Publications & Tools

The 2019-2020 Global Resources Report: Government & Philanthropic Support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Communities is?the most comprehensive report to date on the state of global funding for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) issues. This report documents data on over 15,800 grants awarded by 499 foundations, intermediary NGOs, and corporations and by 17 donor government and multilateral agencies over the two-year period of 2019?2020. This new edition documents a total of $576 million, showing that global LGBTI funding grew by 3%, or over $16 million (USD). Notably, this edition of the report also documents a 38% increase in the number of grantees.
LGBTI funding for LGBTI sex workers remains at less than 1% of overall lGBTI funding globally.

The 2021–2022 Global Resources Report: Government & Philanthropic Support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Communities is the most comprehensive report to date on the state of global funding for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) issues. This report documents data on over 20,000 grants awarded by nearly 1,300 foundations, intermediary NGOs, and corporations and by 16 donor government and multilateral agencies to over 8,000 grantees during the two-year period of 2021–2022.

Spanish & French will be available in September 2024.

LGBTI communities worldwide face urgent conditions, and grantmakers must mobilize together to financially resource the movements that can meet those needs. This report provides the data to make the case for strategic and impactful funding.

Building on four previous editions, and now documenting a combined 10 years, this new edition documents a total of $905 million, showing that global LGBTI funding grew by 57%, or over $329 million (USD). This increase is a success for our movements, reflecting years of dedicated advocacy by LGBTI civil society, philanthropy, and others committed to LGBTI human rights. At the same time, the increase is not distributed equitably across geographies, populations, issues, and other elements of global LGBTI movements. For example, country-focused funding has decreased in 60 countries since the previous report. The report also finds that LGBTI funding maintains extremely low levels when considered in comparison to broader philanthropic and government funding and the scale of funding for anti-LGBTI organizations. The report provides detailed data on the distribution of LGBTI funding by geography, issue, strategy, population focus, donor type, type of support, and more – offering a tool for identifying trends, gaps, and opportunities in the rapidly changing landscape of LGBTI funding.

An extensive resource to support sex worker-led organisations and networks.

From the Funding for Real Change collaboration with Edge, this toolkit focuses on supporting funders that want to learn more about providing multi-year core, flexible funding. “To help funders and nonprofits harness this positive momentum for change, we offer this tool kit of tactics, resources, examples, and starting points. We seek to equip trustees, CEOs, program officers, and grantees themselves to overcome board biases and other barriers, to accelerate the shift to multiyear, flexible funding, and to embrace practices that create the greatest impact and strongest partnerships with their grantees.”

Part of Human Rights Funders Network and Candid’s Advancing Human Rights research, this interactive site shows top funders and provides an overview of grantmaking by region, issue, population, and strategy.

“The Anti-Trafficking Review promotes a human rights-based approach to anti-trafficking. It explores trafficking in its broader context including gender analyses and intersections with labour and migration. It offers an outlet and space for dialogue between academics, practitioners, trafficked persons and advocates seeking to communicate new ideas and findings to those working for and with trafficked persons.
The journal presents rigorously considered, peer-reviewed material in clear English. Each issue relates to an emerging or overlooked theme in the field of anti-trafficking.”
This issue includes 14 articles drafted by leaders from sex worker-led organisations, Nadia van der Linde (Red Umbrella Fund) and others on the topic of sex worker organising.

In this piece, Red Schulte and contributors from the Support Ho(s)e collective share their personal experiences with the best and worst funders. There are so few funders in the space that when mistakes are made there is a lack of accountability for funders that leads to compounding violence for organizers.

OpenDemocracy has a wide range of argicles and reports on Sex Work within its Beyond Trafficking and Slavery Channel

The CMI! campaign Counting Sex Workers In! puts a spotlight on sex worker-led advocacy and highlights the voices and perspectives of sex workers of all genders in order to advance understanding that sex workers? rights are human rights and a feminist issue. Counting Sex Workers In! partners have developed a series of fact sheets that highlight commonplace challenges that sex workers face and how allies can take action to support sex workers rights.

Grantcraft (recently renamed Candid Learning for Funders) produced a guide on participatory grantmaking, generously funded by Ford Foundation and Open Society Foundation as part of a issue lab on Participatory Grantmaking. Download the guide Deciding Together: Shifting power and resources through participatory grantmaking and learn more about the report on Candid’s website.

An extensive library of publications about sex work including overviews, histories, transnational studies, as well as policy and legal debates. debates,

Information on funders who make emergency and rapid response grants, primarily for human rights defenders. HRFN’s Human Rights Defenders Working Group compiled this guide.

Information on organizations that can provide temporary shelter,
wellbeing support and other forms of assistance to human rights
defenders.

This toolkit offers key organizing lessons, strategies, and political visions from migrant worker and sex worker-led political formations: workers who are forcibly excluded from the economy or working in the shadows of formalized economies. This toolkit features a summary of research conducted between February 2021 & July 2021. It also draws from collective learning during the Informal, Criminalized, Precarious: Sex Workers Organizing Against Barriers conference.

Global Philanthropy Project (GPP), Red Umbrella Fund, Funders for LGBTQ Issues and SWDC collaborated to develop Diving Deeper: Factsheet on LGBTI Sex Worker Funding.