The Colorado Anti-Violence Program is a community-based organization that works to eliminate violence within and against LGBTQ communities, including internalized, interpersonal and institutional violence. Third Wave Foundation's grant is in support to the Branching Seedz of Resistance: Youth Violence Prevention Project, the first sexual violence prevention project in Colorado to center the experiences, leadership, and organizing capacity of LGBTQ high school-aged youth. Link: Colorado Anti-Violence Program
Colorado Anti-Violence Program was funded in 2010. They are based in the West and work in Anti-Violence, Community Health & Healing, LGBTQ Rights, Organizing & Advocacy and Policy Advocacy utilizing Direct Services, Leadership Development and Research.
Gender JUST is a grassroots organization that seeks to build power and develop leadership among queer youth of color by organizing for racial, economic, and gender justice. Gender JUST has worked successfully within Chicago Public Schools to implement policy changes to ensure that all young people receive a safe and affirming education. With Third Wave’s support, Gender JUST will apply their successful organizing strategy towards winning comprehensive sexuality education and increased access to health resources for queer youth of color in Chicago. Link: Gender JUST
Gender JUST was funded in 2010. They are based in the Midwest and work in Anti-Violence, Comprehensive Sex Education, Gender Justice, LGBTQ Rights, Organizing & Advocacy and Racial Justice utilizing Leadership Development and Political/Peer Education.
JASMYN offers the only teen-friendly safe space in northeast Florida for LGBTQ and gender queer youth to grow and develop their leadership and activism skills. In addition to hosting a drop-in health clinic, JASMYN runs the Gender Connections Project, which promotes wholeness and social change with transgender (including gender variant) youth through empowerment, reproductive justice awareness, education, advocacy, and support services. JASMYN’s youth leaders were instrumental in the passage of anti-harassment policy in Florida public schools. Link: Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network
JASMYN was funded in 2008, 2009 and 2010. They are based in the Southeast and work in Community Health & Healing, Gender Justice, LGBTQ Rights and Trans Health utilizing Direct Services, Leadership Development and Political/Peer Education.
Movement Strategies Center Scholarships ensured that young women and transgender youth of color were able to attend a Sustainable Organizing Training. Link: Movement Strategies Center Scholarships
Movement Strategies Center Scholarships was funded in 2006. They are based in the Nationwide and work in LGBTQ Rights and Racial Justice.
The PCYP, which Peter founded in 1994, addresses the unique legal issues facing homeless and indigent lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) youth including foster care, education, public assistance benefits and criminal matters. Within PCYP, Streetwise & Safe (SAS), is a leadership development initiative aimed at building knowledge, leadership, and power among LGBTQQ youth of color who experience policing and criminalization in the context of policing of “quality of life” offenses, sex work and trafficking. Third Wave supports their development of “know your rights” materials tailored to the experiences and perspectives of LGBTQ youth, their peer education and organizing work, and their efforts to claim a seat at policy discussion tables as full participants, speak out on their own behalf, act collectively to protect and advance their rights and demand choices that allow youth to maximize their safety, self-sufficiency, and self-determination. Link: Peter Cicchino Youth Project
Peter Cicchino Youth Project / Streetwise & Safe was funded in 2009. They are based in the Northeast and work in Community Health & Healing and LGBTQ Rights utilizing Direct Services and Leadership Development.
Queers for Economic Justice (QEJ) grew out of a coalition of low-income lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (or gender self-determining) and queer-identified (LGBTQ) people and anti-poverty organizations in New York City. Their goal is to challenge and change the systems that create poverty and economic injustice in LGBTQ communities, to promote an economic system that embraces sexual and gender diversity, and build at the intersections of welfare reform and reproductive justice. Link: Queers for Economic Justice
Queers for Economic Justice was funded in 2009. They are based in the Northeast and work in LGBTQ Rights and Organizing & Advocacy utilizing Political/Peer Education.
SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW works to build and sustain a powerful reproductive justice movement in Georgia and the South that centers the experiences of young women of color, LGBTQ youth of color, and other marginalized communities. Last year, SPARK was instrumental in the defeat of a race and sex selection anti-abortion bill, and the accompanying racist billboard campaign. In early 2011, SPARK released “Giving Birth Behind Bars: A Guide to Achieving Reproductive Justice for Incarcerated Women,” as an introduction to their state-wide anti-shackling campaign. Link: SPARK
SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW was funded in 2008, 2009 and 2010. They are based in the Southeast and work in Anti-Violence, Gender Justice, LGBTQ Rights, Organizing & Advocacy, Racial Justice and Reproductive Justice utilizing Leadership Development and Political/Peer Education.
Stonewall Youth, based in Olympia, WA, is a non-profit community organization that supports and advocates for youth ages 21 and under who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, queer or questioning about their sexual orientation or gender identity. Youth participate in retreats, a yearly drag show, art therapy, fun and sober social activities, an activism summer school, community organizing and education. Link: Stonewall Youth
Stonewall Youth was funded in 2009. They are based in the West and work in LGBTQ Rights utilizing Direct Services and Political/Peer Education.
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. Much of SRLP’s work centers around ensuring the right of all people to access the range of healthcare they need and to make their own decisions about their bodies, including trans people and those who are living in poverty or in prison. Third Wave’s grant will support SRLP’s Transgender Youth Initiative, which works to improve safety and access to respectful and affirming social, health, and legal services while simultaneously building the leadership of youth to participate more fully in movements for social justice. Link: The Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Sylvia Rivera Law Project was funded in 2010. They are based in the and work in Economic Justice, Health Care Access, LGBTQ Rights, Movement Building, Organizing & Advocacy, Organizing & Advocacy and Racial Justice utilizing Direct Services and Leadership Development.
Youth Transgender and Intersex Educational Services provides education for and ensures a level of competency among reproductive health care providers and social service agencies that serve transgender and intersex youth. With this grant, Youth TIES will provide trainings to middle and high school students in the greater San Francisco Bay Area around issues of accessibility and respect for their TGIQ peers. Link: Youth TIES
Youth TIES was funded in 2006. They are based in the West and work in LGBTQ Rights and Reproductive Justice.