It happened! It really happened! Last night we met our April Fundraising Campaign goal, raising just a little over $15,000. Do you know what that means? Because of you, TJFP donors and supporters, this weekend our community grantmaking panel will be able to move $200,000 directly to grassroots, trans-led, trans justice groups and organizations. I […]
Amazing! People are really amazing! A huge thank you to everyone who’s already donated, reposted or tweeted about our April Fundraising Campaign. What you can’t see from the counter on our fundraising page (because it only reflects paypal donations) is that we are now just $1,014 away from raising $15,000 in one month! We’re on the […]
As the director of the Trans Justice Funding Project please bare with me as I take a moment to get a little personal. Yesterday I received this message from my mother, one of the biggest supporters I have ever had. She wrote, “Count me in. I will donate today. I look forward to being able to […]
TJFP April Fundraising Campaign Update: So far we’ve raised $4,964! Can we do it? Can we make our $15,000 goal by THIS Thursday? If we meet our goal then next weekend the community panel will able to give away $200,000 to grassroots, trans-led, trans justice groups and organizations across the country. What a feeling that would […]
WHEN DO WE WANT IT… NOW! Here’s your chance to help resource trans-led, grassroots groups and organizations fighting for trans justice. There’s no donation too small to show your love and support today. Join TJFP’s April Fundraising Campaign if you can!
Nope, that’s not a headline from the Onion satirical newspaper. Sadly, it really happened. Memories Pizza, the Indiana restaurant that said it would refuse to cater gay weddings under the state’s controversial religious freedom law, has raised more than $800,000 from supporters. Can you imagine how much impact the trans justice movement could have if we […]
Help TJFP Raise $15,000 by April 23rd! From the Ground to the Sky: TJFP’s April Fundraising Campaign As the Trans Justice Funding Project (TJFP) enters its third grant cycle, we’re more determined then ever to continue supporting trans-led, grassroots, trans justice groups and organizations. In February, we received a remarkable 144 applications. That’s 37% more applications […]
Completing the 2015 TJFP all-star grant making team is.. long time TJFP volunteer, Marin Watts! Marin is a queer trans Filipino-American videographer, artist, and media educator living and working in East Harlem, NY. Culturally rooted in the American South, with family ties to the Philippines, he uses video, photography, and textiles to explore the intersections of […]
In honor of Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31st, here are 10 ways to show your support for the trans community. Thanks for the shout out Buzzfeed! Please consider making a donation for the Trans Justice Funding Project’s 2015 funding cycle today?
TJFP is honored to have former grantee, Ruby Corado join this year’s grant making panel. Ruby was born in San Salvador, El Salvador. She fled a civil war when she was 16 years old. Now 45 years old, she has lived in Washington, D.C. for the past 30 years where She has devoted the last […]
TJFP is sending love and condolences to the family, friends and community of Blake Brockington. Blake was active in cultural change work, direct action and doing so much for his community. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Friends and community members are today mourning the passing of a local transgender youth activist, Blake Brockington, who died as the result of suicide […]
Yesterday morning in Atlanta, GA, Trans Justice Funding Project Director Gabriel Foster and Caitlin Breedlove, Co-Director of Southerners on New Ground, co-moderated an unbelievably POWERFUL panel, at Funders for LGBTQ Issues‘s Funding Forward. This panel, Critical Voices: Trans Justice in the South featured TJFP grantee, Dee Dee Chamble of LaGender and Juan Evans from Solutions Not Punishment […]