To support the creation of a collaborative fund providing one-time unrestricted grants to trans-led and trans-serving arts organizations that serve as vital hubs to the trans, gender non-conforming and two-spirit communities to support their continual operation.

A coalition of major arts organizations and philanthropists in Los Angeles led by the J. Paul Getty Trust joined with the Mellon Foundation, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Qatar Museums, Ford Foundation and other national and international institutions to create the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, an […]

Council on Foundations (COF) supports over 900 member organizations in the United States and around the world to build trust in philanthropy, expand pathways to giving, engage broader perspectives, and co-create solutions that will lead to a better future for all.

Northern CA Grantmakers (NCG) mobilizes philanthropy to build healthy, thriving, and just communities in Northern California toward a vision that philanthropy redistributes resources, capital, and power back to historically marginalized communities leading transformative change.

pateldanceworks (pdw) engages with futuring queer, decolonial worlds through dance performance, community improvisational practice and dance writing mentorship in pursuit of liberation, generating spaces of care and belonging. Their commitments to equity and anti-racism are integral to their creative process, administrative work, audience experience and performance making.

Transforming philanthropy by elevating the field of grants management and empowering grants management professionals to lead the way in operationalizing equity-centered, values-driven grantmaking practices.

Described as “emotional and kinetic” (San Francisco Bay Guardian), PUSH Dance Company performs vibrant contemporary dances, providing audiences an opportunity to examine issues of identity and intersecting cultures that surround and affect us all.

Queer Cultural Center promotes social justice and the creative and finanical development of queer artists and culture makers. They steward artists whose programs nourish, connect and mobilize Trans & Queer communities in San Francisco and its diaspora.

Reyes’ works are informed by her past experiences with poverty, domestic abuse, religion and chronic pain within the context of Latin American culture. She blends athleticism, everyday gestures, humor, storytelling and abstraction to question belief systems and toxic behavioral patterns in order to heal and reimagine healthier ways of relating to ourselves and others.