Island City Stage’s 2024 production of Pulp by Patricia Kane
Wilton Manors, FL (September 9, 2024) — The Our Fund Foundation announced it will award a total of $300,00 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 will receive grants ranging from $5,000 – $20,000 during a celebratory reception at 6 p.m. on Monday, September 30 at the Wilton Art Works Gallery in Wilton Manors 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. “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.
- a cole one productions
springfruit
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
Preserving and 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
General Operating Support
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
The Open Dialogues LGBTQ Film Series presents free screenings and discussions based on the coming-out and ally narratives of South Florida residents.
- Island City Stage
Season 13 Operational Support
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 Artist Residency
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, as informed by our mission.
- Niki Lopez – What’s Your Elephant
Operating Support
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 Film Festival
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!
Continuing to Grow LGBTQ+ Theater in 2024
2024 will be a year of growth for Plays of Wilton (POW!) which will continue 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 by the South Florida Pride Concert Band with guest artists Voctave.
- Thinking Cap Theatre
Queer Woman-Centered Educational & Main Stage Theatre Programming
A queer-woman centered playwriting workshop series and a queer-woman authored and focused main stage production.
- Venetian Arts Society
From South Florida with Love!
Showing the humanity & cultural richness of Broward via live performances that are professionally filmed and available on demand.
Support for the 2024 LGBTQ+ Arts & Culture Fund Came from the following:
- Warten Foundation
- Jim Laird Legacy Fund
- Scott Bennett Charitable Fund
- Shelley and Sam Goren
- Daniel Hunt Endowment Fund
- Lawrence R. Hyer Donor Advised Fund
- Jim Morgan & Joe Rodonis Appreciation Fund
- Ross3 Fund
- Steve Rothaus and Ric Katz
- Dick Schwarz and Tom Massey
- Sue Wilder Charitable Fund
- Darrell Windle and Dave Samber
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.
About The Our Fund Foundation
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 or to make a donation of any size, please contact The Our Fund Foundation at theourfund.org or call 954-565-1090.
President and CEO of The Our Fund Foundation, David Jobin
