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01/20/2015

We’ve Got Mail!

We now have mailing address! Feel free to send us cute mail, donations and other things here: P.O. Box 150315, Brooklyn, NY 11215

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01/16/2015

TJFP makes Funders for LGBT Issues Honor Roll

Funders for LGBT Issues highlights 94 foundations that increased their LGBTQ grantmaking by 25 percent or more in 2013.  Thanks to our fabulous supporters, (probably you) TJFP is on the list! See who else is on the list.

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01/15/2015

TJFP application deadline just one month away!

Just a little reminder that the 2015 applications will be due in exactly one month from today. Please make sure you get yours in and/or tell everyone you know before February 15th! Applications available in English and Spanish and may be written in Spanish. Sólo un pequeño recordatorio de que 2015 solicitudes se pagarán en exactamente […]

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01/14/2015

COLORLINES Magazine, The Top 5 LGBT Issues for 2015

Safety and violence, “quality of life” laws, homeless lgbt youth and so much more. This article highlights several issues our communities are experiencing and working on everyday. Also, great shout outs to our friends at Southerners on New Ground and FIERCE!

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12/27/2014

Trans Justice in Action: 2014 Grantee Black and Pink

TJFP volunteer Rebecca Wisotsky chatted over the phone with our 2014 grantees to learn more about what their year has been like organizing their communities, providing public education and services, and working towards trans justice. Our grantees generously took the time to share their stories, including their success and challenges. Come meet some of our incredibly […]

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12/15/2014

TJFP on camera! Who are we and what do we do?

Check it out, it’s our film debut! Thanks to the Trans Justice Funding Project’s awesome volunteer Marin Watts,  you can now watch this video to learn what TJFP is all about, how it works and who you’ve been supporting. 2015 applications (in English and Spanish) are open now and due February 15th! Help us get the word out […]

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12/01/2014

Announcing the 2015 Trans Justice Funding Project Facilitators

The Trans Justice Funding Project is pleased to announce its 2015 community-led grantmaking panel facilitators! TJFP facilitators are essential to our community-led grantmaking process.  They are committed to guiding panelists towards making grant awards rooted in our core values and work tirelessly to facilitate panelists moving money across the U.S. In 2013 Nico Amador signed on to become TJFP’s very first facilitator. […]

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11/20/2014

All of Our Lives Matter! Trans Lives Matter!

November 14th-20th is Trans Awareness Week, leading up to Trans Day of Remembrance on the 20th. This is time to raise visibility for trans and gender non conforming people, speak the names of our dead, fight for the living and address issues that affect our communities and loved ones. Here are a few articles and videos that TJFP […]

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11/19/2014

Trans Day of Remembrance 2014

On this day and all year long, the Trans Justice Funding Project is sending love and strength to all of the trans warriors out there.  Whether you fight in your heart, from your bed, in your office, factory, prison cell or in the streets, we honor you. And to those who are no longer with us […]

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11/16/2014

TJFP’s very first article, Funding a Movement is out!

The Trans Justice Funding Project is so excited to be published! Download the pdf to read our article, Funding a Movement in the Grassroots Fundraising Journal’s November-December 2014 edition.  Visit the GIFT website to view more articles or to subscribe to the journal. Also, we’re so excited to be in the same edition with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project on the […]

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10/15/2014

#My2024 Hundreds of People and Thousands of Visions

#My2024 Join a Twitter town hall celebration Thurs Oct 16 at 4p ET/1pPT. Hundreds of people contributed thousands of future visions for new victories and new challenges over the next decade. The My2024 Declaration captures these visions, creating a statement of the top priorities, predictions, and goals from My2024 participants. Tomorrow, Thursday October 16, is […]

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09/24/2014

The Arcus Foundation and IFTF Team up for #My2024

The Arcus Foundation and the Institute for the Future (IFTF) are teaming up to create My2024, a national conversation and 10-day event that links LGBT communities across the country. Together, LGBT people will express visions regarding our futures as individuals and as a community, creating a world where everyone can live the life they love. […]

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