Pride Foundation
Alaskan Students Awarded $21,500 in Scholarships
This year, Pride foundation will award the most it ever has in scholarships to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) and straight ally students throughout the Northwest. Six Alaskan scholars will receive a combined $21,500 from Pride Foundation’s scholarship program.
A statewide committee of volunteers worked together to review applications and interview finalists.
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Alaskan Empowers Transgender Students Nation-Wide
![Pride Foundation Tonei Glavanic Excerpt](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Pride-Foundation-Tonei-Glavanic-Excerpt.png)
Gay-Straight Alliances in Unexpected Places
![Pride Foundation Homer Youth Community GSA](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Pride-Foundation-Homer-Youth-Community-GSA.jpg)
$10,000 Invested in HIV/AIDS Prevention, Arts, and Education
Since its founding in 1985, Pride Foundation has awarded over $164,000 in grants to organizations serving Alaska’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community or that are engaged in HIV/AIDS service and prevention.
This year—with the help of volunteers from Anchorage, Juneau, and Fairbanks—the community foundation awarded $10,000 to five Alaskan organizations.
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Finding hope in Bethel, Alaska
![Pride Foundation Tiffany McClain Bethel](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Pride-Foundation-Tiffany-McClain-Bethel.jpg)
Two Alaskans fight for LGBTQ equality in the courts
If you ask the average person what the big name issues are in the movement for LGBTQ equality, property tax exemption is nowhere near the top of the list. The issues that tend to receive the most attention from national and statewide LGBTQ advocacy organizations are gay marriage, employment nondiscrimination, and more recently, transgender equality.
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