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OUR GRANT RECIPIENTS

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To date, wayOUT has partnered with 23 organizations that have or will recieve grants issued by wayOUT by the end of 2023. These organizations serve the young LGBTQ+ population in their local communities. By serving as a conduit for donors and our grant recipients, wayOUT is able to assist raising the national profile of these organizations and bring attention to the immediate and direct needs of LGBTQ+ youth in these communities.

wayOUT’s grant applicants have increased nearly 100% year over year. Each grant issued is at the discretion of the recipient and the needs of their own community. As a result, the programs within these grant recipient organizations vary for each center allowing the funds we to have a broad and impact across many areas of focus.

These areas of focus from our Grant Recipients include:

General LGBTQ+ Youth Services & Programs.
School Based Resources
Mental Health & Suicide Prevention
Housing & Homelessness
LGBTQ+ Competant Healthcare
Transgender Youth Support & Services
At-risk Intersectional LGBTQ+ Youth of Color
Mentoring, Tutoring & Career Building
LGBTQ+ Affirming Transitional Foster Services

QT Project

Jacksonville, FL | Seattle 2023 Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

To provide gender-empowering resources to LGBTQ+ individuals all across the world so that they have the power and confidence to create social change in their communities.

2023 GRANT RECIPIENTS

Capital Tea

Tallahassee, FL | Los Angeles 2023 Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

To support and unify TLGBQ+ people through education, advocacy, and empowerment; and to build an equitable future for our community.

Prism United

Mobile, AL | NYC 2023 Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

Prism United responds to the comprehensive needs of LGBTQ youth. Specifically, Prism works to mitigate the psychological, socio-economic, and academic disadvantages caused by repression and victimization.

Barrier Babes

2022 GRANT RECIPIENTS

Kansas City, MO | $15,000 Raised | Atlanta Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

To change the sexual health landscape of Kansas City for the better.

Kansas City, KS | $71,000 Raised | Seattle Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

To provide safe, accepting and affirming programming, services and resources to empower the LGBTQ+ community.

Our Spot

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Sioux Falls, SD | $158,000 Raised | Los Angeles Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

To support and empower transgender youth, young adults, and their families while educating communities in SD and the surrounding region about gender identity and expression.

Transformation Projct

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Sarasota & Manatee, FL | $110,000 Raised | NYC Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

Empowering LGBTQ+ Youth & Their Allies & Creating Inclusive Communities.

ALSO Youth

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San Antonio, TX | $25,000 Raised | Bay Area Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

To provide LGBTQ+ homeless young adults with a safe and supportive environment to facilitate their empowerment toward transforming their lives.

Thrive Youth Center

2021 GRANT RECIPIENTS

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Charleston, NC | $50,000 Raised | Seattle Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

To provide affirming spaces for LGBTQI+ and ally youth up to the age of 24 through direct support, leadership development, and community engagement.

We Are Family

Anchorage, AK | $70,000 Raised | Los Angeles Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

Choosing Our Roots is the realization of a dream held by a coalition of youth, parents, mentors and community members searching for a more effective and lasting way to address homelessness among LGBTQ+ youth in Alaska.

COR

Mississippi | $35,000 Raised | NYC Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

The Mississippi Safe Schools Coalition works to ensure that LGBTQ2+, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming students from across Mississippi can attain a safe and inclusive, high-quality education free of discrimination and bullying.

Mississippi Safe Schools

Corpus Christi, TX | $60,000 Raised | Bay Area Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

The Coastal Bend Pride Center provides the resources, tools, staff, and physical space to empower its members to achieve health and wellness goals, connect with one another and the broader community, advocate for justice against discrimination and inequality, and promote opportunity in a safe and empowering setting.

Coastal Bend

2020 GRANT RECIPIENTS

Highland Park, MI | $20,000 Raised | Seattle Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

To create opportunities with LGBTQ+ young people to build their vision for a positive future.

Baton Rouge, LA | $35,000 Raised | Los Angeles Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

Dedicated to providing a brave and radically inclusive space for the LGBTQ community in Alabama.

Ruth Ellis

Youth Oasis

Albany, NY | $45,000 Raised | NYC Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

To work for and ensure the physical, mental, spiritual, political, cultural and economic survival and growth of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people of color communities.

Phoenix, AZ | $30,000 Raised | Bay Area Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

Our mission is to serve LGBTQ youth and young adults ages 11-24. We enhance their lives by providing empowering social and service programs that promote self‐expression, self‐acceptance, leadership development, and healthy life choices.

In Our Own Voices

One N Ten

2019 GRANT RECIPIENTS

Memphis, TN | $81,000 Raised | Los Angeles Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

To empower, connect, educate, and advocate for the LGBT community of the Mid-South.

OUT Memphis

Jacksonville, FL | $104,000 Raised | NYC Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

JASMYN supports and empowers LGBTQ young people by creating safe space, providing health and wholeness services and offering youth development opportunities, while bringing people and resources together to promote equality and human rights.

JASMYN

Orlando, FL | $128,000 Raised | Bay Area Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

The mission of Zebra Coalition is to support and inspire LGBTQ+ youth. The Coalition assists young people facing homelessness, bullying, isolation from their families, and physical, sexual and drug abuse with individualized programs to guide them to recovery and stability.

Zebra Coalition

2018 GRANT RECIPIENTS

Provo, UT | $75,000 Raised | NYC Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

Encircle is a non-profit organization with the mission to bring the family and community together to enable our LGBTQ+ youth to thrive.

Charlotte, NC | $100,000 Raised | Bay Area Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

To support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth by offering vital programs, fostering unconditional acceptance, and creating safe spaces for self-expression through leadership, community support and advocacy.

Encircle

Time Our Youth

2017 GRANT RECIPIENT

Birmingham, AL | $127,000 Raised | Bay Area Recipient

MISSION STATEMENT:

Dedicated to providing a brave and radically inclusive space for the LGBTQ community in Alabama.

Magic City

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