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Nominations Open for Youth Week Awards 2016!

Deadline: 18 April 2016

Nominations are open for Youth Week Awards 2016, which recognise and celebrate the outstanding contributions that young people make to community and through their significant impact on others.

Award Categories

  • Change Maker – LGBTI: For young people who have created positive change in, or for, the LGBTI community.
    • Change Maker – Cultural: For young people who have created positive change to foster cultural understanding in their community.
    • Change Maker – Community Safety: For young people who have created positive change, resulting in a safer environment for young people in their community.
  • Leadership: The Leadership Award will be awarded to a young person who has demonstrated their leadership in a project or organisation.
  • Giving Back: The Giving Back Award will be awarded to a young person whose actions address a current need and have had a significant impact on their community.
  • Working for Youth: The Working for Youth Award will be awarded to a young person whose actions specifically support other young people in areas such as (but not limited to) the arts, culture, the environment or sport.
  • Youth With Disability: The Youth with Disability Award will be awarded to a young person with a disability who has made significant contribution to the disability sector and/or their community.
  • Youth Group: The Youth Group Award will be awarded to a group of young people who have made significant contribution to their community in areas such as (but not limited to) the arts, culture, the environment or sport.
  • Youth Champion: The Youth Champion Award will be awarded to an individual or an organisation who has made significant contribution to young people in areas such as (but not limited to) the arts, culture, education, the environment, health, research or sport.

Key Dates

  • Youth Week | Ara Taiohi : 21st – 29th May 2016
  • Youth Awards Gala: Tuesday 24th May 2016

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must:

  • Be currently living, and have lived in New Zealand for the past 12 months or more.
  • Have participated in the activities they have been nominated for within the past 12 months.
  • For Change Maker (LGBTI and/or Cultural and/or Community Safety), Leadership, Giving Back, Working for Youth, Youth with Disability and Youth Group awards: have participated in activites they were nominated for outside of their regular study or work commitments.
  • For Change Maker (LGBTI and/or Cultural and/or Community Safety), Leadership, Giving Back, Working for Youth, Youth with Disability and Youth Group awards: be aged between 12 and 24 at the beginning of Youth Week on 21st May 2016.

How to Apply

Applicants must apply online via given website.

For more information, please visit Youth Week Awards.

ViiV Healthcare Small Grants Program: Positive Action for MSM and Transgender

Deadline: 20 May 2016

ViiV Healthcare is seeking applications from organisations for its “Positive Actions for MSM & Transgender” Small Grants programme which is a new global initiative designed to support and inform the global effort to alleviate the impact of HIV and AIDS among MSM (men who have sex with men) and transgender populations around the world and to enable MSM and transgender individuals to safely seek culturally competent HIV care and services.

The program focuses on vulnerable communities and the stigma and discrimination they face on a daily basis due to sexual orientation, gender identity/expression and/or HIV status and will continue to support MSM/T communities as they strengthen their capacity to lead, participate in policy-making and advocate addressing the health disparities and health service access issues keeping MSM/T individuals from lifesaving prevention and treatment.

Objectives

  • Reduce the level and impact of stigma experienced by MSM/T individuals
  • Increase access to health related services through community-based collaborations with local governments and health care enablers
  • Strengthen the capacity of community-based organizations that engage MSM/T communities in reducing HIV

Grant Information

In 2016 ViiV Healthcare will provide a series of small grants covering a two year period with funding amounts up to £25,000/year within two funding tracks;

  • Applications for MSM community-led projects that are limited to applications of 50,000 over two years
  • Applications for Transgender community-led projects that are limited to applications of £50,000 over two years.

Funding Priorities

  • Community engagement, participation and leadership
  • Community-centred approaches
  • Evidence-based and Evidence-generating
  • New technology and Innovation
  • Advocacy and Empowerment

Eligibility Criteria

  • There are no geographical restrictions on applications.
  • For applicants applying from India must have the following documentation in place to submit an application and be able to meet ViiV Healthcare due diligence process:
    • Proof of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration, and
    • Copy of current 80g

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply via given website.

For more information, please visit ViiV Healthcare.

Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice: International Fund to Support LGBTQI Communities

Deadline: 31 July 2016

The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice is seeking applications for its International Fund to support groups led by LGBTQI communities working for progressive social change, addressing oppression based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity and expression and advancing work for racial, economic and gender justice.

Astraea supports lesbian, trans, intersex and LGBTQI groups that promote racial, economic and gender justice and mobilize communities to challenge oppression and claim rights. It funds groups in the United States, primarily led by LGBTQI people of color, and groups across the globe.

Budget – $500,000 USD or less. It strengthens LGBTQI groups by providing flexible general support grants ranging from $5,000 to $30,000 per year.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Based in Africa, Asia/the Pacific, Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States, Latin America/the Caribbean, or the Middle East.
  • Led by and/or for LGBTQI communities. Non-LGBTI-led groups must demonstrate how they address LGBTI human rights issues and how they involve LGBTI’s in organizational and programmatic decision-making.
  • Doing work towards long-term social change, on issues affecting LGBTQI people and/or people who are penalized, persecuted or harassed for their gender identity, gender expression, and/or sexual orientation.
  • Non-governmental organizations, not-for-profit groups, or the equivalent are eligible for the funding
  • Groups that have been active for at least one year at the time you send in your proposal. A group which has been active for less than one year may apply if you demonstrate your group’s ability to sustain activities over the long-term and illustrate how a grant would help you to build your organization’s capabilities.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply via given website.

For more information, please visit: http://www.astraeafoundation.org/apply-for-a-grant.

Administration for Children and Families: LGBTQ Institute on Intimate Partner Violence

Deadline: 31 May 2016

The Administration for Children and Families is seeking applications for Family Violence Prevention and Services/ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Institute on Intimate Partner Violence to expand and enhance the capacity of both domestic violence and LGBTQ-specific organizations to more effectively identify and respond to the unique needs of LGBTQ intimate partner violence victims.

The successful applicant will be expected to:

  • Inform the development of LGBTQ-specific intimate partner violence prevention and intervention strategies including screening and on-going assessment that can be replicated in local domestic violence and LGBTQ programs;
  • Develop technical assistance resources, including promising practices, guidelines, information on evidence-informed, trauma-informed, and culturally-relevant programming to support LGBTQ individuals, families, and communities impacted by domestic violence;
  • Provide an array of training, expertise, problem-solving strategies, and other forms of technical assistance to federal, state, and local governments, tribes, tribal organizations, domestic violence service providers, community-based organizations, LGBTQ service providers, and other professionals and interested parties, related to intimate partner violence intervention and prevention services for LGBTQ victims and their children;
  • Assess the needs of culturally-specific LGBTQ sub-populations and provide innovative, evidence-informed, and culturally-relevant approaches to serving these communities; and
  • Expand partnerships and collaborations between domestic violence providers, LGBTQ-specific organizations, social service agencies, and public health organizations.

Funding Information: The estimated total program funding is $600,000.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
  • Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
  • Small businesses
  • Special district governments
  • State governments
  • Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
  • County governments
  • For profit organizations other than small businesses
  • Private institutions of higher education
  • Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
  • City or township governments
  • Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
  • Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply via given website.

For more information, please visit LGBTQ Institute on Intimate Partner Violence.

EU Action Grants Combating Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia and Other Forms of Intolerance

Deadline: 18 February 2016

The European Union is currently inviting Action Grants supporting transnational projects to prevent and combat racism, xenophobia, homophobia and other forms of intolerance. This call for proposals for action grants is based on the 2015 annual work programme of the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (REC Programme).

The indicative available budget under this call for proposals is EUR 5.400.000.

Funding Priorities

The proposals under this call will focus on the priorities described below:

  • Best practices to prevent and combat racism, xenophobia, homophobia and other forms of intolerance (BEST)
  • Training and capacity building for strengthening criminal responses to hate crime and hate speech (TRAI)
  • Empowering and supporting victims of hate crime and hate speech (VICT)

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible, applications must fulfill all of the following criteria.

  • Applicants and partners must be legally constituted public or private organisations, or international organizations
  • Bodies set up by the European Union falling under Article 208 of the Financial Regulations (EU bodies and institutions) are not eligible for funding and cannot submit applications. They can be associated to an application, but their costs will not be co-financed.
  • Only legally constituted organisations can participate. Natural persons (private individuals) are not allowed to submit applications.
  • Non-profit organisation must be:
    • a legal entity that is by its legal form non-profit-making; or
    • has a legal statutory obligation not to distribute profits to its shareholders or individual members. The provision that profits will not be distributed must be clearly stipulated either in the law or in the statutes of the organisation; decisions on (not) distributing profits made by its managing board, associates, stakeholders, members or representatives are not sufficient proof of the non-profit nature.
  • Eligible country: All EU Member states including Iceland and Liechtenstein.

EU Member Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit applications via PRIAMOS online system.

For more information, please visit EU Action Grants.

Yale LGBT Studies Research Fellowship: Call for Applications

Deadline: 15 April 2016

The Yale University has announced the second annual Yale LGBT Studies Research Fellowship, inviting applications from the scholars across US and around the world. The Fellowship is offered annually, and is designed to provide access to Yale resources in LGBT Studies for scholars who live outside the greater New Haven area.

Benefits

The fellowship provides an award of $4,000, which is intended to pay for travel to and from New Haven and act as a living allowance.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Scholars around the world are invited to apply for the Yale LGBT Studies Research Fellowship.
  • This fellowship supports scholars from any field pursuing research in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer studies at Yale University, utilizing the vast faculty resources, manuscript archives, and library collections available at Yale.
  • Graduate students conducting dissertation research, independent scholars, and all faculty are invited to apply.
  • A brief research proposal must include specific details about the relationship of the resources at Yale University to the project and its significance within the larger field of scholarly concern. Most of the holdings of the University Libraries are described in Orbis, the online catalogue of Yale University Library. Other research resources include the YRIHS Research Resources Guide, the Manuscripts and Archives Sexuality Subject Guide, the University Library Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Research Guide, and the Beinecke LGBTQI Research Guide.
  • Scholars residing within 100 miles of New Haven are ineligible.

How to Apply

In order to apply, applicants must provide the following:

  • Application form
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Brief research proposal (1,200 words maximum)
  • Detailed list of specific research materials to be consulted at Yale during your fellowship
  • One confidential letter of recommendation, specifically addressing the merits of the proposed fellowship project (dossier letters will not effectively support the application).

All application documents must be submitted through online process.

For more information, please visit Yale LGBT Studies Research Fellowship.

Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellowship Workshop 2016 for LGBT Studies

Deadline: 15 February 2016

Yale LGBT Studies is currently inviting applications for its Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellowship 2016 in Lesbian Studies at Yale University. The Fellowship welcome applicants from the humanities, social sciences, performing and fine arts, and beyond, within the field of lesbian studies (read broadly), to engage with the concept of freaks, conceived expansively as problem, provocation, subjectivity, ethic, and/or aesthetic.

The 2016 Yale Pettit Doctoral Fellowship Workshop will take place May 16-20th, 2016 in New Haven, CT and will be organized around the theme “Freaks.”

Research Topics

  • Female masculinities, trans-femininities, and other queer subjects in freak shows, carnivals, and international exhibits.
  • Lesbianized subjectivities and histories.
  • “Savages” and “Freaks of Nature”.
  • Disability and the cripped female body.
  • Policed bodies and sexualities.
  • Freaks in pop culture and media.
  • Performances of the freaky and/or freak lifestyles.
  • Transgender and transfeminist lesbian culture, politics and desire.
  • Spectacles and the spectacular.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Students studying or located in all geographical regions are welcome.
  • Applicants must be enrolled doctoral candidates who have completed coursework, qualifying exams, and submitted their dissertation prospectus.
  • Students who are working on projects within the thematic and within the scope of lesbian studies are encouraged apply.
  • The committee interprets “Lesbian Studies” in this context as being able to encompass the study of a broad range of genders, gender identities, and sexualities within multiple disciplines.

How to Apply

Applicants must fill the online application form available on the website and should include:

  • Cover letter
  • Dissertation abstract
  • One-page chapter or topic proposal for presentation and discussion at the workshop
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Letter of support from the dissertation advisor and the name of two additional references

For more information, please visit Fellowship Program.

‘Allies in Action’ Small Fund to Support LGBTI Communities in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russia & Ukraine

Deadline: 26 November 2015

European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe) is currently inviting applications for its ‘Allies in Action’ small fund to support impactful, creative, and genuine ideas by local LGBTI communities and those who are ready to contribute by action and knowledge to better environments for LGBTI and better understanding of sexual orientation, gender identity, sex characteristics (SOGISC). The fund is meant to enable initiatives and actions that inform and involve individuals, communities, and groups outside of LGBTI movements.

Eligible Countries

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russia, or Ukraine

Eligibility Criteria

 Initiatives are supported that:

  • Are led by LGBTI persons and/ or allies of LGBTI (with no limitation in regards presence or absence of official registration of the group).
  • Are implemented locally by groups eligible countries (mentioned above).
  • Aim to engage, inspire, mobilize individuals and groups that are in a position to impact everyday realities of LGBTI persons, advocacy capacity of LGBTI organizations, and/ or proper understanding of issues pertaining sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics among particular audiences and groups.
  • Demonstrate a clear vision of how this action contributes its bit to a change you want to achieve in your environment.
  • Are concrete and scalable (i.e. with balanced, matching goals and actions).
  • Are endorsed by LGBTI organizations (if proposed by an informal group of allies or activists).
  • Require funding from ‘Allies in Action’ of no more than 5 000 Euros (if your initiative will be additionally funded by someone else, then the total combined budget should not exceed 12 000 Euros).
  • Value feedback and are interested in the opportunity of engaging external expertise, and therefore commit to regular communication with us in the course of application, implementation, and reporting.

Initiatives Preferred:

  • Initiatives that feed into, reinforce, and/or diversify other ongoing efforts towards better environment for LGBTI persons and protection of their rights (by you or another group).
  • Genuine approach to action that is strongly rooted in a local reality, with its limitations, opportunities, and existing relations.
  • Duration of action or initiative of no more than 6 months in total (from receipt of the award to its completion and reporting).
  • Willingness to share experience with colleagues and activists across the above-indicated countries and beyond.

Initiatives not to be supported:

  • Initiatives aimed at the anonymous, faceless ‘general public’ or ‘broader audience’, without a clear vision of the specific people (or their groups/ communities) that you want to approach or work with and why you think it is needed.
  • Structural costs, such as ongoing office rental or salaries (please note that honorariums/ one-off fees needed within your specific action can be supported if scalable).
  • Initiatives proposed and managed through external third-party organizations (unless it is a joint action by your group and a local LGBTI organization). We want to cooperate directly with the groups we support, without an additional layer in-between.

How to Apply

Applicants must download the letter of interest template available on the website and send it via email.

For more information, please visit small fund.

Call for Applications – School for Creative Activism (SCA): Advocacy Campaigns to Support Trans Activism in Europe

Deadline: 10 August 2015

The Center for Artistic Activism invites trans activists and artists to apply to participate in 4-day School for Creative Activism (SCA) to be held in Berlin from 8 to 11 October 2015. The seminar is open to activists from TGEU member organisations currently working on or interested in advocacy campaigns that support the human rights of trans people in Europe, and to trans artists, or to artists who have previously worked on trans issues.

Programme Structure

Using a range of contemporary examples of organizing and activism from around the world, participants will study the ways cultural creativity has been employed for raising awareness, building organizations, influencing legislatures, and drafting policy. They will explore ideas from cultural theory to cognitive science to social marketing. They will learn to apply these ideas through a range of practical exercises designed to unlock their imaginations from the prison-house of the possible – and then to figure out how to make the impossible possible, through new strategies and tactics. On the final day, the group will conceptualize, create and stage a sample creative action.

The School for Creative Activism will be led by CAA co-founders Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert.

Benefits

Travel, accommodation and meal costs for selected participants will be fully covered during the programme.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants can be activists from TGEU member organisations currently working on or interested in advocacy campaigns that support the human rights of trans people in Europe, and to trans artists, or to artists who have previously worked on trans issues.

How to Apply

Applicants can submit the online application available on the website.

For more information, please visit this Link.

To apply online, please visit Application form.

IGLYO Call for Applications: Study Social Exclusion of LGBTQ Young People and Homelessness

Deadline: 3 August 2015

IGLYO is currently inviting eligible applicants from European member countries to participate in the study session “DOWN & OUT: Social Exclusion of LGBTQ Young People and Homelessness”. The study session will be held at the European Youth Centre, Budapest, Hungary, from 25 October to 31 October 2015 (inclusive of travel), in partnership with the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA).

IGLYO has been working on the topic of social inclusion and the intersection of LGBTQ identities and socioeconomic status. The study session will integrate IGLYO’s previous work in an event focusing on a particular aspect of social inclusion that has until now received little attention at the pan-European level.

 The aim of the study session is to equip participants with knowledge, skills and tools to address the risks and consequences of homelessness and lower socioeconomic status affecting LGBTQ youth.

Programme Objectives

Specifically, the learning objectives are:

  • To develop understanding of homelessness and lower socioeconomic status, and how they are impacted by sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression;
  • To share ideas and experiences on working with youth affected by homelessness and lower socioeconomic status;
  • To improve participants’ capacity to address the needs of LGBTQ youth affected by homelessness and low socioeconomic status (through advocacy, services, empowerment, educating providers, and other intervention);
  • To develop steps to apply learning to participants’ work and local contexts.

Benefits

  • All accommodation and food will be provided by the European Youth Center, in shared rooms.
  • Travel expenses and visa costs will be reimbursed. Reimbursement will take place after presenting the receipts, tickets, etc. within an identified timeframe.
  • Every accommodation possible will be made to welcome people regardless of (dis)abilities.

Eligibility Criteria

The ideal participant:

  • works with or is interested in working with homelessness or is an LGBTQ activist/worker motivated and in a position to address homelessness and lower socioeconomic status among LGBTQ youth.
  • is between 18-30 years old.
  • is able to attend the full program (every participant must attend at least 80% of the program.)
  • has a level of English that would allow for unhindered participation in an international seminar. Interpretation services may be possible in exceptional circumstances for participants from very low socioeconomic status or who have experienced homelessness, if they do not have a functional command of English.
  • is from a Council of Europe Member State. However, since a limited number of places can be given out to participants who are not part of the Council of Europe, we will be happy to accept and review applications from outside of CoE area
  • Organisations are encouraged to increase their efforts to delegate people with lower socioeconomic status and/or who have experienced homelessness.
  • IGLYO encourages applicants from all ethnic, cultural, and migrant backgrounds to apply, as well as all socio-economic situations, and all sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions.

How to Apply

Interested candidates can apply by filling the online application form.  Successful applicants will be notified by email around the date of 28 August.

For more information, please visit IGLYO Call for Applications.

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