The LGBTQI Urgent Response Fund is a lifeline for LGBTQI organisations impacted by the U.S. government funding freeze. This Fund provides a way for our community and allies to come together to provide immediate support, ensuring GiveOut’s grant partners can continue their vital work.

This sudden funding freeze is not just a setback – it is an existential threat to LGBTQI organisations. Many of these groups already operate on shoestring budgets. Without urgent support, they face:

• Programme shutdowns – ending vital services for LGBTQI communities

• Loss of key staff – weakening advocacy and legal efforts

• Risk of closure – undoing years of progress for human rights

LGBTQI organisations are frontline human rights defenders. They fight back against the rising wave of anti-LGBTQI laws, violence, and discrimination, and without them, we risk losing decades of progress.

Now more than ever, our movement needs your support.