2022 Beneficiaries

AIDS Foundation Houston – Camp Hope

www.aidshelp.org

AFH has been reaching out to the LGBTQ community with its community-based education and awareness programs since the founding of the organization in 1982. Over the years, people in the LGBTQ community have benefited from education about HIV/AIDS transmission, learned about various safer sex methods, and been counseled on specific prevention strategies that each person can implement on an individual level to reduce HIV infections.

The Dalton DeHart Photographic Foundation, Inc.

www.tddpf.org

The Dalton DeHart Photographic Foundation was created to preserve the history of Houston’s LGBTQ Community by chronicling the past 30+ years of events. Dalton has taken hundreds of thousands of photographs, the vast majority on film, that will now be digitized and preserved so that the community will have these images for ever.

Hatch Youth

www.hatchyouth.org

Hatch Youth is dedicated to empowering LGBTQ adolescents, ages 13-20, to become responsible citizens and positive contributors to society by: Providing a safe, affirming social environment for LGBTQ youth; Providing education on health issues such as HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s) drug and alcohol abuse and suicide prevention; To host a variety of helpful and affirming programs for LGBTQ youth; Offering role models and peer support; Sponsoring educational and community outreach opportunities on issues and problems affecting LGBTQ youth for school counselors, teachers, administrators, mental health and medical professionals, social service, and law enforcement organizations.

Lazarus House: A Center for Wellness

www.thelazarushouse.org

Bunnies on the Bayou is supporting Lazarus House’s 2020 Wellness Program, a proven opportunity to address collateral issues associated with chronic illness like HIV. This comprehensive, one of a kind program includes disease specific exercise to increase strength, endurance, and function, peer support to enhance adherence and completion, and nutritional coaching to optimize program outcome and success. The Wellness Program teaches life improving skills that empower each client to attain an improved quality of life so they can not only live longer, but live stronger.

LHI

www.lhihouston.org

LHI works to eliminate barriers to healthcare and promote health and wellness for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT)-identified women and transgender men through collaborative and integrated Education, Access and Advocacy programs.

LOUD, Inc.

https://loudinc.net

The Loud Inc works year-round to produce free or low-cost events that educate empower and entertain our entire gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. Loud Inc volunteers work hard to keep cost down while maintaining the high quality of our community events.

Montrose Grace Place

www.montrosegraceplace.org

Montrose Grace Place’s mission is to provide a safe, welcoming environment for vulnerable homeless youth of all sexualities and genders, providing nourishment, healthy relationships, and hope for the future. They have requested requesting funding to ensure each of its youth can receive a bus card at each youth night. Currently Grace Place funding limits youth to just one $5 bus card a week, which limits their ability to get around the city. Bus and train transportation for Grace Place youth is vital to ensuring they’re able to attend school, job interviews, work, appointments with doctors and other providers, and much more.

Out For Education

www.outforeducation.org

Out for Education was founded in 1999. Since our founding, we have become one of the largest funders of LGBT scholarships in America and have awarded over $1.8 million in scholarships to LGBT+ youth in Houston. By investing in our LGBT+ students, we are also investing in the future of the LGBT+ community, both in Houston and across the country.

Pilot Dance Project

www.pilotdanceproject.org

The Pilot Dance Project is a Houston-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to transform and empower communities through innovative dance, theatre and visual art.

Pride Chorus Houston

www.pridechrous.org

Pride Chorus Houston is an inclusive LGBTQ+ chorus where everyone has a safe place to make music and share a message of unity and peace. We strive to be voices of Pride, using the power of music to make a positive change in our community. We are proud to be one of the oldest LGBTQ+ choruses in the United States, making music for over 40 years!

Save our Sisters United, Inc.

https://sosuinc.org/

Save Our Sisters United, Inc’s mission is to improve the psychological, physical, financial, wellness, and social lives of Black Transwomen of color and other people of color of Trans experience in the Greater Houston Areas.  Our funding and services can be accessed by all TQLGBT BIPOC individuals in the Houston area. Affirming Lives Initiative is a continuation of SOSU’s first initiative in Trans and Gender Justice. Since 2016 SOSU supports our community by helping Black Transwomen, and other people of color of Trans experience, in getting their name/gender marker changes done legally.  One of SOSU’s services includes covering the cost of the court filing fees, the replacement of affirming identification and documents, and when necessary referring them to legal counsel at zero to lower than standard costs.  

The Mahogany Project

https://themahoganyproject.org

The Mahogany Project (TMP) aims to reduce social isolation, stigma, and acts of injustice in TQLGB+ Black communities and other communities of color. Soul Care Initiative combines mental, physical, holistic, and spiritual health practices to nourish the soul and heal and wounded heart. This project is geared toward BIPOC of TQLGB+ experience who are seeking a connection to the community, and wholistic wellness. TMP will host monthly events that center mental, physical, holistic, and spiritual health practices to bring the community together and foster collective healing.    

Thomas Street Patients Services

www.harrishealth.org/services/clinical-services/hiv-aids-care

The Brown Bag Lunch program successfully provides a bagged lunch to one hundred patients three days a week at this time. The Thomas Street Clinic is located in at residential neighborhood few food options in the area and none within walking distance. Many of the patients of the Clinic are on medicines that must be taken with food during the day. We function on a limited budget, depending solely on the generosity of donors to continue providing lunches for our patients. Bunnies on the Bayou made it possible for us to continue the Sandwich Program for another year.

T.R.U.T.H. Project, Inc.

www.truthprojecthtx.org

Telling Real Unapologetic Truth Through Healing educates and mobilizes LGBTQ communities of color and their allies through social arts that promote mental, emotional, and sexual health. The TRUTH Project’s work impacts the community by providing a safe space to discuss and share, while offering education, support, and resources for mental health care.

University of Houston LGBTQ Alumni

www.houstonalumni.com/

The UH LGBTQ Alumni Association Emergency Crisis Aid Fund exists to ensure no University of Houston LGBTQ+ student needs to choose between an education and living their authentic identity. The fund is reserved for LGBTQ+ identified UH students in crisis due to a lack of family support of one’s gender and/or sexual identity. Funds cover necessities such as tuition, housing, meal plans, books, etc. Applicants are vetted by the UH LGBTQ Alumni Association Executive Committee.