Community Events:

• "An Impossible Choice: LGBT Workers and Family Leave Laws"
  MAP, Center for American Progress, and HRC have a new report out that explores the ways in which discriminatory laws and unequal access to family and medical leave forces LGBTQ people to make difficult choices between managing personal crises and retaining their job for their livelihood.  

• "Smashing Silos in Philanthropy: Multi-Issue Advocacy and Organizing for Real Results"
  The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy has a new report out encouraging grantmakers to step away from a single-issue approach by identifying commonly perceived challenges to funding multi-issue work and offering ways grantmakers can address them.

• "A Broken Bargain for LGBT Workers of Color"
  MAP, Center for American Progress, HRC, Freedom to Work, FIRE, and the National Black Justice Coalition have released a new report on the unique challenges LGBT workers of color face related to their race and ethnicity and their sexual orientation and/or gender identity.  

• "Growth in Foundation Support for Media in the United States"
  This new report by the Foundation Center, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Wyncote Foundation, in collaboration with Media Impact Funders, Guidestar and the Ford Foundation, aims to give a fuller picture of media-related grantmaking by U.S. Foundations.

• "2013 Field Scan: The State of the Field of Youth Organizing"
  Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing has released a scan that assesses the challenges and opportunities facing youth organizing today and offers recommendations for ways to support the work.

• European Parliament to allocate major funding for LGBT issues
  The European Parliament has defined the 2014-2020 priorities of the European Social Fund (ESF), which will include combating anti-LGBT discrimination for the first time ever.

• Point Foundation
  The Point Foundation is now accepting applications for 2014 scholarships. Applicants who successfully fill out Part 1 will be notified to proceed to part 2 by January 22.

• Pride Foundation
  Pride Foundation is accepting applications for scholarships due January 15.

• Independent Sector
  Independent Sector has opened nominations for the 2014 John W. Gardner Leadership Award. The deadline is January 31.

Recent Grant Award Announcements

• Nike
  Nike is entering the marriage equality fight in the company's home state of Oregon. Nike has set up the Nike Equality PAC with seed funding of $280,000 ($100,000 from the company and $180,000 from a pool of top executives).

• The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation
  The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation has announced it 2013 Play Competition Winners as well as awarded a production grant to Theatre 167 to assist in a limited Off-Broadway production of Piria.

• The LGBT Fund of Greater Rochester Giving Circle
  The LGBT Fund of Greater Rochester Giving Circle has awarded $18,000 in grants to 11 nonprofits. This is the group's second year of grantmaking, and they more than doubled both the amount granted and the number of grantees.

• United States Department of Health and Human Services
  The United States Department of Health and Human Services has designated the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center a "federally qualified health center" and has as such awarded the center a $650,000 grant.

• The Staples Foundation
  The Staples Foundation has awarded $5,000 to the Hispanic Black Gay Coalition in Boston. This grant is made possible by the 2 Million and Change program, under the direction of Staples, Inc. associates. The grant will fund a New Leaders Institute and LGBTQ mentorship program.

• The Jewish Fund
  The Jewish Fund awarded a $158,630 three-year grant to Affirmations, a community center for LGBT people and allies located outside of Detriot. The grant will support and expand health and wellness programming.