For the month of September Estrogentleman is donating $5 of every #estrogentleman or #changedman hat purchased from their Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/estrogentleman to TJFP! Check them out today!  

Right now in Brooklyn, a very sweet event is happening featuring amazing queer country artists!  Music, delicious food and after the artists get paid, remaining proceeds will be donated to TJFP.  Please come stop by if you can! Today! Another Country! 2-11pm at Littlefield This is the anti-July-4th, all-day, all-out extravaganza you’ve been waiting for! 13 amazing […]

Just two weeks ago the 2017 TJFP Fellowship team made their way to New York city to meet for the very first time in person.  Since March, each of them have dedicated their days, nights and weekends to carefully review all 175 applications received.  For three days the devoted grant making panelists gave their everything-as they selected grantees […]

We are so excited to welcome Que to the 2017 TJFP community grantmaking panel! Quentin “Que” Bell is a Black Trans activist, entrepreneur, and mentor born and raised in historic Selma, Alabama. Que received his Bachelor’s degree from Alabama State University in Business Administration with an Entrepreneurial Concentration. In the fall, Que, will be attending […]

We are so excited to welcome Drew Jones to the TJFP team! Drew is a white trans queer parent who started engaging in community advocacy work 15 years ago, starting with founding the first trans youth support group in Dallas. He received his BA in Anthropology with a minor in Ethnic Studies from the University of […]

Can we count on you to dream big with us this year? It’s TJFP’s 5th year and our community grant making fellowship team is finishing up reading ALL 176 applications before arriving in New York to make final decisions by the end of this month. We’re so close to the $10,000 mark and we still believe […]

Thank you Nina Chaubal for saying “Yes!” to joining TJFP’s 2017 funding team! Nina Chaubal is a queer, South Asian trans woman who is the co-founder and Director of Operations of Trans Lifeline – the first national crisis hotline for transgender people by transgender people. Her work focuses on preventing suicide and building a more resilient trans […]

A very warm welcome to TJFP’s second 2017 Community Grantmaking Fellow, Wriply Marie Bennet. Wriply Marie Bennet is a painter and illustrator, born and raised in Ohio. She uses her art to uplift her sisters in the black lives/ black transgender lives movement. She works in ink, watercolor and other mediums, and her art comes from an […]

It’s here! Check out the ONE HUNDRED AND TWO fabulous 2016 grantees, review articles, interviews, infographics and so much more. This report is filled with groups and information you just can’t find anywhere else. Please enjoy and feel free to share widely!     “Being part of the 2016 funding panel had so much meaning for me, […]

TJFP is so excited to introduce the first of our six Community Grantmaking Fellows, Cathy Kapua! Cathy Kapua hails from O`ahu, Hawaii and has worked with the transgender community since 2003. Cathy started as a Peer Educator and Employment Specialist at a transgender social service organization called Kulia Na Mamo. She then moved on to […]

“It is my hope that our people have a fighting chance-that those of us that are able, continue to use our strength to pursue life and ensure that all of us have a chance at the lives we dream of” -Elle Hearns, 2016 Grantmaking Panelist 176. That’s the unbelievable number of applications we received this year! As […]

“I so appreciate the vision of the Trans Justice Funding Project. The idea that small grassroots organizations finally has someone who hears and understands us…”–TJFP Grantee TJFP is about investing in trans communities making decisions by and for ourselves. Over the last four years, we’ve received 486 applications, and raised and given away over 315 […]