Q3 Resource Roundup (2024)
Please Note: This list will continue to be updated with opportunities and resources throughout the remainder of the year. If you’d like to submit upcoming grants, gender affirming resources, or other funding opportunities, send an email to info@blackremoteshe.com.
Last Updated: September 18, 2024
Originally published: June 28, 2024
Upcoming Fellowships & Funds
(including reminders of upcoming deadlines from our Q2 resource list)
September Deadlines
Last Updated: September 18, 2024
(ADDED 8/13) Theater Offensive’s Theater of Union Cohort is seeking five QTBIPOC artists, including movers, dancers, spoken word poets, singer, or different creative flairs. No prior theater experience required. The cohort will meet September 7 - September 15 at Double Edge Theater in Ashfield, MA. Selected artists will receive a $1,750 stipend plus per diem and all housing and transportation costs are covered by TTO. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 8/9) The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance seeks individuals to serve on Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts grant advisory panels. Creative Sector Flex Fund Panelists will contribute artistic, administrative, educational, and operational perspectives in discussion and evaluation of grant applications. The review period will be approximately mid-September to mid-October. Panels will be held virtually and panelists will receive a $250 stipend for their participation. Learn more and apply here.
The Global Black Fellowship Program supports emerging leaders committed to justice and empowerment for people of African descent worldwide. Fellows will engage in nine months of dedicated work, with a stipend provided. The deadline to apply is September 1, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
Trans Studies at the Commons Community Grants will offer three $3,500 grants each year to organizations and individuals doing the crucial work to sustain political advocacy, cultural organizing, community spaces, and accessible fun for trans and gender nonconforming people. The deadline to apply is September 1, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
Queer Mobilization Fund is a rapid response fund for groups in the US Southeast who have 501c3 status, a fiscal sponsor, or groups without any legal designation, that supports community mobilizations and projects that advance Queer and Trans liberation. Applications will open August 1, 2024. The deadline to apply is September 1, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 8/12) Mogul Millennial is partnering with BetterHelp to offer one month of free therapy to support the well-being of Black founders. Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis until September 9, 2024. Learn more and enter their giveaway here.
(ADDED 9/5) Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund is accepting applications for grants for gender-affirming care in the state of Iowa. Applicants must be a resident of Iowa to apply. Applications are open for any Trans, Nonbinary, or Gender Diverse Iowan that needs aid to access gender-affirming care. The deadline to submit is 11:55 pm CT on September 8, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/22) Toronto Queer Film Festival is seeking proposals that share artistic practices, moments of critical reflection (including talks and presentations), and experimental forms of gathering to challenge capitalist systems of individualism for its annual 2025 Symposium around the theme of Collective Resistance. This is a paid opportunity for all involved if selected. The deadline to apply is September 9, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/22) The Printed Matter Publisher Work Grant is a new program awarding three unrestricted grants of $10,000 USD to three independent artists’ book publishers. Printed Matter will also extend a featured exhibitor presence at a forthcoming Printed Matter’s NY or LA Art Book Fair to selected presses. The deadline to apply is September 9, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
Google Conference Scholarships covers registration, hotel accommodation, round trip travel, and a offers a $100 travel stipend for historically excluded college students and professionals in tech to attend selected conferences in the tech industry and related fields. Tech conferences on their list are based in North America, Africa, and Asia Pacific. One of the North American deadlines to apply for upcoming tech conferences is September 10, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/19) Dem Bois Inc. offers financial assistance to trans men of color to help cover the costs of gender-affirming surgery. Applications for the grant open on August 14th. The deadline to apply is September 15, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 9/3) Rhizome is accepting submissions for their 2024 Microgrants (ranging from $500-$1500), offering support for new online projects and artwork on the web to artists, thinker/tinkerers, game-makers, creative hackers, digital archaeologists, code poets and dreamers. The deadline to apply is September 15, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 9/4) CIVICUS and Arts Right Truth invites collaborative proposals from artists and activists working together seeking to communicate the value and contributions of civil society through art. Their focus is mainly on the visual arts, although other formats can be considered. Ten selected proposals will receive up to £4,000 each, which can be used as seed-funding to get a project off the ground or to boost an ongoing initiative. Successful applicants will be expected to make new arts-based work or interventions using the funding. The deadline to apply is 15 September 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 9/5) In Our Names Black Feminist Vision to End The War On Drugs Catalogers 2024 Cohort is recruiting writers, survivors of police violence, and creatives as investigative catalogers. As a cataloger, you would be researching Black feminist community alternatives to care for black women, girls, trans, and gender non-conforming people. The pay scales is $150 an article. You will also have the opportunity to join a group virtual gathering with a Healing Justice Practitioner. The deadline to apply is September 15, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 9/5) BEAM’s Peer Support & Community Care Grant, offered through BEAM's Black Wellness Innovation Fund, announced three $10,000 grants will be awarded to organizations or collectives who hold wellness and mental health groups, relationship building events or maintain wellness & healing projects, specifically for Black and marginalized communities with a focus on suicide prevention and awareness. The deadline to apply is September 15, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 9/12) Nikki’s Table is an intensive peer learning cohort to support poets ready to publish. The program responds to the significant underrepresentation of Black published writers by supporting 4 Black women and nonbinary poets in completing and advancing bodies of written work in preparation for publication. Nikki's Table provides young emerging writers, ages 18-24, with granted fiscal support, peer guidance, and curated artist talks to build their networks and receive mentorship as they engage in individual and collective creative work for publication. This cohort will self-publish as a collective through The Beautiful Project Journal, submit work to other literary publications, and gather monthly to build a network of support with other local poets of color. To support continued investment in their craft, each participant will receive a stipend of $750 at the end of the program. Applications are currently open and are due September 20, 2024 at 10 pm ET. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 8/21) You Are More Than Inc is accepting applications for their Pembrook Fellowship, an innovative program that will enhance survivor representation within the anti-trafficking sector in the United States. The fellow will hold the position title LGBTQ Community Coordinator and will be paid $30,000 with a $4K annual healthcare stipend for 20 hrs a week. Applications are accepted until September 22, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 8/28) The Advocacy & Organizing Fellowship at MASSCreative is a year-long stipended leadership development cohort for artivists, creative workers, and emerging cultural leaders to sharpen their community organizing capacity and grow their advocacy skills for a more equitable and inclusive creative sector. Each fellow will receive an annual stipend of $5,000, paid quarterly, $300 project support to be used to support organizing efforts related to the cultural policy issue, and more. The deadline to apply is September 23, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 9/5) BendFilm’s Grant will support a BIPOC woman artist with $10,000 toward making their short or feature film. The grant supports storytellers who are working to tell creative and complex stories told from a point of view that is unique and authentic. The deadline to apply is September 27, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 9/18) The Rest & Joy Fund was established to prioritize mental health and making rest & joy accessible and approachable for Black & Brown folks in DC, MD and VA. To qualify for this funding, you MUST be: (1) a permanent resident of DC, MD or VA, (2) identify as a person of color and (3) at least 18 years old. The application fee is a sliding scale from $10-20. The application fee will be used for this grant cycle. In other words, the application fee will be applied to the total fund. The Rest & Joy Fund selection process will be through random drawing, regardless of how you intend to use it. The deadline to apply is September 28, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
The 42 Percent Project anthology call for papers proposes a collection of personal essays, autoethnographies, poems, calls to action, manifestos, testimonios, short stories, and other original written works by transgender people personally affected by suicide. Contributors must be two-spirit, trans, non-binary, intersex, agender, and/or genderfluid and those who have been personally affected by suicide in some self-defined way (e.g., own or others’ attempts, suicide advocacy work, suicide as a trans community-wide concern) are invited to submit. The deadline to submit an abstract is September 30, 2024. Learn more about their call for papers here and submit an abstract here.
The Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Deaf Arts Grant is an annual program providing financial support for emerging and established artists to further advance their careers. Deaf Spotlight inspires and showcases Deaf Culture and Sign Languages through the arts. For 2024, Deaf Spotlight will award $1,000 each to 4 recipients. At least one recipient will reside in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, or Idaho), and at least one recipient will be a National selection outside of the Pacific Northwest region. The deadline to apply is September 30, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
The HCAI Fund provides financial support for 501(c)3 organizations addressing basic needs, safety and wellness, stigma and discrimination, equality, and education. The deadline to apply is September 30, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 9/6) ARTE NOIR has developed a Black Artist Roster that will be used to increase the exposure of, and access to Black artists in Washington State. The deadline to join the roster is September 30, 2024. Learn more and submit here.
(ADDED 9/16) Artists of Color Accelerate (AOCA) works to engage and elevate the practices of homegrown creatives. AOCA partners ten artists-who serve as fellows with ten organizations that will host them to develop artistic ventures of community significance. Tasked with co-creating a unique individual project highlighting their abilities with the organization they are paired with, the fellows receive an honorarium and support for professional and business development. The deadline was recently extended to September 30, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 9/20) The Southwest Virginia Trans Wellness Fund makes direct payments to trans people living in Southwest Virginia to support costs related to transition-related expenses and/or basic needs such as rent and bills. This is a quarterly fund. This month’s deadline is September 30. Learn more and apply here.
August Deadlines
Last Updated: August 30, 2024
(ADDED 7/26) GenderJusticeLA is accepting applications for their T4T:Political Education Program. Applicants MUST identify as Transgender and or Non-Binary, Gender Expansive, Two-Spirit, with priority given to impacted trans BIPOC community members. The deadline to apply is August 1, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
The Rest & Joy Fund was established to prioritize mental health and making rest & joy accessible and approachable for Black & Brown folks in DC, MD and VA. The Rest & Joy Fund selection process operates on a first-come, first-served basis regardless of how you intend to use it. The fund opens on August 1, 2024. Learn more and sign up to be notified here.
(ADDED 7/10) Trans Studies at the Commons is a three-year, Mellon Foundation-funded initiative building a local and nationwide network for scholar-activists in Transgender Studies. They are currently accepting applications for their first fellowship cohort. Each year’s virtual fellowship program will run the length of the academic year (September through May) and support the work of seven interdisciplinary participants through regular meetings, mentorship, editorial feedback, and educational opportunities. The fellowship will convene in an intensive week-long retreat in Lawrence, Kansas in April 7-11, 2025. The fellowship comes with a work stipend of $8,000 and an additional $2,000 stipend for travel. Food and lodging for the retreat will be provided. The deadline to apply is August 1, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/8) The Big Field Fund awards grants to artists and collectives to support publicly-engaged experimental, collaborative, and connective visual arts projects in eastern Iowa. Project grants include awards between $5000-$8000 to support the public realization of connective, collaborative, and/or experimental artist-led projects and research/development grants awards between $1500-$3000 to support artists in the early stages of an ambitious project. The deadline to apply is August 1, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/5) The Lynn Shelton “Of a Certain Age” Grant is a project-based award that provides $25,000 to an individual woman, non-binary, and/or transgender U.S. filmmaker, age 39 or older, who is working on their first narrative feature (65 minutes or over) as a director. The deadline to apply is August 1, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
The Trans Health Advocacy Program is accepting applications to support Trans Kentuckians seeking gender affirming surgeries with a $2,500 grant. The only requirement for eligibility funding is that you have completed a consultation with a surgeon and are a KY resident. Applications for this cycle close August 1, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
Leeway Foundation's Art and Change Grant (ACG) provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social change projects by women, trans*, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia. The grant is project-based and open to artists and cultural producers working in any medium, including traditional and nontraditional as well as multimedia and experimental forms. The deadline to apply is August 1, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/29) Black Film Space is accepting applications for their Proof of Concept Short Film Grant. The grant total will be $10,000. They are looking for ideas that showcase unique, novel perspectives of Black life and identity. The deadline to apply is August 4, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/19) The Progressive Talent Pipeline identifies, endorses, trains, and recommends a diverse slate of committed progressives for staff roles in Congress and government agencies. Progressive Talent Pipeline has opened a 2nd deadline for the 2024 cohort. If you’re a progressive thinker, policy staffer, communicator, or organizer who wants to serve in a government role, please apply here by Sunday, August 4, 2024 or join their interest list for updates about future application periods here.
Artists Run Chicago Fund (ARC Fund) seeks to award fifteen $8,000 unrestricted grants to artists-run platforms in Chicago. The deadline to apply is August 5, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 8/1) The Okra Project is providing $150 of Uber meal and/or ride credit to Black trans, nonbinary, gender nonconforming individuals for the month of August. Qualified applicants will be selected at random with Black trans femmes to the front. The application window is open August 1 - 5, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/29) Grand Plan is a charity awarding £1,000 grants to people of colour based in the UK who want to bring a new creative project to life. They support creativity in all its forms including: poetry, paintings, fashion, zines, music, food, flowers, photographs, workshops, events or something else completely. The deadline to apply is 7 August 6pm. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/29) The Inevitable Foundation is accepting applications for their Visionary Fellowship, a year-long program that invests in disabled filmmakers with the funding, mentorship and community they need to make a short film and leverage it into their first feature film. Fellowship benefits include a $15,000 unrestricted grant, $25,000 production stipend, up to $7,000 healthcare stipend, $2,500 marketing stipend, up to $3,000 to cover travel costs to Los Angeles for the duration of filming and the short film showcase, and more. The deadline to apply is August 11, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 8/5) Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund is accepting applications for grants for gender-affirming care in the state of Iowa. Applicants must be a resident of Iowa to apply. The deadline to submit is 11:55 pm CT on August 11, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
The Saw Emerging Artist Residency is an opportunity for Gainesville-based emerging artists. This residency provides access to artmaking space and professional development opportunities for up to 8 artists each calendar year. The residency program includes access to a shared studio, library and workshop space, artistic mentorship and publication opportunities. The deadline to apply is August 11, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 8/13) The Walter Dean Myers Grant program was established to provide grants of $2,000 each to promising diverse writers and illustrators who are currently unpublished. They are accepting submissions from diverse writers and illustrators who are currently unpublished, and encourage Black, Native, and Palestinian creators to apply. The deadline to apply is August 14, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 8/8) The Trans Love Fund is dedicated to supporting the trans community through providing emergency funds to trans identified individuals throughout South Carolina. The application will be open until August 15th. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/15) We Are Family Foundation is accepting applications for their Youth To The Front Fund’s “The Creatives” Frontliners. With grants from $1,000 and up to $20,000, this is a call for Artist Collectives, Cultural Storytellers, Creative Organizers, and Heritage Keepers centering BIPOC, under 30 years old, who use art to fight systemic racism, inequality, inequity, and injustice in local and global communities. The deadline to apply is August 16, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 8/1) Vocal Justice is accepting applications for their 2024-25 Teacher Fellowship. The fellowship is open to middle and high school educators in Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), Detroit (MI), Jackson (MS), New Orleans (LA), Oakland (CA), and surrounding areas of these cities. Fellows will receive a $1,500 stipend (paid in two installments), professional learning workshops, and more. The deadline to apply is August 21, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/5) The Queer to Stay program is designed to support LGBTQ+ small businesses, especially those owned by and designed for LGBTQ+ people of color, women and the transgender community. Applications to participate this year open on May 29, 2024 and will run through August 31, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/11) About Her Culture micro grants aim to empower African and Caribbean women around the world for social and economic development. They are giving away a few $500 USD micro grants to women of African and Caribbean descent, based anywhere in the world, who are entrepreneurs, nonprofit founders, and creatives. The next micro grant recipient will be announced in September 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/20) Point of Pride’s Thrive Fund provides small grants to trans folks who cannot afford gender-affirming health and wellness services. Applications open August 1. The deadline to apply is August 31, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 8/5) Impact Grants fuel the endeavors of businesses and nonprofits that are actively making a significant IMPACT within their communities and beyond. The recipient will be selected September 15th. The $1000 grant will be paid to the recipient by 30th of the month they are selected. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 8/30) The Los Angeles Young Adult Emergency Relief Fund is an unrestricted grantmaking program for disabled and historically underrepresented young adults pursuing careers in writing and filmmaking in Los Angeles. The Fund will provide $500 grants to 18-25 year old disabled writers and filmmakers experiencing financial hardship. The deadline to apply is August 31, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
July Deadlines
Last Updated: July 26, 2024
(ADDED 7/1) The QTPOC Survivor Grant offers $200 to survivors of sexual and domestic violence. Applications open at 6pm ET on July 1. Learn more and apply here.
Crowdsourcing the Canon, a new collaboration between Black Lunch Table and Sixty Inches from Center to support emerging Black art critics and writers covering Black artists, is seeking writers to pitch critical essays, journalistic takes, exhibition reviews, and deep dives into the lives and practices of Black artists based in the Midwest, especially those whose entries on Wikipedia lack sufficient citations. Selected writers will be compensated $350. This call closes July 1, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
Queer Cultural Center (QCC) will select 5-7 applicants for their Level 2 Creating Queer Communities (CQC) cohort is a professional development training program for queer and trans artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. The cohort invites projects that address queer approaches to sustaining ourselves and our communities through cultivating inner joy, community connection, and sensory pleasures amid the ongoing political, cultural, public health, and climate crises that shape our current material conditions. Bay Area QTBIPOC artists selected for the cohort will receive paid learning opportunities, a $5,000 artist commission to produce an event for QCC’s 2025 Spring Queer Art Festival, professional photo documentation of your event, and more. The deadline was recently extended to July 1. Learn more and apply here.
South Arts Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant supports a milestone opportunity in an artist's career that will likely lead to substantial career advancement. Grants of up to $2,000 are available for opportunities taking place between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025. Learn more and apply here.
Funds for the Dolls is intentionally created by TCG and led by trans women of color (TWOC) leaders in the performing arts who understand the complex issues facing TWOC performing and theatre artists. In this self-funded pilot round with $50,000, TCG aims to support these trailblazers, and uplift their joy, artistry, audacity and tenacity. This grant is NSA (no strings attached). The funds can be used for anything from a performing arts project, essential needs such as shelter, or your gender-affirming care. The deadline to apply is July 5, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
Google Conference Scholarships covers registration, hotel accommodation, round trip travel, and a offers a $100 travel stipend for historically excluded college students and professionals in tech to attend selected conferences in the tech industry and related fields. Tech conferences on their list are based in North America, Africa, and Asia Pacific. One of the North American deadlines to apply for upcoming tech conferences is July 7, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
Keystone Progress Education Fund and Casey Droege Cultural Productions are collaborating on a call for art for a series of exhibitions, focused specifically on reproductive rights and the impact on communities and individuals accessing care, taking place this Fall. Each artist will receive a $200 stipend in recognition of their work and potential for the artworks to be additionally included in the larger Art of Democracy Show, which will take place at Brew House Arts in Pittsburgh in October 2024. The deadline to apply is July 8, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
Zoo Labs empowers Black, Indigenous, and people of color to own and amplify their music businesses through entrepreneurial training, resource exchange, focused mentorship, and community building. The Zoo Labs: FUND will make available $225,000 in unrestricted grants to Bay Area BIPOC and BIPOC-led artist teams with a music business. The deadline to apply is July 10, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
The Queer Data Fellowship, a collaboration between Belongg and Qonnect, aims to bridge these gaps by curating and disseminating comprehensive, intersectional data related to LGBTQIA+ individuals in India. The QDF will be executed over three months (12 weeks from late July - October 2024), with one Fellow in this pilot phase. The Fellow will work full-time and receive a monthly stipend of Rs. 50,000. The Fellowship is open to applicants with 2-4 years of experience in development across various domains such as research, data analytics, data journalism, statistics, consulting, or related topics. The deadline to apply is 10th July, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/1) CommunityWise Resource Centre’s project "The Place" is seeking artists representatives of Racialized and 2SLGBTQ identities for their 1.5 month residency between August and November. Each artist selected will receive a payment of $2,000. The deadline to apply is July 10, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/1) The Oaklash Disability Fund supports chronically ill and disabled queer and trans performance makers in need of critical support. The fund is offering small grants in the amount of $500 and $1000 to a select group of applicants in need. Selection will be done randomly though applicants who also identify as Queer or Trans BIPOC will be prioritized. The deadline to apply is July 13, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
The Workers Lab Innovation Fund is a 5-month virtual fellowship offering mentorship, training, and up to $200,000 in funding for worker-centered innovation. The deadline to apply is July 15, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
The 2024 Creator Labs Photo Fund, launched by Google’s Creator Labs and Aperture, is an initiative providing financial support to encourage artists at formative moments in their careers. Submissions are free and open to any photographer or lens-based artist living in the United States. Thirty selected artists will each be awarded a prize of $6,000 and a Pixel 8a device, and will be featured on aperture.org and across Aperture’s social-media channels. The deadline to apply is July 15, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
New Working Majority is conducting a survey focused on people who work for pay in movement organizations to see exactly how the changes wrought by inflation and the pandemic are affecting us all. By completing their survey and providing your contact information at the end, you will be entered into a raffle to win one of four $50 Visa gift cards. The deadline to submit is July 15, 2024. Learn more and complete their survey here.
(ADDED 7/4) The Southern Healing Support Fund is a community-driven fund that provides up to $10,000 of grant funding for Black mental health and healing practitioners including clinicians, yoga practitioners, community workers, and group facilitators to implement innovative healing and support strategies in the Southern region of the U.S. The deadline to apply is July 15, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/10) The BIPOC ED Coalition is accepting applications for their Two-Week Sabbatical Grants to support BIPOC nonprofit leaders in Washington State with two-week sabbaticals that allow them to step back from the exhaustion of work and re-connect with their own vitality and balance. Each sabbatical award will be $4,000 that includes individual sabbatical expenses for the nonprofit employee and organizational and leadership support. The deadline to apply is July 15, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/3) The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists, a $10,000 grant, supports visual artists who are self-identified Black trans women. The deadline to apply was recently extended to July 16, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/5) The Freelands Foundation Inclusive Practices Fund will support organisations to reimagine engagement and education; aiming to foster belonging and connection between young people in primary and secondary school, their teachers and visual arts spaces. Grants of up to £25,000 per year are available for project durations of 1 – 2 years (maximum grant amount is £50,000 over 2 years). The deadline to apply is 19 July 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/15) Black Queer Everything (BQE) is a fellowship opportunity with a mission to cultivate opportunities for the development of innovative research and collaborative community projects led by Black queer and trans youth aged 18-25. The part-time BQE fellowship will provide the recipient with $50,000 in salary ($50/hour), mentoring from the faculty collective, and more. The fellow should be located in the DC-Maryland-Virginia area, as they are expected to work on site at Howard University for 25 hours/week during the length of the fellowship, including the Black Queer Everything Gathering, tentatively scheduled for one week in July 2025. The BQE Fellowship will run from September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025 with the opportunity to renew for one additional year. The deadline to apply is July 19, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
Through a partnership between PFund and Quorum, the Equity Fund is seeking LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs who have owned and operated a business for a year or more and are seeking to grow through grant funding and business education sessions. The Equity Fund will award grants ranging from $5,000-$30,000 for investment in your small businesses and provide a year of business education and networking. The deadline to apply is July 22, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/1) Art Asheville’s Arts Build Community Grant supports innovative, arts-based projects that inspire diverse groups of participants to be more active, involved, and civically-engaged by creating together. Organizations must have been in operation for at least one year and be physically located in Buncombe County. Priority is given to projects based in low-income neighborhoods and/or communities in need. Grants range from $1,000-2,500. The deadline to apply is July 22, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/3) The Artist in Business Leadership Fellowship is a yearlong program that helps independent Native artists pursue art as a way to build a business to support themselves and their families. The program provides them with network-building, professional development guidance and funding towards business needs. The ABL Fellowship offers $10,000 in grant funding towards a proposed project that will help artists launch or grow a successful arts business. Applications are open to artists at all stages of their career. The deadline to apply is July 22, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/3) The Cultural Capital (CC) Fellowship is a yearlong program that offers financial support and guidance to culture bearers and artists who are deeply rooted in their communities and committed to passing on ancestral knowledge within their Native communities. The CC Fellowship offers $10,000 in grant funding to artists and culture bearers to support their cultural work in their community through the arts. This fellowship is open to artists at any stage of their career. The deadline to apply is July 22, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/22) Trans+ on Screen launched The DarkRoom Development Lab, a new lab designed for Trans+ and/or Queer Global Majority writers based in the UK to develop their feature film genre projects. 10 writers will be selected to develop their feature film genre idea over the course of the year and will receive up to £5000 financial support to participate. The deadline to apply is 24 July 2024 at 5pm. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/22) BYP100 is looking for Black Chicago-based artists ages 12-35 to display their work in their upcoming #SheSafeWeSafe (SSWS) Art Installation. All mediums of art will be considered and select artists will receive a $500 honorarium. The deadline to apply is July 27, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/26) The PowerOn Individual Tech Grant provides life-saving and life-changing technology (cell phones, tablets, and laptops) to LGBTQ+ individuals for personal use. The deadline to apply is July 28, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/1) The Artist Trust Endurance Grants are unrestricted emergency need-based grants of $2,500 to artists working in all disciplines across Washington State to assist with an unforeseen emergency, crisis, or catastrophic event. These 40 grants will fund artists who identify with one or more of the following communities: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and/or Native, LGBTQIA+, immunocompromised, with immigrant status, have or are living with a disability, residing outside King County, and/or low income. The deadline is July 29, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
Gaingels Scholarship Fund is a partnership with the California Community Foundation to provide $5000 scholarships for students to attend college anywhere in the USA. Students must have a minimum 2.5 GPA and demonstrated financial need to be eligible to apply. The deadline to apply is July 30, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
ASAN’s Teighlor McGee Grassroots Mini Grant Program will give out grants of up to $5000 to self-advocates of color for projects geared towards achieving systems change for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The deadline to apply is July 31, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
(ADDED 7/20) The Trans Film Mentorship (TFM) is partnering with Sphere Media, Netflix, IATSE 873 and IASTE 667 to offer a paid work-integrated training opportunity for emerging trans and non-binary professionals within select departments on a Netflix series. Applicants must be an Ontario resident to apply. The mission of the TFM is to increase the presence of trans and non-binary professionals, filmmakers, creatives and crew in the film and television industry by creating work and training opportunities for emerging and entry-level professionals. The deadline to apply is July 31, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
Rolling Deadlines
Last Updated: September 16, 2024
Dem Bois Inc. curates care packages with basic essential items to help take care of trans men of color personal care and hygiene needs. Each care package contains over 18 personal care items (socks, toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, lotion, tissue, towels, etcetera). Learn more and request a care package here.
Black and Beyond Binary Collective Housing Safety Fund is now accepting applications to support significantly marginalized individuals currently struggling with housing security and/or safety. Applications will be accepted from September - November.
DR DHT offers Gender Affirming Surgery Grants to trans, non-binary, & GNC people in need of funding. This includes top surgery, bottom surgery and other gender related procedures. Currently their grants are $300 each. Learn more and apply here.
You Are More Than Inc. is accepting new small businesses in its economic empowerment program. To qualify, applicants must be a small U.S.-based business led by a BIPOC or LGBTQ survivor of trafficking or a current sex worker.
Black Trans Travel Fund offers Black trans women based in the United States financial support to purchase an airline ticket, pay for TSA Pre-Check, to purchase a passport, or renew a passport. Learn more and how to apply here.
The Black & Brown Podcast Collective supports emerging podcasters and content creators of color by providing micro grants to further support the growth of their podcasts and content. Applicants must be a member to apply, but memberships are free.
The Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund applications are open during the first week of the month.
The Roddenberry Catalyst Fund makes grants between $2,500–$15,000 to anyone, anywhere in the world who has an early-stage idea or project that addresses pressing global challenges. Eligible candidates for the Catalyst Fund may be individuals, teams of individuals, non-profit organizations, or social enterprises and will receive funding of up to $15,000. Applications are accepted year-round. Learn more and apply here.
TRUTH is a youth-led program for trans, non-binary, and gender- nonconforming young people to build public understanding, empathy, and a movement for liberation through storytelling and media organizing. Applications are now open for trans youth, ages 13-18 and all council members are eligible for an educational award each quarter of $300, totaling $900 a year. Learn more and apply here.
The Roses Youth Council is for trans and GNC gurls of color to build sisterhood with other trans girls built by and for trans girls! The councile will work as a team to strengthen organizing and leadership skills while holding important conversations about the experiences and demands of our community. Applications are now open for trans youth, ages 14-18 and all council members are eligible for an educational award each quarter of $300, totaling $900 a year. Learn more and apply here.
Cookies U Humboldt offers free, hands-on cannabis training for those who have been historically marginalized and negatively impacted by the War on Drugs. Onsite housing and transportation to participate will be included for those selected. There will also be the opportunity to apply for rent assistance to cover some of your expenses at home while you're away. Learn more about eligibility requirements and apply here.
Stimpunks Foundation offers mutual aid and human-centered learning for neurodivergent and disabled people. Each month, they issue 4 mutual aid grants of US$500 each to fellow neurodivergent and disabled people. These grants cover anything you need for your welfare and survival. They also offer creator grants to help fund your art, advocacy, or research. These are US$3,000 grants offered to neurodivergent and disabled creators. You can apply for both a creator grant and a mutual aid grant. Learn more and apply here.
Barn Raiser is seeking proposals for their upcoming series of arts and culture stories “Reimagining Rural Cartographies.” Stories (including creative nonfiction, reported stories, and photo essays) will explore the work of artists, environmental stewards, community organizers and artistic and social justice movements informing Midwestern creativity and social change, with a focus on reimagined or nontraditional forms of cartography and mapping. Each project comes with a $1,000 stipend. Projects will be accepted on a rolling basis. Learn more and apply here.
Trans Aid Nashville provides financial assistance to transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse individuals residing in Davidson County. Learn more and apply for assistance here.
The North Texas TRANSportation Network provides travel grants to North Texas families seeking out-of-state health care for trans and gender-diverse minors.
Sex Workers Educating & Empowering Texans has a 2024 Emergency Relief Assistance Application for sex workers in Austin TX. Learn more and submit a request here.
The Welcome Project PA (WPPA) can provide a limited number of short-term and immediate assistance for transgender and gender nonconforming folks or the parents of trans kids in need who reside within Greater Philadelphia, PA. WPPA can provide one-time rapid response micro grants that are designed to help people with medical expenses, groceries, housing costs, and transportation/utilities. Learn more and submit a request here.
Max’s Emergency Relief & Resource Fund is a one-time grant of between $500 and $1000 to assist self-employed artists who have a steady work history, but who are experiencing a temporary financial set back. MKCP assistance is designed to resolve this short term crisis, whatever it may be, and the applicant will again gain employment in the near future. Individuals seeking assistance must be residents of New York State, but exceptions are made in some cases if applicant was affiliated with Max’s Kansas City. The deadline is ongoing. Learn more and apply here.
The Welcome Project PA (WPPA) is seeking transgender, nonbinary, and intersex individuals to join their Healthcare Best Practices Cohort. Cohort members have paid opportunities to be part of panels to discuss affirming healthcare with medical students, nurses, and doctors. In addition to their panel programs, there are opportunities to be interviewed as part of a documentary film that follows this movement to improve healthcare outcomes for trans and nonbinary folx. Participants can be anywhere in Greater Philly or farther away for their virtual program. Learn more about the program here.
HCAI provides free chest binders to LGBTQ+ youth and ships throughout the US and Puerto Rico. Request a binder from them here.
The Radical Communicators Network is seeking seasoned narrative and communications strategists who are interested in writing short case studies on climate justice. Each case study should include an analysis of the sociopolitical context, the dominant narratives being deployed by the opposition, counternarrative interventions in relation to the overall campaign/movement strategy, and your assessment of the impact. RadComms can offer a $200 stipend per case study. Learn more and apply here.
Roots is offering micro-grant support of USD 10,000 for projects, initiatives, research, or campaigns from the Global South that advocate for climate justice through an intersectional lens; have strategies rooted in radical systemic change; and reach new, persuadable audiences. Learn more and apply here.
ARTNOIR’s The Jar of Love Fund is a microgrant initiative intended to provide relief for artists, curators, and cultural producers of color. Applications are open to all those 18 years or older working within the arts, living in all fifty states, territories and Tribal Nations. Learn more and apply here.
The Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS) is offering a few stipends of $1000 to support participation from trans and cis women of color, trans men of color, and nonbinary people of color in their fellowship and mentorship programs. Fellow and mentee applications for this stipend will be accepted until December 17, 2024. Learn more and apply here.
The 2024 Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) Fellowships, offering general and unqualified support for scholars and students in the United States to continue practicing queer anthropology, will award five grants of up to $400 each to support members of the AQA community. Learn more and apply here.
MaskBloc Long Beach is accepting requests for free masks and test for QTPOC and disabled folks based in the Long Beach area. Learn more and submit a request here.
MaskBloc Waterloo has open applications to request free Personal Protective Equipment (respirator masks, rapid tests, etc) from Mask Bloc Waterloo Region (Canada). Learn more and submit a request here.
FCA offers immediate, project-based emergency grants to visual and performing artists living and working in the U.S. and abroad who have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public or incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completing with committed exhibition or performance dates. Learn more and apply here.
Austin Creative Alliance is accepting applications for their Artists Emergency Fund, offering immediate assistance for individual artists and their families in Greater Austin. Cultural sector workers based in Greater Austin facing verifiable and immediate housing, food or healthcare insecurity (including travel, lodging and procedure expenses related to reproductive care) may apply for up to $1000 in unrestricted funds. Learn more and apply here.
Intransitive has multiple support funds available for Trans & Two Spirit people living in Arkansas facing emergency situations. The Brayla Stone Microgrant supports Black Transgender women and girls living in Arkansas with rent assistance, utilities, temporary emergency housing, groceries, medical expense & transportation. Additional microgrants include a fund for trans immigrants, fund for trans youth, fund for incarcerated trans siblings, and a general fund for trans, gnc, non-binary, and two spirit Arkansans.
The Transdolescent Fund supports Trans and Two Spirit adolescents (Trans youth and Two Spirit youth) living in Arkansas who need access to gender affirming gear. Learn more and submit a request here.
BIPOC Therapy Fund is accepting applications for folks currently impacted by the crisis in Palestine and need financial assistance to access therapy services. They are prioritizing Palestinians and folks with family and loved ones in Palestine. Activists, care workers, folks with roots in the SWANA region (South West Asia North Africa), and BIPOC Muslim, Jewish, Christian allies personally impacted can reach out to care@mentalhealthliberation.org to receive support. Please note: If you are not currently impacted by the crisis in Palestine, sign up for their newsletter to be notified when the next BIPOC Therapy Fund application cycle opens up.
Trans Resistance Network provides resources for those families and individuals who are relocating to a safer state as a consequence of state laws against gender diverse people, criminalization of gender affirming care, or lack of community safety due to one’s gender identity and expression. Requests for relocation support can be submitted here.
The Black Trans Women Inc Sister’s Keeper program provides emergency assistance to trans women in the United States to help cover unexpected emergency needs such as groceries, shelter, safe transportation and phone/utility expenses. Learn more and apply here.
Black Trans Wellness Fund is now open for Black trans people in Philadelphia. 10 grantees will be selected each month to receive $250.00 by check or Cash app. This is a rolling application that will be opened at the beginning of the month for a week. Learn more and apply here.
The Black Trans Wellness Fund recently reopened to support Black trans people residing in Philadelphia. The fund committee will select 10 grantees each month to receive $250.00 by check or Cash App. This is a rolling application that will be opened at the beginning of the month for a week. Learn more and apply here.
The FREE STEM Fund offers up to 50,000 EUR in funding for initiatives and projects in the Global South from registered and unregistered initiatives, groups, collectives, and organisations focused on the rights of girls, women, transgender and non-binary people and STEM. Learn more and apply here.
Emergent Fund is a rolling, monthly rapid response and emergent organizing grant for movement and frontline communities responding to urgent and specific unanticipated crises or opportunities to build power. Applications are due every third Thursday each month. Learn more and apply here.
Black Trans Men Inc. is offering a grant of up to $1000 to assist with the financial obligation for undergoing elective gender affirming top surgery for Black and African American trans men. Learn more and submit a Gender Affirming Surgery Financial Assistance Application here.
Social Impact Labs awards $1,000 to support community projects. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and remain eligible for six months. Apply by the end of a given month to be considered for the following month’s award. Learn more and apply here.
The Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund (BJTRF) provides assistance for Black journalists facing financial hardship who are unable to pay for mental health support. Learn more and apply for funding here.
Gender Affirming Resources and Networks
Last Updated: September 16, 2024
Empower Work has a free, confidential text line that focuses on improving well-being for historically marginalized workers through coaching and resources that support increased confidence, clarity, agency, empowerment, and economic security – all rooted in equity.
SPARK has a Social Purpose Action Resource Kit. Their platform is a vetted hub of resources made by and for changemakers launching social impact initiatives across the U.S.
CultivArt is a free online resource hub for arts leaders of color.
The People’s Solidarity Hub is a central hub for activists and organizers to build collective power.
The Black & Brown Podcast Collective supports emerging podcasters and content creators of color by providing micro grants to further support the growth of their podcasts and content. Applicants must be a member to apply, but memberships are free.
For All Things Digital has a list of resource-based organizations for Black businesses.
Frontline Doulas has a directory for BIPOC doulas and birthworkers based in California. Learn more and sign up here.
PDX Queer / Death Directory is an evolving list of queer death (and grief!) care workers and organizations.
CT Grapevine is a workplace journal for all workplaces in Connecticut. The platform offers a space for folks to anonymously report workplaces based in Connecticut and provides resources to help folks fight back against their mistreatment or find support for any stress or issues that they might be facing because of their jobs.
Tight Lipped is a grassroots advocacy organization by and for people with chronic vulvovaginal and pelvic pain conditions. They have a resource list to support folks looking for support in finding providers, mental health resources, supplemental healthcare resources, and more.
Gender Dynamix is the first registered Africa-based public benefit organisation to focus solely on trans and gender diverse communities.
Queer in Post, aka QUIP, is a space for 2SLGBTQIA+, non-binary, and gender diverse creatives in film and television post production to network, share stories, and develop opportunities for advocacy in the industry. QUIP recently launched a talent hub and job board. This free-to-use hub allows freelance film and television industry professionals to find and hire post production talent.
Unrestricted Funds is a grant database for cultural producers and organizations, prioritizing BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ grant seekers and unrestricted funding.
Trans Empowerment Project has a variety of digital communities for 2TIGE leaders and organizers, influencers, and mentors and mentees to connect.
The American Trans Resource Hub provides transgender individuals with resources for their social, medical and/or legal transition and offers direct assistance with housing instability, loss of employment, and lack of health insurance.
Trans Queer Fund Kenya organizes mutual aid and relief funds for trans and queer Kenyans.
Savvy Cooperative offers gigs to compensate patients or caregivers to provide their insights and lived experiences to organizations to help shape products and services.
Everywhere is Queer is a public resource (and ever-growing searchable map) created for the LGBTQIA2S+ and ally community to find welcoming, queer-owned spaces to shop, connect, eat, learn, and grow all over the world. Their app is available to download on iOS or Android for free to search their map and learn about queer-owned businesses to visit and/or work with via their job board (also available through the app).
Prevention Meets Fashion (PMF) Sex Education Program provides comprehensive sex education to Black, Indigenous, People of Color, LGBTQ+, and non-binary communities. Their programming is currently offering free HIV self-testing and COVID at-home and narcan kits. Learn more about these free offerings here.
Sisterly HQ is a digital community that empowers Nigerian women to tell their stories their way, and connects them with opportunities and resources to succeed.
Portland Outright provides free chest binders to LGBTQ+ young people in Maine (ages 13 & up).
Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD) and US Campaign for Palestinian Rights collaborated to build a No Pride in Genocide toolkit with information on how to research your local pride events, call out complicity, and if needed, creatively disrupt.
Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center is an organization committed to eliminating the maternal mortality crisis affecting Black families and the erasure of LGBTQ individuals in birthing spaces by advocating for intersectionality in birthwork. Their website includes a resource hub for Black parents/birthing people, birthworkers, and families supporting pregnant people in support of birth justice.
Bela Gaytán is building a comprehensive database of queer folks offering services for hire year-round. To be included in the Pride Month Programming Providers list, complete a form here.
Funding Assistance for Gender-Affirming Care Resource List provides nationwide and local funds for transgender and non-binary people needing support with legal name change, hormone affirmation, surgical affirmation, gender affirming clothing, general transition needs, and other financial needs.
Autism in Black aims to provide support to black parents who have a child on the spectrum, through educational and advocacy services, and are dedicated to bringing awareness to Autism Spectrum Disorder and reducing the stigma associated with ASD in the black community.
Black Liberation-Indigenous Sovereignty (BLIS) Collective’s mission is to spark radical collaboration and narrative alignment between and within Black, Indigenous, and transformative social movements to repair, decolonize, and transform culture.
QueerDoc has a list of organizations funding gender-affirming healthcare for trans folks.
Support & Resources for Student Activists for a Free Palestine
Emergent Fund compiled a list of movement rapid response and community protection funds and resources for movement builders.
NYC People of Color Healing Circle’s energy healing practitioners are offering free private in-person and virtual sessions to Palestinians, non-Palestinian folks impacted by this ongoing genocidal war, frontline organizers, healthcare workers on the ground in Gaza/West Bank, and BIPOCs who organized/participated in rallies here in the USA calling for a ceasefire. Learn more and apply here.
FTM Essentials announced their Free Youth Binder Program for folks 24 and under unable to purchase a binder on their own due to financial circumstances. Binders will be sent out quarterly in January, April, July, and October.
Passion and Power shares weekly emails for justice-driven coaches, founders, & entrepreneurs committed to digging deeper than 'diversity' and creating a community space rooted in RADICAL EQUITY and SAFETY for Black, Latine, and queer people.
Trans Closet of Hudson Valley builds free surgery care packages for trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive community members living in the Hudson Valley who are planning on receiving gender-affirming surgeries. They also have a local transgender resource list with local LGBTQ+ centers, emergency funds & aid, housing resources, gender-affirming healthcare, legal services, and more.
Rainbow Serpent is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to advancing Black LGBTQ culture through the exploration of emerging technologies, innovative healing protocols, African cosmologies, and multimedia art.
African Queer Youth Initiative is a network of youth activists mobilising, supporting and amplifying the voice of LGBTQI+ activists and youths in Africa. Their program, Opportunity Point, is dedicated to helping LGBTIQ+ youth in Africa find opportunities for education, careers, mentorship, and more.
charlie amáyá scott has an Indigenous Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ Artist resource list that people can financially support or follow. If you or if you would like to suggest someone to be considered // added, please email dineaesthetics@gmail.com with the information requested on their website.
Queer African Network is a global app for queer people of African heritage to socialize, access queer stories & safe opportunities.
The Free Black Women’s Library is a social art project that features a collection of over five thousand books written by Black women and Black non-binary writers, a virtual Reading Club, a weekly book swap, and a wide array of free public programs that happen in their Reading Room.
Trans Resistance Network provides resources for those families and individuals who are relocating to a safer state as a consequence of state laws against gender diverse people, criminalization of gender affirming care, or lack of community safety due to one’s gender identity and expression.
Alicia Forneret is building a BIPOC Mental Health and Grief resource database, a comprehensive, living digital collection of grief & mental health support resources by & for people of color. To stay tuned for the release, sign up for the PAUSE newsletter here. To offer a resource for the database, submit a listing here.
Marsha’s Web is a national business, community, and resource directory for entities that serve the TLGBQIA+ communities while centering BIPOC Transgender, Intersex, and GNC business owners/organizations. Listings from organizations led by Black Trans/GNC business owners can be submitted here.
Point of Pride provides free femme shapewear (specially-designed compression underwear/gaffs) to any trans femme person who needs one and cannot afford or safely obtain one. Applications are open year-round. Learn more and apply here.
Black Trans Femmes in Art Collective (BTFA)’s Artist/Resource Directory is a living document that allows BTFA to support Black trans femme artists more effectively by connecting them with folks who are looking to support their work. Learn more and sign up for the directory here.
Trans Health and Wellness Center provides free mental health therapy, food voucher, rent and mortgage relief in California.
The Trans Talent #OpenTo Work Database is a spreadsheet exclusively for transgender people who are open to work.
Rooted Respite is an organization striving for a world where all people have the time, space, and support to heal from burnout and other systemic wounds inflicted by capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy. Learn more about their services and offerings here.
Survivor’s Sanctuary is a self guided healing platform created to aid survivors in their healing journeys.
ProjectQ offers scholarships to BIPOC queer folks for therapy and support groups.
Black Transmen Inc. will award Free New & Gently Used binders for transmen of color in low-income communities through the Brother 2 Brother Health Grant program, designed to support a safe and healthy transition, providing binders to those who are in need, and simply cannot afford to purchase a binder on their own. To help as many people as possible, only one binder, per person, can be awarded in a 12-month cycle. To learn more and request a binder, complete their form here.
