Tools
Below are a range of free, open-source tools and canvases supplied by our network for you to use. They cover everything from advocacy and messaging, to impact and comms.
We're updating this all the time, so come back often. If you'd like to request any tools, or want to want to submit your own, please email us.
How to craft a media release
Clearly and concisely get your message across in a way that cuts through.
Types of advocacy
Understand what types of advocacy there are, consider what might be most effective for your campaign, and determine which organisations or partners should be involved.
Supporting the mental wellbeing of your team
Unpack and understand mental health and how to support your people.
Knowledge and resources
Below is a range of research and insights about LGBTIQ+ issues from around the world. Each of the links below will open in the relevant external website. If you'd like to request any resources, or want to want to submit your own, please email us.
Trans legal mapping report
A research resource developed by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association outlining the impact of laws around the world on transgender people.
Funding and opportunities
Even though 123+ does not provide funding, we have aggregated a range of opportunities from around the world that LGBTIQ+ initiatives can tap into.
Each of the links below will open in the relevant external website. If you're aware of any other opportunies we should be sharing, please email us.
US Student Scholarships
Bankrate has compiled a resource for LGBTIQ+ scholarships in the US.
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Victorian LGBTIQ+ Leadership Program
The Victorian LGBTIQ+ Leadership Program gives leaders in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ+) communities an opportunity to develop their skills and build their networks.
Australia / Oceania
The European Endowment for Democracy
The European Endowment for Democracy (EED) is an independent, grant-making organisation that supports people striving for democracy in the European Neighbourhood - the Eastern Partnership, Middle East and North Africa, the Western Balkans and beyond.
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Alert
Alert believes that everyone should be treated equally, offered equal chances and not be discriminated against in society. Alert therefore supports projects and actions which contribute to the emancipation of women, LGBTQIA+, and fight against racism.
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The Calamus Foundation
The Calamus Foundation awards grants to qualifying charitable organisations for programs and activities that focus on services to the LGBT community that promote and support its formation, growth, identity, general well-being and social and legal rights, as well as programs and activities that focus on care and support services to individuals with HIV/AIDS. Grant applications are by invitation only.
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The Digital Defenders Partnership
The Digital Defenders Partnership offers support to human rights defenders under digital threat, and works to strengthen local rapid response networks.
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Frida
When young women, girls, and trans and intersex youth come together, they can create lasting transformative change. FRIDA partners with young and emerging feminist led organisations to support help them making the most impact on their communities possible. The groups we support are dismantling patriarchy, addressing human rights violations, and overturning inequalities and co-creating new feminist realities.
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Madre
MADRE funds community-based women's organisations to meet urgent needs and achieve their long-term goals. Our grants enable life-sustaining and community-changing interventions and are sometimes the sole source of financial support in the places where we work.
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GiveOUT Australia
Register your organisation on GiveOUT's platform to get funding from their annual dedicated LGBTIQ+ day of giving. Eligibility: An Australian Business Number and Not-for-profit status.
Australia / Oceania
ANZ & Mardi Gras Community Grants
Funding amounts of $2,500, $5,000, $7,500 or $10,000 are available for LGBTIQ+ not-for-profit community organisations, charities and individuals doing work to help support Australian LGBTIQ+ communities. Eligibility: An Australian Business Number.
Australia / Oceania
Aurora Group
The Aurora Group provides small grants in the focus areas of Youth, people from culturally & linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD), people from rural, regional and/or remote communities; and older LGBTIQ people, including those living in aged care in NSW, Australia. Eligibility: DGR Status, Deductible Gift Recipient Status (DGR-1), targeted at NSW.
Australia / Oceania
LGBTIQ+ Grants Program
Grants provided through the Program will assist community organisations, tertiary institutions and local government to increase the number of Tasmanians who are accepting of diversity, improve resilience and capacity in the LGBTIQ+ community, foster inclusion, respect and dignity for LGBTIQ+ Tasmanians, and enhance access to services and increase participation for LGBTIQ+ Tasmanians.
Australia / Oceania
Globe
GLOBE has a long and proud tradition of providing financial support to individuals, groups and organisations in the Victorian LGBTI community by the GLOBE Community Grants and more recently the GLOBE Small Business Grants and the GLOBE Scholarships.
Australia / Oceania
The Pride Foundation Australia
Pride Foundation Australia offers both Major Grants and Small Grants, across community development, education, community research and events.. Eligibility: DGR-1 status.
Australia / Oceania
The Prism Foundation
Prism Foundation provides grants for projects and nonprofits that are positively impacting the Asian & Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ communities. Their grants range from $1000–$5000, and provide core funding to under-resourced and/or underrepresented local community organizations and projects.
Asia / Middle East
LGBT+ Futures Intersections Fund
Funding is available to address the additional needs of LGBT+ people and communities most adversely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and to support and strengthen LGBT+ organisations that have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Eligibility: Any UK based non-profit group, organisation or project that works with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans + (LGBT+) people is welcome to apply.
Europe
The Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation
The Hirschfeld-Eddy-Foundation provides concrete assistance, through international networking and cooperation with partner organisations in the global South and Eastern Europe, for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersexual (LGBTI) people under threat.
Europe
International League of Gays and Lesbians Europe
ILGA-Europe act as an intermediary, administrating and distributing money received from a large funder to a number of other organisations. Indeed, ILGA-Europe has substantial experience in giving small grants to LGBTI organisations across Europe through their Documentation and Advocacy Fund, as well as through other re-granting programmes.
Europe
The Baring Foundation
This programme supports locally based civil society in sub-Saharan Africa to address discrimination and disadvantage based on gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Africa
The Other Foundation
The Other Foundation is an African trust that advances equality and freedom in southern Africa with a particular focus on sexual orientation and gender identity. It gathers support to defend and advance the human rights and social inclusion of homosexual and bisexual women and men, as well as transgender and intersex people in southern Africa – and it gives support to groups in a smart way that enables them to work effectively for lasting change, recognising the particular dynamics of race, poverty and inequality, sex, national origin, heritage, and politics in our part of the world. It does this by working both as a fundraiser and a grant maker.
Africa
Stonewall Community Foundation
Each year, SQS members award one or more grants to advance programming and services that directly benefit LGBTQ New Yorkers. Eligibility: U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofits.
North America / Central America
Uhai Eashri
UHAI EASHRI is a flexible fund that resources organising by sexual and gender minorities and sex workers. We encourage concepts and ideas that will advance these movements with outcomes whose impact will be felt long after the grant has ended. Startups and established organisations are encouraged to apply.
Africa
The BW Bastian Foundation
The B.W. Bastian Foundation only supports organisations who wholeheartedly embrace the principle of equality. As such, each organization must include a statement specifically stating their commitment of equality for all Americans, including the gay and lesbian community in their application.
North America / Central America
Dave Bohnett Foundation
All organisations must have a 501(c)(3) IRS designation and provide equal rights & protections for all LGBT people. Grants are by invitation only.
North America / Central America
Gamma Mu
The Gamma Mu Foundation awards grants and scholarships to the LGBT community focusing on rural and other underserved populations across the United States.
North America / Central America
Social Justice Program
Funding is available for groups aligning with Arcus's Social Justice Program goals; increased safety for LGBTIQ+ people, increased LGBTI-affirming protections and increased inclusion and acceptance of LGBTIQ+ people. Eligibility: must be a s 501C3 non profit (US standard) or equivalent, and have an Equal Employment Opportunity Policy. Geographic focus areas: Southern United States; Arizona, California (Central Valley), Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, North Carolina, East and Southern Africa; Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, The Caribbean, South and Central America; El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Trinidad & Tobago, and Mexico.
Mixed / Other
Rainbow International Fund
The Rainbow International Fund will send out calls for grant applications at specific times of the year to encourage LGBT human rights defenders/activists and organisations advocating for the human rights of LGBTIQ+ people to apply. They also invite grant applications from LGBT rights defenders and organisations proactively identified by the steering committee. Eligibility: Organisations working with a yearly budget of not more than £100,000, 6 months of activism and a fiscal sponsor.
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The Dignity For All: LGBTI Assistance Program
The Dignity for All: LGBTI Assistance Program provides provides emergency assistance; security, opportunity, and advocacy rapid response grants to human rights defenders and civil society organisations under threat or attack due to their work for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex human rights. Eligibility: LGBTI activist having received a threat related to LGBTI work.
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Astraea Foundation
Astraea supports lesbian, trans, intersex and LGBTQI groups that promote racial, economic, and gender justice. They work with organisers that are mobilising communities to challenge oppression and claim rights. They strengthen LGBTQI groups by providing flexible general support grants ranging from $5,000 to $30,000 per year. Eligibility: groups in the United States, primarily led by LGBTQI people of colour, and groups across the globe.
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Rainbow World Fund
The Rainbow World Fund distributes monetary grants, emergency food aid, live saving medicines and supplies to people in need. Grants are by invitation only.
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Sigrid Rausing Trust
The purpose of the Sigrid Rausing Trust is to promote the values and principles of human rights, equality and the rule of law, and to preserve nature from further degradation. The Trust has a particular interest in the following overlapping regions and countries: Europe: particularly the Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Lebanon and Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia in North Africa and Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe in Sub-Saharan Africa. Eligibility: by invitation only.
Mixed / Other
The Global Equality Fund
The Global Equality Fund (GEF) is a leading public-private partnership comprised of like-minded governments and private sector entities dedicated to protecting and defending the human rights and fundamental freedoms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) persons around the world. Leveraging the global reach of GEF Embassies and Consulates worldwide, local civil society organisations receive direct small grants to support short-term, targeted projects with immediate impact.
Mixed / Other
Planet Romeo Foundation
Planet Romeo Foundation provides funding up to € 5,000 to grassroots emerging LGBTI projects and initiatives. Support focuses on achieving societal change in order to improve the position of LGBTI people throughout the world, with an emphasis on the most disadvantaged regions and communities. Focus is also on mobilising and activating the LGBTI community in those challenging contexts. Eligibility: LGBTI groups or organizations with little or no access to other sources of funding, priority given to countries outside the Global North.
Mixed / Other
Amplify Change
Amplify Change offers four different grant types that support sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) activism at a global or regional level. Different grant types are relevant to organisation size and need.
Mixed / Other
Horizons Global Faith and Equality Fund
Horizons' Global Faith and Equality Fund is currently focused on supporting efforts to stem the exportation of religious-based homophobia from the United States to Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The fund also resources work to amplify progressive and LGBTQ-accepting Christian voices. Proposals for the Global Faith and Equality Fund are accepted by invitation only.
Mixed / Other
National Endowment for Democracy
NED is interested in proposals from local, independent organisations for nonpartisan programs that seek to promote and defend human rights and the rule of law. NED funds only nongovernmental organisations, which may include civic organisations, associations, independent media, and other similar organisations. NED encourages applications from organizations working in diverse environments including newly established democracies, semi-authoritarian countries, highly repressive societies and countries undergoing democratic transitions. NED does not make grants to individuals or governments.
Mixed / Other
Foundation for Just Society
The Foundation for Just Society makes grants to local, national, regional, and global organizations and networks that advance the rights of women, girls, and LGBTQI people with an emphasis on Francophone West Africa, Mesoamerica, South and Southeast Asia, and the US Southeast. They support efforts that advance long-term, structural change and meet immediate needs that enable the women, girls, and LGBTQI people most affected by injustice to be leaders, strategists, and agents of change. They do not fund organizations that provide direct services without a vision for transformation.
Mixed / Other
The Fund for Global Human Rights
The Fund for Global Human Rights supports LGBTQ people as they push for protections against violence and discrimination in accessing essential resources, while striving for social, economic and political equality. The Fund backs LGBTQ-focused organisations in every region where they work, amplifying the voices of brave activists who seek equal treatment and opportunities as humans and citizens. Fund-backed groups operate in more than 25 countries, with a focus on those experiencing high rates of poverty, recovering from war, or building democratic governments. The Fund operates in Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, India, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Kenya, Liberia, Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, France, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia and Latin America.
Mixed / Other
The Global Fund for Women
Global Fund for Women provides three types of grants: general support grants, travel and event organisng grants, and crisis grants. Eligibility: be based in a country outside the United States, have a primary focus on advancing women’s equality and human rights, with these goals clearly reflected in its activities and be a group of women, girls, or trans people working together.
Mixed / Other
Mama Cash Resilience Fund
Mama Cash supports groups and initiatives that work from a feminist and/or women's rights perspective, are self-led by the women, girls, trans people and/or intersex they serve, have the promotion of women’s, girls’, trans people and/or intersex people’s human rights as their primary mission, and not just as the focus of part of their programmes, push for structural and fundamental change, focus on issues that are under-addressed and/or contested.
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