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ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Dedicated to the Idea That People Can Live in Harmony with One Another and the Natural World ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Dedicated to the idea that people can live in harmony with one another and the natural world LEARN MORE arcus.link/mission LETTER FROM JON STRYKER 2 LETTER FROM KEVIN JENNINGS 3 SOCIAL JUSTICE 4 PULSE MASSACRE MOBILIZES UNITED STAND AGAINST VIOLENCE 6 LGBT PEOPLE OF FAITH REWRITE THE SCRIPTURE 8 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVISM FIGHTS VIOLENCE, SEEKS LEGAL SHIFTS 10 INTERSEX ACTIVISTS REACH FOR GREATER PUBLIC AWARENESS 12 GRANTS AWARDED IN 2015 SOCIAL JUSTICE PROGRAM 14 CONSERVATION 18 WORLD’S RAREST APE EVADES EXTINCTION 20 LAW ENFORCEMENT, EDUCATION LEAD TO BREAKTHROUGHS FOR ORANGUTANS 22 COMMUNITIES JOIN FORCES TO PROTECT THE CROSS RIVER GORILLA 24 A HOLLYWOOD ENDING WITHIN OUR GRASP? 26 GRANTS AWARDED IN 2015 GREAT APES PROGRAM 28 FINANCIALS 30 BOARD/STAFF 32 Front cover photo © Jurek Wajdowicz; inside front cover photo © Isla Davidson ARCUS FOUNDATION_ANNUAL REPORT 2015 P_1 ARCUS FOUNDATION_ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Dear Friends, Dear Friends, A year ago I sat down to write a message for Arcus’ 2014 money would not solve the problems or close the gaps that Much of my 30-plus-year career in seeking to make positive Arcus and our foundation partners raised more than Annual Report. The U.S. Supreme Court had just ruled in favor we and our partners on the frontlines are trying to address. change in education, government, and now philanthropy $1.4 million through a joint fund to support those communities of marriage equality, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had It is people who will make the difference. has been focused on building movements that can seize affected by the massacre (especially the LGBTQ Latinx effectively barred the use of chimpanzees in medical research As Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small opportunities for transformational change at the individual, community), and we are hopeful that the new dialogue after by expanding the Endangered Species Act. For the first time, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; institutional, and societal levels when such opportunities arise. the tragedy will yield solutions to the ongoing violence that ALL chimpanzees, including those born in captivity, were given indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” I see citizen power at Such work usually takes years (if not decades or even affects so many of us. endangered status protections. These and other achievements work everywhere. Our grantee partners, more often than not, centuries), and sometimes such opportunities arise only a In the following pages you’ll meet ADO Jr., who is were major steps forward in the United States and gave us work with extremely limited resources and labor against handful of times in a lifetime. But without that long and hard creating new space for gender-nonconforming people in reason for incredible optimism. the longest of odds, and yet somehow consistently deliver work, change never occurs: as Andy Warhol once said, Côte d’Ivoire; Joaquin Carcaño, the plaintiff in a major However, in the months since, we have been disillusioned remarkable results, moving our world closer to the vision for “They always say time changes things, but you actually have lawsuit against North Carolina’s discriminatory “bathroom repeatedly by events and revelations that remind us of all we which we all strive. to change them yourself.” bill”; Hiker Chiu and Kimberly Zieselman, who are working to have yet to do. Most recently it was the appalling murder of We share this report and the stories in it as widely as we The last year has seen epic societal and institutional raise awareness of the rights of intersex people; and Imam 49 LGBT and mostly Latino people at the Pulse nightclub in can with the hope—and the absolute conviction—that these shifts across Arcus’ mission areas. Daayiee Abdullah, founder of an inclusive mosque who Orlando. We learned that human-induced pressures on the amazing activists will inspire more people to take action. We are In the conservation sphere, we are seeing the results conducts same-sex marriages under the Quran. eastern lowland gorilla population have brought that sub- not the victims of forces beyond our making, nor are we power- of decades of work come to fruition, from newly protected You’ll also read about Panut Hadisiswoyo, a leading species far closer to extinction than was previously realized, less in the face of change. We truly can work together to build great ape ranges in Central and West Africa, to Hollywood, conservationist in Western Sumatra who has freed orangutan threatening a major loss to ape conservation. And we lost the future we want for our communities and our planet. As we where activists have prevailed on major movie studios and forest homes from loggers and hunters, and Inaoyom Imong, at least 21 people and a yet-unknown number of orangutans interact with one another and our natural world, we have infinite advertising agencies to eschew the use of live animals. who has spent his life defending the Cross River gorilla’s and other endangered non-human animals in forest-clearing opportunity to choose respect over exploitation, peace over In our social justice work, too, we’ve seen a U.N. com- natural range along the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. fires set by wood harvesters and industrial palm planters violence, trust over fear, and most importantly, love over hate. mitment to investigate anti-LGBT violence and discrimination We also share news of the discovery of a young family of in Indonesia. Those fires also needlessly released obscene I hope their stories inspire you as they do me and worldwide—a potential step toward addressing widespread Hainan gibbons, a species that was on the brink of extinction. amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. strengthen your commitment to a world defined by harmony injustice and, in particular, the shocking rate of murder of We at Arcus are proud to be in partnership with such These terrible setbacks can cause overwhelming gloom and respect—a world that I continue to believe will one day be. our trans sisters. We’ve also seen a rapidly growing number brave and inspiring individuals. Follow the links on each and cynicism. Are we kidding ourselves that we can truly make of countries—including 11 nations where Catholicism is the page of this report to see their stories come alive. Connect substantive progress in the face of these kinds of challenges, predominant denomination—legalizing same-sex marriage. with us on social media, subscribe to our updates, and join and most especially, in the timeline of our own lives? What can Yet, as we know from the U.S. marriage-equality ruling us at our events to learn more about the exceptional work we do that will truly make the difference? in 2015, landmark victories such as these are most often our partners are doing to transform the world we live in. While I believe in the power of philanthropy to catalyze Jon L. Stryker not the end of a struggle but the beginning of a much longer (inset) © Slobodan Randjelovic´ positive change, it is clear that even an infinite amount of President and Founder process to bring equality where it matters most—to the lives of individuals. Nearly one year to the day after the marriage ruling, the homophobic massacre in Orlando in June 2016 was a horrific reminder of the hatred and violence that Kevin Jennings (inset) © Jeff Davis continue to target our communities. Executive Director LEARN MORE arcusfoundation.org P_2 P_3 ARCUS FOUNDATION_ANNUAL REPORT 2015 SOCIAL JUSTICE ARCUS IS AMONG THE LARGEST FUNDERS OF LGBT* CAUSES AROUND THE WORLD. We focus on people and issues at the leading edge of the movement: Lifting the voices of young people, trans people, and people of color; Supporting faith leaders who advocate for inclusion of LGBT people in their religious communities; Partnering with and supporting LGBT people who face hate and violence in their countries around the globe. © Malika Zouhali-Worrall LEARN MORE arcus.link/lgbt *The letters Q and I, included along with LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) are abbreviations for queer and intersex and appear in the following pages when referenced in reports, quotations, or organizational program and mission descriptions. P_4 P_5 A participant at New York City’s Manhattan U.S. SOCIAL JUSTICE ARCUS FOUNDATION_ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Pride parade observes a minute of silence for those killed in Orlando. Hundreds of LGBT organizations, allies, Muslim groups, and anti-gun violence groups joined forces in support of LGBTQ Latinx* communities to demand an end to hate following the homophobic massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, © Jurek Wajdowicz on June 12, 2016. © Malika Zouhali-Worrall Most of the more than 100 anti-LGBT bills proposed by U.S. state legislators in 2016—more than 60 of them resisting compliance with same-sex marriage laws and a record 44 anti-transgender initiatives—failed. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on May 9 filed an unprecedented civil rights suit against North Carolina, declaring its “While it’s important anti-trans “bathroom bill” unconstitutional. to understand the unique circumstances Transgender officers can serve openly in the armed forces following a June 2016 of what happened in Pentagon announcement. Orlando, we must not *Latinx is used as a gender-inclusive form of Latino/a. treat this as an isolated event—this happened while many were cele- brating Pride and against the backdrop of harmful anti-LGBTQ legislation sweeping the nation.” —BEVERLY TILLERY, © Spencer Platt / Getty Images NEW YORK CITY ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT MAJORITY OF THE UNITED STATES NOT COVERED BY News & Observer© Raleigh / Getty Images 1 STATE OR LOCAL ANTIDISCRIMINATION PROTECTIONS. To comply with North Carolina’s House Bill 2, Joaquin Carcaño, a 27-year-old trans employee of the state university’s Chapel Hill campus, must walk from his office to a neighboring building to use a unisex restroom.
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