QUEERSPACE collective
- purpose: creates space for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth to feel safe and empowered to be their true selves
- more info: CenterLink, Charity Navigator
Knit the Rainbow
- purpose: to provide warm protective winter garments for LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness
- more info: CenterLink, NBC News
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Iowa Safe Schools
- purpose: to provide safe, supportive, and nurturing learning environments and communities for LGBTQ youth through education, outreach, advocacy, and direct services
- more info: Charity Navigator
TransFamily Support Services
- purpose: saves lives by shaping a gender affirming and accepting Community
- more info: Charity Navigator
Choosing Our Roots
- purpose: to ensure all LGBTQ+ Alaskan youth and young adults have access to safe homes, supportive communities, and opportunities to thrive
- more info: Charity Navigator, Alaska Public Media
IYG
- purpose: creates safer spaces to foster community and provides programs that empowers LGBTQ+ young people and magnifies their voices
- more info: Charity Navigator
Young Women's Freedom Center
- purpose: to provide fiscal sponsorship, operational support, coaching, and training to projects that center systems-impacted women, girls, and trans people of all genders with the primary purpose to inspire and empower young women who have been involved in the juvenile justice system, criminal justice system, and/or the underground street economy to create a positive change in their lives and communities
- more info: Charity Navigator
Transforming Family
- purpose: to cultivate a sense of belonging and hope for the future for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive youth and their families
- more info: Charity Navigator
LYRIC Center for LGBTQQ+ Youth
- purpose: to build community and inspire positive social change through education enhancement, career trainings, health promotion, and leadership development with LGBTQQ youth, their families, and allies of all races, classes, genders, and abilities
- more info: CenterLink, Charity Navigator
Amor Para Todos
- purpose: to join with schools and communities in an innovative, intersectional approach to cultivate more gender and LGBTQIA+ affirming environments for our youth
- more info: Give OUT Day
Out Youth
- purpose: promotes the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being of sexual and gender minority youth so that they can openly and safely explore and affirm their identities
- more info: Best of the CFC, Charity Navigator
True Colors United
- purpose: implements innovative solutions to youth homelessness that focus on the unique experiences of LGBTQ+ young people
- more info: Charity Navigator
Wanda Alston Foundation
- purpose: to eradicate homelessness and poverty for LGBTQ youth between the ages of 18 and 24
- more info: Charity Navigator, Spur Local
Ruth Ellis Center
- purpose: to create opportunities with LGBTQ+ young people to build their vision for a positive future
- more info: Charity Navigator
Lambert House
- purpose: empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth through the development of leadership, social, and life skills
- more info: Charity Navigator