Queer Eye for the Straight Organization

Depending on your mission, there might be some important areas of your program work that are LGBT-inclusive; begin to highlight them in your newsletters, board reports and other communications. By drawing the public’s attention to these areas of your work, you naturally will attract some LGBT donors in your community, and existing LGBT donors might begin to identify themselves. If you have program areas that should be more inclusive of the LGBT community, address that carefully before beginning to fundraise intentionally from LGBT people. Any group that historically has been stigmatized and left out of social institutions will be attentive and respond favorably to being genuinely and visibly included in an organization they’re interested in getting involved with — even as simple check writers.