San Diego LGBT Pride has announced that due to the success of this year’s Pride event it has given more than $85,000 to LGBT-serving organizations in 2012.
“Pride has continued to work hard to increase both the size and scope of our annual event, year round civic engagement, and community giving. This year has been one of our most successful in all three areas in recent memory,” said Dwayne Crenshaw, San Diego LGBT Pride executive director. “We are proud to offer the opportunity for Pride’s dollars to stretch even further and do more good with a community matching campaign that will allow more individuals to engage with the organizations they love.”
At this year’s annual public meeting, San Diego Pride announced $28,000 (included within the $85,000) in new grants from Pride were announced to the following organizations:
Being Alive-San Diego
CESCaL (Center for Excellence in School Counseling and Leadership)
Diversionary Theater
GLSEN (Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network)
Lambda Archives of San Diego
Live and Let Live Alano Club
North County Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning Resource Center
PFLAG San Diego (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
Saint Paul’s Foundation for International Reconciliation
San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus
SDSU LGBT Advisory Board
The Center for Wholeness
UCSD LGBT Resource Center
Y.E.S. (Youth Empowerment Summit)
San Diego Pride has created an online community matching campaign to make it easy for community members to also support these organizations with a gift during this holiday season. The community matching campaign Web site can be found at giva.li/keSDPride
