Bolder Giving: Donor Initiative: LGBTQ

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Donor Initiative: LGBTQ

In 2011, Bolder Giving is launching a new set of issue-based initiatives, beginning in 2011 with Environmental Justice and LGBTQ Rights. Through our new LGBTQ Rights Initiative, we will focus on inspiring donors to give more and take more risks in their giving in a variety of ways:

Gathering and promoting stories of Bold Givers to the LGBTQ movement
Engaging donors through workshops and seminars to explore questions of “how much is enough” and “how much can you give”
Developing customized versions of Bolder Giving tools focused on the complex issues of and giving opportunities surrounding our fight for equality in terms of sexual orientation and gender identity & expression
Offering training for fundraisers and philanthropic advisors working in the LGBTQ community about how to best encourage donors they work with to “give big”
Building partnerships with LGBTQ donor communities, regranting organizations, and movement leaders to expand and deepen their donor engagement efforts

Please join us in this effort! If you’d like to partner with us, share your story as a bold giver, help fund this work, volunteer, or share ideas and feedback on this initiative – please email Jason Franklin, Bolder Giving’s Executive Director, at .

BELOW - STORIES FROM BOLD GIVERS TO LBGTQ ISSUES

	Jason Franklin - Featured February 2012 I was just 14 years old when I had my first success as a community organizer. Angry about major proposed cuts to public education in state, I co-founded a student organizing effort to "save the Oregon school system." I was thrilled as we grew from... More
	Charlie Rounds - Featured October 2011 Deciding to give it all was easy. I was an early partner in RSVP, the first tour company to give gay and lesbian people a spectacular and harassment-free vacation. After 16 years in the business I sold my share to one of the partners. The... More
	Elspeth Gilmore - Featured July 2011 At age 33, I'm at last coming into my own about my wealth. I've made mistakes. I've learned a lot. I'm finally clear that, for me, using my resources to make change is about collective action. I grew up wealthy in New York City. ... More
	Tyrone Boucher My dad set up a trust fund for me when I was young, with stock from a software company he started. The company ended up making lots of money, and my trust fund grew to about $400,000. By the time I turned 25 and began to receive some money from the trust, I... More
	Grace Ross Growing up in a wealthy family in New York City, I was raised to believe that I would always be taken care of. As a Harvard student I got involved in social activism and was outraged to learn how many people never have that experience of safety. It... More
	David Becker My philanthropic journey began in 1968, when as a college junior I inherited a couple million dollars from my mother. After hesitant efforts to give some of it away, I was transformed by encounters in the 1970s with Haymarket People's Fund and Gay Community... More
	Tracy Gary I'm an evangelist for inspired philanthropy: inspired living and inspired giving! Over the past 30 years, I have spent an average of 200 days a year on the road - giving keynotes and workshops at donor conferences, meeting with wealthy families, and... More
	Ralph Alpert My parents didn't have a lot of money for much of their lives, but were generous nonetheless. My father's business became successful, and when I sold my share in 1984 I had considerable wealth. I had been working as a lawyer and investing my earnings, so I... More
	Mike Schaefer and Ric Weiland - Featured October 2009 Mike Schaefer, the surviving partner of an early Microsoft pioneer, has distributed more than $180 million - nearly 100% of their assets - to 20 charitable organizations since his partner's death in 2006. Mike's story offers profound insights to donors and... More

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