As Pride Month comes to a close June 30, LGBTQ giving circles are among those groups drawing attention to Give OUT Day, a time for charitable giving to queer causes.
According to San Francisco-based Horizons Foundation, which hosts the event, Give OUT Day, has raised millions for LGBTQ+ nonprofits nationwide. Sara Lomelin, an ally who is the executive director of Philanthropy Together, is using the occasion to highlight giving circles, which Lomelin said have increased in recent years. Basically the simple explanation is that a giving circle is a group of people with shared values who get together to . pool donations, time, talent, and testimony to decide what they want to support, she told the Bay Area Reporter. Instead of friends giving to all different organizations, you come together and the impression is larger. Giving circles are one of the most effective ways to liberate capital and turn individual dollars into community power.
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Carmen Vázquez, the founding director of the Women s Building in San Francisco and a longtime activist for the LGBTQ community and social justice, died January 27 in New York City. She was 72.
The cause was complications of COVID-19, according to the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, where Ms. Vázquez had been a board co-chair.
According to a statement on the foundation s website, Ms. Vázquez, a butch lesbian, was the founding director of the Women s Building in San Francisco, helped found the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center in San Francisco, and the LGBT Health & Human Services Network, a coalition of over 55 organizations and groups in New York advocating for LGBTQ health and human services.
Carmen Vázquez, the founding director of the Women s Building in San Francisco and a longtime activist for the LGBTQ community and social justice, died January 27 in New York City. She was 72.