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Community Partners Program

Table of Contents
    Building Community through Grants
    Donate at the Gate for Beverage Discounts
    2009 Beneficiary Partners
    General Program Overview
    Background Information
    Requirements
    Application
    Inquiries

Building Community through Grants
     Including our most recent grants this August, San Francisco Pride has been able to grant over $1.6 million dollars since 1997 to our beneficiaries thanks to beverage purchases and donations made at our event gates.
    Donate the minimum request of $5 at the entrance gates of the SF Pride Celebration to earn yourself a dollar discount off beverage purchases for that day of the event.  Not only is your donation going to help the more than 35 local non-profit organizations staffing the gates, but a portion of your beverage purchase also helps support another 30-plus non-profits working the beverage booths.
    Your support is vital not only in helping to keep San Francisco Pride free and open to people of all economic backgrounds, but your donation also helps strengthen community organizations working on issues related to the LGBT community, breast cancer, and HIV/AIDS.
 

Our 2009 Beneficiary Partners
     Your donation is vital.  It enables San Francisco Pride to operate free and open to people of all economic backgrounds, while also helping to strengthen community organizations working on issues related to the LGBT community, breast cancer, and HIV/AIDS.  Thank you to our 2009 beneficiary organizations:

…And Castro For All
AIDS Coalition Silicon Valley
AIDS Housing Alliance San Francisco
Alameda County Leather Corps
American Legion Alexander Hamilton Post 448
Amor Sin Fronteras
Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center
Badboys Softball Team - San Francisco Gay Softball League
Bay Area Derby Girls
Bay Area Rainbow Symphony
Bay Area Young Positives
The Bears of San Francisco
Bethany United Methodist Church
The Billy Foundation & Billy Club
The California Men's Gathering
California Prevention & Education Project
Castro Country Club
Castro Lions Club Charities
Celebrate Life Spiritualist Community
Center for Sex & Culture
Center Women Present
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
Cougars Softball
Council of Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses of San Francisco
Dimensions Clinic
The Diversity Center & South Bay Bears
Dolores Street Community Services
Femina Potens
FilmArtGender.com
Folsom Street Events
Freedom in Christ Church
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
Gay-Straight Alliance Network
Glide Health Services
Golden Gate Men's Chorus
Golden State Gay Rodeo Association - Bay Area Chapter
Homeless Children's Network
Homo A Go Go
Immune Enhancement Project
Imperial Council of San Francisco
Imperial Star Empire of Alameda County
Lavender Seniors of the East Bay
Lesbian & Gay Chorus of San Francisco
Lighthouse Community Center
Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services
Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco
Most Holy Redeemer Church AIDS Support Group
NectArena/ BRAVA
New Leaf: Services For Our Community
NIA Collective
One Knighters - Knights Softball Team
Our Family Coalition
OutLoud Radio
Pagan Alliance
Pets Are Wonderful Support
Project Inform
Project Open Hand
QDBA's QueerBallroom.com
Quan Yin Healing Arts
Queer Alliance City College San Francisco
Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County
Rainbow World Fund
Royal Grand Ducal Council of Alameda County
Saint James Infirmary
San Francisco Adult Day Services Network
San Francisco Fog Rugby Football Club
San Francisco Gay Basketball Association
San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
San Francisco Gay Softball League
San Francisco Sex Information
San Francisco Spikes Soccer Club
San Francisco Track and Field Club
San Francisco Tsunami Masters Swim Team
San Francisco Tsunami Water Polo
Sex Workers Outreach Project - Norcal
SF Boylesque
SF Inferno of the San Francisco Gay Softball League
The Shanti Project
Skate Like A Girl
Soul Of Pride - The African American Diaspora Stage & Village
STOP AIDS Project
Tenderloin Health
Tenderloin Tessie Holiday Dinners
Theatre Rhinoceros
Transgender Law Center
Transgender San Francisco
Visual Aid - Artists for AIDS Relief
Youth Step Towards Addressing Racism

General Program Overview
 

 

Photo Credit: Juan Carlos Pometta Betancourt

    The Community Partners Program is a beneficiary program open to non-profit organizations in the Bay Area. Community organizations provide Pride with volunteers the weekend of the event, and, in return, Pride awards the organizations with a grant based on agreements appropriate for the areas in which volunteers are provided, be it donations or beverage booths (or another area of the Celebration if San Francisco Pride determines that the beverage and donations areas have been filled).

San Francisco Pride's Community Partners Program is one of the many ways in which Pride is working to strengthen our communities. By partnering with community organizations, San Francisco LGBT Pride is building a stable, community-based future for the Pride event while simultaneously investing in our community.

Background Information
     Commemorating our community’s heritage, The San Francisco Pride Celebration and Parade is the largest annual gathering of LGBT in the U.S. 2010 marks our 40th anniversary. The theme for the 2010 event is, "Forty and Fabulous."
    The 40th Annual San Francisco Pride Celebration & Parade will take place on Saturday, June 26 and Sunday, June 27, 2010.
    Broadly speaking, the opportunities for partnering with Pride fall into three categories: Beverage Partners, Donations Partners, and Accessibility Partners. Organizations who work with the Beverage Program will provide volunteers to operate the beverage booths (beer, liquor, wine, water, and soda) at the event. Those working with the Donations Program will provide volunteers to collect donations at the front gates as people enter the celebration site. Finally, Accessibility Partners work with San Francisco Pride to ensure the proper management of Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing spaces, our wheelchair-accessible Grand Stands as well as other areas of the event with added accessibility features.

Requirements
     The Community Partners Program is open to any non-profit organization based in the nine counties of the Bay Area whose mission involves service to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender communities, people living with HIV/AIDS or breast cancer, or positive outreach to the general public about these issues.
    All community partners must commit a minimum of 6 - 12 volunteers to working at the Pride event depending on the area for which the partner has been selected.  Volunteer numbers may vary by area so be sure to check with your area coordinator during pre-event trainings.
    It is a condition that all staff provided by community partners be volunteers and 100% of the funds received by the Community Partners Program be applied to their purposes as specified in the mission statement of their organization. Subject to that, the funds may be applied in whatever manner and towards projects and/or running costs as the partnering organization sees fit.
    An organization may indicate their preference with regard to being a beverage partner, a donations partner, and/or an accessibility partner when applying. While the San Francisco Pride Celebration Committee strives to accommodate indicated preferences, program capacity does not always permit us to meet these preferences in all instances.

Application
     The 2010 Community Partners application process will commence in February of 2010.  The program application is available online at:

sfpride.org/communitypartners

    The Pride Committee will review all completed applications by early April 2010, and will make a final decision on program selection. Once your organization is notified of the decision regarding your application, a final contract will be sent out to you, and you will be put in direct contact with the manager of the program for which your organization was chosen, whether Donations, Beverage, or Accessibility.
    Mandatory trainings exist for both the Donations and Beverages Programs so be sure to consult your area coordinator or email us at communitypartners [at] sfpride.org for more information.

Inquiries
     Please email us with any questions that you may have regarding the 2010 Community Partners Program.

sfpride.org