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2020 has been neither seamless nor easy. A pandemic laid bare the cracks in an already overburdened healthcare system. A chaotic election further revealed the fragility of our systems of power and governance. Unceasing attacks on Black and trans lives have left communities reeling in anger and fear.
But as Glo Ross, former facilitator for the annual TJFP grantmaking panel, puts it, we can find power in “the fundamental truth of community: Decisions made from our collective energy and investment are more creative, powerful, and impactful than if we make them alone.”
We need all of us if we’re to achieve trans justice in this lifetime. Everyone doing what they can, where they are, finding their people and organizing together to make collective impact! We are so grateful for the immense wealth of knowledge and experience that our fellows, facilitators, grantees, and applicants past and present bring to this project that is funding trans justice. It gives us the strength and confidence to press on, looking forward to the beginning of a new year–“knowing that on the other side of the hardness is something much greater than our individual selves.”
As we move into 2021, we’re so excited to announce that our grant application form is opening very soon! Keep your eyes peeled for an announcement from us early next week, and spread this news widely. We couldn’t do this without you–our community of supporters who are committed to trans justice and trans leadership!
You can read Glo’s full piece “Community is a Verb” (originally published in the TJFP 2018 Annual Report) at this link.
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A HUGE shout out to 2020 TJFP Grantmaking Fellow and long time TJFP grantee, Kayla Gore of My Sistah’s House!
“Kayla Gore’s initial idea was to build some single residential units in the garden of My Sistah’s House, which provides emergency housing for trans 
and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people in Memphis, and which predominantly serves trans women of color. Gore, the organization’s co-founder and executive director, wanted these so-called “tiny homes” to be temporary safe spaces to be used while residents found full-time homes.
Then Gore had another idea: to build a small community in Memphis with 20 homes to house trans women of color, who, said Gore, are at higher risk of violence and discrimination when attempting to access housing.”
This tiny house project is anything but tiny! Housing for our people IS trans justice!
Be sure to learn more about this project by viewing the full article from thedailybeast.com and check out My Sistah’s Room!
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We are pleased to announce that our 2020 grantmaking team moved over ONE MILLION DOLLARS to 261 grassroots trans-led groups around the country!
TJFP is so grateful for this year’s team and for the time, energy, and heart that was poured into every part of this grantmaking process. Each year we feel overwhelmed by the support of our friends and amazing community who helped make this happen– from outreach, volunteering, coordinating food delivery, taking notes, and donating or sharing our fundraiser which helped us reach and exceed our 80k fundraising goal!
Each year our community grantmaking panel reads and reviews every application that is submitted, and together they are tasked with making some very tough funding decisions. The TJFP fellows do this work with heart, experience, and generosity, all while also tending to their own work and lives as trans justice activists and organizers. Each fellow reviews applications using an intersectional lens, paying close attention to where resources are being redistributed geographically, and doing this with no strings attached, truly trusting that TJFP grantees know what’s best for their own communities.
It’s because of these brilliant community grantmaking Fellows, as well as our amazing TJFP coordinating team and facilitators, that we are able to get this done each year. And we absolutely wouldn’t be able to move as much money to the hundreds of incredible grassroots trans justice groups without our amazing friends, family, donors, volunteers, applicants, and grantees!
As always, we are inspired by each and every application that was submitted. Again, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for honoring the legacy and efforts of our trans justice movements. Our grantmaking process is always a labor of love rooted in trusting and believing in trans leadership and it is forever an honor to do this with so many of you!
We encourage you to check out TJFP’s 2020 grantees, share their work, or donate to them directly!
Alaska
Choosing Our Roots, Anchorage
Alabama
The Knights & Orchids Society, Selma
The TRANShue Project, Faunsdale
Visibly Trans*, Birmingham
American Samoa
IMPACT, Pago Pago
Arkansas
inTRANSitive, Little Rock
Arizona
Chukshon Healing Network, Tucson
Equality Arizona, Phoenix
The Outlaw Project, Phoenix
Peacework Medical, Phoenix
Southern Arizona Gender Alliance, Tucson
Transcend Arizona, Paradise Valley
California
#BlackGirlzRule Coordinating Committee, San Francisco
API Equality – Northern California (APIENC), San Francisco
API TransFusion, Oakland
Beyond Binary Legal, Long Beach
Deaf Queer Resource Center, San Francisco
Dem Bois Inc., San Pablo
Gender Justice LA, Los Angeles
Health Justice Commons, Richmond
Homobiles, SAN LEANDRO
Indigenous Pride LA, Los Angeles
Intersex & Genderqueer Recognition Project, Fremont
Kween Culture Initiative, Oakland
Los Angeles Spoonie Collective, North Hills
Mirror Memoirs, Los Angeles
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network, Oakland
Northstate Trans*/GNC Project, Chico
Peacock Rebellion, Oakland
Quest House Community Healing, Pacifica
San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, San Francisco
Somos Familia Valle, Mission Hills
Trans and Queer Youth for Gender Justice, Oakland
The SisTrahood, La Mesa
T4T Caregiving, Pacifica
Trans and Nonbinary Housing Collective, Sacramento
TRANScend, San Francisco
TRANScending in Nature, Greenfield
Unique Woman’s Coalition, Los Angeles
Welcome, San Francisco
Washington DC
Black & Indigenous Transgender Safehaus (B.I.T.S.)
Bois Modeling Transformative Justice (BMTJ)
Starseed Earthroot
Trans People of Color Coalition
Trans Women of Color Collective
Florida
Black Masc, Sunrise
Bridging the gap!, Fort Lauderdale
Florida Coalition for Trans Liberation, Tallahassee
The Halfway Point, Tallahassee
LIPS Tampa, Apopka
New Beginnings TLC, Inc., Winter Haven
Orlando Trans Collective, Orlando
QLatinx, Orlando
Rooted Resistance, Tallahassee
Social Film Projects LLC, North Miami Beach
TransInclusive Group, Pembroke Pines
TransSOCIAL, Inc., Miami
Unity Coalition|Coalicion Unida, Miami Beach
Unspoken Treasure Society, Brooker
Georgia
COMMUNITY ESTRELLA, Acworth
Community Roots, Decatur
Freedom Overground, Marietta
International Association of Trans Bodybuilders and Powerlifters, IATBP, Atlanta
Q&A, Sandy Springs
Queer Culture[s], Atlanta
Sexual Liberation Collective, Decatur
Southern Fried Queer Pride, Atlanta
TMBLM, Inc., Duluth
Trans Housing Atlanta Program, Atlanta
Trans-Individuals Living Their Truth, Decatur
Trans*Visible, Covington
Trans(forming), East Point
TRANScending Barriers Atlanta, Atlanta
Ubuntu Incorporated, Lithia Springs
Hawaii
Anuenue Alliance, Honolulu
HEARTS Maui, Wailuku
Kuaana Project, Honolulu
Illinois
Brave Space Alliance, Chicago
Masjid al-Rabia, Chicago
Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois, Chicago
Transilient, Chicago
Youth Empowerment Performance Project (YEPP), Chicago
Indiana
GenderNexus, Indianapolis
TREES, Inc., South Bend
Louisiana
CANScantSTAND, New Orleans
Deep South Wellness Project, New Orleans
Imagine Water Works, New Orleans
LOUD, New Orleans
New Legacy Media Ministries, New Orleans
Massachusetts
Black and Pink Boston Chapter, Dorchester
Rebel Cause Inc, Springfield
Sonrisas, Cheshire
Trans Asylum Seekers Support Network and Ministry Alliance, Amherst
Maryland
Baltimore Safe Haven, Baltimore
The Maryland Trans Resilience Conference, Baltimore
Sistas of the “t”, Baltimore
Trans Maryland, Gaithersburg
Trans-Latinx DMV, Baltimore
Maine
Maine Transgender Network INC., Portland
Portland Outright, Portland
Michigan
Grand Rapids Trans Foundation, Grand Rapids
Grassroots Activism Direct Emergency-GADES, Ferndale
Native Justice Coalition, Manistee
NUII WAAV BROTHERHOOD, Detroit
Salus Center UCC, Lansing
TGNC Emotional Wellness Providers’ Summit, Detroit
Trans Sistas of Color Project, Highland park
Transcend the Binary, Ferndale
Minnesota
20% Theatre Company, Minneapolis
For the Culture, Minneapolis
Open Flame Theatre, Minneapolis
Queer Science, Saint Paul
shOUT: Minnesota’s Trans & Gender Diverse Voices, Minneapolis
SPIRAL Collective, Minneapolis
Missouri
Feed the People Garden Project, St. Louis
Gabriella Rosé Justice Support System, Columbia
Kansas City Center for Inclusion, Kansas City
Lot’s Wife Trans and Queer Chaplaincy, St Louis
Metro Trans Umbrella Group, St. Louis
Mid Missouri Transgender Support, Jefferson City
Our Spot KC, Kansas City
St. Louis Anti-Violence Project, St. Louis
Trans Queer Flat STL, St. Louis
Transformations, Kansas City
Transfuturism by The Justice Fleet, St Louis
Mississippi
Bois of the Sippi, Corinth
North Carolina
Asheville Transformers, Asheville
House of Pentacles, Durham
NC Trans Leadership Network, Asheville
Name Change Project, Asheville
Pansy Collective, Asheville
QORDS, Durham
Radical Kindred, Boone
There’s Still Hope, Charlotte
WNC QTPOC Support Group, Asheville
Nebraska
Trans Collaborations Community Board, Kearney
New Jersey
Black Excellence Collective, Newark
New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance, Long Branch
Tertium Quid, Jersey City
New Mexico
Albuquerque Queer Trans Community Yoga, Albuquerque
Decolonize Massage, Albuquerque
SW Two Spirit Society, Albuquerque
Trans Liberation Coalition, Albuquerque
Nevada
Gender Justice Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas TransPride, Las Vegas
Trans Pride Foundation, Las Vegas
New York
Activation, Woodridge
Awakening Trans Art Coalition, Boiceville
Black Trans Blessing, Bronx
Black Trans Femmes in the Arts, Brooklyn
Black Trans Media, Brooklyn
Black Trans Travel Fund, Bronx
BlackCuse Pride, Syracuse
Caribbean Equality Project, Queens
Colectivo intercultural TRANSgrediendo / CITG, Jackson Heights
Community Kinship Life (Ck life), Bronx
Crystal LaBeija Organizing Fellowship, Brooklyn
Cuir Kitchen Brigade, Brooklyn
Dorian Corey Project WNY/Transgressions, Kenmore
F2L, New York
For The Gworls, Brooklyn
The G.H.O.S.T. Project, Brooklyn
Gays & Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society (GLITS), Queens
The Gender & Sexuality Therapy Center, New York
LEGION (League for Equity of Gender In Our Neighborhoods), Rochester
Lighthouse Mutual Aid, Saugerties
metaDEN, Brooklyn
Mirror Trans Beauty LLC, Brooklyn
Newburgh LGBTQ+ Center, Newburgh
NYC Trans Oral History Project, New York
The Okra Project, Brooklyn
Organización Latina Trans de New York, Brooklyn
Princess Janae Place Inc, Bronx
Radical Joy and Mental Health x Emulisfy, Brooklyn
Strategic Trans Alliance for Radical Reform (STARR), Schenechtady
T-FFED (Trans Folx Fighting Eating Disorders), Brooklyn
Trans Lab, New York
Trans Resistance Through Media, Bronx
TransGenerational Theatre Project, Long Island City
Ohio
Black Queer & Intersectional Collective, Columbus
META Center Inc., Akron
Margie’s Hope, Akron
TRANSlate, Cleveland
TransOhio, Columbus
Oklahoma
Transpire Oklahoma, Inc., Tulsa
Oregon
Beyond These Walls, Portland
Glitter Squadron, Portland
Point of Pride, Eugene
QTPoC Mental Health, Portland
Trans*Ponder, Eugene
Pennsylvania
Hearts on a Wire, Philadelphia
Interfaith Working Group dba Transfaith, Philadelphia
Lehigh Valley Transgender Renaissance, Orefield
T’DAS: Transgender Domestic Abuse Sanctuary, Philadelphia
Trans Minors Rights, Lititz
TransCamp, Philadelphia
TransFamily of NWPA, Erie
Puerto Rico
Arianna’s Center / Puerto Rico, San Juan
Editorial Casa Cuna, Hormigueros
EspicyNipples, Guayama
Fundación Boreales, Carolina
Pólvora Colectiva, San Juan
Semillas, San Juan
T.E.A. ( Transgenero En Accion ), Guaynabo
Trans Feria. San Juan, San Juan
Rhode Island
Triumphant 2Gether, Providence
South Carolina
Alpha Omega Kappa Fraternity, Inc., Lexington
Gender Benders, Piedmont
Pride Link, Greenville
T-Time Transgender Support, Myrtle Beach
Transgender Awareness Alliance: Greg Green, Lexington
We Are Family, North Charleston
South Dakota
Two Spirit Nation, Porcupine
Tennessee
Bold & Beautiful, Memphis
The Meadow Collective, Liberty
Trans Empowerment Project, Knoxville
WeCareTN, Memphis
Texas
Black and Brown Biennale, Houston
Black Trans MX, Carrollton
Black Transmen Inc, Carrollton
Black Transwomen Inc, Carrollton
Borderland Rainbow Center, El Paso
Cicada Collective, Lewisville
Coastal Bend Trans Alliance, Corpus Christi
Cons.T.ruct, Houston
GenTex, McAllen
Latinas Trans Austin, Houston
Latinas Trans Dallas, Houston
Organizacion Latina Trans in Texas, Houston
Revolution Foundation, Dallas
Trans Legal Aid Clinic Houston, Houston
Trans Pride Initiative, Dallas
Virginia
Charlottesville Trans Peer Group, Troy
Garden of Peace, Inc., Newport News
MINORITY TRANSGENDER UNITY, Norfolk
Power Safe Place Resource Center of Virginia, Front Royal
South eastern transgender Resource Center, Norfolk
Stand for Art Foundation, Alexandria
TEA of Greater Washington D.C., Burke
Transgender Assistance Program of Virginia – TAPVA, Virginia Beach
Transgender Veterans Support Group-Virginia, Richmond
Twin Oaks Queer Gathering, Louisa
Vermont
Out in the Open, Brattleboro
Washington
Beyond Bars and Binaries, Tacoma
The Black Trans Prayer Book, Seattle
Heartspark Press, Olympia
QTPOC Birthwerq Project, Seattle
Rad Care, Seattle
Solace, Spokane
Stonewall Youth, Olympia
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Artwork by Glori Tuitt, @glorifice_
Beloved Community, Family, and Friends,
It would be impossible for us as grantmakers to ignore what’s happening in the United States right now. There is no way to overstate how vital Black trans lives have been to the Trans Justice Funding Project, to the grassroots trans organizers we serve, to the trans justice movement as a whole. Unequivocally, absolutely, Black Lives Matter!
TJFP is a Black, Brown, and Indigenous-led organization that has continuously prioritized moving resources across the country to support Black trans groups and organizations, while centering their experiences and leadership. It is an honor and a moral duty to do so.
It’s notable that over the past several days there have been endless conversations and messaging discrediting activists and protestors, which avoids addressing the real conversation at hand, state sanctioned anti-black violence carried out by police. This is a tactic to sway us away from focusing on accountability and it is unacceptable. The systems that are literally killing us must be dismantled. And they must be defunded.
At TJFP we believe there is no world in which trans liberation can occur without racial justice. There cannot be Pride for a few when there is violence, repression, and injustice for so many. Some of us owe our very existence to the visions, strategies, and radical courage of organizers of the past and today.
We must honor this legacy and support Black trans leaders to lead, to organize, to envision, as they build a better tomorrow for us all. So many of the groups we fund are made up of trans people of color working within their local communities, providing direct services and resources to cover gaps or repair harms inflicted by state systems like the police. Trans justice looks like transformative justice, like gender justice, like prison abolition and anti-policing work, like disability justice, like economic justice, like solidarity with racial justice organizations, like Black trans leadership leading the way.
We protect us. These systems were not designed with the intention of our freedom. And protection was never meant for us, not in a nation built on the oppression of Black people on stolen land. We see the need, year after year, read it in application after application, the impact of militarization, surveillance, and policing on Black bodies, on Black trans bodies, on trans bodies of color across the nation. Tony McDade. Nina Pop. Layleen Polanco Xtravaganza. And countless others, casualties of a system that values property and “business as usual” over justice, dignity, and human life.
To the Black leaders who are doing this work, thank you. Thank you for your time and your energy, your brilliance and your strength, your anger and your love. Thank you for being Black excellence in all the ways you may not even realize. Please survive this in any way you can. To the rest of our TJFP family, we encourage you to find Black-led organizations in your area to consider funding them directly. Our interactive map and our lists of grantees can tell you more about trans-led organizations in your area to aid you in your research.
In love and solidarity,
The staff at TJFP
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TJFP is so excited to introduce the second of our six Community Grantmaking Fellows, Christopher Cuevas!
Christopher Cuevas is the Executive Director of QLatinx and provides vision, energy, and leadership in the fulfillment of the mission and vision of the organization, working to advance the visibility of and empower LGBTQ+ Latinx communities and create spaces that foster growth and healing.
A lifelong peace practitioner, educator, and community organizer, Christopher leads their work for cultural transformation by centering the unapologetic and unwavering power of radical love. A child of undocumented immigrants and a queer person of color, Christopher interconnects their lived experience and drives the necessary heart work of building a culture of peace, compassion, and change through advocating for LGBTQ+, immigrant, and racial justice movements.
Through their work with state, national, and transnationally recognized initiatives and organizations, Christopher has led conversations and facilitated education campaigns specifically addressing structural racism, health equity, and LGBTQ+ issues.
Thank you for saying YES to joining TJFP’s community grantmaking team this year!
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Dear friends, family, and community,
TJFP is holding you, our community, and family in our minds and hearts during this particularly challenging moment.
These are indeed scary times, as the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world to a screeching halt. The world looks very different today than it did even a week ago.
For many of our grantees, applicants, and community, there has never been a busier time.
Many of us are grappling with how to keep going and providing answers and solutions with urgency. Our communities–which often include those we consider family–are in great need of support, connection, healing, shelter, mutual aid and resources. The deep sense of worry is real.
TJFP is also concerned about the well being and livelihood of individuals, organizations and those most marginalized and isolated.
There is so much we are all holding collectively and there is so much we do not yet know.
But here’s something we do know…
While the phrase “We’re all in this together” has quickly become a popular hashtag and is a sentiment shared widely in the media, knowing the value of caring for our communities has been a commitment, a practice and a way of life for our communities for a long, long time. “We’re all in this together” is a politic many of us have been forced to commit to or have chosen to believe in before COVID-19. Some of us are experts in surviving so much, that it’s been passed on to us by our ancestors and remains alive in our very own DNA.
Grassroots organizing, and the individuals that make them what they are, show up constantly to fill the gaps and failures our systems have left us with. Below, we’ve provided important links to efforts organized and supported by TJFP’s 2019 grantees. As much as they need us to show up for them, we need them for our collective survival. Grassroots movements are essential.
TJFP will remain committed to showing up for our folks without burdening them.
We will continue to move money directly to grassroots, trans-led groups across the US, with as few strings attached as possible, as we have always done.
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, we will be moving more money in 2020 to trans justice groups than originally planned, while also supplying our TJFP community-led grantmaking fellow alumni with an emergency fund.
TJFP has also joined an emergency response effort with the Third Wave Fund, Borealis’s Fund for Trans Generations, Funders for LGBT Issues’s Grantmakers United for Trans Community, and Wellspring. More information about that fund will be released early next week.
It is with great hope that you will be patient, kind, and generous with each other during these tender times. The load will be heavy and the loss will be significant and yet we will find a way. For those of you wondering how you can help, we ask you to please support grassroots efforts however possible.
Friends, family, and beloved community, we have the skills, the spirit and experience to survive this. For those of you who can, please check in on your people. Extending love, grace, appreciation and authentic support is what will get us through.
With gratitude and great care,
Arkansas Transgender Equity Collaborative
Little Rock, AR
Donate to community relief giving circle
No Justice No Pride
Washington, DC
Requesting food, cleaning/hygiene supplies, volunteers for patient advocacy, funds for emergency microgrants, instacart giftcards
Black & Indigenous Transgender Safehaus (B.I.T.S.)
Washington, DC
Donate to support trans students
Trans Women of Color Collective
Washington, DC
Donate to survival fund
Unity Coalition|Coalicion Unida
MIAMI BEACH, FL
Donate to support fund for folks in hospitality industry in South Florida
Brave Space Alliance
Chicago, IL
Volunteer for food pantry
Donate to food pantry
Louisiana Trans Advocates
Baton Rouge, LA
Donate to TGNC Crisis Funding Circle Louisiana
In lieu of gatherings, send letters against anti-trans legislation
Metro Trans Umbrella Group
St. Louis, MO
Donate food and disinfectant
Trans Queer Flat STL
St. Louis, MO
Donate food and supplies
Black Trans Media
Brooklyn, NY
Donate food, supplies, or money
Colectivo intercultural TRANSgrediendo / CITG
Jackson Heights, NY
Donate to Transgender Emergency Fund
Black Queer & Intersectional Collective
Columbus, OH
Donate to BQIC Emergency Fund
Hearts on a Wire
Philadelphia, PA
Be a pen pal for an incarcerated LGBTQ individual
sisTers PGH
Pittsburgh, PA
Donate to Pittsburgh LGBTQIA Emergency Relief Fund
Latinas Trans Austin
Houston, TX
Donate to Houston LGBTQI Latinx fund
Trans Pride Initiative
Dallas, TX
Volunteer to provide mutual aid
Nationz Foundation
Richmond, VA
Donate to food pantry
Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network
Seattle, WA
Donate to Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network Fund
Unity Coalition|Coalicion Unida
MIAMI BEACH, FL
Apply for hospitality industry fund
Brave Space Alliance
Chicago, IL
Request food or other supplies
Metro Trans Umbrella Group
St. Louis, MO
Food and supplies available for pickup, home donations also available
Trans Pride Initiative
Dallas, TX
Contact to access food pantry
Stonewall Youth
Olympia, WA
Organization is offering to purchase supplies for youth 12-24
Masjid al-Rabia
Chicago, IL
Online support groups and prayer services
Portland Outright
Portland, ME
In person programming has moved online
Transformations
Kansas City, MO
Support groups now online, see Facebook page for specific groups
TDOV Virtual Resource Fair
Tranzmission
Asheville, NC
Support groups now moving online
QTPoC Mental Health
Portland, OR
Collection of helpful links and online community
Borderland Rainbow Center
El Paso, TX
Teletherapy and virtual support groups available, see Facebook page for specific options
Nationz Foundation
Richmond, VA
Call the office to access support group
Out in the Open
Brattleboro, VT
Join rural LGBTQ virtual hangouts
QLatinx
Orlando, FL
Healing through community storytelling
Transcend the Binary
Ferndale, MI
Quarantine and Chill queer film streaming
House of Pentacles
Durham, NC
Offered free virtual healing gathering
Transgender Assistance Program of Virginia – TAPVA
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA
Digital TDOV celebration
Out in the Open
Brattleboro, VT
Submission requests for QuaranZine
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“The word legacy keeps coming into my head. We’re a cohort within this legacy of trans people who have made these funding decisions; everybody who applies to TJFP is entering into this legacy; and TJFP is leaving a legacy of how to do this work. There’s a need for doing funding in ways that center community needs, and I think TJFP does that really well.” – “Matters of the Heart in a Movement,” Micky Bradford, 2019 TJFP Fellow, TJFP 2019 Annual Report
Dear Friends, family and community,
As 2020 unfolds and we approach our eighth year of grantmaking, TJFP is more than ever before committed to supporting and uplifting the liberatory work of our trans justice community. In 2019, we were able to move $750,000 to 186 grassroots trans-led groups around the country!
And we’ve released our stunning, 2019 annual report and for the first time, we’ve included a copy of our application and a highlight about each and every one of the 186 trans-led grassroots groups that received a grant in 2019. Inside this gorgeous cover you’ll find words from TJFP staff and friends, powerful conversations with our 2019 grantmaking fellows, and so much more. We hope you’ll find it to be an enlightening and empowering resource!
Thank you so much for being a part of the TJFP community. Thank you to all of the amazing trans-led groups organizing around the country, our donors who provide unwavering support, the world’s best volunteers, cheerleaders, friends, and family! We need each and every one of you to continue to believe in grassroots trans justice.
We’re here because of you. Thank you for trusting and supporting trans leadership alongside us!
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It’s that time again! Time for grassroots, trans-led, trans justice groups to apply for funding and for those of us who can, to donate what we can to support their work. Please help us spread the word! The application is currently available in English and Spanish.
Please make sure to read our guidelines first to determine if your group is eligible.
Is Your Group Eligible for a TJFP Grant?
* TJFP does not fund individuals.
* You do not need to be a 501c3 non-profit or have a fiscal sponsor to apply!
How Much Money is TJFP Giving Away?
Grants range in size and the more money we raise by May, the more we can give away! Every penny we raise goes to our grantees with no restrictions and no strings attached because we truly believe in trusting and supporting trans leadership. Our 2020 goal is to give away at least 750,000 dollars with grant sizes of $2500, $5000, and $10,000.
Deadline
The deadline to apply is February 15th, 2020 by midnight Eastern Standard Time. Decisions will be made at the end of May 2020, so you can expect to hear back from us by early June 2020.
Translation & Accessibility
The application is currently available in English and Spanish.
Please email us at admin@transjusticefundingproject.org by January 15th if you need a translated version in another language of the application.
We aim to make this process as accessible as possible, so please let us know about any other needs you have and we will do our best to meet them.
TJFP es iniciativa comunitaria de financiamiento fundada en 2012 para apoyar grupos comunitarias de justicia trans dirigidos por y para personas trans. Hacemos becas anualmente por organizar un comité de seis activistas de justicia trans de todo el país para revisar cuidadosamente cada solicitud que recibimos.
¿Es elegible su grupo para una beca de TJFP?
TJFP no da becas a individuos.
¡No necesitas estatus sin fines de lucro 501c3, ni necesitas patrocinio fiscal tampoco para solicitar!
¿Cuánto dinero está donando el TJFP?
Las becas varían en tamaño. Cuanto más recaudamos más podemos regalar! Cada centavo que recaudamos va a nuestros beneficiarios sin restricciones ni condiciones tampoco porque creemos sinceramente en confiar en y apoyar al liderazgo trans.
Fecha límite
La fecha límite para solicitar es la 15 de febrero de 2020 por la medianoche EST. Decidiremos a finales de May 2020. Entonces, planea tener la respuesta de nosotrxs para Junio 2020.
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Coming off of a very full grantmaking weekend of trans justice in action, we’re feeling extremely grateful for every applicant, grantee, grantmaking Fellow, and the behind the scenes team who’s been holding it down over the last several months.
The Trans Justice Funding Project is cared for, tended to, and loved by some of the most incredible humans, including many of you!
We want to extend an extra special thank you to our fabulous team of contracted coordinators as they onboard, trained, and cheered on this years Fellows, coordinated countless logistics, and facilitated the heck our seventh grantmaking panel. We are so lucky we got to work with these folks as they are some of the most talented organizers on the planet! They made community-led grantmaking look eassssssy! (And it’s not!)
Cathy Kapua, Community Grantmaking Fellowship Coordinator
Cathy has worked with the transgender community since 2003, first starting off as a Peer Educator at Kulia Na Mamo, then eventually moving on to become the Transgender Service Manager at the Hawaii Health & Harm Reduction Center. Cathy is proud of her academic accomplishments in the University of Hawaii- West Oahu where she received a B.S. in Public Administration and continues to use these skills to help her Native Hawaiian community. She has been successful in advocating for transgender programming and providing culturally competency trainings throughout the nation but prides herself mainly on being a role model for younger transgender women in Hawai`i.
Cristina Herrera, Community Grantmaking Meeting Coordinator
Cristina founded the Translatina Network back in 2007, in order to organize and empower the transgender immigrant community through leadership development and education. Over the years she has served on countless panels, committees, and boards in order to provide expertise on effective HIV prevention and community organizing. Cristina has been presented with awards and recognition by NYC DOH, The AIDS Institute, City Council , the Queens Borough President and many organizations.
Cristina was formerly the Trans Program Coordinator at the Lesbian, Gay Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (The Center), where she worked for eleven years. She oversaw the workforce development program that is specifically designed to meet the needs of the TGNC community. She has been working in the field of HIV prevention, advocacy and community organizing for almost 20 years.
Glo Ross, TJFP Community Grantmaking Facilitator
Glo Ross is originally from Los Angeles, CA and currently lives in Atlanta, GA. As a full-time gender-queer lover of all animals and the earth, Glo is committed to building the world we all deserve to live in by organizing power in our communities and actively practicing compassion for all beings day to day. Currently, Glo works in the public sector as a policy analyst on environmental issues. In previous lives, Glo directed campaigns at FIERCE! to build power among LGBTQ youth of color in New York City, has helped lead anti-police brutality organizing in Atlanta, and has facilitated numerous youth organizing trainings for college students across the country. In the past eight years, Glo has also supported community-based organizing strategy through technical assistance and issue research. When not facilitating or conducting research, you can find Glo hiking with their pups (two lovable rescued pit bulls), trying out a new vegan recipe, or road-tripping to the beach.
Nico Amador, TJFP Community Grantmaking Facilitator
Nico Amador grew up in California and is now a trainer, organizer and writer based in Philadelphia. Nico got his start as a trainer working with
youth around issues of oppression and leading workshops on the impacts of militarism and the prison industrial complex on people of color. As part of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Nonviolent Youth Collective, Nico helped to train volunteers preparing to do human rights work in Colombia, led week-long retreats on nonviolence and social justice, and organized a California arts and education tour.
As part of Training for Change, Nico has led workshops in the US, Canada and Europe for groups such as Choice USA, Iraq Veterans Against the War, the Energy Action Coalition, Greenpeace, the National Youth Advocacy Coalition, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Earth Quaker Action Team, the New Sanctuary Movement, Prometheus Radio Project, and the Diverse City Fund.
Nico is also an experienced community organizer who has participated in grassroots efforts for prison abolition, urban farming, and keeping casinos out of residential neighborhoods. Most recently he led a campaign that successfully changed a policy that was causing harassment of transgender riders on Philadelphia’s public transportation system.
He has authored articles such as “Lessons from the Borders: Empowering Participants with Disabilities and Transgender Participants” and “Into the Streets! Training as a Tactic” and has published poetry in a few small journals and anthologies.
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