Read: Announcing the awardees of the Queer Justice Momentum Giving Project!

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The 2022 Queer Justice Momentum Project will support building new and imaginative systems that help achieve a world where queer communities are protected, honored, and thriving. Through this grant, we hope to support organizers in working towards a world where LGBTQIA+ folks, fem(me)s, and gender non-conforming people are able to identify and express their gender and sexual orientation without fear, discrimination or harm, and have the economic, social, and political power and resources to make healthy decisions for themselves, their families and their communities in all areas of their lives.

This grant cycle will support groups led by LGBTQIA+ individuals, non-binary folks, and fem(me)s who are organizing against heterosexism, transmisogynoir, homophobia, and cissexism, and working to build the liberation of groups who have been marginalized because of their sexual and/or gender identity in meaningful ways across Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming. We will prioritize funding organizations with Black, Indigenous, and/or POC leadership and/or who conduct most of their work in rural, small town, and/or reservation communities.

In just over three months, the QJMGP cohort will…

• Engage in political education on queer justice movements
• Each give a meaningful gift
• Receive support in deepening their community fundraising skills and creating a fundraising plan
• Review applications from powerful LGBTQIA+ led grassroots organizations in SJF’s five-state region
• Engage in a democratic grantmaking process to choose the final awardees
• (Re)connect with SJF’s incredible constellation of donor organizers and make some magic for queer justice, collectively

Donate to support the Queer Justice Momentum Giving Project!

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What is a Momentum Giving Project?

Momentum Giving Projects are designed to be responsive to the “movement moment” that is happening at the time. We recognize that our grantees are organizing — strengthening communities, training activists, building analysis, developing leaders, making change — all the time. But sometimes, a spark catches. Circumstances come together so that there’s new momentum and focused attention around a particular issue. That’s where you come in.

Momentum Giving Projects are shorter than regular Giving Projects, so we can act more quickly to move money where it’s needed. This means we leverage our alumni’s skills by jumping into donor organizing right away, and we don’t offer the same level of political education. It’s an opportunity for alumni to deepen their skills and build community with other alumni.

What is a Giving Project?

Learn about the Social Justice Fund’s Giving Project model here.

How does donor organizing make change?

We define donor organizing as people coming together to sharpen their analysis and develop tools to collectively and strategically fund grassroots social change. A donor organizer is any person committed to not only making a meaningful gift on their own, but also educating and organizing their community to resource a movement with money, power, and community support.

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Questions?

If you have any questions about this Giving Project, please click here to email Mercedes Klein at your earliest convenience.

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