Safety and violence, “quality of life” laws, homeless lgbt youth and so much more. This article highlights several issues our communities are experiencing and working on everyday. Also, great shout outs to our friends at Southerners on New Ground and FIERCE!

TJFP volunteer Rebecca Wisotsky chatted over the phone with our 2014 grantees to learn more about what their year has been like organizing their communities, providing public education and services, and working towards trans justice. Our grantees generously took the time to share their stories, including their success and challenges. Come meet some of our incredibly […]

Check it out, it’s our film debut! Thanks to the Trans Justice Funding Project’s awesome volunteer Marin Watts,  you can now watch this video to learn what TJFP is all about, how it works and who you’ve been supporting. 2015 applications (in English and Spanish) are open now and due February 15th! Help us get the word out […]

The Trans Justice Funding Project is pleased to announce its 2015 community-led grantmaking panel facilitators! TJFP facilitators are essential to our community-led grantmaking process.  They are committed to guiding panelists towards making grant awards rooted in our core values and work tirelessly to facilitate panelists moving money across the U.S. In 2013 Nico Amador signed on to become TJFP’s very first facilitator. […]

November 14th-20th is Trans Awareness Week, leading up to Trans Day of Remembrance on the 20th. This is time to raise visibility for trans and gender non conforming people, speak the names of our dead, fight for the living and address issues that affect our communities and loved ones. Here are a few articles and videos that TJFP […]

On this day and all year long, the Trans Justice Funding Project is sending love and strength to all of the trans warriors out there.  Whether you fight in your heart, from your bed, in your office, factory, prison cell or in the streets, we honor you. And to those who are no longer with us […]

The Trans Justice Funding Project is so excited to be published! Download the pdf to read our article, Funding a Movement in the Grassroots Fundraising Journal’s November-December 2014 edition.  Visit the GIFT website to view more articles or to subscribe to the journal. Also, we’re so excited to be in the same edition with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project on the […]

#My2024 Join a Twitter town hall celebration Thurs Oct 16 at 4p ET/1pPT. Hundreds of people contributed thousands of future visions for new victories and new challenges over the next decade. The My2024 Declaration captures these visions, creating a statement of the top priorities, predictions, and goals from My2024 participants. Tomorrow, Thursday October 16, is […]

The Arcus Foundation and the Institute for the Future (IFTF) are teaming up to create My2024, a national conversation and 10-day event that links LGBT communities across the country. Together, LGBT people will express visions regarding our futures as individuals and as a community, creating a world where everyone can live the life they love. […]

The Audre Lorde Project’s TransJustice Political Education and Campaign Fellowship is accepting applications! APPLICATIONS DUE OCTOBER 1 Who We Are: TransJustice is a political organizing group created and led by Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color in New York City. We work to educate organize and mobilize our communities and allies on the pressing […]

TJFP 2014 Grantee, Trans Women of Color Collective co-hosts, #BlackTransRevolution Summit! #BlackTransRevolution Summit is a space for community to engage in healing, restoration, fellowship, and action. The Summit will take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Thursday, October 16 through Sunday, October 19, 2014 and will be hosted by Garden of Peace Project and Trans Women of Color Collective. Check […]

NPR highlights 2014 TJFP Grantee, Camp Born This Way. Camp Born This Way is a weekend-long retreat for transgender and gender creative children between ages 5 and 12, their parents and family members. It aims to foster a welcoming environment for transgender kids to be themselves and to provide parents with a supportive community. It’s taken […]