Us Too: Funding the Needs and Priorities of LBQ+ Women and Non-Binary People
Thursday, April 20
10 am EST/ 4 pm CEST/ 5 pm EAT

Join Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, Gender Funders CoLab, and the Global Philanthropy Project to discuss practical ways for donors to support LBQ+ movement-building globally. This event will focus on the findings of Human Rights Watch’s first global report on the rights of lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ+) women and non-binary people with Erin Kilbride (HRW LGBT rights Program) in conversation with feminist and queer philanthropy practitioners, Anisha Chugh (Women’s Fund Asia) and Rebecca Fox (Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice). The session is specifically aimed at donors seeking to address the critical LBQ+ funding gap.

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Joy Chia
Executive Director
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

Anisha Chugh
Executive Director
Women’s Fund Asia

Rebecca Fox
Vice President of Programs
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

Erin Kilbride
Researcher, LGBT Rights Program
Human Rights Watch

Conversations with Donors around the Data and Recommendations in the Doundou Report
Wednesday, April 26th 
3 pm GMT/ 11 am EDT/  6 pm EAT

Join Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) and Global Philanthropy Project for A Conversation with Grantmakers on the Data and Recommendations in the report “Doundou: Mapping LGBTQI organizing in West Africa”.  The West African LGBTQI movement and the philanthropy sector have evolved since the first mapping report ‘We Exist’ was published in 2016. This visible growth and diversity made it necessary to conduct another mapping research to update the available data. The Doundou report provides compelling evidence of change and growth in the LGBTQI movement in West Africa in increasingly complex social, political, economic, and security contexts, as well as the current state of funding in the region.

At this grantmaker-only webinar, ISDAO will facilitate a space for conversation and engagement around the report with other grantmakers and will also present the key data and donor recommendations in the report.

The webinar is available in English and French.

Rejoignez l’Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) et Global Philanthropy Project pour une conversation avec les bailleurs de fonds sur les données et les recommandations du rapport “Doundou : Cartographie de la mobilisation communautaire  LGBTQI en Afrique de l’Ouest”.  Le mouvement LGBTQI d’Afrique de l’Ouest et le secteur de la philanthropie ont évolué depuis la publication du premier rapport de cartographie  “Nous Existons” en 2016. Cette croissance et cette diversité visibles ont rendu nécessaire la réalisation d’une autre recherche cartographique pour mettre à jour les données disponibles. Le rapport de Doundou fournit des évidences   sur le changement et la croissance du mouvement LGBTQI en Afrique de l’Ouest dans des contextes sociaux, politiques, économiques et sécuritaires de plus en plus complexes et dynamiques, ainsi que de l’état actuel du financement dans la région.

Lors de ce webinaire réservé aux bailleurs de fonds, l’ISDAO animera un espace de conversation et d’engagement autour du rapport avec d’autres bailleurs de fonds et présentera également les données clés et les recommandations des bailleurs de fonds contenues dans le rapport.

Le webinaire est disponible en anglais et en français.

Olumide Femi Makanjuola
Director of Programs/ Directeur des programmes
Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO)

Matthew Hart
Director/ Directeur
Global Philanthropy Project

Caroline Kouassiaman
Executive Director/Directrice Exécutive
Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO)

Stéphane Simporé
Director of Communications and Knowledge Management/ Directeur des Communications et de la Gestion des Connaissances
Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO)

 Effects Framework: Reimagining Property Purchasing as a strategic tool
Tuesday, June 20th 
10 am EDT/ 4 pm CEST/ 5 pm EAT

Join Dreilinden, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, and Global Philanthropy Project as they share insights on how property purchase grants can be used as a strategic pillar to achieve positive long-term effects on civil society organizations and the movements at large. The webinar will introduce the effects framework, a monitoring and evaluation tool developed through a participatory process, discuss some of the key effects that emerged during the development of the tool, and provide concrete examples of how the funders can integrate property purchase into their practice.

This is a grantmaker-only event. Grantmakers include employees of public and private foundations, donor governments, corporate funders, high-net-wealth individuals, wealth advisories, and funder networks.

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Global Philanthropy Project at Equal Rights Coalition
Buenos Aires, Argentina
8-9 September 2022

The Equal Rights Coalition (ERC) is hosting a Global LGTBI Conference in Buenos Aires, between September 8 and 9, 2022. As members of the ERC’s Donor Coordination Thematic Group (DCTG), GPP will be represented at the Conference by our Director, Matthew Hart (virtually), and by Mauro Cabral Grinspan (in person), who coordinates GPP’s Task Forces Trans and Intersex Funding, and Responding to Anti-Gender Ideologies.

Over the past 5 years, GPP and its partners have produced in-depth research on the philanthropic response to anti-gender movement. Click here to view GPP’s page dedicated to philanthropy’s response to anti-gender issues.

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ERC and Philanthropy

GPP’s members have been involved in the ERC since it was established in Montevideo in 2016 and the earlier global conferences which led to its creation. These include:

• 2010 – A first-ever convening on global LGBTI human rights and development, co-hosted by the Swedish Government’s development agency, Sida, and HIVOS in Stockholm
• 2013 – “Increasing Support and Resources for LGBT Rights” Conference, co-hosted by the German The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in cooperation with the Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany (LSVD) in Berlin.
• 2014 – “Conference to Advance the Human Rights of and Promote Inclusive Development for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Persons”, organized by U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with the support of the Council for Global Equality in Washington, D.C.
• 2016 – Global LGBTI Human Rights Conference, co-hosted by the Government of Uruguay and the Government of Netherlands in Montevideo.
• 2018 – Equal Rights Coalition Conference, co-hosted by the Government of Canada and Government of Chile in Vancouver.

GPP released position statements prior to the 2016 Montevideo conference (read here) and 2018 Vancouver conference (read here), which outline the network’s priorities for the ERC in order to support the coalition to be an effective platform for increasing the amount and quality of resources flowing to LGBTI movements and communities in the global south and east.

What is the Equal Rights Coalition?
The Equal Rights Coalition (ERC) is a multilateral and multi-stakeholder coalition through which 42 member states cooperate closely with civil society, multilateral agencies, and other stakeholders to advance LGBTI human rights and inclusive development. The ERC works to promote innovative, effective diplomacy and inclusive development in support of the human rights of LGBTI persons.

The ERC Structure
Since it was established in 2016, the ERC has been primarily centered around a bi-annual ERC Global Conference, which is co-hosted by two co-chair governments (one global south and global north). The ERC Global Conference is the only global convening of its kind in which states, development cooperation agencies, civil society, international organizations, philanthropic foundations, and other relevant stakeholders come together to advance LGBTI human rights and inclusive development.

Between conferences, the work of the ERC takes place through an Executive Committee, Coordinating Committee and Thematic Groups.