The LGBT Community Fund at The Chicago Community Trust has announced three transformational grants—supporting projects that aim “to significantly advance Chicago’s LGBTQ community toward a better quality of life,” according to a press release.
The LGBT Fund will award $350,000 in this transformational grant round.
The projects receiving funding involve:
—Howard Brown Health Center and Advocate IL Masonic Medical Center (to develop the nation’s first LGBTQ-specific assault survivor-advocacy and assault-prevention program);
—Chicago House and Sarah’s Circle (to strengthen the safety net for transgender individuals living in poverty by providing expanded drop-in support services and interim housing); and
—AIDS Foundation of Chicago and the University of Chicago (to expand the PrEPLine, a phone hotline providing information, counseling and connections to healthcare providers for PrEP).
This marks the second of three giving cycles, which will infuse $1 million into the Chicago region’s LGBT community: the Fund’s inaugural grant cycle in October 2015; this second round of transformational grants; and a third cycle of grantmaking later this year.
Press release at the link: windycitytimes.com/lgbt/LGBT-Community-Fund-grants-support-collaborations-in-health-housing-services/54791.html.