2017-2018 Global Resources Report Webinar Launch

Join the 2017-2018 Global Resources Report
Launch Webinar
Thursday, May 28th
10-11:30am EDT / 4-530pm CEST / 5-630pm EAT

Hosted by Global Philanthropy Project, Funders for LGBTQ Issues, and ILGA World
All are welcome

The report will be available for download
at globalresourcesreport.org
on Tuesday, May 26th

RSVP Required - Click Here to Register

The bi-annual Global Resources Report provides governments, multilateral agencies, civil society, philanthropy and corporate foundations with the most detailed and accurate understanding of the global funding landscape on LGBTI issues.

Developed in partnership by Global Philanthropy Project and Funders for LGBTQ Issues.

Webinar Speakers

Mauro Cabral Grinspan
Executive Director
GATE

Mauro Cabral Grinspan

Mauro (he/him) is an Argentinian intersex and trans rights activist. He is the founding co-director of GATE in 2009 with Justus Eisfeld and was promoted to Executive Director in January 2017. Mauro is a long-time activist and one of the most respected leaders in the international trans and intersex movements. He currently coordinates GATE’s initiative on the process of revision and reform of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and has been deeply involved in all the programs developed by GATE.

One of the initial signatories of the Yogyakarta Principles, Mauro was a key driver in the expansion of these principles (YP+10). In 2015, Mauro received the 2015 Bob Hepple Equality Award. Mauro has a Degree in History from the National University of Córdoba.

Wendy Drukier
Director General
Global Affairs Canada

Wendy Drukier

Wendy Drukier, Director General, Global Affairs Canada

Julia Ehrt
Director of Programs
ILGA World

Julia Ehrt

Julia Ehrt (she/her) is the Director of Programs at ILGA where she develops ILGA’s programmatic work and manages the programs team.
Before joining ILGA she was the Executive Director of Transgender Europe and has been central to TGEU’s growth and development in the last decade. She gained wide recognition as trans activist in Europe and contributed significantly to how trans issues are perceived and debated today in Europe and beyond. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Trans Fund (ITF), a board member of the Association for Womens’ Rights in Development (AWID) and a signatory to the Yogyakarta Principles plus 10.
Julia holds a PhD in mathematics and lives with her partner and child in Berlin and in Geneva.

Douglas Griffiths
President
Oak Foundation

Douglas Griffiths

Doug joined Oak Foundation in January 2019. In his role as President, he is thrilled to knit together his professional experiences advocating for human rights, humanitarian relief, social development and environmental protection. The president’s office includes a team of six that work to ensure that we have: robust monitoring, evaluation and learning systems; efficient communication practices; and a strong foundation working to achieve our mission.

Matthew Hart
Director
Global Philanthropy Project

Matthew Hart

Matthew “Matty” Hart joined as Director of the Global Philanthropy Project in 2015, leading the efforts of an organization internationally recognized as the primary thought leader and go-to partner for donor coordination around global LGBTI work.

Founder and Principle of the Paris-based Lafayette Practice, Hart has previously served as Senior Strategist for Europe for Funders Concerned about AIDS, and National Director for Public Engagement at Solutions for Progress.

Hart also serves as the President of the Board of Directors of the Calamus Foundation (DE), and has previously served as a member of The Civil Marriage Collaborative, a board member of Funders for LGBTQ Issues, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Philadelphia’s Sustainable Business Network, and The Leeway Foundation; and the community funding board of Bread & Roses Fund. A Jonathan Lax Academic Fellow, Hart received degrees in Urban Studies and Cultural Anthropology from Temple University.

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

Caroline Kouassiaman

Caroline Kouassiaman is the Executive Director for Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest. Caroline has 15+ years of diverse professional experiences in philanthropy, human rights activism, social justice and education to ISDAO. Previously Caroline was Senior Program Officer at the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), managing the sexual health and rights grants portfolio in West and East Africa. While at AJWS, Caroline was involved with ISDAO throughout the first four years of its journey, where she contributed to resource mobilization, communications and outreach to other funders and activists, and developing ISDAO’s programs, initially as a member of the Brain Trust and later of the Interim Governing Body. Prior to joining AJWS, Caroline was the Program Officer for Sub-Saharan Africa at the Global Fund for Women, where she coordinated grantmaking to over 100 women’s rights organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa annually, from 2011-2014. She serves as an advisor to the Queer African Youth Network.

Caroline is a queer Pan-African feminist of Ivorian and African-American heritage, and has lived in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Uganda. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Diplomacy & World Affairs from Occidental College, a Master of Public Administration degree and a master’s in international relations from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University (US). Caroline works for a world where LGBTQI persons – in their full and beautiful diversity – have the opportunity, autonomy and resources to live full, healthy and violence-free lives on their own terms.

Mukami Marete
Co-Executive Director
UHAI-EASHRI

Mukami Marete

Mukami is an African queer feminist woman with a commitment to human rights and social justice for all people. She is currently the Co-Executive Director at UHAI – The East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative (UHAI EASHRI). UHAI EASHRI is Africa’s first indigenous activist fund for sex workers and sexual and gender minorities. We support civil society organising for and by sex workers and sexual and gender minorities with flexible and accessible grants; capacity support; support for Pan-African organising and advocacy, including support for activist-determined convening and knowledge building and documentation.

Before joining UHAI, she had worked with Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) in the finance and administration department and was actively involved in the sexual and reproductive health rights program and in particular right to safe abortions and rights of LGBTI people.

Mukami is a mother of two and believes that love makes a family. She wants to be able to bring up her African children to be resilient in a patriarchal, racist, imperialist and sexist world that she finds herself in.

Ben Francisco Maulbeck
President
Funders for LGBTQ Issues

Ben Francisco Maulbeck

Ben Francisco Maulbeck has been President of Funders for LGBTQ Issues since December 2012. During his tenure at Funders, the organization’s annual revenue has quadrupled, and its membership has more than doubled, with a growing number of non-LGBTQ-focused foundations joining the network in recognition of the importance of LGBTQ issues. With his leadership, the organization has become the premiere resource hub on LGBTQ philanthropy, providing visually compelling reports and infographics as well as developing a new program to train and support foundations on LGBTQ inclusiveness. He led the development of reports, funder briefings, and resources to identify the unique ways that LGBTQ communities are affected by issues such as economic opportunity, education access, health, and racial equity.

From 2007 through 2012, Maulbeck worked at Hispanics in Philanthropy (“HIP”), most recently serving as Vice President. During his time at HIP, he played a leadership role in launching several new programs and initiatives, including a national Latino aging initiative and a funding collaborative to strengthen education nonprofits in Puerto Rico. He also oversaw the continued success of the Funders’ Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities, a multimillion-dollar initiative to build the capacity of Latino-led nonprofits, ranging from Latino community centers and theaters to economic development programs and policy advocacy groups

Maulbeck earned a bachelor of arts at Swarthmore College and a master of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where his areas of study included participatory leadership, social marketing, and international political economy.

Ezra Nepon
Senior Program Officer for Knowledge & Learning
GPP

Ezra Nepon

Ezra Berkley Nepon is the Senior Program Officer for Knowledge and Learning at Global Philanthropy Project. Based in Philadelphia, Nepon joined GPP in 2015.

Nepon’s experience in philanthropy goes back to co-founding a small public fund in 1998, The Self-Education Foundation, which made small grants to groups using self-education as a liberatory tool. Previous development work includes serving as Director of Grassroots Fundraising for Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and Development Coordinator for the William Way LGBT Community Center. More recently, Nepon worked as partner in The Lafayette Practice, co-authoring reports including “Who Decides: How Participatory Grantmaking Benefits Donors, Communities and Movements.”

Nepon received an M.A. Degree from Goddard College with a concentration in Transformative Language Arts, and was a 2014 recipient of the Leeway Foundation Transformation Award. They are the author of two books – most recently, Dazzle Camouflage: Spectacular Theatrical Strategies for Resistance and Resilience. In 2019, Nepon joined the board of the Leeway Foundation.

Midnight Poonkasetwattana
Executive Director
APCOM

Midnight Poonkasetwattana

Based in Bangkok, Midnight has been APCOM’s Executive Director since May 2011. With many years of experience working in multi-sectorial partnerships with governments, donors and the United Nations, Midnight particularly enjoys working with community groups and civil society organisations to build their capacity to better promote the rights of gender and sexual minorities.

Midnight’s work as APCOM Executive Director has been globally recognised through various awards and honors, such as Mark King’s MyFabulousDisease.com’s 16 HIV Advocates to Watch in 2016, “IAPAC 150” Pioneers in AIDS Response and AVAC’s Omololu Falobi Award for excellence in HIV prevention research community advocacy. At the 2016 UN High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, Midnight gave the Closing Plenary Statement representing civil society across the globe.

Before joining APCOM, Midnight worked for Purple Sky Network where he engaged with MSM and transgender communities in the Greater Mekong areas. He previously supported the implementation of HIV and human rights programmes in various countries throughout Asia and Eastern Europe as part of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.

Midnight obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia in 2002 and completed his Masters in Globalisation and Development in 2009 at the School of Oriental and African Studies through the University of London.