• The Coordinating Committee organizes meetings with donor governments and key intermediaries, convened thematic conversations among LGBTI-funding program officers, and support organizing efforts towards a Southern Africa Donor Tour, among other activities. 
• Members participate in the “Stockholm Meeting” bringing together philanthropy and donor governments for the first time to strengthen support for international LGBTI human rights.

• First GPP publication: Invest, Educate, Engage, Ask: Strategies for Increasing Individual Giving to LGBTQ Rights in the Global South and East.
• GPP partners with Funders for LGBTQ Issues in development of the GlobalGaze report, tracking 2010 LGBTI funding in the Global South and East.
• GPP transitions to become a program of Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice at the end of 2011.

• GPP explores government funding for LGBTI human rights in the Global South and East, intermediary funding opportunities, and the opportunities for tracking this funding, with private research for member organizations. 

• A Southern Africa Donor Tour, engaging many GPP members, supports the development of The Other Foundation.
• GPP hosts its first Donor Pre-Conference, Changing Faces, Changing Spaces (CFCS), in partnership with UHAI EASHRI (Kenya), an ongoing biennial event.
• GPP continues to explore government funding for LGBTI human rights in the Global South and East in private research for member organizations, and GPP members participate in a Berlin meeting following up on the 2010 “Stockholm Meeting,” again bringing together philanthropy and donor governments with key civil society leaders to increase support, coordination, and resources for LGBT Rights.
• Ten funding organizations launch the GPP Trans Funding Working Group. Members support the development of Growing Trans* Funding and Strategy: A report from the field in 2013.

• GPP hosts a first in-person member meeting.
• GPP hosts a pre-conference institute as part of the International Human Rights Funders Group [now Human Rights Funders Network] conference (USA).

• GPP hires its first dedicated staff member, Matthew Hart, and a program associate. With staffing, GPP activates increasing programmatic and structural development and launches a member working group focused on Government and Multilateral Donors.
• GPP organizes its first ILGA-Europe Donor Pre-Conference (Greece), an ongoing annual event.
• GPP members initiate and participate in an international convening to determine the feasibility of creating a new fund to support the global transgender community, eventually leading to the development of the International Trans Fund.
• GPP publishes SOGI Related Forced Migration in East Africa: Fleeing Uganda After the Passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act and also develops research about engaging high net wealth individual donors in international LGBTI grantmaking.

• GPP publishes the first Global Resources Report: Government & Philanthropic Support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Communities in partnership with Funders for LGBTQ Issues, documenting global LGBTI funding in 2013-2014, setting the baseline for this ongoing biennial tracking report, and two additional reports:
  • The Perfect Storm: The Closing Space for LGBTI Civil Society in Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Kenya, and Hungary
  • The Road to Successful Partnerships: How Governments in the Global North can effectively partner with intermediary organizations to support LGBTI communities in the Gobal South and East

• GPP launches a public website.
• GPP mobilizes members to attend the Global LGBTI Human Rights Conference – Non Violence, Non Discrimination and Social Inclusion (Uruguay), aligning its annual member meeting with the conference. This conference launches the Equal Rights Coalition.
• GPP organizes its first donor pre-conference aligned with ILGA World (Thailand) and its first donor reception aligned with Pan Africa ILGA (South Africa), yielding ongoing partnerships.
• GPP is increasingly active in attending and presenting at conferences including the Ariadne Annual Meeting and Policy Briefing, International Civil Society Week, the International AIDS Conference, and more. GPP also hosts an LGBTI grantmaker reception in London.
  

• With the launch of the second edition of The State of Trans Organizing and The State of Intersex Organizing, GPP and partners launch a tour bringing the research findings to key donor government, philanthropic, and civil society organizations in Europe and to a number of conferences in the Asia-Pacific region. 
• GPP partners with ILGA-Europe in publishing It Shows That People Care: LGBTI organisations fundraising from individuals in Europe and Central Asia.
• GPP begins to host informational webinars for the broader philanthropic community, ongoing as a major program area.
• GPP and partners co-host a meeting organized in response to our ​Perfect Storm​ report on the closing space impacts for LGBTI communities, including a donor breakfast meeting (Germany). GPP also hosts its first ILGA Asia session (Cambodia), and continues donor pre-conferences adjacent to ILGA-Europe (Poland) and CFCS (Kenya).

• The tour of State of Trans Organizing and State of Intersex Organizing reports continues with tailored presentations to government and donors, multilaterals, and foundations in Europe and Northern America and multiple conferences. 
• GPP publishes the second Global Resources Report in partnership with Funders for LGBTQ Issues, documenting global LGBTI funding in 2015-2016.

• GPP and its members engaged in Leaving No One Behind: The Equal Rights Coalition Global Conference on LGBTI Human Rights and Inclusive Development in Vancouver, Canada.
• GPP and Elevate Children Funders Group launch collaboration to mobilize global funding support for LGBTI youth. 
• GPP holds a multi-day member meeting in Amsterdam, donor pre-conferences adjacent to ILGA-Europe (Belgium), and co-hosts a side meeting at the annual Human Rights Funders Network conference (Mexico) focused on donor responses to the anti-gender movement.

• GPP hosts our first independent global meeting: Growing Solidarity: Funding at the Intersection of Faith, Religious Fundamentalism, Human Rights, and Social Justice (Botswana). GPP also develops private research for this convening, which is later published in a public version as Religious Conservatism on the Global Stage: Threats and Challenges for LGBTI Rights

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• GPP coordinates a funder delegation to Ottawa, Canada to provide technical guidance to Global Affairs Canada and participate in a country-level consultation with Canadian stakeholders.
• GPP hosts its first donor event aligned with ILGA Latin America and the Caribbean (Colombia), and its first Donor Pre-Conference focused on the Middle East and North Africa region in coordination with the Arab Foundation For Freedoms & Equality (Cyprus), as well as its ongoing donor pre-conferences adjacent to ILGA World (New Zealand), ILGA-Europe (Czech Republic) and CFCS (Kenya).

• GPP organizes the first-ever LGBTI-focused session for the European Foundation Centre conference (France); co-organizes a Donor Post-Conference to the Rainbow Philanthropy Conference: “Sport Disrupted: Sexuality Matters” (Germany); and co-organizes a conference on “The Narrative Imperative: Imagining a Collective Response for Effective Communications” (USA). 

• GPP and ECFG publish Infinite Worlds of Possibilities: Understanding, Supporting and Financing Programs for LGBTI Children and Youth Around the World and related materials (private to members).
• GPP and partners publish briefings on The State of Intersex Funding and The State of Trans Funding.

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• Much of GPP’s planned work was disrupted as the COVID-19 pandemic emerged. GPP quickly developed a funder survey and brief to share findings about likely impacts of COVID-19 on funding for LGBTI global communities. Over the course of 2020, GPP then developed a broader report: Where are the Global COVID-19 Resources for LGBTI Communities?
• GPP developed private research which was excerpted for a public report: Meet the Moment: A Call for Progressive Philanthropic Response to the Anti-Gender Movement.
• GPP published the third Global Resources Report in partnership with Funders for LGBTQ Issues, documenting global LGBTI funding in 2017-2018, publishing the report in English, Spanish, and French. 

• GPP hosted and participated in a range of online events, webinars, and panels.
• GPP transitioned to fiscal sponsorship with Community Initiatives.

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• GPP hosts the Shimmering Solidarity: Global Rights Summit, an online donor-convening across four months of virtual programming. 

• Following the Global Rights Summit, GPP launches a task force on philanthropic responses to the anti-gender movement.
• GPP and Elevate Children Funders Group co-publish Manufacturing Moral Panic: Weaponizing Children to Undermine Gender Justice and Human Rights.
• GPP publishes a series of four briefs exploring more detailed funding analysis from the Global Resources Report: Diving Deeper Under the Surface of LGBTI funding data.
• GPP hosts and participates in a range of online events, webinars, and panels.

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• In 2022, GPP returns to hosting in-person events including donor pre-conferences aligned with ILGA World (USA), ILGA Asia (Vietnam), and ILGA-Europe (Bulgaria). 

• GPP and member organizations participate in the Equal Rights Coalition Global LGBTI Conference (Argentina).
• GPP develops a toolkit for trans-inclusive grantmaking.  
• GPP publishes the fourth Global Resources Report, documenting global LGBTI funding in 2019-2020.

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• GPP and partners successfully advocate for the Australian Government to create their first ever LGBTI human rights foreign policy strategy and establish a new Inclusion and Equality Fund, supporting LGBTI civil society in Asia and the Pacific.
• GPP hosts a first full donor pre-conference for Pan Africa ILGA (Mauritius) and a major funder convening in advance of the Sydney WorldPride Human Rights Conference – “Resourcing LGBTIQ+ Movements for Change in Asia and the Pacific” (Australia).
• GPP launches as an independent organization, leaving fiscal sponsorship, and  re-launches our website.

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• GPP publishes the fifth edition of the  Global Resources Report, documenting global LGBTI funding in 2020-2021, and the third edition of The State of Trans Organizing and The State of Intersex Organizing reports.

• GPP organized the first-ever Global LGBTI Funding Summit, where nearly 200 grantmakers gathered in Cape Town to unleash transformative funding for LGBTI movements.

• GPP launched the Fund Our Futures campaign, which aims to raise $150 million in new funding for global LGBTI movements. By December 2024, 28 funders have committed $100 million to the Campaign.

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