1. Establish a digital messaging networking board or resources and support utilizing app based technology. 2. Implement High Impact HIV/AIDS Prevention Project (HIP/ Street Smart, NIA, Focus on youth, and Respect). 3. Mentor-ship and training for joining Shelby County Government Health Care & Prevention (H-CAP). M.E.N. long- term goal is to foster a reformed culture of black males in Memphis TN and surrounding areas to value and invest in health and community development.
HendFact works to meet the needs of people in the Henderson, North Carolina area and they wanted to prominently place a billboard on the state highway in town, letting everyone know about their services. They also want to use the grant to fund a series of workshops that will help cultivate leadership within the community.
Develop a "Promotoras/es" program for Latin@ parents of LGBTQ Youth to provide peer support to other Latin@ parents of LGBTQ youth.
Mobilize resources to help develop cooperative organizations desired by vulnerable populations, especially poor, people of color, and sexually marginalized people. We are developing an Education and Outreach initiative to inform folks about worker/owner cooperatives, and to see what other types of co-ops are desired by our target populations, in an effort to remedy the high rate of unemployment, and general precarious experiences of queer people of color in the South.
Advocacy for trans person within NC/SC community, assist with mentoring, housing, shelter and other needs in order to live a stable livelihood.
This rally is a response to a national call-to-action to celebrate, affirm, and protect trans women of color. We want to engage the public in a conversation about ways to protect trans women of color, build movements that include the leadership of trans women of color, and expand our political platforms so that they reflect the intersecting issues that trans women of color face here in the South. We see this rally as the first step to creating a Charleston where trans women of color have the right to safety and opportunity right here at home, as our city has not seen an event like this before.
Travel to Asheville, North Carolina to a Language Justice Curriculum meet up where we will be meeting with LGBTQ, young people, first and second generation immigrants, DACAmented and undocumented in hopes of bringing more of these folks into language justice work. We are six women of color, with the majority being mothers, so we need to take into account a car rental and travel expenses in order for us to get to Asheville safely. A lot of us in this new formation are new to this work and need to have access to training in order to further language justice work in the South, specifically in the Metro-Atlanta area. We want this to grow in the future to include other QTPOC people and languages but we understand that we need to have a strong foundation to move forward. We will be meeting language justice veterans and we hope to learn from them to get this crew going in Atlanta.
To support organizing efforts after shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, NC.
Cultivate a united community in Henderson, NC across race, nationality and gender where everyone has equal rights and a better quality of life through education, activism and resources.
Events to educate the LGBTQ Latinx community and build bridges; ÒTrans 101Ó trainings to end the disconnect between transgender community and the LGBTQ community at large; bilingual material around HIV/STIs, Transgender people and other educational materials that seek to reduce high-risk behavior and end stigma in community.
