The Biden State Department's $12 million LGBTQI+ Spending Spree
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Since assuming office in 2021, the Biden administration has placed a significant focus on LGBT(QIA+) issues. In response to Biden's Executive Order on "Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation", the Department of State has issued almost $12 million in grants to organizations around the world to support LGBT-focused initiatives in foreign countries.
RandoLand has aggregated these grants:
Amount: $5,657,705
Recipient: Hias, inc.
Purpose: Enhanced social and economic protection of women, adolescent girls, survivors, and individuals identifying as LGBTIQ.
Country: Peru
Year: 2021
Amount: $2,300,000
Recipient: Hias, inc.
Purpose: To enhance the protection and inclusion of vulnerable refugees including LGBTQI persons and the host community in Nairobi, Kenya through community based interventions.
Country: Kenya
Year: 2022
Amount: $400,000
Recipient: Centre For Population Health initiatives
Purpose: To enhance protections for LGBTQI+ communities through sensitizing state and local police forces to vulnerable populations and ensuring their rights are protected.
Country: Nigeria
Year: 2021
Amount: $300,000
Recipient: Lesbians, Gays And Bisexuals Of Botswana
Purpose: Carry out a program to promote greater social acceptance of LGBTQI+ persons, including activities working with government officials, influential religious and traditional leaders; and to advocate for protection against discrimination in the workplace.
Country: Botswana
Year: 2022
Amount: $185,000
Recipient: Promoting Empowerment Through Awareness For Lesbian And Bisexual Women (PETAL)
Purpose: Strengthen capacity of community women's groups and individuals of diverse groups to influence anti-corruption reform through engagement and monitoring of government services delivery, increased knowledge, and improved behaviors and practices.
Country: Belize
Year: 2023
Amount: $73,372
Recipient: 17 Mayis Dernegi
Purpose: To support the increase of social awareness about LGBTI+ issues and to expand an LGBTI+ sensitive network between professional associations of social workers, psychologists and lawyers.
Country: Turkey
Year: 2022
Amount: $55,750
Recipient: Chicas Poderosas inc
Purpose: A journalistic and collaborative research about the impact of climate change in five regions of Argentina carried out by a team of female and LGBTQ journalists photographers and designers located in different parts of the country
Country: Argentina
Year: 2021
Amount: $50,524
Recipient: The Teamwork Fine Arts Society
Purpose: To sponsor a series of sessions on raising women's voices in global health security at the 2022 Jaipur literature festival and writers shorts on LGBTQI and Indian American Diaspora.
Country: India
Year: 2022
Amount: $49,950
Recipient: Siete Luces
Purpose: To provide psychological guidance and emotional support to the LGBTQ+ youth community in Peru.
Country: Peru
Year: 2023
Amount: $49,812
Recipient: Yr Gaitonde Medical, Educational And Research Foundation
Purpose: To sensitize employees of corporate entities in Hyderabad and Chennai toward transgender persons in their workforce, adopt inclusive policies, and create a safe and nurturing work environment.
Country: India
Year: 2023
Amount: $47,160
Recipient: Dunya insani Dayanisma Dernegi
Purpose: To support counselling and training services for 72 volunteer psychologists. Trainings will be structured according to the special needs of children, LGBTI+s, women, the disabled, the elderly, those living with HIV, and refugees.
Country: Turkey
Year: 2022
Amount: $46,500
Recipient: NGO Spektra
Purpose: To improve the status of human rights of TIGV (transgender, intersex, and gender-variant) persons in Montenegro through programs aiming to empower TIGV community and advocacy activities for legal gender recognition and trans-specific healthcare.
Country: Montenegro
Year: 2022
Amount: $46,310
Recipient: Udruzenje Da Se Zna!
Purpose: Boosting resilience through countering inequality - access to justice for LGBT+ people in Serbia
Country: Serbia
Year: 2022
Amount: $45,000
Recipient: Sydney Worldpride Limited
Purpose: To welcome LGBTQIA + people from across the globe to honor elders and communities, acknowledge connections and empower each other to celebrate together
Country: Australia
Year: 2023
Amount: $42,667
Recipient: Predstavnistvo Civil Rights Defenders Beograd
Purpose: To organize a community engagement of 50 activists and experts from Serbia, supported by regional activists and experts from the region, during the human rights conference which will explore in depth current LGBTI+ issues in Serbia.
Country: Serbia
Year: 2022
Amount: $42,010
Recipient: Humpty Dumpty institute
Purpose: Promote human rights, increase LGBTI+ inclusion, and promotion U.S. culture through art performance of Well-Strung Quartet
Country: Kazakhstan
Year: 2021
Amount: $41,358
Recipient: Crnogorska LGBTIQ Asocijacija Kvir Montenegro (Queer Montenegro)
Purpose: To contribute to the improvement of respect for the human rights of LGBTIQ people and promotion of greater social acceptance of LGBTIQ people through the media in Montenegro.
Country: Montenegro
Year: 2022
Amount: $41,000
Recipient: Qendra Streha
Purpose: Strengthening professionals capacities of professionals in remote areas to protect LGBTI+ people from violence and discrimination
Country: Albania
Year: 2022
Amount: $40,280
Recipient: Unikuir Universiteli Kuir Arastirmalari Ve Lezbiyen Gey
Purpose: To support LGBTI+ activism in non-metropolitan cities of turkey through workshops and training with the purpose to reinforce respect for LGBTI+ rights.
Country: Turkey
Year: 2021
Amount: $40,000
Recipient: Redhac
Purpose: Strengthen skills of female HRDs, defenders of vulnerable human rights plus LGBTQIA, community and opinion leaders on regional and international human rights protection mechanisms and instruments in the center, Adamawa, littoral to benefit 950 persons.
Country: Cameroon
Year: 2022
Amount: $38,800
Recipient: Udruzenje Zena interactiv
Purpose: To create a safe and non-discriminatory school environment for LGBTQI+ persons in BIH.
Country: Bosnia And Herzegovina
Year: 2023
Amount: $38,000
Recipient: Ravshani Po (Light)
Purpose: increase the level of acceptance and reduce the level of discrimination against members of the LGBTIQ community.
Country: Tajikistan
Year: 2021
Amount: $35,000
Recipient: Kent State University
Purpose: To support a series of exhibitions and public engagements around the resilience during the pandemic: LGBTQ+ stories project across the UK.
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2022
Amount: $34,944
Recipient: Devising Change Through Activism
Purpose: To strengthen social cohesion and resilience between the LGBTIQ+ individuals and local communities through playback theatre.
Country: Nepal
Year: 2023
Amount: $32,500
Recipient: Instituto Dominicano de Desarrollo Integral
Purpose: Support the first LGBTQI+ Santo Domingo International Biennial proposing an inclusive, non-discriminatory space, open to visual artists addressing the subject: love, the language that unifies us
Country: Dominican Republic
Year: 2021
Amount: $32,000
Recipient: Comision Intercambio Educativo Entre Peru-Eua
Purpose: To cover expenses to produce a tailored-made comic, featuring an LGBTQ+ hero to address social and mental health issues.
Country: Peru
Year: 2022
Amount: $28,000
Recipient: Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano de Guayaquil
Purpose: English language training for 6 months for 20 representatives from LGBTIQ+, environment, and afroecuadorian rights NGOs
Country: Ecuador
Year: 2022
Amount: $26,563
Recipient: Sexual Rights Centre
Purpose: Work with marginalized populations of PLWHIV, MSM, female sex workers (FSW), children, adolescents, LGBTQI, and people living with disabilities (PWD), to improve CLM for social accountability and quality HIV and sexual rights health.
Country: Zimbabwe
Year: 2021
Amount: $25,000
Recipient: Rainbow Migration
Purpose: Enable LGBTQI+ people anywhere in the UK to receive quality specialist legal information on the asylum process.
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2022
Amount: $25,000
Recipient: Caritas Roma - Cooperativa Roma Solidarieta
Purpose: The Julia Taft fund will be used by Cooperativa Roma Solidarieta Caritas Roma to provide care, including education and vocational training, to transsexual and transgender victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation in Rome.
Country: Italy
Year: 2023
Amount: $25,000
Recipient: Asia Pacific Alliance
Purpose: Improving awareness and capacity building of stakeholders around SRHR for women and LGBTI+ refugees in Thailand
Country: Thailand
Year: 2023
Amount: $25,000
Recipient: Hand2Mouth
Purpose: To support training and empowerment of the group of 50 underprivileged women, minorities and LGBTQ youth representatives.
Country: Serbia
Year: 2021
Amount: $25,000
Recipient: Universidad de Los Andes
Purpose: To raise awareness and increase the transgender representation through The Opera As One, by American composer Laura Kaminsky.
Country: Colombia
Year: 2021
Amount: $25,000
Recipient: Cyprus Refugee Council
Purpose: The project aims to offer psychosocial support LGBTIQ+ persons of concern and enhance their self-reliance by enabling and empowering their participation in social life, heal and create bonds with others in the host community.
Country: Cyprus
Year: 2022
Amount: $25,000
Recipient: Beijing Zhuangni Consulting CO., Ltd.
Purpose: Support a series events organized by Beijing Zhuangzi against discrimination towards the marginalised LGBT community
Country: China
Year: 2021
Amount: $25,000
Recipient: New Generation Humanitarian NGO
Purpose: To contribute to the protection of the rights and integration of LGBTI refugees, asylum seekers and returnees living in Armenia.
Country: Armenia
Year: 2022
Amount: $25,000
Recipient: Centre For Human Rights And Rehabilitation (CHRR)
Purpose: To contribute towards human rights efforts that ensure LGBTI+ refugees and asylum seekers have equal access to required protection and assistance at Dzaleka refugee camp.
Country: Malawi
Year: 2022
Amount: $24,999
Recipient: Albergue Temporal Casa Arcoiris Ac
Purpose: Post will obligate funds from PRM FY 2022 Julia Taft refugee fund to implement a grant to contribute to the human right to access health care with a focus on gender, mental health, sexual rights, and comprehensive care for vulnerable LGBTQI+ migrants
Country: Mexico
Year: 2022
Amount: $24,999
Recipient: Hias, inc.
Purpose: To provide critical legal protection and assistance to LGBTQI+ asylum seekers individuals in Israel, enabling them to access rights and services
Country: Israel
Year: 2022
Amount: $24,999
Recipient: Research Foundation For The State University Of New York
Purpose: To implement virtual exchange focused on the U.S. embassy integrated country strategy goals including gender based violence, public health, environment, climate change, energy, democracy, transparency, citizen security, LGBTQI rights, and access to education
Country: Dominican Republic
Year: 2021
Amount: $24,997
Recipient: Fundacion Dialogo Diverso
Purpose: Promote and protect the rights of the LGBTIQ+ population in human mobility situation and vulnerable host communities in Ecuador.
Country: Ecuador
Year: 2022
Amount: $24,980
Recipient: Pink Human Rights Defender NGO
Purpose: To provide support to LGBTQ+ people in Armenia from among migrants, internally displaced people, asylum seekers and refugees by provision of comprehensive support services.
Country: Armenia
Year: 2023
Amount: $24,969
Recipient: Foundation For The Rights Of Disadvantaged Populations
Purpose: Implement the project titled 'improving digital empathy for LGBTQI forcibly displaced persons in Thailand' to document the voices, accounts, evidence, and experiences of internationally displaced LGBTQI+ persons in Thailand
Country: Thailand
Year: 2022
Amount: $24,950
Recipient: Fundacion Dialogo Diverso
Purpose: To implement the I Exist project aimed at promoting social integration and economic inclusion of the LGBTIQ+ migrants, refugees, and host populations, with emphasis to individuals with disabilities, and micro and small entrepreneurs.
Country: Ecuador
Year: 2023
Amount: $24,908
Recipient: Humpty Dumpty institute
Purpose: to organize six day program of Well-Strung in Bulgaria, aiming to strengthen U.S/Bulgarian partnerships, engage underserved youth, and promote inclusion of the LGBTI+ community
Country: Bulgaria
Year: 2022
Amount: $24,848
Recipient: Association Of American Voices
Purpose: To support an arts envoy program with the House of Xtravaganza. Post will mark the celebration of LGBTQI+ pride month in Argentina showcasing the artistic work and activism of the House of Xtravaganza.
Country: Argentina
Year: 2023
Amount: $24,843
Recipient: Total Health Empowerment And Development Initiative
Purpose: Promote social and health justice for adolescent and young men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender persons (TG) at higher risk of HIV in Benue state with appropriate structural, behavioral and biomedical services.
Country: Nigeria
Year: 2021
Amount: $24,068
Recipient: Creme de la Creme House Of Fame Foundation
Purpose: Promote human rights for transgender people and create a safe place for transgender individuals in Abuja
Country: Nigeria
Year: 2021
Amount: $24,000
Recipient: Rise initiative For Women Right Advocacy
Purpose: To provide psychosocial support, security awareness training, and economic empowerment opportunities to members of the LGBTI community in south Sudan. This projects supports the presidential memorandum on advancing the human rights of LGBTIQ persons.
Country: South Sudan
Year: 2021
Amount: $24,000
Recipient: Sinnaneun Center Inc.
Purpose: To build and support of shared values of human rights and social inclusion of LGBTQI+ persons through a film festival
Country: South Korea
Year: 2022
Amount: $23,287
Recipient: Eesti LGBT Uhing
Purpose: To support the development of an on-line learning toolbox called 'Diverse Estonia' for students to access comprehensive study material on human rights and LGBTQ topics, including anti-bullying.
Country: Estonia
Year: 2021
Amount: $23,050
Recipient: Yaaj Transformando Tu Vida A.C.
Purpose: To provide LGBTQI+ public servants, legislators, and leaders the proper tools to increase their impact when advocating for their communities and fight against the obstacles that reproduce inequalities against LGBTQI+ people and reduce the challenges for
Country: Mexico
Year: 2023
Amount: $22,900
Recipient: Sisters Foundation
Purpose: To conduct a three-day workshop for 30 emerging leaders from LGBT networks and organizations in Thailand in order to strengthen a civil society practices on well-being, empowerment and burnout prevention of trans human rights defenders (THRDS).
Country: Thailand
Year: 2021
Amount: $22,889
Recipient: Grupa Izadji
Purpose: To cover the costs related to creation of 3 videos which will be used in reducing prejudices against LGBTI persons.
Country: Serbia
Year: 2021
Amount: $22,000
Recipient: Iniciativa Inakost
Purpose: The purpose of this award is to improve the perceptions of the LGBTI+ community by influencing the way the community is portrayed by public institutions and the media.
Country: Slovakia
Year: 2022
Amount: $22,000
Recipient: Cameroonian Foundation For Aids
Purpose: Contribute in reducing the increase of violence and violations of the rights of 249 LGBTQI+ people and their defenders in Cameroon.
Country: Cameroon
Year: 2021
Amount: $22,000
Recipient: Foundation For Sogi Rights And Justice
Purpose: To advocate LGBTQI+ rights and marriage equality by using storytelling techniques in public advocacy and strengthen LGBTQI+ movement in Thailand
Country: Thailand
Year: 2022
Amount: $21,738
Recipient: Corp Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin
Purpose: Bring together leading American artists and thinkers to reflect on art, ecology, culture, activism, the LGBTQI+ movement, philosophy and technology especially through video.
Country: Colombia
Year: 2021
Amount: $21,631
Recipient: Cesso Community Empowerment And Self Support Organization
Purpose: Cesso apprenticeship project will target 50 LGBTQI refugee beneficiaries and provide training in five sectors, including barbering, hairdressing, beauty therapy and cosmetology, food production, and computer programming.
Country: Kenya
Year: 2022
Amount: $21,589
Recipient: Storycenter
Purpose: To support LGBTQ+ leaders in diverse fields to represent their own stories, as short digital videos and podcasts, and build a strong public awareness campaign.
Country: india
Year: 2021
Amount: $21,008
Recipient: Lawfulness 4 Mexico Ac
Purpose: To implement the AEIF 2022 project that will combat increasing violence against women, LGBT and other populations in Michoacan, Mexico.
Country: Mexico
Year: 2022
Amount: $20,000
Recipient: Fundacao Getulio Vargas
Purpose: Project to train cis and trans women candidates on soft and hard skills needed for the full exercise of their political rights. It contributes to the reduction of the deficit in gender representation by increasing women's access to politics in Brazil.
Country: Brazil
Year: 2021
Amount: $20,000
Recipient: Festival D'Automne A Paris
Purpose: U.S. choreographer's participation in the Festival d'Automne will highlight the United States commitment to LGBT+ rights and diversity.
Country: France
Year: 2023
Amount: $20,000
Recipient: Arcoiris de Timor-Leste (ATL)
Purpose: To raise community awareness, educational events on LGBTQI and capacity building for LGBTQI support groups.
Country: Timor-Leste
Year: 2021
Amount: $20,000
Recipient: Cidene
Purpose: Organize and implement two entrepreneurship business development programs for members of the LGBTQI+ community: one in Lima and one in a provincial city Peru. Participants will compete for seed funds.
Country: Peru
Year: 2023
Amount: $20,000
Recipient: Somos Parte Del Mundo
Purpose: This ARDF will help to provide comprehensive care for LGBTQ victims of tip in Equatorial Guinea
Country: Equatorial Guinea
Year: 2022
Amount: $20,000
Recipient: Shoqata Open Mind Spectrum Alb-Omsa
Purpose: The aim of this project is to prevent hate speech and discrimination through increasing public awareness and empowerment of civil society in defense of the youth & LGBTI rights
Country: Albania
Year: 2021
Amount: $19,995
Recipient: Fenway Community Health Center, inc.
Purpose: Costs connected with the project training, technical assistance, and capacity-building to enhance culturally responsive mental health care for Polish LGBTQIA+ communities.
Country: Poland
Year: 2021
Amount: $19,808
Recipient: Crnogorska LGBTIQ Asocijacija Kvir Montenegro (Queer Montenegro)
Purpose: To promote tolerance, equality, acceptance among youth in regard to LGBTIQ persons and contribute to decreasing homophobia and transphobia through the introduction of the concept of Gay-Straight alliance clubs to local communities and schools.
Country: Montenegro
Year: 2021
Amount: $19,712
Recipient: LGBTIQ Socijalni Centar
Purpose: To make the high school system in the northern area of Montenegro a safer and more inclusive space for LGBTIQ students.
Country: Montenegro
Year: 2021
Amount: $19,700
Recipient: Fundacja Herstory
Purpose: Costs associated with the educational project Rainbow Empowerment- support program for activists and service providers to LGBT+ community.
Country: Poland
Year: 2021
Amount: $18,500
Recipient: Shoqata Open Mind Spectrum Alb-Omsa
Purpose: Youth 4 human rights aims to prevent hate speech, discrimination and exclusion, through empowerment of civil society in defense of the youth and LGBTI rights, and by increasing public awareness.
Country: Albania
Year: 2023
Amount: $18,232
Recipient: Gaya Nusantara
Purpose: To strengthen the legal aid command post for LGBT communities through capacity building, regular meetings and production of campaign materials
Country: Indonesia
Year: 2022
Amount: $18,000
Recipient: Sisters Foundation
Purpose: To strengthen a civil society practices on well-being, empowerment, and burnout prevention of LGBTQI+ human rights defenders through workshops for LGBTQI+ leaders in Thailand
Country: Thailand
Year: 2022
Amount: $17,605
Recipient: Collectif Arc-En-Ciel
Purpose: A research hub and inclusive space promoting the wellbeing and integration of the LGBTQIA+ community in Mauritius which will provide and compile materials, including US-based resources, for academics researching LGBTQIA+ subjects.
Country: Mauritius
Year: 2021
Amount: $16,141
Recipient: Associazione Culturale Mix Milano
Purpose: To support the mix international film festival of LGBTQI + film in a program that will feature a significant number of films directed and produced by Americans and that highlight critical issues surrounding LGBT culture in the United States
Country: Italy
Year: 2021
Amount: $16,000
Recipient: Fundacion Sentido
Purpose: Provide tools, resources and opportunities to support journalists and activists in Colombia and in Latin America in gaining a better understanding of the use of disinformation and gender restrictive narratives against LGBTIQ and women's rights.
Country: Colombia
Year: 2022
Amount: $15,164
Recipient: Fundacion Sergio David Urrego Reyes
Purpose: Create a culture that is smart about mental health through education, arts, and community programs while encouraging debate and conversations about the human rights of LGBTQ persons, inclusive education, and the dangers and abuses.
Country: Colombia
Year: 2022
Amount: $15,000
Recipient: Washington State University
Purpose: To organize a three-day, train-the-trainer workshop for 30 participants on promoting a better understanding of diversity and inclusion and becoming LGBTQI+ allies, followed by these master trainers training another 2500 individuals on this theme.
Country: India
Year: 2023
Amount: $15,000
Recipient: Safe Space
Purpose: Support #connection | LGBTQ+ workshops & a card game - creating dialogue, understanding, and acceptance for the LGBTQ+ community and its allies
Country: Latvia
Year: 2023
Amount: $15,000
Recipient: Rainbow in The East
Purpose: The purpose of this award is to support diversity, acceptance and solidarity towards LGBTQ+ people and their families in eastern Slovakia.
Country: Slovakia
Year: 2021
Amount: $15,000
Recipient: Fundacion Para El Fomento de la Lectura-Fundalectura
Purpose: The Queer Archive is a collaborative project between PDS Bogota and National Library of Colombia to document the history, culture, and stories of the LGBTQI+ community in Colombia.
Country: Colombia
Year: 2023
Amount: $14,950
Recipient: Aleanca LGBT
Purpose: Equal rights for all LGBTI+s through strategic litigation to help with the development of a strategy that will serve US long term as a working plan for strategic litigation.
Country: Albania
Year: 2021
Amount: $14,011
Recipient: Turuncu Dernegi
Purpose: To support the training of social workers, psychologists/psychological counselors and lawyers on gender equality and LGBTI+ rights within the rural districts of Izmir province.
Country: Turkey
Year: 2022
Amount: $13,910
Recipient: Queer indonesia Archive
Purpose: To collect and preserve materials reflecting the long-standing histories of the LGBTIQ+ communities of Indonesia
Country: Indonesia
Year: 2021
Amount: $12,500
Recipient: WA Aids Councils Inc.
Purpose: Interactive event at Yagan square in the middle of Perth to bring together the community on World AIDS day; and to expand the Pride Queer Film festival to other locations in Western Australia.
Country: Australia
Year: 2021
Amount: $12,408
Recipient: Stowarzyszenie Teczowka
Purpose: Costs connected with the project I am LGBT+, I know my rights. Legal education for LGBT+ community.
Country: Poland
Year: 2021
Amount: $12,300
Recipient: LGBT United Tetovo
Purpose: Strengthen the LGBTI community, parents, friends and supporters of the LGBTI community in the fight against discrimination, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia at the local level.
Country: Macedonia
Year: 2021
Amount: $11,450
Recipient: 17 Mayis Dernegi
Purpose: To support the well-being of LGBTI+ human rights defenders and help them to make their activism sustainable by strengthening the ties between different LGBTI+ organizations in Turkey.
Country: Turkey
Year: 2022
Amount: $11,350
Recipient: Association Of American Voices
Purpose: To support an arts envoy program with the House of Xtravaganza. Post will mark the celebration of LGBTQI+ pride month in Argentina showcasing the artistic work and activism of the House of Xtravaganza.
Country: Argentina
Year: 2023
Amount: $10,760
Recipient: Asociacija "In Corpore"
Purpose: Increase tolerance for social minorities: to support the project archiving queer memory: historical transition and material culture of LGBT+ community in Lithuania.
Country: Lithuania
Year: 2021
Amount: $10,300
Recipient: Network Of Aids Services Organization
Purpose: To provide sewing machines to enhance the capacity of 15 refugee tailors and support construction of two boreholes in Siwuol and Mandina to access clean drinking water for refugee host communities and LGBTQI+ refugees
Country: Gambia
Year: 2022
Amount: $10,000
Recipient: Document Our History Now
Purpose: To support the documentary film of the visibility of LGBTI in Cambodia project in Cambodia
Country: Cambodia
Year: 2021
Amount: $10,000
Recipient: Impulso Trans, A.C.
Purpose: To continue our efforts to raise awareness and connect key stakeholders of the LGBTQ+ community, the consulate proposes to support local NGO impulso Trans with their second Trans-Urbana conference.
Country: Mexico
Year: 2023
Amount: $10,000
Recipient: Eesti LGBT Uhing
Purpose: To raise awareness of and demonstrate support for LGBTQI+ issues and the importance of DEIA through support for the Baltic Pride 2023 Festival in Tallinn.
Country: Estonia
Year: 2023
Amount: $10,000
Recipient: Impulso Trans, A.C.
Purpose: To continue our efforts to raise awareness and connect key stakeholders of the LGBTQ community, the consulate proposes to support the conference Trans-Urbana, organized by local NGO Impulso Trans.
Country: Mexico
Year: 2023
Amount: $10,000
Recipient: Rainbow In The East
Purpose: The purpose of this award is to support diversity, acceptance and solidarity towards LGBTQ+ people and their families in eastern Slovakia.
Country: Slovakia
Year: 2022
Amount: $10,000
Recipient: WA Aids Councils Inc.
Purpose: Raise awareness through bringing together the community of World AIDS day and support for Pride Queer Film Festival
Country: Australia
Year: 2023
Amount: $9,750
Recipient: Fundacja Filmgramm
Purpose: Organization of the 13th LGBT film festival in Warsaw and six other major cities in Poland, April 2022.
Country: Poland
Year: 2022
Amount: $9,191
Recipient: Team No Sleep CBO
Purpose: Team no sleep would like to use funding to strengthen their outreach and peer navigation in reaching, linking and returning to care for HIV positive LGBTI refugee asylum seekers in Nairobi.
Country: Kenya
Year: 2021
Amount: $8,800
Recipient: Casal Lambda
Purpose: Collaborate in the 25th edition of world renowned film festival Fire!, located in Barcelona, offering an effective platform to show our support and commitment to the LGBTQI+ community during pride month.
Country: Spain
Year: 2021
Amount: $8,500
Recipient: Bimba
Purpose: To develop advocacy and awareness tools to reach out to grassroot communities and raise awareness on the lived experiences of LGBT in Kiribati
Country: Kiribati
Year: 2021
Amount: $8,085
Recipient: Lietuvos Geju Lyga
Purpose: To support the rainbow family acceptance action, a multi-level program designed to address and raise awareness on a variety Lithuanian LGBTI family rights issues and effectively disseminate a compelling message of openness, diversity and inclusion.
Country: Lithuania
Year: 2021
Amount: $8,020
Recipient: Associazione Culturale Mix Milano
Purpose: To support the 37the edition of the mix international film festival of LGBTQI + film in a program that will feature a number of films directed and/or produced by Americans
Country: Italy
Year: 2023
Amount: $8,000
Recipient: Ballarat international Foto Biennale inc.
Purpose: Advancing U.S. and Australian shared values of LGBTQI+ human rights at the Ballarat international foto biennale
Country: Australia
Year: 2021
Amount: $7,551
Recipient: Associacao Lambda - Alliance
Purpose: Promote the positive visibility of the LGBT community through variety activities, such as live webinar, production of audiovisual videos with participation of human rights activists, radio & tv interviews and testimonial videos.
Country: Mozambique
Year: 2021
Amount: $7,072
Recipient: Women's Enterprise Organizations Of Canada
Purpose: As part of the building back better initiative, the grant will support a three-part speaker and networking series to expand knowledge around supplier diversity in support of the BIPOC, LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities.
Country: Canada
Year: 2021
Amount: $7,000
Recipient: Rainbow In The East
Purpose: The purpose of this award is to support diversity, acceptance and solidarity towards LGBTQ+ people and their families in eastern Slovakia.
Country: Slovakia
Year: 2023
Amount: $6,508
Recipient: initiative For Advancement Of Humanity
Purpose: Support economic empowerment for men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender persons for self reliance, to address high-risk transactional sex and related violence affecting these populations.
Country: Nigeria
Year: 2021
Amount: $5,500
Recipient: Drustvo Dih
Purpose: Extending awareness of LGBTIQ rights by hosting training for local volunteers and activists outside of major cities based on U.S. models.
Country: Slovenia
Year: 2020
Amount: $5,000
Recipient: Associacao Lambda - Alliance
Purpose: Provide training for members of parliament, representing 3 parties, to increase their awareness and know-how about basic human rights of LGBT people.
Country: Mozambique
Year: 2021
Amount: $5,000
Recipient: Regionalni Info Centar
Purpose: To support the visibility of LGBTI community in art and culture in Serbia by organizing Merlinka International Queer Film Festival.
Country: Serbia
Year: 2021
Amount: $5,000
Recipient: Lietuvos Jaunimo Centras, Vsi
Purpose: To provide technical assistance to the LGBTQI news portal Gayline, in order to empower Lithuania's LGBTQI community and strengthen societal support for democratic values, human rights, tolerance and inclusivity.
Country: Lithuania
Year: 2021
Amount: $5,000
Recipient: Ara Art, Z.S.
Purpose: This project leverages the preexisting Prague Pride events and March to highlight ongoing inequities including overall invisibility of the Roma LGBT community, as part of a regional initiative.
Country: Czechia
Year: 2021
Amount: $5,000
Recipient: Association Des Jeunes Solidaires de Garoua (AJSGA)
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to reduce the violence and discrimination suffered by LGBTQI people in northern Cameroon by transforming social norms.
Country: Cameroon
Year: 2022
Amount: $5,000
Recipient: GLBTI Rights in Ageing inc. (GRAI)
Purpose: The village connect project focuses on a range of inter-generational activities, including a queer book club, t-gens cafe, iconic barn dance, and a community dinner. All these events work from the philosophy of empowering LGBTI elders to support others.
Country: Australia
Year: 2022
Amount: $5,000
Recipient: Universidad Del Pacifico
Purpose: Conduct an in-person workshop on the reactivation of LGBTQI+ businesses in Loreto Peru. Experts will provide the basics for participants to establish or improve their businesses and strategies to fight discrimination.
Country: Peru
Year: 2022
Amount: $5,000
Recipient: Journal Rage Media Inc.
Purpose: This project will advance the bureau of democracy human rights and labor goal of increasing respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms by supporting sensitive coverage of the LGBTQI+ community in Liberia.
Country: Liberia
Year: 2022
Amount: $4,535
Recipient: Valodu Muzejs
Purpose: To support poetry collection and online poetry reading, highlighting LGBT community.
Country: Latvia
Year: 2021
Amount: $2,800
Recipient: Kulturno Drustvo Kino Gleadless Bezigrad
Purpose: This award supports a film festival that aims to promote human rights, equality and awareness for the LGBTIQ+ community through the power of cinema. The project will be presented in related to the Pride month.
Country: Slovenia
Year: 2023
Amount: $2,425
Recipient: Centar Za Mlade Kvart
Purpose: To increase the LGBTIQ movement visibility in bih by contributing to the organization of bih pride March and to provide safe spaces in two cities in BIH.
Country: Bosnia And Herzegovina
Year: 2023
Amount: $1,650
Recipient: Unity For Change
Purpose: To organize public events to raise awareness on the issues of and to encourage visibility, acceptance, support, inclusiveness and equal rights for LGBTIQ+ community
Country: Nepal
Year: 2022
Amount: $1,650
Recipient: Friends Hetauda
Purpose: To sensitize the newly elected local government representatives and the general public for the visibility and empowerment of LGBTIQ+ communities.
Country: Nepal
Year: 2022
Amount: $1,650
Recipient: Mono Supporting Maple Group (MSMG)
Purpose: To organize public events to aware government authorities, policy makers and general public about LGBTQI+ issues and rights.
Country: Nepal
Year: 2022
Amount: $1,550
Recipient: Lead Nepal
Purpose: To organize public events for awareness about LGBTQI+ issues and rights.
Country: Nepal
Year: 2023
Amount: $1,550
Recipient: Samarpan Savya Samaj Nepal
Purpose: To organize street drama to aware government authorities, policy makers and public about LGBTQI+ issues and rights.
Country: Nepal
Year: 2023
Amount: $1,500
Recipient: Diversify
Purpose: To support a U.S. speaker at the program - amplifying LGBTQIA+ inclusion in the workplace and society - on April 25, 2023.
Country: Norway
Year: 2023
Amount: $616
Recipient: Association Des Journalistes Lesbiennes Gay Bi Trans
Purpose: A Fulbright NGO leader alumna interviewed a 100 U.S. feminist, lesbian, anti-racist journalists & activists in the u.s. she will write up and publish these interviews online.
Country: France
Year: 2021
