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Recent Grants from the Equity Fund
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| Project Information |
Grant Amount |
| Add Verb Productions Arts & Education, Portland, for the Queer and Allied Writing Project encouraging youth to submit performance pieces addressing what it means to be an ally for the LGBTQ community |
$5,500.00 |
| Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, Portland, for follow-up support and assistance to the participants at CPHV's October 2008 conference for school administrators on making schools safe for GLBT students |
$4,500.00 |
| Community Counseling Center, Portland, to build on the first year of Becoming Visible, to extend training to more service providers and to launch a task force to identify the needs of elder LGBT Mainers and develop strategies to meet these needs |
$4,000.00 |
| Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network, Southern Maine Chapter, Portland, to expand the gay-straight alliances (GSAs) in Maine high schools, especially rural schools, through networking and consulting with GSAs in their schools |
$6,000.00 |
| Maine Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Ellsworth, to use online networking sites, blogs and streaming web video to engage people ages 35 and under around the freedom to marry initiative |
$6,500.00 |
| Operation Breaking Stereotypes, Orono, for students from two Operation Breaking Stereotypes partner schools to present The Laramie Project, commemorating the 10th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death and addressing hate language and crimes in their school and community |
$500.00 |
| Outright/Lewiston-Auburn, Auburn, to create connections with educational, cultural, and recreational organizations in the community to increase connectedness |
$3,000.00 |
| Pine Tree Performing Arts, Portland, for the Maine Gay Men's Chorus's musical celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots that occurred in June 1969 |
$4,000.00 |
| Wilde Stein Alliance for Sexual Diversity, Orono, to host two large social events on campus: Coming Out Week and Pride Week |
$500.00 |
| University of Southern Maine, Portland, to collect material documenting the histories of diverse communities, and to advocate for diversity and civil rights using this research |
$5,500.00 |
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