The Our Fund Foundation awarded a total of $300,000 in grants through its 2024 Arts & Culture Fund to 16 deserving organizations and projects that support dynamic LGBTQ-specific programs and initiatives in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties.
With generous funding from the Warten Foundation, which supports Our Fund’s grant programs, the arts and culture beneficiaries received grants ranging from $5,000 - $20,000 during a reception at on Sept. 30 at the Wilton Art Works Gallery in recognition of the impact they each have on South Florida’s vibrant LGBTQ community.
“With the current political climate and the recent elimination of Florida’s arts and culture state grants, it is vital we support these talented organizations that enrich our community in so many ways,” said David Jobin, President and CEO of The Our Fund Foundation, in a press release. “These grants would not be possible without the generosity and forethought of our passed Legacy Society members who included The Our Fund in their wills and estate plans.”
The Our Fund Foundation’s 2024 LGBTQ+ Arts & Culture Fund & Culture Fund Grant recipients include:
BLINC Black LGBTQ+ Liberation - Thou Art Woman
A BIPOC-centered event series celebrating LGBTQ+ women and their allies through performance and visual art since 2014.
“Springfruit,” A Cole One Production
Two Black queer kids from Miami’s Down South countryside will stop at nothing to make it to their first Pride in Miami Beach.
Florida Atlantic University - 2024-2025 Fair Play Initiative
FAU Theatre Lab’s Fair Play Initiative is a commission and development program for new plays and stories about the LGBTQ+ experience.
Florida International University Foundation
“Preserving Our Histories: The Miami AIDS Memorials Projects,” narrating the history of HIV/AIDS in South Florida through community oral histories and the curation of a new exhibition.
Gay Men's Chorus of South Florida
The Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida uses music to celebrate the lives of LGBTQ+ people.
Hollywood Art and Culture Center
Open Dialogues LGBTQ+ Film Series, which presents free screenings and discussions based on the coming-out and ally narratives of South Florida residents.
Island City Stage
Support for Island City Stage’s 2024/2025 Season, "Something Old, Something New," and for underserved audiences to attend season performances.
Maven Leadership Collective
“Consistent Gardeners,” The Maven Artist Residency is South Florida’s first multidisciplinary LGBTQ+ artist residency and commissions initiative.
Miami Book Fair
LGBTQ+ Authors Series at Miami Book Fair 2024, to present a wide-ranging, inclusive, and diverse selection of LGBTQ+ authors and programming at Miami Book Fair 2024.
Niki Lopez – What’s Your Elephant
A dynamic combination of art exhibits, interactive installations, talks, and workshops to facilitate discussions on topics such as gender, LGBTQ+ matters, social justice, placemaking, discrimination, and abuse.
OUTshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Presenting 100+ world-class LGBTQ+ films during festivals in Fort Lauderdale and Miami to entertain, inspire, enrich, educate, and encourage community.
Plays of Wilton (POW!)
To produce LGBTQ+ all year through POW! and Women of Wilton and in New York City.
The Pride Center at Equality Park
Jammin' at The Center - a sizzling selection of LGBTQ+ and ally artists brought to the heart of Wilton Manors designed to foster community engagement & celebrate diversity.
South Florida Pride Concert Band
Heroes and Villains with The South Florida Pride Concert Band and Voctave, a concert performance at the Parker Playhouse.
Thinking Cap Theatre
A queer-woman centered playwriting workshop series, and a queer-woman authored and focused main stage production.
Venetian Arts Society
Showing the humanity & cultural richness of Broward via live performances that are professionally filmed and available on demand.
The 2024 Arts & Culture grant review committee, made up of community volunteers, gave special consideration to organizations that have limited appeal to traditional funding sources as well as to applications that leverage partnerships between similar-missioned agencies to reduce duplication of effort/resources and expand reach/services and organizations that proved an effective and dedicated approach to addressing gaps in representation of marginalized communities.
Established in 2011, The Our Fund Foundation has grown into the third largest LGBTQ+ foundation in the nation. As South Florida’s only LGBTQ+ community foundation, The Our Fund Foundation promotes philanthropy, manages enduring investments and conducts meaningful grant-making to improve the lives of LGBTQ+ people in South Florida. For more information go to theourfund.org, or call 954-565-1090.
