Worldwide, trans and gender diverse movements are facing intersecting challenges: the rise of anti-gender backlash, the shrinking international financial support, and increased pressure on trans community-led initiatives to do the impossible: do more with less. Nevetheless, communities continue to resist, adapt, and thrive.
In June and July, GATE, Equality Without Borders/Council for Global Equality, Koppa Lab, and the Rustin Fund for Global Equality launched a three-part webinar series to explore funding diversification, autonomous resource development, and the importance of community-centered governance and wellbeing in funding decisions.
We invite you to watch the series now, reflect and strategize!
Webinar 1- Individual donor engagement basics: Motivating friends, allies, and the diaspora to Donate
Leanr how to:
- Identify potential donors, and the genesis of their fundraising approach
- What messages were particularly successful to obtain support and attention from donors
Webinar 2 – Social enterprises basics: Income generating models for LGBTQI+ organizations
Learn from a variety of income-generating initiatives that LGBTQI+ CSOs and CBOs have used to supplement and sustain organizational operations:
- How their business model was created, the genesis of the idea, and the research that was needed to get started
Webinar 3- Social enterprises in the health sector: Formalizing LGBTQI+ health service delivery to improve & sustain operations
Learn from income-generating programs for community-led health service delivery:
- Considerations for moving to fee-for-service, and the costs associated with it
- If the model involved (or required) partnership with their government, and if accreditation was required
- How the income model was structured, i.e. insurance-based, self-pay-as-you-go, or subscription based
More resources for you
- The Social Enterprise Institute at the University of Edinburgh offers eight e-learning courses to help build and develop a social enterprise, as well as other resources on social enterprises
- Propel Nonprofits created this outline for developing a social enterprise business plan
- FHI360 created an Overview of Social Enterprise Tools in the global HIV Response and a Primer on Sustainable Finance Models for CSOs in the HIV Response
- Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition is offering a virtual introduction course series on social enterprises – enroll by August 8, 2025!
Trans and gender diverse movements must resist systems of oppression! Together, we reclaim the future.