Our Fund Foundation, South Florida’s only LGBTQ community foundation, announced the nonprofit’s 2022 LGBTQ Arts & Culture Fund will award 18 grants ranging from $5,000 – $20,000, for a total of $265,500, to support fresh, bold LGBTQ-specific programs and initiatives in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach Counties.
“The grant review committee, made up of community volunteers, was overwhelmed by the diversity of applicants and the caliber of the program submissions,” said David Jobin, President and CEO of Our Fund Foundation. “These grants would not be possible without the generosity and forethought of our passed Legacy Society members who included Our Fund and LGBTQ causes in their wills and estate plans.”
Our Fund Foundation will celebrate the donors and recipients and the impact they have on South Florida’s LGBTQ community during a grant reception at Wilton Station on Monday, July 18 at 6 p.m.
Our Fund Foundation’s 2022 Arts & Culture Fund Grant Recipients:
- Afro Pride Federation
Artist Resilience in Color (ARC)
The ARC Project intends to raise awareness, enhance resiliency, and promote mental and social wellness through the lens of artists in the LGBTQ+ BIPOC
- Black LGBTQ+ Liberation
Thou Art Woman
Thou Art Woman (TAW) is a BIPOC centered event series celebrating LGBTQ+ women and their allies through performance and visual art since 2014.
- FAU/Theatre Lab
2022-23 Fair Play Initiative
Theatre Lab’s Fair Play Initiative is a commission & development program for new plays and stories about the LGBTQ+ experience.
- Fort Lauderdale Historical Society
I Am What I Am: Pride Month Exhibit
An exhibit honoring 5-6 pioneering drag artists with an artists’ wall of fame celebrating current artists to be installed at Galleria Mall.
- Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida
Youth Pride Chorus of South Florida
The Youth Pride Chorus of South Florida builds community among LGBTQ+ youth, empowering them to raise their voices in pride to build a better future.
- “Generation” Venetian Arts Society
GENVAS Cafe Society Pride Series at ArtServe
World class LGBTQ artists perform in an intimate & interactive setting to a diverse audience in order to promote unity, acceptance, & understanding.
- Hollywood Arts & Culture
Open Dialogues: Student Voices
A documentary short film that captures intimately told coming-out narratives of LGBTQ youth in South Florida.
- Hued Songs
The Juneteenth Experience: Freedom through Art
A series of LGBTQ-centered workshops leading up to the Broward premiere of the Juneteenth Experience, a multidisciplinary celebration of Juneteenth.
- Island City Stage
Performing Arts for All
Island City Stage seeks funding to increase rehearsal time for productions and offer free dress rehearsal performances for underserved audiences.
- Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
OUTshine LGBTQ+ Film Festivals in Broward & Miami-Dade County
Two LGBTQ+ film festivals present films, filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions, and social events in Broward in Oct. ’22 and in Miami-Dade in April ’23.
- Old Dillard Foundation
The Struggle to Be Me
THE STRUGGLE TO BE ME chronicles the personal lives and struggles of LGBTQ residents in Black communities before and after legal protections.
- Pioneer Winter Collective
Pioneer Winter Collective – 2022-2023 Programming
PWC’s 2022-23 plans for creation, reflection, and communication of dance and transdisciplinary arts, including both existing programming and new work.
- Plays of Wilton
Plays Of Wilton aka POW!
Funds to support hiring an Executive Director for the ever-expanding arts organization.
- South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble
Youth Pride Band Season 12
Funding to support Youth Pride Band Season 12.
- The Pride Center at Equality Park
Jamin’ at The Center
A series of eight Jazz, R&B and Pop concerts that will provide unique entertainment for our LGBTQ+ communities and allies.
- Thinking Cap Theatre
The Importance of Being Me: A Dramatic & Visual Art Program Celebrating Queer Authenticity
This program provides underrepresented queer populations (youth, women) a platform to create and access self-affirming socially transformative art.
- Unity Coalition
Celebrate ORGULLO Hispanic & Indigenous LGBTQI+ Festival
Multi-day events across South Florida, showcasing the Hispanic & Indigenous LGBTQI+ Arts, Culture, Heritage & Talents, every October since 2011.
- Ujima Men’s Collective
Living in the Light Project
The Living in the Light Project will focus on artistic opportunities for Black same gender loving men to demonstrate living their authentic lives.
Staying true to its mission, Our Fund gave special consideration to organizations and projects that are working towards achieving equality and inclusivity for historically underserved communities. Many of the grant recipients are organized by, and work on behalf of, these underserved populations within the LGBTQ community. Consideration was also given to organizations that have limited appeal to traditional funding sources as well as to applications that leverage partnerships between similar-missioned agencies to reduce duplication of effort/resources and expand reach/services and organizations that proved an effective and dedicated approach to addressing gaps in representation of marginalized communities.
Established in 2011, Our Fund Foundation has grown into the third largest LGBTQ foundation in the nation. As South Florida’s only LGBT community foundation, Our Fund promotes a culture of philanthropy by uniting donors with organizations advancing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties and supporting causes within the LGBT community. For more information on Our Fund Foundation visit our-fund.org or call 954-565-1090.