Grant Partners

Amplify Pride Grants 2026-2027

Grant amount: $45,000
Direct Support For Incarcerated TGD People Across Victoria
Beyond Bricks and Bars will use Amplify Pride funding to continue employing a dedicated trans and gender-diverse Prison Outreach Worker, providing trauma-responsive, gender-affirming support to trans and gender-diverse people inside prisons across Victoria. At a time of rising remand rates and escalating safety risks, this role delivers life-saving advocacy, reduces isolation, and supports mental and physical wellbeing for people in custody, while acting as an independent witness to systemic harm. Evidence shows this support improves mental health, reduces self-harm and suicidality, and strengthens pathways back into community, helping protect dignity, safety, and justice for some of the most marginalised members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Geographic Scope: VIC
Strengthening Australia’s only LGBTIQA+ refugee-led national peak body
Grant amount: $60,000
Forcibly Displaced People Network will use Amplify Pride funding to support its Executive Director role, strengthening Australia’s only LGBTIQA+ refugee-led national peak body. This role provides strategic leadership across advocacy, policy reform, and sector coordination, ensuring the lived experience of LGBTIQA+ refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants shapes decisions at all levels of government. Through leading the Roadmap for Action on LGBTIQA+ Asylum and Migration Justice and the Inclusive Pathways Model, FDPN is driving systemic change, including progress toward the first dedicated visa pathway for LGBTIQA+ displaced people and more inclusive settlement, health, housing, and legal systems that deliver safety, dignity, and belonging.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation & Jonathan Marchbank
Grant amount: $60,000
Expanding Culturally Safe Legal Support Nationwide
Inner City Legal Centre (ICLC) is a long-standing Community Legal Centre providing free legal advice, representation, and education to people who cannot afford private legal services. Based in inner-city Sydney, ICLC has deep expertise supporting LGBTQIA+ people and sex workers, and is a national leader in strategic casework and law reform for LGBTQIA+ communities. Building on the success of the Blueprint for Equality report, this funding will support two connected pieces of work. First, ICLC will establish and convene a national network of LGBTQIA+ legal service providers and community legal centres across Australia, strengthening collaboration, shared learning, and coordinated advocacy. Second, the funding will support continued national advocacy to promote the Blueprint’s findings, engaging governments, legal sectors, and parliamentarians to push for equitable funding and development of LGBTQIA+ legal services. Through this work, ICLC is helping lay the groundwork for sustained national investment in LGBTQIA+-specific legal services. A coordinated national approach will improve access to culturally appropriate legal support, enable shared resources across jurisdictions, and ensure LGBTQIA+ communities can access justice wherever they live—at a time when legal need remains high and policy opportunities are opening across Australia.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Centering LGBTIQA+ People with Disability in National Conversations
Grant amount: $60,000
Inclusive Rainbow Voices will use Amplify Pride funding to support its CEO role, strengthening Australia’s only national advocacy organisation led by and for LGBTIQA+ people with disability. This role provides essential leadership to manage partnerships, deliver high-quality systemic advocacy, and meet growing demand from government and non-profit organisations. By securing core leadership capacity, the funding helps IRV consolidate its impact, build long-term sustainability, and ensure LGBTIQA+ people with disability are consistently represented, heard, and respected in decision-making spaces across Australia.

Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Advocacy, Peer Support, and Community Empowerment for Intersex People
Grant amount: $60,000
InterAction for Health and Human Rights will use Amplify Pride funding to strengthen national intersex advocacy, peer support, and regional outreach. The funding will support the fourth Darlington advocacy and policy retreat, bringing intersex community leaders together to build skills, reduce burnout, and align national advocacy efforts. It will also strengthen peer support by convening state and territory representatives and expand InterLink’s regional outreach, improving referral pathways and access to psychosocial support for intersex people facing isolation and stigma across Australia.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Strengthening Inclusion in Sport: Creating Impact from Both Grassroots and Elite Levels
Grant amount: $60,000
Pride Cup will use Amplify Pride funding to expand its national work creating safer, more inclusive sporting communities. Building on its reach across more than 100 clubs nationwide, the funding will support Pride Cup’s 2026 strategy, combining inclusion education and Pride Games with a new Spotlight focus on advocacy and storytelling. This includes new research and communications to counter rising anti-trans narratives in women’s sport, helping reduce homophobia and transphobia and ensure community sport remains a place of belonging for LGBTQIA+ people, particularly in regional areas.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Building Capacity to Ensure Every LGBTQ+ Family Feels Connected, Supported & Visible
Grant amount: $50,000
Rainbow Families Australia will use Amplify Pride funding to strengthen the long-term sustainability of Australia’s peak organisation supporting LGBTQ+ parents, carers, and their children. The funding supports the continued employment of a Fundraising and Partnerships Coordinator, focused on securing new and multi-year funding and embedding sustainable fundraising systems. This will ensure Rainbow Families can continue delivering vital programs such as Family Pride events, parenting and antenatal support, youth and resilience initiatives, and inclusion training, helping LGBTQ+ families across Australia, particularly in regional and underserved areas, stay connected, supported, and visible.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation & Brian M Davis Foundation
Empowering Trans Communities to Drive Change through Activist Networks Nationwide
Grant amount: $60,000
Trans Justice Project will use Amplify Pride funding to strengthen the skills and leadership of Australia’s trans-led movement for justice and equality. The funding supports a national training program, including local workshops delivered through the Trans Justice Network and an in-person training summit in 2026. By investing in shared skills, organising tools, and leadership development, this work builds a stronger, more connected movement, supporting trans communities to respond collectively, sustainably, and with confidence at a time when trans rights are under increasing pressure.

Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation & Jonathan Marchbank

Ignite Pride Grants 2026-2027

Faith-based support & guidance for young people
Grant amount: $18,500
Gender Expansive Faith will use Ignite Pride funding to create free, evidence-based resources supporting trans and queer young people in Christian schools, families, and faith communities. Developed with Equal Voices and Christians for Trans Justice, the project will provide practical guidance for young people, counsellors, parents, and churches to reduce harm and strengthen wellbeing. By addressing a clear gap in faith-based support, this work improves safety and belonging for young people who cannot easily leave faith-affiliated settings, with resources remaining publicly available to drive lasting sector-wide impact.

Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Bringing Together Queer Mob in the Kimberley Region
Grant amount: $20,000
Bringing Together Queer Mob in the Kimberley Region
Kimberley Blak Pride Limited will use Ignite Pride funding to strengthen its foundations as a community-led organisation supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sistagirls, Brothaboys, and LGBTIQA+ mob in the Kimberley. The funding will support governance training, charity registration, core systems, and the launch of a public website, building the capacity needed to sustain culturally safe events, leadership pathways, and advocacy in a remote region with limited access to support. This investment helps secure long-term visibility, pride, and self-determined leadership for Kimberley SBLGBTIQA+ communities.
Geographic Scope: WA
Awarded in partnership with an Anonymous Donor & Spencer Maurice
Pathways for Bilingual LGBTQIA+ Forcibly Displaced People
Grant amount: $20,000

Language Justice Network will use Ignite Pride funding to build the foundations of its Certification Capacity Building Program, creating sustainable pathways for bilingual LGBTQIA+ forcibly displaced people to become accredited interpreters and translators. The funding will support co-designed program infrastructure, including training frameworks, supervision models, and lived-experience leadership, addressing the critical shortage of culturally competent language services. This investment strengthens long-term access to safe, affirming interpreting across health, legal, and social systems for LGBTQIA+ people from CALD and forcibly displaced communities.
Awarded in partnership with Jeremy Tang
Education & Advocacy for Sex Workers in Western Australia
Grant amount: $20,000
Magenta will use Ignite Pride funding to expand its peer-led education and advocacy program focused on inclusion for trans and gender-diverse sex workers in Western Australia. The funding will support professional development workshops for health, counselling, and community service providers, strengthening their ability to deliver gender-affirming, trauma-informed, and sex worker–inclusive care. This work reduces discrimination, improves referral pathways, and helps ensure trans and gender-diverse sex workers can access safe, respectful, and affirming support when they need it most.
Geographic Scope: WA
Awarded in partnership with Pride Foundation Australia & Jonathan Marchbank
Creating Safe and Inclusive Spiritual Spaces for LGBTQIA+ People of Faith
Grant amount: $20,000
New City Church will use Ignite Pride funding to expand safe, affirming support for LGBTIQA+ people of faith who have experienced exclusion or harm in religious spaces. The funding will support staffing to strengthen social support groups, deliver pastoral care for members unable to travel due to illness or disability, and build networks and resources to help other faith communities become more inclusive in trauma-informed ways. This work reduces isolation, supports healing, and helps shift faith spaces toward dignity, safety, and belonging for queer people of faith.
Geographic Scope: NSW
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Strengthening wellbeing for queer and trans young people from multicultural and faith-based backgrounds

Grant amount: $20,000
Outloud Inc’s Multicultural Peers Project will use Ignite Pride funding to sustain culturally safe mental health and community support for queer and trans young people from Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian, and Muslim communities in NSW. The funding will support the Multicultural Peers Project Coordinator role, which is essential to delivering group programs, community events, and crisis-responsive support at a time when existing funding is ending. This work reduces isolation, strengthens wellbeing, and ensures queer and trans young people from multicultural and faith-based backgrounds can access support that respects their identities, culture, and lived experience.
Geographic Scope: NSW
Awarded in partnership with Brian M Davis Foundation
Peer Support Circle for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sistagirls, Brothaboys, and LGBTIQA+ Young People in The ACT

Grant amount: $16,500
Rainbow Mob will use Ignite Pride funding to pilot a 12-month, culturally safe peer support circle for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sistagirls, Brothaboys, and LGBTIQA+ young people in the ACT. The circle will provide a regular, self-determined space for queer and trans mob to connect, receive peer support, and build mentorship in ways that are grounded in culture and community. By bringing young people and Elders together, this pilot will reduce isolation, strengthen wellbeing and belonging, and respond to the lack of safe, affirming spaces for SBLGBTIQA+ youth within mainstream and gendered community settings. The project will also generate community-led stories and knowledge, helping lay the groundwork for future expansion into a national, First Nations–led support model.

Geographic Scope: ACT
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Australia’s First Transgender Funeral Rites and Rights Toolkit
Grant amount: $20,000
Sydney Queer Muslims will use Ignite Pride funding to deliver culturally safe support and resources for LGBTQIA+ Muslims. The project includes employment skills workshops and the creation of Australia’s first Transgender Funeral Rites and Rights toolkit, developed with trans Muslims and faith leaders to ensure dignity, safety, and inclusion in faith and community settings.
Geographic Scope: NSW

Awarded in partnership with Anonymous Donor

Thank you to our funding partners

“The Connect & Learn sessions have been invaluable to our program. The Diversifying Funding session, in particular, opened up new opportunities we hadn’t previously considered. As a result, we secured a $20,000 sponsorship grant. That funder then advocated for us to help us access an additional $50,000, bringing a total of $70,000 to directly support community-led activities. We’re excited about the potential this creates to grow our community reach and impact!” - Forest Peters (they/them), LGBTI Living Well Program Coordinator, Northern Territory AIDS and Hepatitis Council (NTAHC), Current Grant Partner

This is just one example of how our partnership goes beyond funding. When you join our community of grant partners, you gain access to knowledge, networks, and opportunities that multiply your impact.

Amplify Pride Grants 2025-2026

Grant amount: $37,000
Direct Support For Incarcerated TGD People Across Victoria
BBB will use Amplify Pride funding to employ a dedicated Trans and Gender Diverse Prison Outreach Worker providing direct support to incarcerated TGD people across Victoria. This trans-led initiative delivers critical gender-affirming care that reduces isolation, strengthens resilience, and maintains essential oversight and advocacy for a population facing systemic neglect and abuse within the prison system.
Geographic Scope: VIC
Advocacy and Action for Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants at Policy Tables
Grant amount: $60,000
FDPN, Australia's first LGBTIQA+ refugee-led organisation, will use Amplify Pride funding to appoint an Executive Director to strengthen national advocacy and implement their Roadmap for Action for LGBTIQA+ Asylum and Migration Justice. This critical role will ensure LGBTIQA+ refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants are represented at policy tables, within services, and across communities.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Grant amount: $60,000
Expanding Culturally Safe Legal Support Nationwide
Inner City Legal Centre will use Amplify Pride funding to produce a groundbreaking report addressing the critical gaps in LGBTQIA+ legal services across Australia. As Australia's first LGBTQIA+ legal centre, ICLC will create a blueprint for expanding culturally safe legal support nationwide, tackling the reality that five states and territories still lack dedicated services for our community.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Centering LGBTIQA+ People with Disability in National Conversations
Grant amount: $60,000
Inclusive Rainbow Voices (IRV), Australia’s first LGBTIQA+ disability-led organisation, will use Amplify Pride funding to support its CEO role. This leadership investment will strengthen governance, expand programs, and grow IRV’s impact ensuring LGBTIQA+ people with disability are at the centre of national conversations on disability and LGBTIQA+ rights.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Advocacy, Peer Support, and Community Empowerment for Intersex People
Grant amount: $40,000
InterAction, Australia’s unified intersex-led organisation, will use Amplify Pride funding to strengthen its foundation following the merger of Intersex Peer Support Australia (IPSA) and Intersex Human Rights Australia (IHRA). This support enables a strategic in- person retreat, a new website for vital resources, and governance improvements to ensure sustainability.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Expanding LGBTQIA+ safe & affirming spaces in the Northern Territory
Grant amount: $60,000
NTAHC, a peer-led community organisation, will use Amplify Pride funding to establish an LGBTQIA+ Community Health Officer (CHO) role. The CHO will lead peer-led therapeutic and social inclusion groups across the NT, creating safe, neuro-affirming spaces for connection and support. Ensuring LGBTQIA+ people both in Greater Darwin and remote areas have access to inclusive, community-driven care.
Geographic Scope: NT
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Strengthening Inclusion in Sport: Creating Impact from Both Grassroots and Elite Levels
Grant amount: $50,000
Driving LGBTIQ+ inclusion in sport, will use Amplify Pride funding to expand its reach by hiring 8 casual staff across 5 states to support regional Pride Cups. Funds will also provide ‘Safe Storytelling’ and advocacy training for elite LBTIQ+ athletes to combat disinformation on trans participation. By strengthening inclusion at both grassroots and elite levels, Pride Cup is making sport a place where everyone belongs.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Building Capacity to Ensure Every LGBTQ+ Family Feels Included, Respected, and Supported
Grant amount: $50,000
Australia’s peak organisation for LGBTQ+ parents and children, will use Amplify Pride funding to hire a Fundraising Coordinator to expand its national reach. This role will strengthen volunteer efforts, grow successful programs beyond NSW, and establish support in regions lacking dedicated services. By building capacity, they are is ensuring every LGBTQ+ family feels included, respected, and supported.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Empowering Trans Communities to Drive Change through Activist Networks Nationwide
Grant amount: $60,000
Trans Justice Project, Australia’s first trans-led national campaign organisation, will use Amplify Pride funding to expand the Trans Justice Network. This grassroots program will establish local groups, run regional trainings, and build activist networks nationwide. Funding will support events, travel, digital systems, and wages - empowering trans communities to connect, build skills and drive systemic change.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation

Ignite Pride Grants 2025-2026

Lifesaving Support and Advocacy for Intersex, Trans, and Gender Diverse Communities
Grant amount: $20,000
A Gender Agenda (AGA) will use Amplify Pride funding to launch an LGBTQIA+ Mentorship Program in 2025, expanding on their successful Encampment youth camp initiative. This pilot program creates professional development opportunities for LGBTQIA+ young adults while fostering community connection, addressing employment inequality, and enabling intergenerational knowledge exchange. Through this program, AGA continues its commitment to suicide prevention and wellbeing for intersex, trans, and gender diverse communities in the ACT and beyond.
Geographic Scope: ACT
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Creating Safe and Inclusive Spiritual Spaces for LGBTQIA+ People of Faith
Grant amount: $20,000
New City Church is an LGBTQIA+ community led by LGBTQIA+ people of faith in Sydney. NCC will use grant funding to support and foster new leadership and ensure continuity for a community that continues to uplift and affirm LGBTQIA+ spiritual journeys.
Geographic Scope: NSW
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Embracing Gender Diversity and Ending Faith-Based Harm in Christian Communities
Grant amount: $15,000
Gender Expansive Faith will use Amplify Pride funding to pilot three core online programs in 2025: peer support for trans and gender diverse people from Christian backgrounds, workshops for Christian families, and professional development for faith-based workers. These initiatives create safe, accessible spaces for connection while working to reduce faith-based violence against queer and trans people.
Geographic Scope: NSW
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Fostering intersex pride, and strengthening community bonds and visibility
Grant amount: $20,000
InterAction for Health and Human Rights will use Ignite Pride funding to support the annual in-person peer support retreat. Run through their core peer-support program, Intersex Peer Support Australia, this retreat provides a crucial space for people with innate variations of sex characteristics and their families, to connect face-to-face, addressing isolation, fostering intersex pride, and strengthening community bonds.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Empowering LGBTQIA+SB People with Disability Through Visibility and Connection
Grant amount: $15,000
PrideAbility is a social club supporting LGBTQIA+SB people with disability, empowering members to celebrate their identity and access inclusive community spaces. With Ignite Pride Grant funding, PrideAbility will hire a Social Outreach Officer to launch a visibility campaign, establish partnerships, and form a peer advisory group with lived experience to ensure the campaign remains respectful and representative of the community's needs.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Building Community and Support for Queer Arabs in Australia
Grant amount: $10,000
Queer Arabs Australia (QAA) is the leading national organisation dedicated to supporting LGBTQIA+ individuals from Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African (MENA) backgrounds across Australia. Through culturally relevant services, advocacy, and events, QAA empowers members to navigate the unique challenges they face, fostering a safe and inclusive community. QAA exists to address intersecting challenges of racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and transphobia faced by LGBTQIA+ individuals of Arab and MENA heritage, providing safe spaces and resources to empower them to live authentically and confidently.
Geographic Scope: National
Grant amount: $20,000
Sydney Queer Muslims Inc (SQM) is a volunteer-based non-profit that helps LGBTQIA+ Muslims reconcile their sexual identity with their faith, while providing essential support services. Funding will cover operational expenses, engage a social worker for crisis management, and support social isolation and suicide prevention initiatives through monthly gatherings and support group sessions.
Geographic Scope: National
Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Bringing Together Queer Mob in the Kimberley Region
Grant amount: $20,000
Bringing Together Queer Mob in the Kimberley Region
Kimberley Blak Pride (KBP) is a First Nations LGBTQIASB+ community organisation that provides voice and visibility to Sistagirls, Brothaboys, and the LGBTIQASB+ mob in the Kimberley region of WA. With Ignite Pride funding, KBP will employ a casual representative to coordinate the annual KBP Festival, secure additional grants, and provide essential advice, referral, and advocacy services for the Kimberley Rainbow mob.
Geographic Scope: WA
Awarded in partnership with an Anonymous Donor
Bridging crucial gaps between trans and gender diverse communities and healthcare providers
Grant amount: $20,000
Illawarra Shoalhaven Gender Alliance (ISGA) bridges crucial gaps between trans and gender diverse communities and healthcare providers through education, advocacy, and support—fighting restrictive systems while championing bodily autonomy and respect. With this funding, ISGA will establish a regional youth leadership network, develop specialised aged care training, and expand the annual Trans and Friends Festival into a two-day celebration of resilience and visibility.
Geographic Scope: NSW
Awarded in partnership with Pride Foundation Australia and SpencerMaurice

Ignite Pride grants 2023-2024

Awarded in partnership with Pride Foundation Australia
Grant amount: $20,000
Muslim Peers Project provides support to queer and trans youth from Muslim and CALD backgrounds by providing culturally inclusive and queer/gender-affirming peer support, counselling, mentoring and art-based therapeutic interventions.
Awarded in partnership with SpencerMaurice
Grant amount: $20,000
This grant is for their Windows of Hope & Support project that provides individualised support to LGBTIQ+ community members in the Lake Macquarie and Newcastle region, ensuring they get the support they need.
Grant amount: $6,000
For their Trans and Friends Festival which has been identified as focusing on older people including reducing isolation, healthy trans ageing, transitions into aged care, dealing with illness and transitioning later in life.
Grant amount: $9,420
For their Youth LGBTIQ+ Drop-in Pilot Program, which will run consistently once a fortnight at both Katoomba and Springwood ensuring that the program is accessible for all young LGBTIQ+ people across the Blue Mountains.
Grant amount: $5,500
For their WestWords LGBTIQ+ Writers Group, which will run fortnightly sessions in Western Sydney with guest facilitators who will be relatable role models for participants. The sessions will be available online and in person, ensuring that it is accessible, and will equip participants with essential writing and creative skills.
Grant amount: $10,000
For their project Q Teas, based in Mullumbimby, is a support project which includes drop-ins, and peer led programs. All programs are 100% peer led and provide space and social support.
Grant amount: $10,000
This project aims to train and financially support up to 4 POC and TGD peers to facilitate sharing circles in Sydney, and to build skills and experience in peer support and group facilitation.
Grant amount: $5,000
For their Harm Reduction Heros Program, which will recruit community members to upskill through workshops, supply educational resource distribution, further train existing volunteers, and further develop their Pivot Point website. This programs aim is to help reduce the harm caused by alcohol and other drugs within the LGBTIQ+ community.

Amplify Pride grants 2023-2024

Awarded in partnership with Snow Foundation
Grant amount: $55,000
Expanding a National Voice for LGBTIQA+ people with Disability
Inclusive Rainbow Voices (IRV) is a human rights not-for-profit by and for LGBTIQA+ people with disability, founded in 2022. Inclusive Rainbow Voices aims to be a platform for them to connect and be heard. Thanks to the funding from Amplify Pride, IRV will not only be able to continue employment of their CEO but be able to provide them with even more hours, ultimately allowing IRV to have greater impact for the community.
Grant amount: $45,000
Tackling the Anti-Trans Lobby and Disinformation Online
Trans Justice Project (TJP) is the first national, trans-led campaigning organisation in Australia. Their mission is to build a powerful, trans-led movement fighting for freedom, justice, and equality for all trans and gender diverse people. Starting in February of 2023 they have already proven themselves as a trusted leader in the trans community, providing strategic messaging resources, training, strategy, and leading the charge against the spread of dangerous disinformation.
Grant amount: $10,000
Shaping Safe and Inclusive Communities of Faith
New City Church (NCC) is a not-for-profit religious organisation with an LGBTIQA+ majority leadership and membership. NCC works to challenge discrimination and violence, and their impacts on LGBTIQA+ people of faith. Their vision was born out of a desire to see safe spaces for people who have been excluded from their faith communities, so they are able to explore their faith in new and engaging ways. NCC was founded by a group of people who lived in the margins of church and society, and wanted to worship in a safe space with others like them. With the support of Amplify, NCC will be able to scale up (1) social support (2) networks of aligned faith based organisations and (3) resources to help shape intersection of queer and religious identities
Grant amount: $35,000
Supporting Incarcerated Trans & Gender Diverse People
Beyond Bricks and Bars is a peer-led community program providing incarceration prevention and specialised wrap-around support to criminalised and incarcerated trans and gender diverse people, and it’s the only program of its kind! BBB specifically focuses on preventing incarceration, support while incarcerated, post-release support & support while transitioning back into the community. As an Amplify Pride Grantee, BBB has secured funding for wages and operating costs to maintain service delivery, and enabling them to provide more support to incarcerated TGD people who otherwise would not receive any.
Grant amount: $35,000
Building an Inclusive Australia for LGBTIQ+ Refugees
Forcibly Displaced People Network empowers LGBTIQ+ refugees and migrants, and is exclusively peer led. They raise awareness for distinct settlement challenges among LGBTIQ+ displaced people. FDPN advocates for intersectional policies and practices, fostering a just society. They empower LGBTIQ+ refugees and migrants, train social services to support their human rights, and co-design solutions. By generating a unique evidence base, FDPN tackles discrimination and promotes human rights, ensuring equitable settlement outcomes and inclusion for LGBTIQ+ refugees and migrants. The support of Amplify will give FDPN the chance to recruit a coordinator to play a pivotal role in sourcing sponsor groups, provide them with comprehensive training and ensure they can effectively support LGBTIQA+ refugees.
Grant amount: $20,000
Fuelling the Heart of the LGBTIQ+SB Community
BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation is the peak organisation for Aboriginal lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual + sistergirl and brotherboy peoples and communities. Their vision is to achieve a society that nurtures, supports, affirms and celebrates their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQA+SB community while promoting safety & inclusion for all. The support of Amplify Pride will help with operating costs to deliver against government grant acquittal and impact measurement, to ensure ongoing delivery of the Pride in Centre hub that provides community access to wrap-around supports.
Grant amount: $40,000
Expanding a National Voice for Intersex People & their Families
Intersex Peer Support Australia provides peer support all throughout Australia, to people with innate variations of sex characteristics, and their families. They connect intersex people and their families by sharing knowledge and experience, tackling stigma and misconception surrounding intersex. IPSA focuses on education and visibility, and works towards improving affirmative healthcare pathways that encourage appropriate psychological support, strengthening their community and deepening social culture. With Amplify Pride, IPSA will be able to fund their first staff member- a Project Coordinator- to join their team on a part-time basis, to help strengthen their operations, secure future funding and ultimately expand the support IPSA offers.engagement with healthcare and social services sectors.
Grant amount: $40,000
Expanding support for LGBTIQ+ Muslims During Crisis
Sydney Queer Muslims is a volunteer-based not-for-profit organisation that supports queer Muslims throughout Greater Sydney. They are committed to advocating for people of diverse sexualities and genders, to help reconcile their sexual identity with their faith. SQM connects individuals to support services that provide counselling, crisis assistance, referrals, and health promotion. Not only that, but they also hold workshops on spirituality, sex education, sexuality and gender identity. SQM helps bring people together, providing a community of people with similar and relatable lived experiences, through social support groups and monthly meetings. Thanks to Amplify, SQM will be able to employ a part-time social worker to help queer Muslims navigate mental health and family violence services, as well as to build core organisational capacity and create resources for healthcare providers, counsellors and other support staff working with LGBTQ+ Muslim clients.
Grant amount: $20,000
Creating Safety & Support for LGBTIQ+ rural and regional people
Rural Pride Australia, formerly NICHE Australia, has partnered with LGBTIQA+ people and mainstream organisations in regional, rural and remote communities to make those communities safer, more supportive, welcoming and inclusive. Over the past 7 years RPA has partnered with the Victorian State Government and the Commissioner for LGBTIQ+ Communities, working with 29 different rural and regional communities on the LGBTIQ Equality Roadshow, the Regional Communities of LGBTIQ+ Practice gatherings, and the LGBTIQ+ Rainbow Ready Roadmap. RPA has also been involved in FabJab, the LGBTIQ+ vaccination campaign, helped distribute 1000s of RATs to rural LGBTIQA+ Victorians during the pandemic, and provided financial support for LGBTIQA+ networks following flood events. With Amplify Pride, RPA aims to build sector capacity through the creation of a national Community of Rural LGBTQIA+ Practice, national rural LGBTQIA+ mapping project and production of a landmark report advocating for the needs of rural LGBTQIA+ communities.