2025 NYC Pride Guide - Flipbook - Page 19
Stonewall Community Foundation strengthens
the LGBTQ community and Movement by making
strategic, values-driven investments in dynamic
organizations, projects, and leaders. As a public foundation, they do that in close partnership
with the people impacted by their mission, diverse and global supporter base, and the many
individuals pushing forward the front lines of
progress. They raise money and fund -
ELISA CRESPO
(SHE/HER)
Executive Director,
Stonewall Community Foundation
www.stonewallfoundation.org
-hundreds of nonprofits every year in over 30
issue areas that advance queer liberation, including racial, social, and economic justice. They also
administer a variety of donor funds and house
six unique scholarship programs, including the
largest in the country created to support LGBTQ
refugees and asylum seekers. Their grantmaking,
which began during the height of the AIDS crisis,
is complemented by capacity building initiatives
that equip changemakers with the tools needed
to maximize their impact. That includes free consulting, coaching, and monthly workshops. In all
they do — from seed funding to planned giving
— their priority is to make the greatest difference
possible.
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“We believe in centering and investing in the
leadership of people who are made to experience the greatest vulnerability in our communities. We also prioritize issues causing the most
harm in the lives of LGBTQIA+ people and those
affording us the greatest joy and opportunity.
With that, we are explicitly committed to: ending
the criminalization of queerness, gender nonconformity, and poverty; lifting up all communities of
color and transgender, gender non-conforming,
and non-binary people; funding art and cultural
production; embracing disability justice; working
to end racism and anti-Blackness; and supporting
organizations and work that serve undocumented immigrants and people involved in survival
economies.”
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