San Francisco, CA - June 29, 2009 - Folsom Street Events invites all US based 501(c)(3) organizations to apply to become a beneficiary of our 2009 event season. Proceeds from Bay of Pigs™, Up Your Alley®, Magnitude®, and the Folsom Street Fair™ will benefit our National Community Giving Program as well as Major and Supporting Beneficiaries from the SF Bay Area. Applications are due no later than 12:00 noon on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 965 Mission Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA, 94103.
A PDF version of the application is available on our website at: http://folsomstreetevents.org
Folsom Street Events seeks to make innovative program grants to organizations serving sexual minorities. As such, we accept national grant requests from nonprofit agencies that serve the priority areas of Public Health, Gay Men’s Health (via TitanMen/Folsom Fund), civil rights with an emphasis on LGBT rights, and Development of the Leather/Fetish Communities. If your project falls into one of these priority areas, then please apply according to the application instructions. Please note that Folsom Street Events prefers to fund programs in major metropolitan areas within the United States, although rural programs are eligible to apply as well. Generally, National Community Grants range from $150 – $5,000. Folsom Street Events retains the right to make additional grants on an invitation-only basis, as generated by its Board of Directors.
Folsom Street Events offers three categories of annual grant-making: National Community Grant, Major Beneficiary, and Supporting Beneficiary. This announcement pertains to the National Community Grant program only. Determinations for Major and Supporting Beneficiaries are made through a separate process.
Recent changes to our grant-making process include the ability for eligible nonprofits to apply every year for beneficiary status and consideration of grant requests that include program staff salaries. The changes we have made result directly from community feedback.
About Folsom Street Events
Folsom Street Events® is a 501(c)3 non-profit agency that produces four fetish events annually: Bay of Pigs, Up Your Alley, Magnitude, and the Folsom Street Fair. The mission of Folsom Street Events is to create volunteer-driven leather events that provide the adult alternative lifestyle community with safe venues for self-expression while emphasizing freedom, fun, frolic and fetish and raising critical funds to benefit local charities. In 2008, Folsom Street Events marked the 25th Folsom Street Fair with nearly 400,000 attendees and over $340,000 donated to charity.
For more information contact Demetri Moshoyannis at 415-777-3247, or visit http://folsomstreetevents.org
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