Trans Justice Funding Project is excited to be at “Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference” presented by the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT) from August 12 – 14th, 2016 in Denver, CO. TJFP Executive Director, Gabriel Foster will be speaking at the closing plenary, Bold Shifts for Resourcing Our Movements, alongside Jeannette Huezo […]

Give OUT Day is the ONLY national day of giving for the LGBTQ community – a 24-hour online fundraising event that unites the LGBTQ community from all 50 states, Puerto Rico and D.C. to raise critically needed funds. Many of TJFP’s grantees and applicants are participating. Please consider donating to them directly! Check out the list […]

We’re updating our website and added a useful resource section so you can learn more about TJFP! You can easily download essays and articles about TJFP’s theory of funding, thoughts from our community grantmaking panel over the years, and much more!              

The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP) is a member of the Prison Divestment Steering Committee with Enlace, and they’ve just help introduce a bill to end prison tax breaks. “Ending taxpayer subsidies for private prisons is part of a larger necessary effort to end private prisons entirely, and to end the criminalization and hyper-incarceration of […]

“The massacre in Orlando was a dramatic punctuation of what is now a clear backlash to progressive advances.. From increased and persistent violence against LGBTQ people, especially Trans and Gender Non Conforming people of color; religious liberty campaigns, the anti trans bills and the vitriol stirred up during this Presidential election – it is critical […]

“Transgender, gender nonconforming, and LGB Latinx communities and communities of color have always protected each other — and the stories from Orlando will tell you the same. In this moment of increased policing and militarization of our community spaces, we continue to build community and develop ways to extend our conversations about the many real […]

Trans Justice Funding Project will be joining TransJustice of the Audre Lorde Project at the 12th annual Trans Day of Action at Washington Square Park from 3-6 PM this Friday, June 24th. Join us as we march, rally, and lift up the work of our communities working towards social and economic justice!

“… to see this space with so much life, so much energy, to see how much everybody brought of themselves, I think its just an overall appreciation to trans people everywhere” – 2016 TJFP Panelist What  an unbelievable past few weeks it’s been at TJFP.  Because of the generosity of our community, we exceeded our 2016 […]

Thanks to so many of you we are now just $2,800 away from meeting fundraising goal of $25,ooo! Tomorrow our community funding panel will arrive in New York to meet to give money away.  If we meet our goal by midnight tonight, the funding panel will be able to give away $200,000 to grass roots, trans-led, trans justice groups […]

So excited to announce our sixth and final 2016 TJFP panelist, Luce Lincoln. Luce Capco Lincoln is a trans, non-binary, queer Filipino filmmaker, media educator and organizer committed to using media to fight for social justice. Originally from Gainesville, FL, currently living in Brooklyn, Luce works as Program Director at Global Action Project, where media is used as […]

In a little over a month, we’ve made it halfway to our goal of $25,000. We know we can get there, so we’re extending the fundraiser deadline to 5/12/2016–the day before the 2016 TJFP grantmaking panel of activists meet in Brooklyn, NY. We are very grateful for all the love and support our community has shown for grassroots trans justice! Thank you to those of […]

As we prepare for our community-led grantmaking weekend, we’ve been keeping in our hearts the amazing trans justice activists and organizers  who are fiercely dedicated to social justice. From the activists protesting the hateful anti-trans bills popping up across the country to the trans-led support groups in small towns keeping each other safe and healthy–we are deeply grateful for the movement. Over […]