A Conversation with Crystal Middlestadt, of Chinook Fund

Host Elise Matatall interviews Crystal Middlestadt, the Executive Director of Chinook Fund. Crystal (they/them) shares about their work in democratic grantmaking and resource mobilization and their work with gender justice and LGBTQ anti-violence work, among many other things!

Find out more about some of the groups named during the conversation below:

Chinook Fund: Join the Giving Project – Upcoming information sessions beginning May 16. Apply for a grant. Next deadline is September 14, 2023.

Colorado Springs org:

• Inside Out Youth Services
• Voces Unidas for Justice

Start up, new LGBTQ+ rural grantee: Mountain Pride

Mental health support:

• Joy as resistance
• Queer asterisk 

A few other local LGBTQ+ led groups:

• Fortaleza Familiar
• One Colorado 
• Transformative Freedom Fund

Nationally, check out groups funded by Trans Justice Funding Project, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, Third Wave Fund, and Borealis’ Fund for Trans Generations

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