen • Constance Cohrt & Amy Reichman Susan B. Sasser Vaid & Kate Clinton • Judene Walden & Rose • Allison Coleman • Carolyn Confer • A. Sparks/Sparks Fund for Equity and Sias • Kirk Wallace & Mark Sexton Fund/ Jacqueline L. Cook • Khushnuma Cooper • Innovation/Horizons Foundation Stonewall Community Foundation • Susan Juliette Corazon • Theresa Corrigan • Dawn Beth Stephens & Elly Bulkin Wefald & Fred Doolittle • Weller Investment E. Costick • Gail Cowie • Victoria Crossman • Underdog Fund/Tides Foundation

18 GIVING AT ASTRAEA Nicola Curtin • Ann Cvetkovich • Ryan Li Jessica Hoffman • Hope Credit Union • Services • Susan Nowelsky • Achy Obejas & Dahlstrom • Katherine D’Amato & Darcy Michelle Horan • Arcelia Hurtado • Sel Julian Megan Bayles • Genevieve Erin O’Brien • Baxter • Bhavani Daryanani • Dana Davis • Hwahng • Theresa Hwang & Jay Papisan • Patricia O’Brien • Kathleen Omara & Liz Trishala Deb • Mikki Del Monico • Cristi Michelle W. Hyde • Abbie Illenberger • Maya Morrish • Rosa Yadira Ortiz • Ben Owen • Delgado • Margaret R. Dellenbaugh • Pamela Iwata • Janyce Jackson • Michael P. Jacobs & Sharon E. Owens • Palladino and Koteen Devan • Barbara J. DiBernard & Judith Gibson John Calhoun • Elena Jaime • Linda Jane • Family Fund/Advisor Charitable Gift Fund • • Amy Dixon • D’Lo • Jill Dolan • Sarah Jonathan Jarry • Chai Jindasurat • Charlene Allison Palmer • Janet Parrish • Janet Paskin Dougan • Adisa Douglas • The Honorable Johnson & Ashlie Maxwell • Alexis Johnson • & Jennifer Friedman • Radha Patel • Judith A. Thomas K. Duane • Willard Dumas • Lynn A. Johnson • Linda Joplin • Lynne Joyrich Patrick • Lisa Ceron Pepe • Susan Perley • Katherine B. Durgin & Elaine McKinley • Mary • Rachel Kahn • Jocelyn Kaplan • Reena Rosalind Petchesky • Maria Petulla • Barbara Ann Dutton & Jean Veta • Debra J. East • Karani • Ellyn Kaschak • J. Kehaulani Kauanui Phillips • Penelope Philpot & Stephanie Judith Ebert • Julie Eckenwalder • Jennifer • Michelle Kaye • Barbara Keefe • Sheila Covington • Afi Phoebe • Sally Pick/Chicago Edwards • Rachel Efron, Ph.D. • Hilla P. Elkind Kelly & Carol Friedland • Gayle Kenny • Community Foundation • Tiina Piirsoo • • Eve Ellis & Annette Niemtzow • Alyce C. Marjorie Dove Kent • Ted Kerr • Mai Kiang • Karen Plafker • Nancy Platzer • Anne Pollock Emory • Pat Eng • Marta Esquilin • Rachel Dr. Deirdre Kidder • Karen Kinney • Deanna & Maital Dar • Elin Posner • Starr Potts • Esquilin • Cindy B. Ewing & Luchie Ticzon • Kitamura • Sidney & Rachelle Kivanoski • Achebe B. Powell • Linda Preuss • Lauren Justin Fahey • Alan Farley • Tucker Pamella Jennie and John Kixmiller • Kim Klausner • Price • Gloria Ramirez • Gayatri Rao & S. Dip Farley • James M. Fauntleroy • Ariel Federow Valerie Klemme • Delores M. Komar & Susan • Uma Rao • Imani Rashid • Rosemary • Edrie Ferdun & Jan Felshin • Ann Ferguson M. Wolford • Donna A. Korones • Jeanne Rasmussen • Lisa J. Reeves • Frances K. Reid & Carol Shea • Senka Filipovic & Juanita Erb Kracher • Theodora S. Kramer • Jennifer & Deborah Hoffman • Resources for Change • William Filler • Nita Firestone & Jane R. Krauel • Tania Kravath & Carolyn Chadwick • • Dulce Reyes • Mel Ribas & Danielle Hoelter Bailey • Helen Fitzsimmons & Laura Mamo • Susan Kravitz • Kula Causes • Frances • Linda Rice & Candice Boyce • Amy J. Cheryl D. Fleming • Anel Ivonne Flores & Kunreuther & Ann S. Holder • Daisy Lalwani • Robinson • Brandi Robinson • Sandra J. Erika Casasola • Cynthia Flynn/Fidelity Marilyn Lamkay • Sara Langen • Sam Larson Robinson & Juanita Deans • Alfred Roca • Charitable Gift Fund • Dwight Foley • Jane E. • Marilyn Leavitt • Gina Lee • Martha Legare Renea Romesberg • Mary Ann M. Rose • Foote & John M. Tartaglia • Trudy Foote • Kim • Todd Lester • Adam E. Levine • Ruth A. Penny Rosenwasser • Amie Ross • Johanika L. Ford • Brad Fox • Jason Franklin • Keisha Levine • Susan Levinkind • Rebecca Levison Roth • Stephanie Roth • Stephanie L. Roth & Franklin • Lisa A. Freeman & Heather & Kathleen Sullivan • Katya Levitan-Reiner & Kimberly Klein • Jessica Rothberg & Melanie Schmucker • Susana T. Fried & Debra Rebecca Wisotsky • Mike Lew & Thom Hope • Cynthia Rothschild • Amber Royster • Liebowitz • Rachel Friedman • Yen-Ping Fu & Harrigan • Robin Lewis • Mary T. Li & Becky Carrie Eberhardy • Russek & Andra Russek • ChienYing Yang • Marilyn Fuller • Cynthia E. Kennedy • Ali Liebegott • Ruth Lipschutz • Dani Ryan • Frances Ann Ryan • Margaret Funk & Janice Kuhagen • Marcie Gallo • Tracey Little • Jarrett Lucas • Andrea R. Lurie Amy Ryan & Judith V. Branzburg • Lisa Linda Garber • Jennifer Gardner • Linda & Nancy Rosen • Andi Lyons & Janka Bialek • Salmons & Lynn Krebs • Ronnie Sandler • Garnets • Ellen C. Geiger • Bonnie Genevich Lydia Mann • Amy Marciano • Ilona Margiotta Diana Sands • Curtis & Cheryl Sawyer • • Keedra Gibba • Ilsa Gilbert • The Girls’ • Cheryl Marland • Bill Martin & Antoinette Ronora Sayaman • Janice Schachter • Teresa Middle School • Amanda Goad & Margaret Laferriere • Lauren Martin • Gitadinda E. Scherzer • Charles B. Schewene • Margaret Moser • Alvia Golden & Carroll Smith- Martohardjono • Tony Marzani & Harry J. Schonfield & D. Merilee Clunis • Barbara Rosenberg • Letitia A. Gomez • Karen Good Schroder • Catharine E. May • Georgia Schulman • Dara L. Schur • Kevin • Morgan Goode • Sara Gould & Rick Surpin McCreery & Andrew Lamond • Emma Schwanfelder • Richard Schwartz • Tuti B. • Meg Gouraud • Vernita Gray & Patricia McIntyre • Kathleen McLane • Lauren Clyne Scott • Janice Sears & Ellen Alpert • Karen R. Ewert • Sharon Gregory • Dustin Guzior • Medley & Phil Medley • Felicia Mednick • Sebastian • Audrey Seidman • Bret Sepulveda Sharon Haar • Amanda Haas • Aden Hakimi Karla Mejia • Adrienne J. Mennis • Elizabeth • Beldan Sezen • Dr. Eugene C. Sheeley • • Jessica Halem & Jen Manion • Katy Hall • A. Meyer • Florence Meyer • Allison Miller • Dixie M. Sheridan • Jerald Paul Shing & Naa Hammond • Eileen Hamper • Denise L. Jacqueline I. Mirkin & Edie F. Daly • Allyson Duane Diviney • Sadia Shirazi • Alix Kates Harding • Christopher M. Harris • Elizabeth Mitchell • Kate Mitchell • Glynis Moody & Shulman & Scott York • Michael D. Siever • Hartline • Carol Sue Hedtcke & Katherine F. Jacky L. Hardy • Marlon Racquel Moore • Alexandra Silets • Laurie Silverman & Betty Carmichael • Rebecca S. Hemperly • Suzanne Paul Morejón & Teddy Phillips • Mary F. Mayo • Charles Silverstein • Mitch Singer • Hendrich • Karen Herzenberg & Katie Rooney Morten & Willa Taylor • Movement Strategy Naomi Skoglund • Helen Smiler & Marlene • Eva Herzer • Susan J. Hessel & Karen Dahle Center • NeeCee Murphy • Heidi Murray • Johnson • Deborah A. Smith • Leslie E. Smith • Susan R. Hester • Karen Higgins & Jack Benjamin Myhre • Bhavini Naik • Kyoko • Valerie Smith • Elizabeth Snow & Pat Cohen Higgins • Ginger Hintz • Amy E. Hirsch & Nakamaru • Gail Nalven & Patricia S. Rudden • J.C. Sobel • Myra Sobel & Charles Sobel • Jessica M. Robbins • Jody L. Hirsh & Denise • Betsy Narvaez • Nancy Nauman • Carol O. Cynthia Solie • Randi M. Solomon & Julia R. LeVan • Debra Hirshberg & Jamie L. Hecker • Newhouse • Northeast Mobile Health Cohen • Karen Song • Jessie Spector • Carol

ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ANNUAL REPORT 2013 19 Spelkoman & Carol Underwood • Tova D. Miles Goff Matching Gifts Stabin & Anne Miller • Wendy Stark • Linda Heather Golden Anonymous Stein & Helen Hardacre • Inez Sternenfels • Stephanie Hall & Zephyr Elise Aon Foundation Rebecca Stilling & Jean Reeves • Sarah Alice Y. Hom Ford Foundation Stranahan • Margie E. Struble & Christina Marilyn Lamkay Johnson Family Foundation Solari • Bruce Sturzl • Natasha Suelflow • Aaron Laxton & Clayton Robbins JP-Morgan Chase Foundation Tawanna Sullivan & Martina Downey • Stacey Katya Levitan-Reiner Levi Strauss Foundation Sutton • Chiemi Suzuki • Arlene Swartz • Jordan Lockman Oracle Brian Tate • Anne D. Taylor • Bridget Taylor • Margaret Martin Pearson Alexandra Teixeira • Noma Thayer • Reverend Kat McGurk S.H. Cowell Foundation Paul K. Thomas • Victor Tobar • Nancy Toder Marla Meislin & Tiffany McIndoe United Way of New York City • Myrna S. Tortorello • Traub-Dicker Fund/ Our Michfest family Stonewall Community Foundation • Carla Louise Moore Donor Advised Funds Trujillo & Leslie Larson • Barbara J. Turk • Meryl Natchez Judith Turkel • Kay Turner • Scott Turner • Jill Annie Nettes & Marj Snyder Heller-Bernard Fund B. Uhlfelder • United Health Group • United Carol Newhouse & Annie Hershey’s Marsha Day Memorial Fund Way of New Mexico • Dona Upson • Virginia 25th anniversary Pass the Butter Fund Uribe & Gail Rolf • Denise Uyehara • Linda Carol Pepe Purple Lady Fund M. Villarosa & Jana Welch • Lisa Vogel & Lia Achebe Powell Right Action Fund Willebrand • Wendy Volkmann • Bertrand Sandra Robinson & Juanita Deans Roots and Wings Fund Wagner • Robin Wagner • Aimee R. Walker • Donna & Christy Ross Tamar Fund Lynne Wander • Sharon J. Washington • Irene Stephanie Roth Teresa Rose and Maria J. Rintrona Fund Weinstock • Judith Weisenfeld • Jessica R. Kathryn Keefe Salwen Giving Circles Weissman & Louise P. Kelley • Denise Wells & Angela Sanchez Sandoval & Eileen Hansen • Wendy Wenner & Janet P. Veronica Martinez Marignac Kitchen Table Giving Circle provides Gocheman • Kim Westheimer & Madeline M. Sarah Schulman philanthropic support to Black/African Klyne • Elise White • Jan Whiteley • Anna J. Daniel Schweitzer Descent Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Williams, Ph.D. • Jalisa Williams • Janine Tacy & Yael Silverberg-Urian and Queer (LBTQ) women-led projects and Williams • Noelle L. Williams • Akaya Sarah Sims & Mark Chesson organizations that are working to improve Windwood • Lorin A. Wiseman • Julie Wolf & Naomi Sobel the lives of Black/African LBTQ women. Cici Kinsman • Helena Wong • Deborah A. Nancy Stoller Wood & Carolyn S. Hoffman • Nina G. Wouk Beth Stephens & Elly Bulkin Donor advised funds and giving circles & Jessie Ap’Neva • Elizabeth Wright • Mark Melissa White & Mary Sawyer allow you to actively participate in grantmaking. To find out more about B. Wyn • Luna Yasui • Monona Yin & Steve Virginia Woolf-Hund how you can establish a fund at Fahrer • Judy C. Yu • Rui Bing Zheng • Jan Astraea, contact Astraea’s Development Gifts Made in Memory Of Zobel Lesbian Values Fund/Horizons team at (212) 529-8021 x814 or email Foundation • Suzanne Zuckerman • Amelie S. Rita Arditti [email protected]. Zurn & Licia Galinsky Lynn Campbell Brandon Lacy Campos Philanthropic Collaborative Initiatives Gifts Made in Honor Of Elvin Castro GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PROJECT Sunila Abeyesekera V Kingsley Katherine Acey Christopher Lee Anonymous J. Bob Alotta Rachel Long American Jewish World Service Carol Alpert Elke Mueller Arcus Foundation Chela Blitt Edith Rosenthal Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Jennie Brier Theresa Salmons Atlantic Philanthropies Laura Brown & Anne Sartoria Janice Schiaffino Dreilinden gGmbH Brittany Buckingham & Edward Gore Jean Augusta Smith Ford Foundation Sonia Crawford Shauna Steele Fund for Global Human Rights Linda Doughty Tatiana de la Tierra Hivos Roz Dutton MJ Vineburgh Mama Cash Carolyn Gage Leon L. Wolf Open Society Foundations Tracy Gary Sigrid Rausing Trust

20 GIVING AT ASTRAEA UHAI-EASHRI David P. Becker§ Stephanie L. Roth & Kimberly Klein Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Sara Berger Stephanie Roth Rights Diane L. Bernard & Joan Heller§ Dorothy E. Sander Gail S. Bernstein Sarina B. Scialabba LGBTQ RACIAL JUSTICE FUND Melanie E. Berzon Dr. Claire E. Selkurt Anonymous Sylva Billue§ Dixie M. Sheridan Arcus Foundation Evelyn Blackwood Barbara Shollar§ Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Stephanie K. Blackwood Linda Stein & Helen Hardacre Ford Foundation Elissa Breitbard Phyllis K. Steiner & Lois Fink Gill Foundation Elizabeth Bremner & Karen Crow Cindy Sterling Denslow Brown & Linda Smith Catherine Tinker Discretionary Funds B. Jean Brown§ Ann Vittala The Global Arts Fund supports, Pamela Calvert Léonie Walker & Dr. Katherine O’Hanlan showcases, and connects impactful Mary Ellen S. Capek & Susan Hallgarth Alida Walsh art by LGBTQI people and Donna Cassyd Joan W. Watts organizations with limited access Judith N. Clarke Jessica R. Weissman & Louise P. Kelley to resources that use art as a tool Rhonda Copelon§ Remsen Wolff§ for social transformation. The fund Theodora Yang Copley Mark B. Wyn supports the arts across mediums: Jeanne Cordova & Lynn H. Ballen Karen B. Zelermyer & Tami Gold video, film, poetry, fictional prose, Jennifer A. Dryfoos Jan Zobel photography, painting, performance, Sally Duplaix§ dance, theater, music, and any Rosalind Dutton & Jill Gates Smith § Deceased interdisciplinary expressions. Elana Dykewomon & Susan Levinkind special thanks to The Acey Fund honors Katherine Acey’s Tucker Pamella Farley legacy as a visionary in the social- Edrie Ferdun & Jan Felshin Carol Alpert • Joey Apodaca • Dena Batrice justice-feminist funding movement. Zeph Fishlyn • Chela Blitt • Judith Branzburg & Amy Ryan Katherine Acey served as Executive Sheila Gershen & Sy Baldwin • Liz Bremner & Karen Crow • Jennie Brier & Director of the Astraea Lesbian Dipti Ghosh & Meggy Gotuaco Kat Hindman • Charlotte Bunch & Roxanna Foundation for Justice for 23 years. Miles Goff Carillo • Collette Carter • Sam Chao • Sue Goldwomon Staceyann Chin • Jeanne Cordova & Lynn Legacy Giving Jewelle Gomez & Diane Sabin Ballen • Lucia Curiel • Ryan Li Dahlstrom • We Will is a Legacy Society for those Kristine Haglund§ Trishala Deb • Pamela Devan • Rox Etheridge who have made planned gifts and Debra Hirshberg & Jamie L. Hecker • Senka Filipovic • Brenda Funches • Chitra bequests to Astraea. Members’ legacy Nona Hungate Ganesh • Miles Goff • Liani Greaves • The gifts contribute to the sustainable Sheryl Kaplan Greene Space • Stephanie Hall • Jessica future of LGBTQI movements around Jennifer Knight & Maria J. Cartagena Hoffman • Alice Y. Hom • YK Hong • Cheryl the globe. To join We Will and Donna A. Korones Hsu • Arcelia Hurtado • Amy Kemp • Mary designate Astraea as a beneficiary Li • Syd London • DJ Lynee Denise • Lenelle of your estate, contact Astraea’s Jennifer Krauel Development team at Marilyn Lamkay Moïse • Milly Murphy • Eleanor Palacios • (212) 529-8021 x814 or email Marjorie Lightness Miriam Zoila Pérez • Tashawn Reagon • Toshi [email protected]. Karyn J. London Reagon • DJ RiMarkable • Rebecca Rolfe & Genevra K. Loveland§ Susan Mooney • Penny Rosenwasser • Karissa WE WILL CIRCLE Leonard Manheimer§ Ruck • Jane Saks & Emma Ruby-Sachs • Svati Anonymous (2) John Manzon-Santos Shah • A. Sparks • Hazel Tan • Li Tan • Noma § Kimberly Aceves Joseph Mattes Thayer • Selly Thiam • Marquita Thomas • DJ Katherine T. Acey Shaya Mercer Tikka Masala • Carmen Torres • Diep Tran • Jomal M. Alcobar Jane Clayton Oakes & Joa Dattilo Camille Travis • Urvashi Vaid • Judy Vassell Mary Alford Lily Olán • Judene Walden & Rose Sias • Mary Ann Carol B. Alpert Suzanne Pharr Wall • Dan Walmsley • Joan Watts • Doreena Ward Auerbach & Andy Baker Kay F. Quam & Jo Leir Wong & Jennifer Pizer • Jacqueline Woodson Dr. Sharon L. Aukerman Barbara Raab • Kai Yohman • Ruohan Yu • Johnny Zhang C. Edwin Baker§ Nusrat R. Rabbee, Ph.D. • Sam Zhao Joni Ross§

ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ANNUAL REPORT 2013 21 Statement of Activities for the year ending June 30, 2013 This report represents audited financials for Astraea’s fiscal year 2013.

UnrestRicted Temporarily Restricted Permanently Restricted All FundS

Support and Revenue Contributions 3,870,249 449,265 4,319,514 Investment Return 21,701 390,159 411,860 Others 142,160 142,160 Total Revenue 4,034,110 839,424 4,873,534

Expenses Program Services Grants Awarded 1,599,859 1,599,859 Other Program Services 1,494,756 1,494,756 Total Program Services 3,094,615 3,094,615

Supporting Services Management and Admin 431,125 431,125 Fundraising 398,031 398,031 Total Supporting Services 829,156 829,156

Total Expenses 3,923,771 3,923,771 Changes in Net Assets 110,339 839,424 949,763 Net Assets as of June 30, 2012 447,236 4,678,693 2,958,315 8,084,244 Net Assets as of June 30, 2013 557,575 5,518,117 2,958,315 9,034,007

astraea 2013 expense report funding sources

11% 10% 11% 4% Program Expenses Government 10% Fundraising Expenses Individuals Administration 33% Foundations & General Expenses 79% 42% In Kind Other

22 FINANCIAL STATEMENT STAFF, BOARD & PANELS

STAFF Zahara Raine International Advisory Board List (as of January 2014) Deputy Director Anna Kirey, Kyrgyzstan J. Bob Alotta Lolan Sevilla Belissa Andía Pérez, Perú Executive Director Program Associate Bin Xu, China Jabulani Pereira, South Africa Juanita Belmar Naomi Sobel Jelena Djordjevic, Serbia Office Coordinator Donor Engagement Coordinator Kale B. Fajardo, U.S. Kemal Ordek, Turkey Michelle Blankenship Rebecca Wisotsky Kenita Placide, Saint Lucia Finance, Consultant Executive Coordinator Lepa Mladjenovic, Serbia Libay Cantor, Philippines Sangeeta Budhiraja BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lohana Berkins, Argentina Director of Programs (as of January 2014) Maria Georgina Villar, Philippines Maria Ysabel Cedaño, Perú Graham Bridgeman Miriam Pérez Marta Drury, U.S. Development Officer, Individual Giving Board Chair Miriam Molnar, U.S. Washington, DC Monica Pisankaneva, Bulgaria Namita Chad Natasha Jiménez Mata, Costa Rica Program Officer Jarrett Lucas Ochy Curiel, Colombia Vice Chair and Board Secretary Omo Akintan, Canada Michelle Clarkin New York, NY Phumi Mtetwa Yeoville, South Africa Director of Development Rauda Marcos Haifa, Israel/Palestine Wendy Stark Svati Shah, U.S. Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez Board Treasurer Tatiana Cordero, Colombia Program Officer Brooklyn, NY Wei-ting Wu, Taiwan Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso, Argentina Ariel Federow Ryan Li Dahlstrom Development Assistant Board Recruitment & Education ANNUAL REPORT TEAM Committee Chair Sarah Gunther Oakland, CA Contributors Associate Director of Programs J. Bob Alotta, Michelle Blankenship, Cynthia Rothschild Sangeeta Budhiraja, Graham Bridgeman, Denise Kleis Audit Committee Chair Namita Chad, Michelle Clarkin, Mónica Human Resources, Consultant Brooklyn, NY Enríquez-Enríquez, Ariel Federow, Sarah Gunther, Zavé Martohardjono, Joy Michael, Zavé Martohardjono Jennifer Brier Naomi Sobel & Rebecca Wisotsky Senior Communications Officer Chicago, IL Editor Joy Michael William Cordery Zavé Martohardjono Senior Accountant Seattle, WA Copy Editor Kellea Miller Arcelia Hurtado Wendy Gaudin Program Manager, Global LGBTI Human San Francisco, CA Rights Partnership, Consultant Designer Nitika Raj Six Pony Hitch Government Katherine Pease New York, NY Individuals Senior Advisor, Global LGBTI Human Rights Printer Partnership, Consultant Judene Walden Union Solidarity Graphics Foundations Brooklyn, NY In Kind Melissa Perez Junior Accountant Susan Wefald Other Brooklyn, NY

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