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04/22/2021

Introducing 2021 TJFP Community Grantmaking Fellow, Toi Washington!

TJFP is thrilled to announce the second of our six Community Grantmaking Fellows, Toi Washington! “A person can forget what you did or said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. If I can help somebody along the way, then my living is not in vain.” This is the mantra Toi T. […]

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04/15/2021

Introducing 2021 TJFP Community Grantmaking Fellow, Xoài Phạm!

TJFP is so excited to introduce the first of our six Community Grantmaking Fellows, Xoài Phạm!   Xoài is a Vietnamese trans person in a complicated relationship with womanhood. She descends from a long legacy of warriors, healers, and shamans. Her family arrived in California as refugees after the United States pillaged Southeast Asia. Her […]

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03/31/2021

Happy Trans Day of Visibility from TJFP!

  On Trans Day of Visibility, we at TJFP are reflecting on a piece written in 2015 by our former grantmaking meeting facilitator, Nico Amador, and the wisdom of the title–“Visibility Does Not Equal Justice.” (This article, and more, are available on our website at transjusticefundingproject.org/resources!) To be visible means that one is both a […]

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02/27/2021

A bridge to history: TJFP celebrates Black History Month!

“Every day I wake up, I bring my whole self to the table. There is never a day where I can leave my blackness, my queerness, my transness at home because somebody doesn’t agree with it or they don’t understand it.” -Quentin Bell, 2017 TJFP Community Grantmaking Fellow   In 2016, TJFP set out for […]

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02/07/2021

¡No se pierdan nuestra fecha límite de solicitud de subvención: El lunes 15 de Febrero a la medianoche, zona horaria de Pacífico!

¡Las solicitudes están disponibles a través de nuestro sitio web en www.transjusticefundingproject.org/solicitor! Estén atentos a nuestro Facebook e Instagram la próxima semana para obtener más información sobre nuestro proceso de solicitud. Si tienes alguna pregunta, puedes comunicarte a info@transjusticefundingproject.org.

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12/21/2020

Applications are open for 2021 Grants!

It’s that time again! Time for grassroots, trans-led, trans justice groups to apply for funding and for those of us who can, to donate what we can to support their work.  Please help us spread the word! The application is currently available in English and Spanish. Please make sure to read our guidelines first to determine […]

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12/18/2020

The fundamental truth of community, as we enter 2021

2020 has been neither seamless nor easy. A pandemic laid bare the cracks in an already overburdened healthcare system. A chaotic election further revealed the fragility of our systems of power and governance. Unceasing attacks on Black and trans lives have left communities reeling in anger and fear. But as Glo Ross, former facilitator for […]

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11/20/2020

Remembrance, Resilience, and Resistance

November 20th is Trans Day of Remembrance & Resilience. It’s a day to honor the legacies of our trans and nonbinary people who were taken from the world due to violence, discrimination, and hate. As we remember and honor their lives by saying their names with love and respect, it is a reminder that we shall […]

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11/19/2020

Happy Trans Awareness Week from TJFP!

Happy Trans Awareness Week! Were you aware that… – For every $100 awarded by U.S. foundations, only .04 cents supports transgender communities. – In 2016, a survey of 455 trans justice groups across the globe found that only half of these groups had any paid staff at all–meaning that the rest are doing life-saving work […]

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07/15/2020

Congratulations to our long time grantee and 2020 Grantmaking Fellow, Kayla Gore and My Sistah’s House!

A HUGE shout out to 2020 TJFP Grantmaking Fellow and long time TJFP grantee, Kayla Gore of My Sistah’s House! “Kayla Gore’s initial idea was to build some single residential units in the garden of My Sistah’s House, which provides emergency housing for trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people in Memphis, and which predominantly serves […]

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06/22/2020

Announcing TJFP’s 2020 Grantees!

We are pleased to announce that our 2020 grantmaking team moved over ONE MILLION DOLLARS to 261 grassroots trans-led groups around the country! TJFP is so grateful for this year’s team and for the time, energy, and heart that was poured into every part of this grantmaking process. Each year we feel overwhelmed by the […]

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06/02/2020

Young, Gifted, and Black: We Fight Back!

Beloved Community, Family, and Friends,  It would be impossible for us as grantmakers to ignore what’s happening in the United States right now. There is no way to overstate how vital Black trans lives have been to the Trans Justice Funding Project, to the grassroots trans organizers we serve, to the trans justice movement as […]

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