WOW! We received over 100 Expressions of Interest for the second round of Amplify Pride Fund grants! That's more than double compared to our first round last year!

It is clear that the LGBTQIA+ community sector is full of big ideas to help our community thrive and we are so inspired by what we have seen.

Thank you to all of the amazing organisations across Australia for submitting your Expressions of Interest, the demand for funding far exceeded our available resources and it was not an easy task but we would like you to…

🌈 Join us in celebrating our 2024 APF Grantee Partners:

***Expanding a National Voice for LGBTIQA+ people with Disability***

**Inclusive Rainbow Voices** is a brand-new human rights not-for-profit by and for LGBTIQA+ people with disability. Having launched this year, IVR exists to represent and advocate for the human rights of all lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, intersex, queer, asexual +, people with disability, and aims to be a platform for them to connect and be heard. Thanks to the funding from Amplify Pride, IRV will not only be able to continue employment of their CEO but be able to provide them with even more hours, ultimately allowing IRV to have greater impact for the community.

***Tackling the Anti-Trans Lobby and Disinformation Online***
**Trans Justice Project** (TJP) is the first national, trans-led campaigning organisation in Australia. Their mission is to build a powerful, trans-led movement fighting for freedom, justice, and equality for all trans and gender diverse people. Starting in February of 2023 they have already proven themselves as a trusted leader in the trans community, providing strategic messaging resources, training, strategy, and leading the charge against the spread of dangerous disinformation.

***Shaping Safe and Inclusive Communities of Faith***
**New City Church** is a not-for-profit religious organisation with an LGBTIQA+ majority leadership and membership. NCC works to challenge discrimination and violence, and their impacts on LGBTIQA+ people of faith. Their vision was born out of a desire to see safe spaces for people who have been excluded from their faith communities, so they are able to explore their faith in new and engaging ways. NCC was founded by a group of people who lived in the margins of church and society, and wanted to worship in a safe space with others like them. With the support of Amplify, NCC will be able to scale up (1) social support (2) networks of aligned faith based organisations and (3) resources to help shape intersection of queer and religious identities

***Supporting Incarcerated Trans & Gender Diverse People***
**Beyond Bricks and Bars** is a peer-led community program providing incarceration prevention and specialised wrap-around support to criminalised and incarcerated trans and gender diverse people, and it’s the only program of its kind! BBB specifically focuses on preventing incarceration, support while incarcerated, post-release support & support while transitioning back into the community. As an Amplify Pride Grantee, BBB has secured funding for wages and operating costs to maintain service delivery, and enabling them to provide more support to incarcerated TGD people who otherwise would not receive any.

Building an Inclusive Australia for LGBTIQ+ Refugees

Forcibly Displaced People Network empowers LGBTIQ+ refugees and migrants, and is exclusively peer led. They raise awareness for distinct settlement challenges among LGBTIQ+ displaced people. FDPN advocates for intersectional policies and practices, fostering a just society. They empower LGBTIQ+ refugees and migrants, train social services to support their human rights, and co-design solutions. By generating a unique evidence base, FDPN tackles discrimination and promotes human rights, ensuring equitable settlement outcomes and inclusion for LGBTIQ+ refugees and migrants. The support of Amplify will give FDPN the chance to recruit a coordinator to play a pivotal role in sourcing sponsor groups, provide them with comprehensive training and ensure they can effectively support LGBTIQA+ refugees.

***Expanding a National Voice for Intersex People & their Families***

**Intersex Peer Support Australia** provides peer support all throughout Australia, to people with innate variations of sex characteristics, and their families. They connect intersex people and their families by sharing knowledge and experience, tackling stigma and misconception surrounding intersex. IPSA focuses on education and visibility, and works towards improving affirmative healthcare pathways that encourage appropriate psychological support, strengthening their community and deepening social culture. With Amplify Pride, IPSA will be able to fund their first staff member- a Project Coordinator- to join their team on a part-time basis, to help strengthen their operations, secure future funding and ultimately expand the support IPSA offers.engagement with healthcare and social services sectors.

***Expanding support for LGBTIQ+ Muslims During Crisis***

**Sydney Queer Muslims** is a volunteer-based not-for-profit organisation that supports queer Muslims throughout Greater Sydney. They are committed to advocating for people of diverse sexualities and genders, to help reconcile their sexual identity with their faith. SQM connects individuals to support services that provide counselling, crisis assistance, referrals, and health promotion. Not only that, but they also hold workshops on spirituality, sex education, sexuality and gender identity. SQM helps bring people together, providing a community of people with similar and relatable lived experiences, through social support groups and monthly meetings. Thanks to Amplify, SQM will be able to employ a part-time social worker to help queer Muslims navigate mental health and family violence services, as well as to build core organisational capacity and create resources for healthcare providers, counsellors and other support staff working with LGBTQ+ Muslim clients.

***Creating Safety & Support for LGBTIQ+ rural and regional people***
**Rural Pride Australia**, formerly NICHE Australia, has partnered with LGBTIQA+ people and mainstream organisations in regional, rural and remote communities to make those communities safer, more supportive, welcoming and inclusive. Over the past 7 years RPA has partnered with the Victorian State Government and the Commissioner for LGBTIQ+ Communities, working with 29 different rural and regional communities on the LGBTIQ Equality Roadshow, the Regional Communities of LGBTIQ+ Practice gatherings, and the LGBTIQ+ Rainbow Ready Roadmap. RPA has also been involved in FabJab, the LGBTIQ+ vaccination campaign, helped distribute 1000s of RATs to rural LGBTIQA+ Victorians during the pandemic, and provided financial support for LGBTIQA+ networks following flood events. With Amplify Pride, RPA aims to build sector capacity through the creation of a national Community of Rural LGBTQIA+ Practice, national rural LGBTQIA+ mapping project and production of a landmark report advocating for the needs of rural LGBTQIA+ communities.

Your continued support can amplify their impact even further: Unlock the Full Impact of an APF Grantee Partner

The demand for funding far exceeded our available resources. Now that these organisations have secured this funding we are seeking to leverage this success by attracting additional support from individuals and organisations so they can achieve their full impact.

Donate to the Amplify Pride Fund: Strategically make a real difference in the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals. By donating you will fill the gap, see the impact and help these organisations to support our most marginalised at scale.

We know you will see their unwavering commitment to creating a more inclusive, diverse, and accepting world for the LGBTIQ+ community, and by supporting them, you are helping amplify the reach and effectiveness of their initiatives.

If we had more funds, we could financially support so many more! Aurora and GiveOUT are committed to growing the pot of gold under the rainbow, and it’s not too late to donate and help us to fund more orgs this year to make a big impact in the lives of LGBTIQ+ people.

Click below to donate, or email info@amplifypride.org.au and let’s dream into all the possibilities for our community together!

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Inaugural Amplify Pride Recipients

In 2022, trans and gender diverse people had and continue to be subjected to increasingly cruel and dehumanising attacks by the media, politicians, and anti-equality lobbyists.

We have awarded our first round of APF grants to the three organisations below, to fuel their work protecting trans and gender diverse rights. Your support of APF helps them, and organisations like them, to continue this critical work.

Standing up for #TransEquality–Equality Australia (National)
Equality Australia is a national LGBTIQ+ organisation that exists to improve the wellbeing and circumstances of LGBTIQ+ people in Australia. “Standing up for #TransEquality” is a national campaign to build public support for trans people, address the issues that affect them, and to support trans and gender diverse people to lead efforts to achieve full equality for their community.

**Tackling anti-trans hate speech & disinformation–Reset Australia (National)**
The Trans Justice Project is a national, trans-led organisation working to push back against the influence of the anti-trans lobby and build a powerful movement standing up for justice, freedom, and equality for all trans and gender diverse people. With funding from the Amplify Pride Fund, they are tackling online anti-trans hate speech and disinformation, through a collaborative, evidence-based and LGBTIQ community-led project, based on a proven model for addressing global electoral disinformation.

Support for trans, gender diverse, and intersex young people–A Gender Agenda (ACT)
A Gender Agenda is a grassroots, peer-led, community organisation that supports and advocates for Transgender, Gender Diverse, and Intersex people in ACT. Their “Youth Connections” project seeks to prevent short and long term negative mental health outcomes and suicidality through early intervention, outreach, education, peer support, and referral pathways to mental health services.

We have awarded additional APF grants to these critical projects supporting our community, and doing the important work needed to save lives and create better outcomes for all.

**Creating a national voice for LGBTIQA+ people with disability–Inclusive Rainbow Voices (National)**
Inclusive Rainbow Voices is a brand-new human rights organisation of and for LGBTIQ+ people with disability. Their project involves recruiting a CEO charged with operationalising the organisation’s strategic priorities, with a focus on addressing the significant barriers for LGBTIQ+ people with disability participating in LGBTIQ+ communities, in mainstream society, and in disability communities.

Shaping safe and inclusive communities of faith–New City Church (NSW)

New City Church exists to provide a safe space for people to explore faith in new and engaging ways. Their project involves providing those who have been harmed by religious organisations a space of refuge and healing through trauma-informed social support groups, and by solidifying a growing network of faith based organisations and individuals seeking to receive training on how to become trauma-informed, inclusive faith-based communities.

With your support, the AFP can be the most effective mechanism through which individual donors and major philanthropic foundations can scale up their investment to achieve positive impact in LGBTIQ+ communities.

Donate to become a supporter, or to further discuss the Amplify Pride Fund please contact Em Scott (CEO, GiveOUT) and Jones (Program Manager, Aurora) at info@amplifypride.org.au

Amplify Pride Fund Donors

Founding Donors: Philip Busfield, Troy Roderick, Pippa Downes, Michelle Hardie, Ben Tham & Geoff Selig

Principle Supporters: Brennan Lynch Foundation

Pride Amplifier: Stephen Wade, Dan Hillier, Jayden Hurvitz, Peter Wilson

Pride Supporters: Maggie Eudes, Lisa Jervis, Pru Jacobson, Katie McGovern, Kyriakos Gold, Jason Bowran, Faris Cosic, Will Brunton, Shaun Temby, Nicholas Egonidis, Alex Greenwich, Malcolm Moir, David Anthony, Meredith Jones, James Collins, Marty Jovic