ANNUAL REPORT WE THANK ALL OUR FUNDERS, DONORS, AND LGBTQ COMMUNITY 25 YEARS CENTERS FOR BELIEVING IN OUR WORK AND SUPPORTING OUR EFFORTS IN CREATING A STRONGER LGBTQ STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER MOVEMENT.

THANK YOU FOR where people can find resources, services, Leadership Summit attendance, serving over and partners, and for the important work support, and a safe, welcoming space to just 250 LGBTQ centers and programs across we have committed to do around diversity, MAKING 2019 ‘be’! Local LGBTQ centers work tirelessly to the US, Canada, and beyond. We were on equity, and inclusion. address the needs of their community, and the ground visiting over 31 centers, and YET ANOTHER As we continue our journey of growth we’re proud to stand behind them. conducting 38 in-person trainings, in addition within our own organization and further REMARKABLE YEAR to the 639 virtual assistance requests we You see, supporting LGBTQ community strengthening our community center FOR CENTERLINK! answered! We continue to develop new centers isn’t just our job – it’s our passion. Our network, we are honored that you have resources and forge new partnerships to DENISE SPIVAK THIS YEAR MARKED dedicated staff has done an incredible job of chosen to join us as a partner, supporter, support our members, and to serve as a voice CEO expanding our outreach and strengthening our and friend. A tremendous thank you to all OUR 25TH ANNIVERSARY for the LGBTQ community center movement, programs and services. As you will note from our funders, donors, and LGBTQ community OF STRENGTHENING, SUPPORTING, amplifying the vital and often lifesaving work the successes detailed in this year’s Annual center members for your generosity and they do each and every day. AND CONNECTING LGBTQ Report, supporters like you have helped belief in CenterLink. COMMUNITY CENTERS. us create a larger, stronger, more united We also spent a great deal of time in 2019 community center movement – connecting working on the future of CenterLink, to SINCERELY, And while the landscape of community executive directors, CEOs, and program staff ensure that it will be there to serve our STACIE WALLS ROBERT BOO DENISE SPIVAK centers has changed significantly over the with their peers, providing education to board members well in the long term. Our Board BOARD CO-CHAIR BOARD CO-CHAIR CEO past quarter century, CenterLink’s role members, offering resources and leadership of Directors embarked on updating our has not – we remain the only organization coaching and training, and creating even more Strategic Plan to usher us into the new committed to advancing the success and funding streams for capacity-building and decade – listening to feedback from our sustainability of LGBTQ centers! program advancement. members, our partners, and other key stakeholders. The plan will set the direction Centers are the heart and soul of For the fifth consecutive year we’ve for our future work with members, funders, LGBTQ communities – a place reached new milestones in membership and 2 CENTERLINK 2019 ANNUAL REPORT CENTERLINK 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 3 STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PAUL MOORE CO-CHAIR STACIE WALLS CO-CHAIR ROBERT BOO SECRETARY MARVIN WEBB TREASURER DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS, CEO, CEO, VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION, DAVID BOHNETT FOUNDATION LGBT LIFE CENTER PRIDE CENTER AT EQUALITY PARK FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES LOS ANGELES, CA NORFOLK, VA FORT LAUDERDALE, FL NEW YORK CITY, NY ADRIANA OROZCO ANA MACHADO, MPH DEBORAH S. CONTROLLER SENIOR MANAGER, LEVINE STRATEGIC PROGRAM DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT LGBT YOUTHLINK

SARAH ANDERSON CHRIS BARTLETT SELISSE BERRY CECE COX CONSULTANT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FOUNDER, CEO, CAMPBELL AND COMPANY WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER OUT & EQUAL WORKPLACE ADVOCATES RESOURCE CENTER SEATTLE, WA PHILADELPHIA, PA SAN FRANCISCO, CA DALLAS, TEXAS

DENISE SPIVAK DONNA DR. JANELLE JULIA LANDIS CEO SOLOMON-CARTER TAVERAS DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS & PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR, OPERATIONS AND OUTREACH MANAGER HEALTHLINK MEMBER RELATIONS PORTER GILBERG LORRI L. JEAN MICHELLE KRISTEL LORRAINE LANGLOIS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CEO, PARTNER, CEO, THE LGBTQ CENTER LONG BEACH LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER McCORMACK+KRISTEL METRO INCLUSIVE HEALTH LONG BEACH, CA LOS ANGELES, CA NEW YORK, NY ST. PETERSBURG, FL

DR. REGINA TANYA TASSI TERRY STONE WASHINGTON NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF JAY MADDOCK GLENNDA TESTONE MODESTO TICO VALLE LANCE TOMA HR ENGAGEMENT PARTNER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CEO, CEO, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY CENTER ACTIONLINK BELLS BREWERY THE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER CENTER ON HALSTED SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & HEALTH POLICY MANAGER KALAMAZOO, MI NEW YORK, NY CHICAGO, IL HEALTH CENTER PROGRAMS SAN FRANCISCO, CA 4 CENTERLINK 2019 ANNUAL REPORT CENTERLINK 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 5 2019 LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT HIGHLIGHTS 2019 HIGHLIGHTS

In 2019 CenterLink provided over $300,000 in pass-through funding to support capacity-building efforts at seven centers across the U.S. Funding was used to INVESTING IN CENTERS expand staff, purchase technology, engage in strategic development, and more. INVESTING IN SUCCESS Participating centers had budgets ranging from $50,000 to $250,000, and funding ranged from $25,000 to $50,000. The grant program was designed to increase sustainability of developing centers. TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE The 8th Annual Executive Director Boot Camp was held in Fort Lauderdale, FL, for center directors with 1-4 years of experience. Seventeen executive directors HEALTH HIV CONSULTATIONS CONFERENCES & CONFERENCE from 12 states attended. The program is an intensive 5-day training covering PROGRAMMING PROVIDED TO PRESENTATIONS AND TRAINING leadership, finance, fundraising, diversity, equity & inclusion, programming, board 20 CONSULTATIONS 8 MEMBER CENTERS 9 ATTENDED 2 PRESENTATIONS governance and more.

A total of 19 webinar sessions were presented during CenterLink’s annual E-Summit during the month of October. The sessions fell into at least one of the following 8 CenterLink provided over $90,000 tracks: Health, Youth, Governance, Seniors, Trans and Gender Non-conforming, PARTNERSHIPS in sub-grant funding to five Advocacy, Fund Raising and Financial Health, and Leadership. member centers to engage LGBTQ+ individuals to accelerate research and improve health through the CenterLink provided grants to six member centers All of Us Research Program. 34 19 756 234 to expand the capacity of their mental health VOLUNTEER SESSIONS REGISTRANTS ATTENDEES programming. The centers were: Edge Pride Center, SPEAKERS LGBTQ+ people, like many other groups, have often In Our Own Voices, Out Boulder County, Side by been left out of medical research. As a result, we Side, Time Out Youth, and Triangle Community know less about your health and ways to provide you Center. Funding totaled $150,000. Capacity with the best care. The All of Us Research Program building included purchase and implementation of an wants to change this. The All of Us Research Program electronic medical record system, development and is a historic effort to collect and study data from one review of trauma-informed organizational policies and million or more people living in the United States. The practices, and development and delivery of specific goal of the program is better health for all of us. training programs around suicidality, critical incidence 130 response, mental health first aid. RETURNING 279 ATTENDEES Our 13th Annual Leadership Summit held September 19-21, 2019 ATTENDEES LGBT HealthLink provides member centers, agencies, and individuals with an ever- in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles LGBT Center saw our highest 149 expanding library of LGBTQ health-related materials, all FREE! In 2019 we filled 288 attendance ever with 279 total attendees including 130 returning BRAND-NEW individual orders, had 177 document downloads and more than 30 videos viewed attendees and 149 brand-new attendees. Our previous to date ATTENDEES from our online resource library. high was in 2018 with a total of 143 attendees. RESOURCES 288 177 30 INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENT VIDEOS ORDERS DOWNLOADS

6 CENTERLINK 2019 ANNUAL REPORT CENTERLINK 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 7 2019 SUMMARY 2019 OVERVIEW

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MAY Over 150 LGBT Community Centers sign LGBT COMMUNITY CENTERS a letter addressed to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ADVOCATE FOR THE office, advocating for the passage of the 7 EQUALITY ACT 28 20 27 Equality Act. The Act passed in the House but 150+ WEBINARS CONSULTATIONS COACHING GENERAL INFO SESSIONS SESSIONS failed to be heard in the Senate. 13 4 ACTIONLINK JULY ActionLink collects 13,600 comments in CONDUCTED REFERRALS Q CHAT SPACE TRAININGS COMMENTS opposition to a proposed rule by the Dept. of YOUTHLINK 13,600 COLLECTED Health and Human Services that was aimed at NEEDS changing protections offered to LGBTQ people in ASSESSMENT Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act 67 12 LISTSERV POSTS RESOURCE NEWSLETTERS OCTOBER The U.S. Supreme Court hears three cases to decide if Title VII’s ban on workplace ACTIONLINK DISTRIBUTES CENTER- sex discrimination protects LGBTQ people from FOCUSED GRAPHICS & TALKING discrimination. ActionLink distributes personalized POINTS REGARDING SCOTUS graphics and center-focused talking points. Our statement about the cases is shared with Los TITLE VII CASES Angeles Mayor Garcetti’s entire staff.

DECEMBER The Dept. of Health and Human QCHATSPACE.ORG Services proposes a new rule that would allow ACTIONLINK programs receiving their grants to discriminate COMMENTS on the basis of sex and gender. ActionLink 2,500+ COLLECTED collects over 2,500 comments opposing the > Launched website enabling national > Launched Instagram and Facebook rule within a 15-day time period. promotion accounts and worked with Youth Advisory Panel to develop regular content > Trained staff at 5 additional LGBTQ+ centers to facilitate discussions > Conducted Instagram outreach campaign to reach Black youth in Arkansas, ACTIONLINK’S FOCUS IN 2019: LGBTQ EQUALITY > Implemented ongoing monitoring Louisiana, and Mississippi and support system for Q Chat Space facilitators > Developed 2020 cohort of Youth Advisory > Health Care Discrimination > Adoption & Foster Care Rights Panel who created content for social > Increased schedule to 10 weekly online media, attended discussions, and > Religious Exemption Defense > Anti-Discrimination Laws supportive discussions provided feedback > Protections > Youth & Older Adult Protections > Disseminated promotion kit to LGBTQ+ > Completed implementation centers and national partners > Safeguard Federal Funding > Get Out The Vote Efforts evaluation of national launch and training

8 CENTERLINK 2019 ANNUAL REPORT CENTERLINK 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 9 He said he saw need for this kind of space when when adults and monthly parenting classes. The Center also A LOOK AT SOME MEMBER CENTER he started counseling LGBT youth in Rock Island a few offers low-cost meeting space for community groups FLORIDA’S 1ST LGBTQ SENIOR HOUSING years ago. such as Alcoholics Anonymous and local political PROJECT BREAKS GROUND WITH PRIDE HIGHLIGHTS IN 2019 organizations. For more on these and other member center stories, visit our Scoop.it! link: “I started the first LGBT adult and youth group at CENTER OCTOBER 28, 2019 [WIU’s] mental health facility and worked with five to “Our main goal right now is to continue building www.scoop.it/topic/-community-centers Carrfour Supportive Housing broke ground on The CENTER STAGE six youth. I asked them if you could have any resource, partnerships...and show people we are here to provide what would you want? They all said they wanted a support for everybody who’s in need,” said Pritchett. Residences at Equality Park, an affordable housing center,” he told News 8. “There was nothing here alternative designed specifically for senior LGBTQ+ Find out more about The Center online at available to them and they needed somewhere to go community members. The property will furnish thecenterorlando.org. TRIPLE TRAILBLAZER: LGBT DETROIT Reggie Condra, a health and wellness coordinator at participants with a year of rental assistance and where they could meet their peers and that wasn’t permanent affordable housing plus supportive services Burlington’s Pride Center, launched a podcast about guidance on renting a home. waiting until they were 21 so they could go to the bar.” for low-income senior adults with disabling conditions. LGBTQ people of color in Vermont in February 2018. MAKES HISTORY FOR A THIRD TIME Finding shelter for LGBTQ homeless youth isn’t “In working with our partners at The Pride Center, we Condra, 31, identifies as black and . He often felt The center provides counseling for families, individuals, THE SOURCE LGBT+ CENTER GROUP a problem limited to Memphis: According to the identified housing as a challenge, especially for gay JANUARY 18, 2019 the talking heads for the LGBTQ+ community were couples; drop-in hours for youth and adults; and a AUGUST 12, 2019 Williams Institute, 40 percent of homeless youth TRAVELS TO ECUADOR seniors with disabilities. Data shows that senior LGBTQ From the outside, LGBT Detroit might look like many cisgender, white males. So, he started “Brown ‘n Out.” number of youth groups that meet regularly, as well as served by agencies are LGBT. “The consequences of allies groups. Norris said this space wasn’t just for LGBT Nine young people in Visalia’s LGBT+ community are in adults, in particular, face a variety of unique challenges similar nonprofit organizations, but if one digs a little The podcast, uploaded on Podbean, features a range homelessness can have permanent consequences on Ecuador this week as part of a service, educational, and in securing housing with high rates of discrimination deeper they’ll find that it’s been making history both in youth, but for anyone to engage, process and figure of voices. Condra said people labeled him an activist. young people, including increased risk of mental and themselves out in a safe environment. cultural exchange trip. and bias, and sometimes even hostile treatment from the city’s LGBTQ and African-American communities He does not disagree. “But then also, I don’t think it’s physical harm, sexual abuse and exploitation, HIV, landlords as well as fellow tenants. While residents Director of Development Nick Vargas said The Source’s since it was founded over 20 years ago. It got its roots so radical,” he said. “Like it shouldn’t always be an act addiction, social stigma, and discrimination,” said And if there was a need for a service that was not already aren’t required to be gay to live here, they must be youth leadership academy is a program that meets in 1994 as the Kick Publishing Company, achieving of activism to just highlight people of color or Molly Quinn, executive director of OUTMemphis. offered, “It’s my job to make that happen,” he said. income- and age-eligible only. And because the building the title of the third black American LGBT media twice per month for people ages 16 to 23. During people.” Find out more about Clock, Inc online at clockinc.org. is on the Pride Center campus, where services and company created in the U.S. A year later, it kicked off “We would have phone calls from kids being put out sessions the participants go through modules on LGBT+ activities are geared toward the gay community, we feel its Hotter Than July celebration, making it the world’s Condra likes to build a rapport with his subjects, of the house because of their sexual orientation and history, public speaking, advocacy, personal finance, that the building will attract LGBTQ applicants.” second oldest black pride. Now in 2019, LGBT Detroit getting coffee before the interview. His episodes wouldn’t have anywhere to send them for emergency KALEIDOSCOPE YOUTH CENTER NOW slam poetry, and other topics of use to young leaders. is making history for a third time with its recently typically begin with a funny snippet embedded in the shelter,” Hendrix said. “OUTMemphis’ shelter will mean In addition, they complete a class project around health The four-story Residences at Equality Park will be acquired expansion; after purchasing the building conversation. “I never just want to ask, you know, a more stability. It will mean we’re growing as a city and OFFERING HOUSING HELP FOR AT-RISK care access. situated at 2040 North Dixie Highway. A total of 48 next door to its current Greenfield Road location, it’s person kind of blanketly about their identity,” he said. are accommodating people who are marginalized.” JUNE 10, 2019 apartments extending from studios to two-bedroom “I want them to talk to me about things that they’re LGBT+ YOUTH After receiving a donation to cover travel expenses, units will be offered. All but 14 of the units will serve become the “largest property of a black-owned LGBT Find out more about OUTMemphis: The LGBTQ Center interested in.” An organization known for helping LGBT+ youth in Vargas and The Source’s executive director Brian as permanent supportive housing for low-income center in North America,” said Curtis Lipscomb, LGBT for the Mid-South online at outmemphis.org. central Ohio find a sense of security and community Poth chose to take the group to Ecuador because two seniors ages 55 and older with disabling conditions Detroit’s executive director. We asked what being brown ‘n out meant to Condra. “It is now helping at-risk youth find housing. “We know Visalians, Gwyn and Maggie Reniers, have a non-profit whose continuing residency in housing requires on-site means self-advocating a lot. It means not always being “So, we are now a campus,” Lipscomb said. “We’re housing is a basic need and a basic right,” Erin hotel that hosts service-groups. The trip will also be supportive services. able to find someone to stand up for you and taking it SMYAL TO OPEN SECOND FACILITY FOR looking at a combined 6,000 square foot unit of space Upchurch, executive director of Kaleidoscope Youth an opportunity to witness a country where same-sex upon yourself to claim your existence.” The Pride Center will offer innovative services, where expanded programming occurs [next door] while HOMELESS LGBT YOUTH MAY 24, 2019 Center, said. “We also know our young folks are 120% marriage was recently made legal. admin stays here, because we were doing all three including support groups, cultural events, Find out more about the Pride Center of Vermont more likely to be homeless than their peers and, of While there, the class will work with the local LGBT+ types of work — admin, events, and programming — The local LGBT youth services group SMYAL recreational opportunities, and the annual Active online at pridecentervt.org. the entire homeless community, our young people community, as well as taking needed school supplies here, in our older space.” announced this week that it will open a second Aging Health Expo. The Residences at Equality Park represent about 40%.” to the youth in Ecuador. Vargas said school is not transitional house for homeless LGBT youth in June is slated for completion next year. LGBT Detroit is located at 20025 Greenfield Road NEW SAFE SPACE FOR LGBT+ YOUTH in the city’s Anacostia neighborhood. The new 14-bed “We want our young folks to be able to be housed free there, and supplies can be very expensive. Every in Detroit. Find out more information about the house in Ward 8 follows the opening in January 2017 and feel safe and secure so they can actually thrive in participant, including the chaperones, will be “packing Find out more about The Pride Center at Equality organization online at lgbtdetroit.org. OPENS IN LOUISVILLE MARCH 18, 2019 of SMYAL’s first house for homeless LGBT youth at 746 their lives,” Upchurch said. Housing program manager for a purpose” with back packs, pens, pencils, and other Park online at pridecenterflorida.org. 19th St., N.E. The first house has 12 beds. Similar to the school supplies. Mayor Greg Fischer, Councilwoman Barbara Sexton Heather Wise said access to a safe place to live is first house the new house will be operated by SMYAL crucial. “It makes all the difference, a lot of times the “For most of the academy, it will be their first time on a POLESTAR: MICHIGAN’S NEWEST LGBTQ Smith, and the group Ignite Louisville cut the ribbon through funding from the D.C. Department of Human WESTERN MONTANA LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY to the newly renovated Louisville Youth Group center. difference between life and death,” she said. plane and their first time leaving California,” Vargas said. COMMUNITY CENTER OPENS ITS DOORS Services, according to SMYAL spokesperson Hancie “We expect to make the international travel component CENTER HOSTS THE FIRST “BUILDING Louisville Youth Group has been a safe space for Stokes. That difference is something 20-year-old Waverly FEBRUARY 15, 2019 LGBTQIA+ youth in Kentuckiana for over 20 years. It Evans, a resident of Kaleidoscope’s housing program, an ongoing part of the youth leadership academy.” COMMUNITY WITH PRIDE” SUMMIT “promotes personal and community growth through “SMYAL once again rises to the challenge of meeting When John Young came out in his late 50s, he never knows all too well. “It’s been a tremendous impact for Find out more about The Source LGBT+ Center online at relationship building, leadership development, and one of the greatest unmet needs in D.C. with this NOVEMBER 3, 2019 imagined that just four years later he would have been me,” Evans said. “I was homeless for about nine months thesourcelgbt.org. social justice activism,” according to the group’s second and largest expansion of our housing program,” instrumental in launching Traverse City’s first LGBTQ from August to the beginning of May.” All were welcome to support a safer and more inclusive website. said SMYAL Executive Director Sultan Shakir. community center. “I really came out. I did not hold back. Kaleidoscope helped Evans when she was a teen and community for , gay, bisexual, transgender, And, frankly, I didn’t know what to do,” said Young, now The redesigned and renovated area will provide a safe “This program is one of the most comprehensive in now they’re helping her as an adult with one of their PADUCAH LGBT WELCOME CENTER OPENS, and queer people in Missoula at a LGBTQ+ summit on vice-chair of Polestar, a new LGBTQ community center space for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth the region in that it holistically supports a youth’s three housing programs. “I just feel really grateful and I’m WITH PLANS FOR REGIONAL OUTREACH Saturday. The Western Montana LGBTQ+ Community development in their education, job readiness, mental Center hosted the first “Building Community with Pride” serving Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Benzie, Kalkaska and to interact with peers and work with social platforms. appreciative of all Kaleidoscope has given me,” she said. SEPTEMBER 25, 2019 Antrim counties in northern lower Michigan. “The programming network focuses on giving them health, physical health, and most importantly, taps “And I feel like Kaleidoscope was there to save me again.” summit at the James E. Todd Building at the University the skills and the experiences that help them thrive into their inherent sense of resilience to create a path LGBTQ community members held a ribbon-cutting of Montana, which the Center’s co-chair Eric Hall hopes Located at 717 Woodmere Ave., Polestar achieved Find out more about the Kaleidoscope Youth Center outside Louisville Youth Group now, and also when from homelessness to independence,” Shakir said in a ceremony in downtown Paducah on Tuesday after to be the first of many. 501(c)(3) nonprofit status two years ago and has been online at kycohio.org. they age out, as they become adults and leaders in the statement. open since the summer. At just under 1,800 square months of planning to open a LGBTQ-oriented resource “Being queer in a community can sometimes be community,” Executive Director Jason Peno said. feet, the space is divided into three areas. There is a “SMYAL continues to support D.C.’s LGBTQ youth center. isolating,” Hall said. “It can feel lonely and we wanted to desk and restroom near the entrance, which opens to Ignite Louisville also goes out into the community to with supportive and affirming clinical care,” said Jorge CELEBRATING ACCEPTANCE: THE CENTER The Paducah LGBT Welcome Center, which staff claim provide this as an opportunity to bring folks together.” a living room-like space that has two couches facing teach leadership skills through a six-month program. Membreno, SMYAL’s Director of Youth Housing. “The MAKES MERRY OVER INAUGURAL YEAR is the second organization of its kind in Kentucky, aims The event was open to all and included panel each other and a flat screen TV. To the left is a larger expanded transitional housing program will build a Find out more about the Louisville Youth Group Youth to provide educational and social services to LGBTQ discussions on topics such as LBGTQ health, room which can accommodate seating for 30, such as bridge to sustainable independence through clinical AUGUST 9, 2019 Center online at louisvilleyouthgroup.org. people in the city and throughout west Kentucky. The intersectionality of race and personal finance in addition the LGBTQ-friendly church that rents the space to hold case management, life skills and wellness courses, and Osceola County’s gay community and its supporters Louisville LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce opened earlier to a drag workshop and talk by Fran Dunaway and its services each Sunday. The third area, an office large resource referrals,” he said. came out in force Wednesday night to celebrate The this year. For Welcome Center Director of Operations Naomi Gonzalez, the founders of a gender-neutral enough for meetings, will also be utilized by Equality MEMPHIS TO GET FIRST SHELTER FOR Stokes said SMYAL has praised D.C. Council member Center’s one-year anniversary in downtown Kissimmee. Dustin Havens, who also coordinated the recent West clothing company that leaves behind norms about how Michigan when the organization moves its existing Trayon White (D-Ward 8) for advocating for an increase The Orlando-based organization opened its first and Kentucky Pride Festival, he hopes the center helps bring men and women are “supposed” to dress and supports Traverse City location to the center in the near future. HOMELESS LGBTQ YOUTH - OUTMEMPHIS in city funding for LGBT homeless youth programs, only satellite office to fill a gap in services for the regional LGBTQ people together, particularly to help costumers who exist outside the gender binary. The center is entirely volunteer-run, and Young says APRIL 9, 2019 including programs aimed at addressing homeless Hispanic and queer communities in the county, said with the isolation some LGBTQ people sometimes feel. youth in Ward 8. “Everyone seems respected and encouraged here,” said Polestar is already meeting the needs of the LGBTQ Stephanie Reyes, director of development at Executive Director George Wallace. “I’m amazed with “It’s all about the outreach and making people know the response from the community,” he said. “I wasn’t Tina Prather, who attended the summit after hearing community. In addition to drop-in hours, the center has OUTMemphis, remembers receiving multiple phone Find out more about the SMYAL Youth Center online at that they’re not alone,” Havens said. “Paducah, western sure how we’d be received.” about it from a friend who runs the Center’s women’s events like movie and discussion nights. A transgender calls on the same night about five years ago. Several smyal.org. Kentucky is on to something. We have the support. and GNC support group just formed, which drew 15 group. “I like the structure and organization and free LGBTQ youth called asking if there was an emergency Over the past year, 246 HIV tests and 117 Hepatitis tests We have the future. We have the drive, and it sets a flow of information and questions. I can ask a question people at its first meeting and has plans for a shopping shelter at OUTMemphis, a nonprofit that offers have been administered at the Kissimmee location, challenge out to the other cities. It sets a challenge out night and a workshop with a cosmetics consultant. that’s uncomfortable and they’ll be OK trying to address services to the LGBTQ community. Reyes had to tell SAFE SPACE: TRANSGENDER MAN OPENS compared to 800 per month at The Center’s main office to Lexington, to Frankfort, to get on board.” Havens said it versus changing the subject.” Find out more about the Polestar LGBT Center of them no, there were no such shelters for LGBTQ youth NEW CENTER FOR LGBT YOUTH IN ROCK in downtown Orlando. The Kissimmee location also the center plans to offer up to 42 different LGBTQ- Traverse City online at tcpolestar.org. at OUTMemphis — or anywhere in Memphis. That offers legal aid, a cyber center, and a small library, all oriented classes and programs by January, with about 12 The Pride Foundation awarded the Center a grant to night, she realized something needed to be done. ISLAND JUNE 10, 2019 open to the public. While its services are marketed to classes that will be operational by the end of the month. get the summit going with the goal of educating people Topics of these classes include fighting HIV stigma, and about different topics and building the LGBTQ+ Leadership of OUTMemphis and from around the city Chase Norris was busy on Saturday, blowing up the gay community, The Center welcomes everyone – PRIDE CENTER COORDINATOR’S social care for transgender people. community in Missoula. broke ground on a youth emergency shelter. It will be balloons and moving furniture at Clock, Inc, a gay, straight, or somewhere in between. PODCAST PUTS FOCUS ON LGBT Memphis’ only LGBTQ specific emergency shelter and community center for LGBT youth in Rock Island. “We’re a community center, we’re here for the Welcome Center Director of Administrative Affairs Find out more about Western Montana’s PEOPLE OF COLOR FEBRUARY 26, 2019 the only drop-in shelter in the city serving homeless Its grand opening would be on Tuesday, June 11, community, not just for people who are on the LGBT+ Elizabeth Duarte said not only is the center trying to LGBTQ+ Community Center online at youth, whether LGBTQ or not, OUTMemphis says. 2019. Norris hand-selected every detail, from the spectrum,” said Tommi Pritchett, Kissimmee program reach out to LGBTQ-friendly businesses and people, but gaymontana.org. Guests on the “Brown ‘n Out” podcast The shelter is the final piece of the “Metamorphosis inspirational quotes he had printed out, ready to be manager and director of development. also create a dialogue with those who might not be as answer two questions: What does black Project,” which also includes youth emergency shared with members of the youth groups dropping in accepting of LGBTQ people. and brown queer culture in Vermont services such as hygiene supplies, case management at the center, to the color of the frames on the wall of Zebra Coalition, another Orlando-based nonprofit, also Find out more about The Paducah LGBT Welcome look like to you? When do you feel and bus passes and rapid rehousing, which provides his counseling office. has an office inside The Center’s Kissimmee location. It most brown ‘n out? provides free counseling for LGBTQ+ teens and young Center online at paducah.lgbt. 10 CENTERLINK 2019 ANNUAL REPORT CENTERLINK 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 11 THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT FINANCIALS

WITHOUT DONOR WITH DONOR TOTAL REVENUE RESTRICTIONS RESTRICTIONS $100,000+ $2,500+ 2018 Federal Grants $566,465 40,024 $606,489 Other Grants 744,346 314,189 1,058,535 AB Foundation Lorri Jean McCormack+Kristel Anonymous (2) Contributions 414,487 - 414,487 HCM Strategies Gamma Mu Foundation Lorraine Langlois Membership Dues 98,292 - 98,292 Johnson Family Foundation Conference Income 22,595 - 22,595 My Brother’s Keeper, Inc Program Service Fees 92,244 - 92,244 $1,000+ In-Kind 7,874 - 7,874 Miscellaneous and Rental Income 3,847 - 3,847 Sarah Anderson Porter Gilberg Jeffrey Schneider Interest Income 4,162 - 4,162 Anonymous Heartbeat Glennda Testone $50,000+ Net Assets Released from Restrictions 68,343 (68,343) - Christopher Bartlett Human & Civil Rights Lance Toma Collingwood Foundation Selisse Berry Organizations -CFC Top Level Design, LLC TOTAL REVENUE $2,022,655 $285,870 $2,308,525 David Bohnett Foundation Robert Boo Michelle Kristel Unemployment Services EXPENSES H. van Ameringen Foundation Aaron Chang Marion and Jules Levine Trust Program Services $1,881,588 - $1,881,588 Center on Halsted LGBT Life Center Modesto Tico Valle General and Administrative 41,580 - 41,580 Timothy Chow Paul Moore Stacie Walls Fundraising Services 28,849 28,849 $25,000+ Cece Cox Debra Pollock TOTAL EXPENSES $1,952,017 - $1,952,017 HG Charitable Foundation The Louis L. Borick Foundation UP TO NET ASSETS $999 Net Assets, Beginning of Year $336,226 68,343 404,569 Tides Foundation Karim Abay Jeffrey Fleisher June Lee Michael Perez Denise Spivak Net Assets, End of Year 406,864 354,213 761,077 Alan Acosta Kristin Flickinger Beth Amy Levine Kristine Papp Taryn Miller TOTAL CHANGE IN NET ASSETS $70,638 $285,870 $356,508 Stevens AmazonSmile Michael Dana Levine PayPal Giving Foundation Fouquette Fund Elizabeth $10,000+ Deborah Levine Steinbugler Kasey Anderson Alfred Fraijo, Jr. Planned Laurie Litt WITHOUT DONOR WITH DONOR Amy Mandel & Katina Rodis Fund Parenthood Terry Stone REVENUE TOTAL Anonymous Ellen Friedman RESTRICTIONS RESTRICTIONS Michael Center on Colfax Jayzen Patria Andy Tan Richard Avrut Dolph Ward Lombardo Federal Grants $394,491 8,333 $402,824 Goldenburg Evan Pham Mary Tavarozzi 2019 Johnson & Johnson Family Tess Ayers Gil Lorenzo Other Grants 702,529 763,019 1,465,548 Deborah Frank Pond Texas Instruments of Companies David Bailey Ana Machado Contributions 323,061 - 323,061 Goldstein Bridget Pooley Donald Thomas Los Angeles LGBT Center Barbara Bartlett Jay Maddock Membership Dues 111,449 - 111,449 Kyle Green Nicole Poston Grace Toma Regina Bazer Jill Mant Conference Income 53,572 - 53,572 The Palette Fund Inc Dean Hansell Sima Rabinowitz Transgender Benevity Ryan Martin Program Service Fees 103,612 - 103,612 Small Change Foundation Stephen Hiser Legal Defense & Matthew Riser Bona Italian Kate McCarthy Education Fund In-Kind 8,957 - 8,957 Human Rights Stonewall LIbrary & Archives Restaurant Anna Robinson Campaign Ann McGuiness Rahul Tripathi Miscellaneous and Rental Income 4,000 - 4,000 Valerie Bowman Foundation Paul Rolli Wild Geese Foundation Deborah Lora L. Tucker Interest Income 7,306 - 7,306 Luann Boylan Ann Inhoff McMurray Briana Rubin Denise Turcotte Net Assets Released from Restrictions 354,213 (354,213) - R Tad Brown Brent Jackson Carlos Medina Floyd Rumohr UBS TOTAL REVENUE $2,063,190 $41 7,1 39 $2,480,329 James Cain Ellen Janos Gail Miller Stephen T. Russell $5,000+ Vera Institute of Emilie Carr David Jay Sarah Miller Tom Schick Justice, Inc. EXPENSES AIDS Healthcare Foundation J. Tyler Cassity Dawn Johnsen Movement Phyllis Schmidt David Vermiglio Advancement Program Services $1,914,847 - $1,914,847 Grindr LLC Wendy Yuen Chin Jennifer Johnsen Anthony Senecal Walmart Project General and Administrative 31,549 - 31,549 Irving R. Weinstein Philanthropic Fund Michael Christian James A. Jones Diane Senecal Regina R. Isabel Muste Washington Fundraising Services 78,528 - 78,528 Aran Maree Heather Corliss Jeffrey Karp Nicole Shaw Katherine (Kate) Marvin Webb TOTAL EXPENSES 2,024,924 - 2,024,924 Metro Inclusive Health David Cover Rochelle Karp Newman Eric M Shore Julie Weitzman NEO Philanthropy Carol Anne Keenan Sheri Noer Johann Shudlick Cuntingham Amy Yarnow NET ASSETS Pride Center at Equality Park Jasmin Knauer Phillip Nomura Kemp Smeal Carolyn Dye Greg Zaffiro Net Assets, Beginning of Year $406,864 354,213 761,077 Resource Center Marki Knox Michael Ormonde Pauline Sobelman Susan Feniger Net Assets, End of Year 445,130 771,352 1,216,482 Stoli Group USA Steve Kovacik Adriana Orozco Donna Solomon- Anne Fleisher Carter Superbia USA LLC Julia Landis Loren Ostrow TOTAL CHANGE IN NET ASSETS 38,266 41 7,1 39 455,405 12 CENTERLINK 2019 ANNUAL REPORT CENTERLINK 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 13 MONTANA PENNSYLVANIA Madison – OutReach, Inc. Missoula – The Center-Western Montana’s LGBTQ+ Allentown – Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Milwaukee – The Milwaukee LGBT Community Center Community Center Center Racine – LGBT Center of SE Wisconsin Harrisburg – LGBT Community Center of Central PA WEST VIRGINIA NEBRASKA Hatboro – SAGA Community Center Lost City – Shenandoah LGBTQ Center Lincoln – OutNebraska Lancaster – Lancaster LGBTQ+ Coalition Milford – TriVersity Wheeling – Ohio Valley Pride NEVADA MEMBERS Norristown – LGBT QMUNITY Center of WYOMING Las Vegas – The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada Montgomery County Casper – Casper LGBT Community Center CenterLink ended 2019 with a total of 256 Reno – Our Center Philadelphia – The Attic Youth Center Philadelphia – William Way LGBT Community Center member organizations including 42 brand- NEW HAMPSHIRE Phoenixville – LGBT Equality Alliance of Chester new never before members. This is an Portsmouth – Seacoast Outright County ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS Pittsburgh – The Persad Center impressive 17% year over year growth from NEW JERSEY Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh Equality Center ALABAMA 256 42 17% Clinton – LGBTQ Support and Social Groups USA 2018. (214 member centers with 32 new Pittsburgh – Proud Haven, Inc. – Equality Project of the Shoals MEMBERS NEW MEMBERS GROWTH member organizations.) Edgewater Park – Ours Institute Pittson – NEPA Rainbow Alliance Florence Highland Park – The Pride Center of New Jersey Reading – The LGBT Center of Greater Reading CALIFORNIA Jersey City – Hudson Pride Connections Center State College – Centre LGBTQA Support Network Los Angeles – Latino Equality Alliance Morris Plains – The EDGE Pride Center Washington – Washington County Gay Straight San Jose – County of Santa Clara LGBTQ Wellness Torrance – South Bay LGBTQ Center Naperville – Youth Outlook Newark – Newark LGBT Community Center Alliance, Inc. Center Ventura – Diversity Collective Ventura County Rock Island – Clock, Inc. Ocean Grove – Q Spot U.S. MEMBER CENTERS PUERTO RICO Visalia – theSource LGBT+ Resource Center DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INDIANA NEW MEXICO San Juan – Centro Comunitario LGBTT de Puerto Rico ALABAMA Washington – Human Rights Campaign COLORADO Indianapolis – Indiana Youth Group Albuquerque – Transgender Resource Center San Juan – Waves Ahead: LGBT Center for Older Birmingham – Magic City Acceptance Center of New Mexico Boulder – Out Boulder Richmond – Rainbow Richmond Adults FLORIDA Florence – Shoals Diversity Center Colorado Springs – Inside Out Youth Services South Bend – The LGBTQ Center Mobile – Rainbow Mobile NEW YORK RHODE ISLAND St. Petersburg – St. Pete Pride Denver – The Center on Colfax Spencer – Spencer Pride Mobile – Prism United Albany – In Our Own Voices Durango – Four Corners Rainbow Youth Center Providence – Youth Pride, Inc. MISSOURI Montgomery – Bayard Rustin Community Center IOWA Albany – The Pride Center of the Capital Region Golden – Youth Seen Bronx – Destination Tomorrow SOUTH CAROLINA St. Louis – Metro Trans Umbrella Group ALASKA Greenfield – Adair Co GLBT Resource Center CONNECTICUT West Des Moines – One Iowa Brooklyn – Brooklyn Community Pride Center Columbia – Harriet Hancock LGBT Center NEW YORK Anchorage – Identity, Inc. Hartford – True Colors Brooklyn – New Agency Greenville – Pride Link Dewitt – Focus on Awareness and Information KANSAS – Pride Center of WNY ARIZONA New Haven – New Haven Pride Center Buffalo North Charleston – We Are Family Resources of New York, Inc. (FAIRNY) Norwalk – Triangle Community Center Wichita – The Center of Wichita Forrest Hills – Queens Community House (Queens Phoenix – one n ten Center for Gay Seniors, Q Center) SOUTH DAKOTA New York – The Gives Back Initiative Tucson – The Thornhill Lopez Center on 4th DC KENTUCKY Geneva – The LGBTQ Center of the Finger Lakes Rapid City – Black Hills Center for Equality Yonkers – WJCS Center Lane Yuma – All Yuma Center, Inc. Washington, DC – SMYAL Haggerhill – Big Sandy LGBT+ Safe Zone, Inc. Hauppauge – The Long Island LGBT Community TENNESSEE OHIO ARKANSAS Washington, DC – THE DC Center for the LGBT Lexington – Pride Community Services Organization Center Community Louisville – Louisville Youth Group Kingston – Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center Memphis – OUTMemphis Ashland – Love On A Mission Fayetteville – Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality Paducah – Paducah LGBT Welcome Center New York – Hetrick-Martin Institute DELAWARE Nashville – Middle Tennessee Pride Center PENNSYLVANIA CALIFORNIA New York – The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Rehoboth Beach – Camp Rehoboth MAINE Community Center TEXAS Ambler – The Montgomery County LGBT Arcadia – San Gabriel Valley LGBTQ Center Portland – The Equality Community Center Nyack – Rockland County Pride Center Business Council FLORIDA Abilene – Abilene Pride Alliance Bakersfield – The Center for Sexuality & Gender Pittsburgh – The Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation Diversity Rochester – Out Alliance Fort Myers – Visuality LGBT Community Center MARYLAND Austin – Out Youth Berkley – Pacific Center for Human Growth Staten Island – Pride Center of Staten Island Beaumont – The LGBTQ+ Resource Center of SETX Gainesville – Pride Community Center of North Central Baltimore – Pride Center of Maryland SOUTH CAROLINA Chico – Stonewall Alliance Center of Chico White Plains – The LOFT: LGBT Community Corpus Christi – Coastal Bend Wellness Foundation Florida Frederick – The Frederick Center Services Center Spartanburg – PFLAG Spartanburg Concord – Rainbow Community Center of Contra Gulf Breeze – LGBT Pensacola Pride Center Costa County Kensington – MoCo Pride Center Jacksonville – JASMYN NORTH CAROLINA Dallas – Resource Center TEXAS El Centro – Imperial Valley LGBT Resource Center Houston – the Montrose Center Lake Worth – Compass Community Center MASSACHUSETTS Asheville – Blue Ridge Pride Center Austin – QWELL Community Foundation Fairfield – Solano Pride Center San Antonio – Pride Center San Antonio Miami Shores – Pridelines Boston – BAGLY – Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Asheville – Youth OUTright WNC Austin – Waterloo Counseling Center Lake Elsinore – LGBTQ+ Center of Riverside County Naples – Naples Pride Center Bisexual & Transgender Youth Carrboro – LGBTQ Center of Carrboro Long Beach – The Gay & Lesbian Center of Greater UTAH San Angelo – Open Arms Rape Crisis Center and North Miami – Alliance for GLBTQ Youth Salem – North Shore Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Charlotte – Time Out Youth LGBT+ Services Long Beach Orem – Encircle: LGBTQ Family and Youth Resource Orlando – The Center Orlando and Transgender Youth (nAGLY) Durham – LGBTQ Center of Durham Los Angeles – Latino Equality Alliance Center Orlando – Zebra Coalition Greensboro – Guilford Green LGBTQ Center Los Angeles – Los Angeles LGBT Center MICHIGAN Salt Lake City – Utah Pride Center Panama City – The Center – LGBTQ Center Hickory – Outright Youth of Catawba Modesto – Central Valley Pride Center Ann Arbor – Jim Toy Community Center of Bay County Raleigh – LGBT Center of Raleigh VERMONT INTERNATIONAL Oakland – Oakland LGBTQ Community Center Benton Harbor – OutCenter Port Charlotte – ARAY – All Rainbow and Allied Youth Winston-Salem – North Star LGBT Community Center Oceanside – North County LGBTQ Resource Center Sarasota – ALSO Youth Detroit – LGBT Detroit Brattleboro – Out in the Open MEMBER CENTERS Palm Springs – The LGBT Community Center St. Petersburg – Metro Inclusive Health Farmington – Stand With Trans OHIO Burlington – Outright VT of the Desert Tallahassee – Family Tree Community Centers Ferndale – Affirmations Athens – Ohio University’s LGBT Center Burlington – Pride Center of Vermont AUSTRALIA Pomona – Pomona Pride Center, Inc. Wilton Manors – The Pride Center at Equality Park Ferndale – Transgender Michigan Athens – Southeast Ohio LGBTQ+ Center – Thorne Harbour Health Redding – NorCal OUTreach Project VIRGINIA South Yarra Wilton Manors – SunServe Grand Rapids – Grand Rapids Pride Center Roseville – PRISM-Q LGBT & Allies Resource Center Cleveland – LGBT Community Center of Greater CANADA Highland Park – Ruth Ellis Center Cleveland Lynchburg – Lynchburg Diversity Center – Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Center GEORGIA Sacramento Holland – Out On The Lakeshore Norfolk – LGBT Life Center Edmonton, Alberta – Pride Centre of Edmonton – Inland Region Equality Network Columbus – Stonewall Columbus, Inc. San Bernardino Atlanta – Southern Jewish Resource Network for Jackson – Jackson Pride Center Richmond – Diversity Richmond Vancouver, BC – Qmunity (IREN) Columbus – Kaleidoscope Youth Center Gender & Sexual Diversity Kalamazoo – OutFront Kalamazoo Richmond – Side By Side Winnipeg, Manitoba – Rainbow Resource Centre San Diego – The San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Dayton – Greater Dayton LGBT Center Atlanta – The Phillip Rush Center Marquette – U.P. Rainbow Pride – Us Giving Richmond Connections Transgender Community Center Mansfield – Mansfield Gay Pride Association Richmond Toronto, Ontario – The 519 Savannah – Savannah LGBT Community Center Traverse – Polestar LGBT Center of Traverse City Montreal, QC – Montreal LGBT+ Community Centre San Francisco – San Francisco LGBT Community Center Moraine – Have a Gay Day WASHINGTON Regina, Saskatchewan – UR Pride Centre for Sexuality San Jose – Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center HAWAII MINNESOTA Painesville – LGBTQ+ Allies Lake County Olympia – Pizza Klatch and Gender Diversity, Inc. San Luis Obispo – Gay & Lesbian Alliance (GALA) of Honolulu – Hawaii LGBT Legacy Foundation Westlake – Colors+ Youth Center Minneapolis – Twin Cities LGBTQ Seattle – Fearless Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – OUT Saskatoon the Central Coast Youngstown – Full Spectrum Community Outreach IDAHO Community Center Seattle – Gay City: Seattle’s LGBTQ Center San Luis Obispo – Cal Poly Pride Center Center CHINA San Mateo – San Mateo County Pride Center Pocatello – All Under One Roof MISSOURI Seattle – Ingersoll Gender Center OKLAHOMA Seattle – Lambert House Beijing – Beijing LGBT Center San Rafael – The Spahr Center Columbia – The Center Project, Inc. ILLINOIS Tulsa – The Dennis R. Neill Equality Center Tacoma – Oasis Youth Center Santa Ana – LGBTQ Center Orange County Kansas City – Kansas City Center for Inclusion FRANCE Chicago – Brave Space Alliance Tacoma – Rainbow Center Santa Barbara – Pacific Pride Foundation Kansas City – KC Passages OREGON Pantin – New Agency Chicago – Center on Halsted Santa Cruz – The Diversity Center Springfield – The Gay & Lesbian Center of the Ozarks Chicago – Affinity Community Services Astoria – Lower Columbia Q Center WISCONSIN UGANDA St. Louis – Pride Center of St. Louis Joliet – CAAN (Community Alliance & Action Network) Portland – Q Center La Crosse – 7 Rivers LGBTQ Connection Fem-Alliance Uganda

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