Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

Last updated

Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Founded1977 [1]
Type Private foundation
13-2992977 [2]
Focus LGBTQ and intersex rights
Location
Area served
Worldwide
Method Grantmaking
Key people
Joy Chia
(executive director)
Revenue (2013)
$6,393,933 [3]
Expenses (2013)$6,604,625 [3]
Website www.astraeafoundation.org

The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice is an international charitable foundation based in the United States focused on human rights of LGBT people, intersex people, and people of color. The organization provide grants to individuals and organizations, promotes philanthropy, and provides capacity building assistance. [1]

Contents

History

Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice was founded in 1977 by a small group of diverse women to increase funding for human rights of lesbian women and women of color, based on lesbian feminism. [1] [4]

Activities

Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice works to connect the LGBTQI community to philanthropists and activists around the world. [1] They solicit and invite grant proposals from individuals and organizations in the United States and internationally working on LGBT advocacy – especially around areas of the arts as well as racial, economic, social, and gender justice. [1] [4] [5] For example, from 1992 to 1994, Astraea helped fund Esto no tiene nombre , a magazine created (in part by tatiana de la tierra) to explore and provide a platform for discussion about Latina lesbian culture. [6] In 2012, the organization awarded 152 grants totaling US$1,310,624 to 113 organizations and 16 individuals across 36 countries. [4]

The organization also promotes philanthropy and capacity building. [1] Their policy of "Philanthropy of Inclusion" is founded on their concept of including people from all socioeconomic strata in philanthropic activism. [1] They have both a domestic fund and an international fund, which they distribute to organizations coming from places including Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. [7]

The Astraea Lesbian Writer's Fund raises funds for LGBT artists and promotes the writing of authors such as Audre Lorde, Dorothy Allison, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Cheryl Clarke, Eileen Myles, Jewelle Gomez, Chrystos, and Sharon Bridgforth. [4]

The organisation also established the first Intersex Human Rights Fund, in late 2014. [8] [9]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cherríe Moraga</span> American writer and activist (born 1952)

Cherríe Moraga is a Xicana feminist, writer, activist, poet, essayist, and playwright. She is part of the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Department of English since 2017, and in 2022 became a distinguished professor. Moraga is also a founding member of the social justice activist group La Red Xicana Indígena, which is network fighting for education, culture rights, and Indigenous Rights. In 2017, she co-founded, with Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Las Maestras Center for Xicana Indigenous Thought, Art, and Social Practice, located on the campus of UC Santa Barbara.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexander John Goodrum</span> American activist

Alexander John Goodrum (1960–2002) was an African-American transgender civil rights activist, writer, and educator. He was the founder and director of TGNet Arizona. He was a board member of the Tucson GLBT Commission, and the Funding Exchange's OUT Fund, which allocates an annual grant named after Goodrum to LGBTQ community organizing projects such as the Latina lesbian magazine, Esto no tiene nombre, edited in part by Tatiana de la tierra.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carmen Vázquez</span> American LGBT rights activist (1949–2021)

Carmen Vázquez was an American activist, writer, and community intellectual.

Luz María "Luzma" Umpierre-Herrera is a Puerto Rican advocate for human rights, a New-Humanist educator, poet, and scholar. Her work addresses a range of critical social issues including activism and social equality, the immigrant experience, bilingualism in the United States, and LGBT matters. Luzma authored six poetry collections and two books on literary criticism, in addition to having essays featured in academic journals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Delaware Valley Legacy Fund</span>

The Delaware Valley Legacy Fund (DVLF) is a community foundation whose mission is to support the needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and straight-allied communities in Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey. It is engaged in building a permanent endowment and philanthropic apparatus to serve the fundraising and grant making. DVLF was founded in 1993 and is based in Center City Philadelphia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arcus Foundation</span> American foundation

The Arcus Foundation is an international charitable foundation focused on issues related to LGBT rights, social justice, ape conservation, and environmental preservation. The foundation's stated mission is "to ensure that LGBT people and our fellow apes thrive in a world where social and environmental justice are a reality."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Intersex civil society organizations</span>

Intersex civil society organizations have existed since at least the mid-1980s. They include peer support groups and advocacy organizations active on health and medical issues, human rights, legal recognition, and peer and family support. Some groups, including the earliest, were open to people with specific intersex traits, while others are open to people with many different kinds of intersex traits.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mauro Cabral Grinspan</span> Argentinian transgender activist

Mauro Cabral Grinspan, also known as Mauro Cabral, is an Argentinian intersex and trans activist, who serves as the Senior Officer for Gender Justice and Equity at the Global Philanthropy Project. Before that, he was the Executive Director of GATE. His work - as a signatory of the Yogyakarta Principles - focuses on the reform of medical protocols and law reform. In July 2015, Cabral received the inaugural Bob Hepple Equality Award.

Mama Cash is the oldest international women's fund in the world, founded in the Netherlands in 1983. In 2013, Mama Cash supported 118 women's, girls and trans rights organisations with 4.3 million euros.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hiker Chiu</span> Intersex activist

Hiker Chiu is a Taiwanese intersex human rights activist who founded Oii-Chinese in 2008 and cofounded Intersex Asia in 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dan Christian Ghattas</span> Intersex activist

Dan Christian Ghattas is an intersex activist, university lecturer and author who co-founded OII Europe in 2012 and is now executive director. In 2013, he authored Human Rights between the Sexes, a first comparative international analysis of the human rights situation of intersex people.

Natasha Jiménez is a trans and intersex activist and author who is currently the General Coordinator for MULABI, Latin American Space for Sexualities and Rights, the first host of the Intersex Secretariat for ILGA. She is an advisory board member for the first intersex human rights fund and participated in the first intersex hearing on human rights before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Ruth Baldacchino is an LGBT and intersex activist, former Co-Secretary General of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, and Senior Program Officer for the first intersex human rights fund.

Nthabiseng Mokoena is a prominent South African intersex activist and an advisory board member for the first intersex human rights fund.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tatiana de la tierra</span> Colombian writer (1961-2012)

Tatiana de la tierra was a Colombian writer, poet and activist. She was the author of the first international Latina lesbian magazine Esto no tiene nombre.

Esto no tiene nombre may refer to:

Esto no tiene nombre was a Latina lesbian magazine published 1991-1994, which was succeeded by Conmoción 1995-1996.

Jean Chong is a Singaporean LGBT rights activist. She co-founded Sayoni, an LGBT rights organization, and serves as one of the leaders of the ASEAN Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression Caucus, an activist collective. Chong holds a master's degree in Human Rights and Democratization.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julie Dorf</span> American human rights activist

Julie Dorf is an international human rights advocate best known as the founding executive director of OutRight Action International. She started the organization in 1990 and served as executive director until 2000.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Intersex Asia</span>

Intersex Asia is a pan-Asian intersex human rights organization, established in 2018 and registered in Taiwan.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "About Astraea". astraeafoundation.org. Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "GuideStar Reports for Astraea Foundation, Inc". GuideStar. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice" (PDF). Foundation Center. April 23, 2015. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Jamie (December 24, 2012). "Astraea, A Lesbian Foundation for Justice: The Autostraddle Interview". Autostraddle. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  5. Fatima Van Hattum and Arianne Shaffer (February 2, 2015). "Transforming philanthropy: it's time to get serious". openDemocracy. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  6. De La Tierra, Tatiana. "Activist Latina Lesbian Publishing: esto no tiene nombre and conmoción." I am Aztldn: The Personal Essay in Chicano Studies, ed. Chon A. Noriega and Wendy Belcher (Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2004) 172.
  7. "Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice: Grants for Human Rights". Inside Philanthropy. Archived from the original on February 17, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  8. "Introducing the Intersex Fund team at Astraea!". Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. June 16, 2015. Archived from the original on July 3, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
  9. "Boost for Intersex activists and organisations". SOGI News.com. RFSL. January 16, 2015. Archived from the original on July 4, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2015.