We’re working in the courts to ensure that LGBTQIA people achieve full equality under the law. SPLC: The Southern Poverty Law Center is internationally recognized for its groundbreaking leadership in seeking justice for the most vulnerable in our society and fighting hate in courtrooms and classrooms throughout the nation.While empowerment is a lofty goal, Point Foundation achieves it by providing education, mentorship, leadership development, and community service training as well as the financial ability to attend the nation's foremost institutions of higher education to our scholars. Point Foundation's purpose is to empower LGBTQIA students of merit, many of whom might otherwise be at an academic and social disadvantage as a direct result of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Point Foundation: Point Foundation (Point) is the nation's largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQIA students of merit.Click here to learn more about their specific projects and initiatives, and click here to find a pride event near you. Through research, education, and outreach, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation encourages LGBTQIA Americans to live their lives openly and seeks to change the hearts and minds of Americans to the side of equality. Human Rights Campaign Foundation: The Human Rights Campaign Foundation envisions an America where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer persons are ensured of their basic equal rights - and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work, and in the community.One of the most cost-efficient ways you can support these nonprofits is to donate to them via payroll deduction through your employer's workplace giving program (Don't have a program? Click here to have your employer contact our team.) Click on each charity's name above to learn more about their work, and to make a donation now! In recognition of #PrideMonth, America's Charities is celebrating the following agents of change who we are proud to call our members.
Events are held all across the country - this year many online to continue observing social distancing - and nonprofits like America's Charities' members listed on this page, use the month to raise awareness about the current state of LGBTQIA human rights and how their respective organizations are working to protect and advocate for those rights.
In honor of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan - considered the tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States - each June Americans come together to celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride Month.