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2013 Annual Report 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 G RANTEE 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
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