• "My Gay Brother's Keeper"
  Funders for LGBTQ Issues President Ben Francisco Maulbeck pens an op-ed on the unique challenges facing GBT MBOC and offers suggestions for grantmakers interested in making a difference.  Click here to see our first Philanthropy OUTlook infographic focused on GBT MBOC.

• "2014 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey"
  The Nonprofit Finance Fund has released the 2014 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey, finding among other things that 80% of responding nonprofits reported an increase in demand for services and 28% ended their 2013 fiscal year with a deficit.  Explore the data with their interactive tool by clicking here.

• "Inclusion Works: A Case Study of the Hope Fund"
  A look back at how the HOPE Fund at the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan began 20  years ago and a summary of the impact had it has on the local LGBT community.

• "The Impact of a Higher Minimum Wage on Poverty Among Same-Sex Couples"
  The Williams Institute has released a new study which estimates that at least 20,000 people in same-sex couples would be lifted out of poverty by a higher minimum wage.

• "Who Decides: How Participatory Grantmaking Benefits Donors, Communities and Movements"
  The Lafayette Practice has released a new report exploring the benefits of participatory grantmaking.

• A Profile of the Arcus Foundation's Andy Marra
  Andy Marra, Communications Manager for the Arcus Foundation, speaks about finding her identity as an adoptee, reuniting with her birth mother, and coming out to her birth mother as transgender.

• "A Note of Much Gratitude to Andrew Park"
  International Human Rights Funders Group Executive Director Michael Hirschhorn acknowledges the many contributions of Andrew Park of Wellspring Advisors.

• "Community Foundation For Gay Causes Opens Office"
  The Sun Sentinel profiles Our Fund and their executive director Anthony Timiraos. 

• "Would Gandhi, Chavez or King Receive a Grant Today? Movement Building as a Grantmaking Strategy"
  Edgar Villanueva, Program Officer at Marguerite Casey Foundation, pens an editorial for Southern California Grantmakers recapping a GEO National Conference session of the same name and offers his own two cents.

• "Why Philanthropy Should Address Gender Norms"
  This NCRP blog post explores how gender norms can impact life outcomes and how gender transformative philanthropy is poised to become a best practice.

• New York City AIDS Fund
  The AIDS Fund is looking to build upon its lecture series and by offering a more intensive HIV/AIDS Service Community Learning Lab.  Ten to twelve organizations will be chosen to join the Learning Lab and receive a grant of $5,000. Proposals are due April 28.

• New York Community Trust
  Applications are now available for the 2014 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards. Applications are due May 2.

• The Adam Foundation
  The Adam Foundation will start accepting grant applications for its 2014 grants cycle on February 28.  AF is looking for projects both big and small that will impact the Triad LGBTQ community.  The deadline for submitting is April 30.

Recent Grant Award Announcements

• Arcus Foundation
  The Arcus Foundation has announced its spring 2014 social justice grants.

• The Jim Collins Foundation
  The Jim Collins Foundation has announced a record number of grantees for its 2014 cycle. From over 300 applicants, the Jim Collins Foundation will fund three gender-confirming surgeries for transgender individuals.  

• San Diego Human Dignity Foundation
  San Diego Human Dignity Foundation has awarded two grants totaling $32,000 to Stepping Stone of San Diego for a nationally acclaimed residential drug-and-alcohol-addiction treatment program targeting the LGBT community and people living with HIV/AIDS.

• Human Rights Campaign
  HRC has awarded an additional $40,000 to the Russian Freedom Fund - the sum of all donations made to the "Love Conquers Hate" campaign.

• Amazon
  Amazon has renewed a $25,000 grant to the Lambda Literary Foundation to support the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT voices.

• The Lorde-Rustin Giving Circle at the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
  The Lorde-Rustin Giving Circle has awarded $20,000 to Atlanta's CHRIS Kids to assist LGBT youth of color.

• Rockefeller Foundation
  The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded a month-long writing residency to Dr. Scout to focus on trans health policy.

• Groundswell Fund
  Groundswell Fund has announced more than $2 million in grants for 2014, including grant awards to several organizations working at the intersections of reproductive justice and LGBTQ issues, such as Affinity Community Services, Faith Aloud, FIERCE, New Voices Pittsburgh, SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and Women with a Vision.