Campaign for Southern Equality today is launching a $25,000 rapid response grant round to direct immediate resources to LGBTQ Southerners.

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Friends –

As we all experience the significant and unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Campaign for Southern Equality today is launching a $25,000 rapid response grant round to direct immediate resources to individuals, families, and community organizations across the LGBTQ South. ([link removed])

Applications are now open for this special grant round. There are three categories:

Emergency Assistance Grants for Individuals and Families: ([link removed])
LGBTQ Southerners who have been impacted by COVID-19 may apply for immediate financial support of $100. The easy application process is designed to move funds quickly to LGBTQ Southerners who are already experiencing the health and financial impacts of the pandemic, with a focus on those who are at particularly high risk. Applicants can use the funding for basic needs like groceries, rent/mortgage payments, prescriptions or medical bills, prevention supplies, and more. CSE will distribute a total of $10,000 through emergency assistance grants of up to $100, with big thanks to Gender Benders, a longtime partner of CSE, for donating $5,000 for these emergency grants.
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Community Response Grants: ([link removed])
Anyone can apply for a grant of up to $500 to fund a project to respond to the needs of LGBTQ Southerners related to COVID-19. Whether it’s a project focused on connecting LGBTQ elders with meals or tech assistance, an initiative to connect people virtually to build community, an effort to address mental health challenges that will be exacerbated by social distancing, or something else, we’re looking forward to reading applications and providing support as part of this $7,500 grant category.
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Frontline Grants to Direct Service Providers:
Staff from the Campaign for Southern Equality will direct grants to frontline organizations that provide direct services to LGBTQ Southerners at high risk of being impacted by COVID-19. This $7,500 grant category will support at least three grants to direct service partners.

The Southern Equality Fund has always been about responding to our community’s urgent needs while investing in the next generation of Southern LGBTQ organizers, and that’s what’s at the core of this COVID-19 grant round, too: Helping people who are hurting and encouraging innovation for grassroots action that makes a difference.

Learn more about the grant round by clicking here. ([link removed])

Thank you,
Jasmine

P.S. Want to donate to Campaign for Southern Equality’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant Round? Click here and your gift will go directly to a grant supporting LGBTQ Southerners impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. ([link removed])

Amigxs –

A medida que todxs experimentamos los desafíos significativos y sin precedentes de la pandemia de COVID-19, Campaign for Southern Equality está lanzando hoy una ronda de becas de respuesta rápida de $25,000 para dirigir recursos inmediatos a individuos, familias y organizaciones comunitarias en todo el Sur LBGTQ. ([link removed])

Las solicitudes ya están abiertas para esta ronda especial de becas. Hay tres categorías:

Ayuda de emergencia para individuos y familias: ([link removed])
Lxs sureñxs LBGTQ que han sido afectadxs por COVID-19 pueden solicitar apoyo financiero inmediato de $100. El sencillo proceso de solicitud está diseñado para enviar los fondos rápidamente a las personas que ya están viviendo los impactos sanitarios y financieros de la pandemia, con un enfoque en las personas y comunidades que corren un riesgo particularmente alto. Lxs solicitantes pueden usar los fondos para cubrir necesidades básicas como alimentos, pagos de alquiler/hipoteca, recetas o facturas médicas, suministros de prevención entre otros. CSE (por sus siglas en inglés) distribuirá un total de $10,000 usando becas de ayuda de emergencia de hasta $100, dando un gran agradecimiento a Gender Benders por donar $5,000 para estas becas de emergencia, organización socia de CSE desde hace mucho tiempo.
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Becas de respuesta comunitaria: ([link removed])
Cualquier persona puede solicitar una beca de hasta $500 para financiar un proyecto que responda a las necesidades relacionadas con COVID-19 de lxs sureñxs LBGTQ. Por ejemplo, esto podría incluir proyectos enfocados en conectar a lxs ancianxs LBGTQ con alimentos o asistencia técnica, una iniciativa para combatir el aislamiento que lxs miembros de la comunidad pueden estar sintiendo, o un esfuerzo para combatir los desafíos de salud mental en un momento de distanciamiento social. Esperamos escuchar tus ideas y estaremos distribuyendo $7,500 en esta categoría, usando becas de hasta $500 cada una.
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Becas de primera línea para proveedores de servicios directos: El personal de Campaign for Southern Equality dirigirá becas directas a organizaciones de primera línea que brindan servicios directos a lxs sureñxs LBGTQ con alto riesgo de verse afectadxs por COVID-19. Esta categoría de beca de $7,500 apoyará al menos tres becas a socixs de servicio directo.

El Fondo Southern Equality ha tratado de responder a las necesidades urgentes de nuestra comunidad mientras invierte en la próxima generación de organizadorxs LBGTQ del Sur, y eso es lo que también está al centro de esta ronda de becas COVID-19: ayudar a las personas que están sufriendo y alentar la innovación para acción de base que hace la diferencia.

Obtén más información sobre la ronda de becas, haciendo clic aquí. ([link removed])

Gracias,
Jasmine

P.S. Donar a la ronda de becas. Haz clic aqui y la donacion apoyará lxs sureñxs LBGTQ que han sido afectadxs por COVID-19. ([link removed])

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