A State Department initiative offers $5 million in taxpayer funds to be divided among qualifying LGBT organizations across the world.
The State Department’s $25 million Global Equality Fund invited projects led or supported by LGBT organizations and communities to apply by March 1 to win awards between $750,000 and $1.5 million.
The agency will allocate a total of $5 million among three to six awardees, a State Department spokesperson told The Daily Signal on Monday.
Organizations and activists in foreign countries were eligible to apply. Awardees may use the $750,000 to $1.5 million to fulfill the “strategic framework” of the Global Equality Fund. This framework includes projects that “empower” local LGBT movements, prevent “violence, discrimination, stigma, and human rights abuses” against LGBT individuals, promote “full social inclusion” for them, and address “critical issues of justice.”
