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IN THE MAKING - Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
IN THE MAKING - Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
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Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice<br />
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of Independent States region. Grant will support<br />
lectures and workshops on (cont.)<br />
transgender issues, weekly support groups and<br />
development of materials for their website.<br />
$5,000 www.gay-serbia.com<br />
Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (KPH)<br />
(Warsaw, Poland) for Poland's national LGBT<br />
organization to provide professional counseling<br />
support to lesbian and bisexual women.<br />
$4,000 www.kampania.org.pl<br />
Lezbijska Grupa KONTRA (Zagreb, Croatia)<br />
to support legal, media and other types of<br />
advocacy to defend and secure human rights<br />
for LGBT people in Croatia.<br />
$8,000 www.kontra.hr<br />
Organisation Q (Sarajevo, Bosnia &<br />
Herzegovina) to support this LGBTIQ and<br />
peace-building organization, including their<br />
development of a human rights documentation<br />
center, legal counseling clinic, and library.<br />
$10,000<br />
www.queer.ba/udruzenjeq/en/udruzenje.htm<br />
SKUC-LL (Ljubljana, Slovenia) for their LGBT<br />
library and archive project, which serves as a<br />
critical activist and academic resource for<br />
organizations and activists based throughout<br />
Eastern Europe. $5,000 www.ljudmila.org/lesbo<br />
MIDDLE EAST<br />
Aswat-Palestinian Gay Women (Haifa,<br />
Israel) to support development of materials,<br />
education and organizing focused on gender,<br />
gender identity and sexuality from a<br />
Palestinian feminist gay women’s perspective.<br />
$10,000 www.aswatgroup.org<br />
SOCIAL CHANGE OPPORTUNITY FUND<br />
The Social Change Opportunity Fund (SCOF) is<br />
an initiative that issues grants to LGBTI<br />
organizations with impressive track records<br />
conducting timely social change work in their<br />
countries. Applications are by invitation only<br />
and are solicited from past recipients of<br />
Astraea’s International Fund Panel Grants.<br />
SCOF supports organizations working on<br />
concrete projects towards institutional and<br />
policy change.<br />
Blue Diamond Society (Kathmandu, Nepal)<br />
is the main national LGBT organization in<br />
Nepal, working for the health, human rights,<br />
and well-being of sexual minorities (including<br />
Meti, Dohori, Ta, gay, bisexual, lesbian, Hijra,<br />
Singary, Fulumulu, Kothi, Kotha, Strian, Maugia,<br />
and Panthi people) in Nepal. Grant supports a<br />
campaign co-organized with Global Rights, to<br />
promote inclusion of protections based on<br />
sexual orientation and gender identity in the<br />
constitutional reform process in Nepal.<br />
$10,000 www.bds.org.np<br />
Colombia Diversa (Bogotá, Colombia) is<br />
Colombia’s main national LGBT organization.<br />
Working for the full inclusion, respect,<br />
recognition, and mobilization of LGBT people,<br />
their key areas of work include human rights<br />
policy change on issues affecting LGBT<br />
communities, human rights documentation,<br />
media education, and work in alliance with<br />
social, women’s and human rights movements.<br />
Grant supports their human rights project,<br />
which will document and publicize human<br />
rights violations against LGBT people in four<br />
cities, and build their communications and<br />
education strategies to mobilize people to<br />
advance LGBT rights. $75,000 over 3 years<br />
www.colombiadiversa.org/<br />
Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (KPH)<br />
(Warsaw, Poland) works to monitor and<br />
defend the human rights of sexual minorities<br />
in Poland. With seven branches throughout<br />
Poland, KPH is the largest LGBT organization<br />
in the country. Grant supports KPH’s LGBT<br />
human rights project and anti-discrimination<br />
center, which seek to fight discrimination<br />
based on sexual orientation in Poland, and in<br />
coordination with other anti-discrimination<br />
efforts in Eastern Europe. $75,000 over 3 years<br />
www.kampania.org.pl<br />
Labris-Lesbian Human Rights Organization<br />
(Belgrade, Serbia) was the first lesbian<br />
organization formed in the former Republic of<br />
Yugoslavia. Through media campaigns and<br />
public education, they work to end violence and<br />
discrimination against lesbians in Serbia,<br />
although their impact is felt by LGBT people<br />
overall. Grant supports Labris’ work to promote<br />
the inclusion of anti-discrimination measures in<br />
policy and human rights education of key public<br />
national and regional institutions (including the<br />
media, health care institutions, university<br />
policies, political parties, and police).<br />
$75,000 over 3 years www.labris.org.yu<br />
Mulabi Espacio Latinoamericano de<br />
Sexualidades y Derechos (Buenos Aires,<br />
Argentina) is a sexual and gender rights<br />
advocacy organization that also serves as a<br />
regional resource throughout Latin America.<br />
Grant supports their human rights work<br />
addressing the needs of transgender and<br />
gender non-conforming communities. They<br />
run a violence prevention project for gender<br />
non-conforming children and adolescents, as<br />
well as a project seeking legal recognition and<br />
an end to institutional violence by health care<br />
and other institutions towards transgender and<br />
intersex people. $75,000 over 3 years<br />
INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY FUND<br />
Astraea’s International Emergency Fund is<br />
a rapid-response grantmaking mechanism,<br />
providing timely support for organizations to