How You Can Give Back to the Gay Community
Also consider noncash donations: a vehicle, stocks that have appreciated in value, even life insurance. Here are some non-profits that could use some money:
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) Action
AIDS Drug Assistance Programs
AIDS Walk San Francisco
Bay Area Community of Women
The Bobby Goldsmith Foundation
Empire State Pride Agenda
Family Pride Coalition
Gay Men’s Health Crisis
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD)
The Gay and Lesbian Athletics Foundation
The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC)
The Horizons Foundation
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
Lambda Legal
L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center
Maitri
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
National Youth Advisory Coalition
New Leaf
Out and Equal
Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
The Point Foundation
The Rainbow Endowment Fund (The Rainbow Card)
Richmond/Ernst AIDS Foundation (REAF)
Scouting For All
Shanti
StopAIDS
Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE)
The Transgender Fund
An Uncommon Legacy Foundation, Inc.
The Victory Fund
The William Way Community Center
For many of us, shelling out the few spare bucks we have to charities is not only impractical – – it just doesn’t hold the same altruistic charge as direct action or personal contact.
You can also give nutritional outreach at some organizations which give you the opportunity to put your culinary skills to work for HIV/AIDS patients and victims of other illnesses.
There are also a few organizations that provide transitional housing, counseling, and other services to at-risk GLBT youth such as GLASS in Boston and VOIT in Phoenix, AZ.
And, for LGBT seniors you can enrich the lives of those who came out before with a visit, performance or other personal contact like SAGE in New York, Lavender Seniors of the East Bay in California or the Gay and Lesbian Seniors of Los Angeles.
