LGBTQ Fund

By making a gift to the LGBTQ Fund on GiveNOLA Day, you will support our 2026 grantmaking, allowing us to make more strategic and impactful investments in our region's nonprofits.

The Foundation's LGBTQ Fund supports organizations that increase the quality of life and access to opportunity for LGBTQ individuals and families, particularly the most marginalized members of the community, including elders, transgender youth and adults of color, low-income LGBTQ people, and LBGTQ persons who are disabled.

Priority is given to work that aims to:

• Advocate for effective policies that will improve the quality of life for LGBTQ individuals and families.
• Build the cultural competency of "mainstream" organizations that serve LGBTQ clientele, particularly elders, transgender youth and adults of color, low-income LGBTQ people, and LBGTQ persons who are disabled. This work would provide the staff of "mainstream" organizations with the education, tools, and professional development opportunities that will help improve their knowledge, skills, and attitudes when serving LGBTQ clientele.
• Provide LGBTQ individuals and families with high quality, well-coordinated, and culturally competent direct services related to primary care, behavioral, and preventive healthcare; crisis management and legal support; workforce development; financial literacy and asset building; transportation; housing and safe spaces to congregate, and social services.