Global Philanthropy Project (GPP) invites you to the 2024 Global LGBTI Funding Summit, from November 9-11 in Cape Town, South Africa, in advance of the 2024 ILGA World Conference.
Held over two and a half days, the Global LGBTI Funding Summit will bring together around 200 of the leading funders from across the globe who are committed to equality and inclusive development for LGBTI communities.
Global Philanthropy Project (GPP) is a collaboration of funders and philanthropic advisors working to expand global philanthropic support to advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people in the Global South and East.
Established in 2009, GPP’s 23 member organizations include many of the leading global funders and philanthropic advisors for LGBTI rights. As the first international cohort of LGBTI funders, GPP is internationally recognized as the primary thought leader and go-to partner for donor coordination around global LGBTI work.
The movement for equality and inclusive development for LGBTI communities worldwide has grown significantly over the past decade. Yet, an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape challenges the assumption of linear progress on global LGBTI rights, democracy, and rule of law. Resources are critical for LGBTI civil society to consolidate progress in some contexts and push back against regression in others. Innovative philanthropic investments, and approaches create opportunities to scale up funding and accelerate impacts for LGBTI communities across the world. At the same time, shifting political environments in some of the leading donor countries presents a real threat to the gains made and resources that had been once considered “safe”.
Understanding the critical juncture facing the global LGBTI movement and building on our deep history of convening philanthropic donors, government development actors, high-net-wealth individuals, and others, GPP is organizing the first-ever Global LGBTI Funding Summit in advance of the world’s largest convening of LGBTI civil society, the 2024 ILGA World Conference.
The Summit will take place two days before ILGA World’s Annual Conference. The ILGA World Conference is a global gathering that brings together LGBTI changemakers to share experiences and best practices, build alliances and partnerships, discuss the future of our movement, and collectively chart ways to advance equality worldwide. The next ILGA World Conference, the 31st edition, will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, between November 11-15, 2024 under the theme: Kwa umoja we rise! Find out more about the 2024 ILGA World Conference.
The Summit welcomes:
While the global movement for LGBTI equality has made once-unimaginable progress, rising backlash puts our rights, wellbeing, and collective future in jeopardy. Anti-gender and anti-rights movements are using LGBTI rights as a wedge issue to manufacture moral panic, rollback human rights protections, and undermine the fabric of democratic societies.
The global LGBTI movement plays a crucial role in defending democracy and building resilient and stable societies, but we are being wildly outspent by our opposition. Three of the largest anti-rights organizations reported a combined income of over $1 billion during 2021-2022 — more than the entire global LGBTI movement received during the same two years. Most worryingly, several major funding streams are under major threat due to shifting geopolitical landscapes in some of the largest donor countries.
GPP initiated the Fund Our Futures campaign to call on philanthropy and donor governments to meet this moment by deepening commitments to global LGBTI rights.
We will be in touch at the beginning of September regarding your request.