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Arts & Culture

About Arts & Culture

The Gay & Lesbian Fund supports organizations that elevate the arts and celebrate cultural diversity because we love the way film, literature, performances, and community festivals inspire people to think and feel.

We invested $480,600 in 51 Colorado nonprofit organizations in our Arts & Culture program area in 2010. Nonprofits we supported ranged from the Children’s Museum of Denver and the Cortez Cultural Center to the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pueblo Performing Arts Guild.

Click here to review all 2010 grants from the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado

Featured Grantee

The story above highlights just one of our 2010 Arts & Culture grantees, the Spirituals Project. Located on the University of Denver’s campus, this Colorado nonprofit’s mission is to preserve and revitalize the music and teachings of hundreds of sacred songs called “spirituals.” The spirituals first sung by African slaves in America in the 18th and 19th centuries were, are, and will continue to be, a source of healing, comfort, and inspiration for all people.

51

The number of Arts & Culture organizations supported by the Gay & Lesbian Fund in 2010

$480,600

The total dollar amount the Gay & Lesbian Fund invested in Colorado Arts & Culture nonprofit organizations in 2010

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Welcome to the website for the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado

We’d like to update you on some important news.

In 2012, we announced we would take a break from all new Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado grantmaking to undergo a strategic reevaluation. As of December 2012, we are nearing the end of this reevaluation period and a focused branding evaluation.

Due to exciting changes in the fund’s grant program areas, the content available on this website is now outdated. We will be closing this website and incorporating Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado updates into the Gill Foundation’s website by April 2013.

Going forward, the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado will now encompass all previously-existing Colorado programs and grants of the Gill Foundation, as well as a new program area in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education.* The foundation’s six Colorado program areas that will be known as Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado grants are:

Five previously existing and well-defined grant program areas of Gill Foundation:

  • Colorado safe and inclusive schools that prevent bullying and harassment
  • Colorado progressive civic engagement and communications grants
  • Colorado public broadcasting grants
  • Colorado HIV services
  • Colorado lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) services and advocacy

One new grant program area:

  • Colorado science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education

* Our new STEM strategy will be refined over the course of the next 18 months.

PLEASE NOTE: We will not be accepting any unsolicited letters of interest or grant applications.

We are excited for this next chapter with the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado and believe that we can have an even greater impact in building a better Colorado together. Please check the Gill Foundation’s website in late 2013 for any grantmaking updates: www.gillfoundation.org.

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