Community Partner Grants

• Building Community through Grants
• Donate at the Gate for Beverage Discounts
• Background Information
• Eligibility & Requirements
• Application
• Questions

Building Community through Grants

The Community Partners Program is a beneficiary program open to non-profit organizations in the Bay Area. San Francisco Pride has been able to grant nearly $2 million dollars since 1997 to our beneficiaries thanks to beverage purchases and donations made at our event gates. 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.

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 Pride is building a strong future for the event while simultaneously investing in our community.

Donate at the Gate

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.

Background Information

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 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 and along the parade route.  Finally, Accessibility Partners work with Pride to ensure the proper management of Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing spaces, our wheelchair-accessible Grandstands as well as other areas of the event with added accessibility features.  Positions in the accessibility side of the Community Partners Program are limited.

Our 2012 Beneficiaries

AIDS Housing Alliance/SF, AKA"Q Foundation "
AIDS Project of the East Bay
Alameda County Leather corps
B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls
Bay Area Young Positives
Bay Area Young Survivors
Bay Area Youth Summit
Bears of San Francisco
Berkeley Free Clinic
Billy Foundation
Bob Basker Post 315 of the American Legion
California Men’s Gathering
CALPEP
Castro Country Club
Castro Lions Club
Cat Town
Celebrate Life Spiritualist Community
Celebration Of Life Productions
Center for Sex & Culture
Central City Hospitality House
Circulo de Vida
Coalition on Homelessness
Cougars Softball Team
Council of Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses of San Francisco, Inc.
Court of the Great Northwest Imperial Empire, Inc
Dolores Street Community Services
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, LGBT Asylum Program
East Oakland Community Project
Femina Potens
Foggy City Dancers
Freedom in Christ Evangelical Church
Gay-Straight Alliance Network
Healing Waters Wilderness Adventures
Health Initiatives for Youth
Homeless Children's Network
Imperial Court of San Francisco
Imperial Royal Lion Monarchy
Imperial San Joaquin Delta Empire
Imperial Star Empire Inc. (Alameda County Imperial Court)
Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco
Lighthouse Community Center
MCC San Francisco
New Spirit Community Church
NIA Collective
Northern California Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
Oakland - East Bay Gay Men's Chorus
Oakland Pride
outLoud Radio
Pagan Alliance
Palo Alto University Sexual & Gender Identities Clinic
Pets Are Wonderful Support
Points of Distribution
Project Inform
Project Open Hand
Refuge Ministries
Rocket Dog Rescue
San Francisco Fog Rugby Football Club, Inc.
San Francisco Gay Basketball Association
San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, DBA Golden Gate Performing Arts, Inc.
San Francisco Gay Softball League
San Francisco Inferno Softball Teams (Pass, Inc.)
San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band
San Francisco Sex Information
San Francisco Spikes
San Francisco Track & Field Club
San Francisco Tsunami Master's Swim Team
San Francisco Tsunami Water Polo team
San Jose PRIDE/Gay Pride San Jose, Celebration Committee of San Jose Inc.
Sisters Network Inc. San Francisco
Soul Of Pride
South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events, (Folsom Street Events)
St. James Infirmary
St. Paul's Foundation for International Reconciliation
Sunny Hills Services
Temenos Catholic Worker
Tenderloin Tessie Holiday Dinners
Theatre Rhinoceros
Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation
Women's Cancer Resource Center

Questions

Please email us with any questions that you may have regarding the 2013 Community Partners Program.