Fund Our Futures Campaign

About the Campaign

While the global movement for LGBTI equality has made once-unimaginable progress, rising backlash puts our rights, wellbeing, and collective future in jeopardy. Anti-gender and anti-rights movements are using LGBTI rights as a wedge issue to manufacture moral panic, rollback human rights protections, and undermine the fabric of democratic societies.

The global LGBTI movement plays a crucial role in defending democracy and building resilient and stable societies, but we are being wildly outspent by our opposition. Three of the largest anti-rights organizations reported a combined income of over $1 billion during 2021-2022 — more than the entire global LGBTI movement received during the same two years. Most worryingly, several major funding streams are under major threat due to shifting geopolitical landscapes in some of the largest donor countries.

GPP initiated the Fund Our Futures campaign to call on philanthropy and donor governments to meet this moment by deepening commitments to global LGBTI rights. Major new investments are needed to:

• Build resilient and robust LGBTI movement infrastructure with the capacity to defend LGBTI rights in the face of rising backlash;
• Strengthen the global response to anti-gender and anti-rights forces by centering LGBTI people and rights;
• Accelerate LGBTI rights advancements where conditions allow;
• Protect the safety of LGBTI people and defend LGBTI lives where they are under attack; and,
• Build the conditions for LGBTI people to thrive with meaningful access to all their rights.

Join Us

Fund Our Futures commitments are to the field, meaning that each institution provides resources to the recipients of its choice. Commitments must be new money for LGBTI communities and can have any geographic scope. They can be disbursed over a three-year period (2025 – 2027) for philanthropy and five years (2025 – 2029) for governments. They can be public or discreet.

Whether you can commit $100,000, $1M or $10M, your resources will make a meaningful difference in the lives of LGBTI people across the globe.

Join us in funding LGBTI rights for the future of human rights and democracy – and Fund Our Futures.

Commitment Form

Thank you for joining the community of donors making commitments for this first-ever global LGBTI funding campaign. Together we will unleash a powerful set of new funding commitments for the global LGBTI movement at this pivotal time for human rights and democracy worldwide.

This form collects information about your commitment so we can build a shared picture of new resourcing for the movement and ensure accountability for the field. GPP will track commitment spending via our biennial Global Resources Report.

Commitment Guidelines

• Commitments must be new and previously uncommitted money for the global LGBTI rights movement.
• Commitments must be focused on LGBTI communities – either directed to organizations that have a primary focus on LGBTI communities, or to organizations that serve a wider constituency but directed to projects that specifically focus on LGBTI people.
• Commitments can have any geographic scope. While GPP prioritizes commitments for the Global South and East, given the consequential nature of this moment for LGBTI rights across the globe, pledges focused on the Global North can be included.
• Commitments from philanthropy can be spent over a three-calendar year period (2025 – 2027), and commitments from governments can be spent over a five-calendar year period (2025 – 2029).
• Commitments must be a minimum of six figures.
• Commitments can be private or public.