Alliance Fund

7.6.10
Doug Noffsinger was named Chairperson of the Alliance Fund, succeeding Randy Soderstrom. Click here for details.

5.7.10
The Alliance Fund held its 10th Anniversary Evening with Music and Friends on May 7th. Click here for details.

2.8.10
Farewell to Maurice Grossman. Click here for info.

1.7.10
Aboud, Fitzsimmons and Hoby Headline 2010 Alliance Fund Award Event. Click here for more details.

11.15.09
The Alliance Fund announces 2010 grant recipients! Click here for more info.

11.7.09
The Alliance Fund presented Kate Clinton at the Temple of Music and Arts. Click here for the story.

11.5.09
The Alliance Fund was on KUAT! Listen here.

5.1.09
Click here to read about our 6th Annual Evening with Music and Friends.

1.8.09
Alliance Fund gives $30,000 to eleven projects in Southern Arizona, click here to learn more about the funded organizations.

Alliance Fund's 2010 Evening Celebrates and Thanks Generous Donors

On a beautiful May 7 evening, the LGBT-Straight Alliance Fund hosted its annual “Evening with Music and Friends” at the striking home of Mike Myers and Chas Baumgardner. Tony Paniagua of Arizona Public Media served as MC for a program that included music from Rob Paulus' jazz ensemble ‘Uber Jam,' song and guitar from Curt Beall, and vocals by Greg Stickroth.

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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Straight (LGBT&S) Alliance Fund is a special project of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (CFSA), created in 1999 in partnership with the National Lesbian and Gay Community Funding Partnership. The Alliance Fund addresses the chronic pattern of underfunding of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender programs and supports efforts to address these issues through philanthropy and endowment building.

The Alliance Fund connects donors with the LGBT community. The Fund has become known for making grants available at critical times during the development of an organization's infrastructure. Since its inception, the Fund has awarded 90 grants totaling over $405,000 to local nonprofits.

Awards have supported such diverse programs as:

Ethica's production of an LGBT adoption manual, available here
The theatrical productions “Falsettoland” and “The Wrestling Season”
Bisbee Pride Celebration
The annual Sex and Scholarship Symposium organized by the University of Arizona's Committee on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Studies
The YWCA's Journey to a Hate-Free Millennium
Habitat for Humanity's Rainbow Build
Wingspan's Southern Arizona Gender Alliance
Planned Parenthood's Teen Advisory Group
Bisbee Coalition for the Homeless' Emergency Homeless Shelter
Open Inn, Inc.'s LGBT Youth Emergency Housing Project
Providing healthcare to the underinsured through the Pima Community Access Program
VOICES, Inc.'s 110° Magazine
SAAF's Sexual Education Series for Wingspan/EON's LGBTQQS Youth

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