The LGBTQ Fund (Baltimore Community Foundation)

The LGBTQ Fund (Baltimore Community Foundation) is sponsored by Baltimore Community Foundation (BCF). The LGBTQ Fund at BCF provides life-sustaining and life-affirming support for Baltimore's LGBTQ+ community. Grantmaking is guided by an advisory committee and focuses on responding to the needs of the community, including supporting LGBTQ youth.

The LGBTQ Fund - Baltimore Community Foundation Your contribution to this Fund will make a difference for years to come. The LGBTQ Fund at BCF was created in 2018 to provide life-sustaining and life-affirming support for Baltimore’s vulnerable Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning community.

Through feedback and community conversation, BCF has worked to develop a collaborative philanthropic model that can respond to the needs of Baltimore’s LGBTQ community. In July 2018, BCF held its first public convening featuring a panel of leaders who discussed many of the challenges facing LGBTQ youth. In late 2018, BCF established an advisory committee to guide the grantmaking direction of the fund.

A first round of grants totaling $91,100 was awarded in November 2019 to seven organizations for activities supporting LGBTQ youth. In 2022, the LGBTQ Fund and the Len Jackson Fund for Queer Youth of the Baltimore Community Foundation awarded nearly $140,000 in grants to the following seven organizations: The application period for the next round of grants from the LGBTQ Fund will be announced at a later date.

Support the LGBTQ Fund at BCF! Gifts to the LGBTQ Fund will support our grantmaking efforts to improve the lives of Baltimore’s LGBTQ community. Provide permanent, lasting support for Baltimore’s LGBTQ community for future generations with a gift to the LGBTQ Endowed Fund.

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Want even more free resources? Visit our planned giving website to find additional tools and resources to help your clients. Visit our Planned Giving Website Building Stronger Neighborhoods Regionwide We have a nearly 30-year history of offering grants to resident-led groups and community projects in Baltimore City and Baltimore County.

These grants give residents the resources they need to accomplish a small project, get more people involved, and encourage the next generation of neighborhood leaders. We also fund programs that support the development of leaders of all ages who are working to improve their neighborhoods and schools. Our support is intended to help identify, activate, inform and network leaders.

And finally, we believe when schools and neighborhoods team up to improve their school and community, meaningful and lasting change can be made. We are interested in funding proposals in which the students and adults in schools collaborate intentionally with community residents, neighborhood associations, and other individuals, groups, and institutions in the area surrounding a school.

We believe that attracting and retaining effective and diverse school leaders is a key lever for change in Baltimore’s educational landscape, and so we fund school leadership development efforts at the district and individual school level. We are interested in funding proposals that focus on principal coaching, mentoring, peer networking, wellness/self-care, as well as pipelines that identify and develop new leaders.

We will also continue to support efforts that build a culture of appreciation and encouragement for school leaders. Director, Baker Fund Grants Program Our on-line application system provides applicants with a portal to start a new grant application or to continue updating an application already in process.

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Place-based Grantmaking in Selected School Communities We have allocated funds for two geographical areas that bookend a crucial corridor on the Westside of Baltimore City: Howard Park /Forest Park area (served by Calvin Rodwell Elementary Middle School and Liberty Elementary), and Reservoir Hill/Penn North area (served by Dorothy I Height Elementary).

In these three schools and their surrounding neighborhoods, we will support projects and activities designed to make the communities safe, clean, green and vibrant; and improve the quality of the schools. Some projects may be neighborhood-focused, some school-focused and others collaborative projects between the schools and their respective communities.

Early Learning & Judy Centers High quality early childhood education has a lifelong effect on students. Through our Early Learning grant program, we are interested in system-wide early childhood education proposals that will help Baltimore City and County’s youngest learners, and their families, get the start they need.

Nonprofit organizations that offer programs and/or services to Judy Centers are encouraged to contact the centers directly to explore partnership opportunities. Director of Planned Gifts Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Charitable Foundation Please fill out this form and select the documents you are requesting.

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