PrideFest Grants

2008 Grant Recipients - Funding Guidelines - Apply For a Grant

Pride South Florida, Inc. supports a variety of organizations that work to promote charitable activities, educational programs, and cultural arts in the South Florida community. Our funding seeks to encourage unity by word and action to all individuals, while working toward one common goal – to install pride in the lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual community. E mail PrideSouthFL@aol.com to request an application.

2008 Grant Recipients

Paladin Athletic Organization - $2,500

Purpose: To provide, educational, social and civic services to the GLBT community through athletic and informational endeavors.

Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus - $2,500

Purpose: Sponsorship for season concerts.

Names Project South Florida - $2,500.

Purpose: To Continue providing community displays and workshops of the AIDS Memorial Quilt for the purpose of HIV/AIDS education, awareness, and remembrance in our community.

Flamingo Freedom Band - $2,500

Purpose: To support the South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble Fall Concert entitled “Song and Dance” to take place at the Broward Performing Arts Center.

Arts United - $2,500

Purpose: Funding for ArtExplosion 2009

Tuesday’s Angels - $2,500

Purpose: To provide emergency assistance in the form of eyeglasses to financially needy people with HIV/AIDS.

Stonewall Library - $2,500

Purpose:To support the “Out of the Shadows” exhibition at the Broward County main Library.

The Povorello Center - $2,500

Purpose:To provide accurate and sensitive nutritional information and boxes of food to HIV+ GLBT persons in Broward County.

Transgender Equality Rights Initiatives (TERI) - $2,500

Purpose: For educational, social support and outreach.

SunServe - $2,500

Purpose: To develop, and implement programs and services designed by and for the Lesbian, Bisexual, and transgender community through SunServe’s “Women 4 Women” program.

The Pet Project - $2,500

Purpose: To allow people who are terminally ill or permanently disabled to keep and care for their companion animals when the financial hardships inevitably arrive after the loss of ones ability to work.

American Veteran’s for Equal Rights (AVER) - $2,500

Purpose: To provide funding for the 2009 AVER national Convention.

Nova Southeastern University Gay and Lesbian Medical Association - $2,500

Purpose: To address the social stigmatization and subsequent health barriers to the LGBT population in the health setting.

KP Productions - $2,500

Purpose: To continue the outreach program providing live musical entertainment to the GLBT community and seniors in our community.

Southeastern Regional Gay Men’s Health Summit - $2,430

Purpose: To provide registration scholarships to 18 individuals from Broward and Miami-Dade counties to the health summit.

Statement Of Purpose

PrideSouthFL@aol.com

Grant and/or Sponsorship Range Up to $2,500.00

Grant Deadline May 28, 2008

Contact Phone (954) 561-2020

Website www.PrideSouthFlorida.org

E mail PrideSouthFL@aol.com to request an application

Mail Completed application to Pride South Florida P.O. Box 23686, Fort Lauderdale FL 33307

Funding Priorities

Pride South Florida, Inc. concentrates funding in the following areas:

Educational

Materials and training programs that provide accurate and sensitive information about GLBT communities and HIV-Aids
Programs that support and/or assist GLBT people into the community environment.

Cultural Arts

Fine arts, performing arts, and cultural programs that creatively express and promote visibility, leadership, history, and education about and for the GLBT communities.
Cultural arts programs that build bridges between communities.

Social & Civic

Coalition and alliance building efforts that promote leadership training, visibility, and GLBT, HIV/Aids awareness in the community.

Pridefest Grant Information and Qualifications:

The money generated from this Celebration serves as the primary income producer for various Grant programs and public benefit opportunities throughout the year. These Grant programs include the following:

Funding Guidelines

To be considered for a Pride South Florida, Inc. grant, an applicant must:

Be a non profit organization, or provide documentation that the organization is sponsored under a fiscal agent umbrella that has a non-profit status;
Serve the community of South Florida. (Dade or Broward County)
Have a history of effort and commitment to reach out and serve the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities; and,
If program granted is an event, PSF requires to be named as a sponsor of the event equally to the total of the grant.

Pride South Florida, Inc. Grants Will Not fund:

Individuals;
fundraising Events.
Political lobbying, political candidates or political campaigning.
Business or profit making ventures.
Reimbursement requests for existing debts;
Facsimile transmissions of proposals.
Travel Expenses
Capital Improvements on buildings.
Organizations not operating as a non-profit

Evaluation Report

Please note: all organizations receiving funding from Pride South Florida, Inc. grants will be required to submit a completion memorandum describing how the funds were spent and how the program succeeded and benefited the GLBT community. Completion memorandum should be no longer than 3 pages and is due February 28, 2009 It must also include the following:

Documentation of expenses (copies of receipts, statements, etc.)
Provide copies of PR, releases, ads, flyers etc. of your event(s).

Publicity

Pride South Florida, Inc. will require grant recipients to publicize awards through articles in their organization’s newsletters, press releases, flyers and other announcements. If the award is a program or event with sponsorship, the organization must list PSF as a sponsor at a level equal to the award amount. Please contact the PrideLine for ideas and information for publicity. Award recipients grant Pride South Florida, Inc. permission to use organization names and information in publicity releases. ________________________________________________________________________________________

Pride One of Broward County, Inc./Pride South Florida, PO Box 23686, FT. Lauderdale, FL 33307