Organization: Asian Pacific Islander Equality - Los Angeles
Grant Amount: $25,000
Fund: Lesbian & Gay Community Fund
Asian Pacific Islander Equality - Los Angeles (API Equality - LA) is a coalition of organizations and individuals working in API communities in Los Angeles for marriage equality and the recognition and fair treatment of LGBT families through education and advocacy.  Their grant is to support operating expenses towards empowering Los Angeles’ API LGBT community including hosting ethnic specific festivals and a town hall meeting and expanding their base by linking with other API organizations in the community.

Organization: Bienestar Human Services
Grant Amount: $25,000
Fund: Lesbian & Gay Community Fund
Bienestar Human Services is a community-based service organization created to enhance the health and well-being of the Latino/a community through education, prevention, and the provision of direct social support services.  Their grant will support the LGBT Latino/a Civil Rights Mobilization program to increase its capacity to engage in voter education in support of marriage equality through educational forums, the production of materials and the identification of leaders and resources.

Organization: California Faith for Equality
Grant Amount: $20,000
Fund: Lesbian & Gay Community Fund
California Faith for Equality (CFE) is a coalition of statewide religious organizations designed to educate, support and mobilize California's faith communities to promote marriage equality and safeguard religious freedom.  Their grant is to begin work identifying and organizing progressive faith communities throughout California especially through a comprehensive organizing and educational campaign.

Organization: F. B. ALLIANCE
Grant Amount: $22,500
Fund: Lesbian & Gay Community Fund
Fringe Benefits is a coalition of theatre activists dedicated to building bridges between LGBT youth and their straight peers, teachers and families. Their age-appropriate plays provide early hate crime prevention, and have been performed and acclaimed at elementary and middle schools in California and nationwide. Their grant is to support current programs, the creation of plays that celebrate alternative families and address homophobia, sexism, and racism, and collaborations to address school-sanctioned harassment based on sexual orientation.

Organization: FTM Alliance of Los Angeles
Grant Amount: $25,000
Fund: Lesbian & Gay Community Fund
The FTM Alliance of Los Angeles (FTMALA) helps empower and increase the visibility and acceptance of the female-to-male (FTM) transgender community in Southern California.  Their grant is to support the Transgender Health Care Access Project to create transgender specific services by engaging community members and their families in a two-year grassroots campaign while educating health care providers and administrators about transgender people.

Organization: GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE NETWORK
Grant Amount: $25,000
Fund: Lesbian & Gay Community Fund
GSAN is comprised of more than 325 GSAs, with a membership of nearly 5,000 youth and over 1,000 adults committed to creating a safe environment for students, educating about gender identity and homophobia, and fighting discrimination. Their grant will provide continued support for their Make It Real Project to empower LGBTQ youth to engage in school-based organizing, education, and advocacy to ensure effective implementation of AB-537, the California Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000.

Organization: Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles School
Grant Amount: $20,000
Fund: Lesbian & Gay Community Fund
The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) is the nation's oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism.  Their grant is to support the Director position to design, implement and evaluate activities within the Institute for Judaism and Sexual Orientation.  The Institute works with Jewish professionals, students, scholars and researchers in developing a theology and practice of inclusion for LGBT people.

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Organization: OUTFEST
Grant Amount: $20,000
Fund: Lesbian & Gay Community Fund
OUTFEST builds bridges between audiences, filmmakers, and the entertainment industry through the exhibition of LGBT-themed films and videos. Its annual L.A. Gay and Lesbian film festival is the oldest and largest in Southern California. Their grant will support FUSION: The L.A. LGBT People of Color Film Festival. The fourth edition of the festival will feature 20-30 short and feature length films as well as a public forum on the role of artists in the struggle for visibility and equality among queer communities of color.

Organization: SOUTH ASIAN NETWORK, INC.
Grant Amount: $22,500
Fund: Lesbian & Gay Community Fund
SAN is dedicated to the health and empowerment of the South Asian community in Los Angeles. Their grant will support SAN’s LGBTIQ Initiative, promoting the health and wellness of LGBTIQ South Asians and building bridges between the queer and straight South Asian communities.  They will identify key policy priorities and build the capacity of SAN staff, board and volunteers to address the issues of importance to LGBTIQ South Asians.

Organization: STOP PRISONER RAPE
Grant Amount: $25,000
Fund: Lesbian & Gay Community Fund
Gay inmates are sexually assaulted at a rate three times higher than the general prison population, and also face greater institutional apathy when reporting abuse. Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) works to end sexual violence in detention and change society's attitude towards prisoner rape through media advocacy. This grant will support the L.A. LGBT Safety in Detention project, which seeks to improve the safety of LGBT inmates in L.A. County, through the start of a network of trained and mobilized rape crisis counselors and continued political pressure to adopt the “Call for Change” policy proposals.

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