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Triangle Foundation tapped for NGLTF capacity building project

WASHINGTON — On Aug. 4, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force announced that Michigan's Triangle Foundation is one of three LGBT advocacy organizations to be selected as partners in an ongoing capacity building project.
The new partners, which include PROMO in Missouri and Equal Rights Washington, will join Kentucky Fairness Alliance and Equality Maryland, which were selected in the first phase of the project in December 2004.
The capacity building project, a program of the Task Force's Movement Building department and funded by the Gill Foundation and the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, provides intensive assessment, technical assistance, leadership support and funding over a two-year period to help build the infrastructure of the LGBT rights movement nationwide. The goal is to support organizations in moving to the "next level" more quickly than might otherwise be possible. A total of $500,000 is expected to be distributed in annual grants of up to $50,000 to the partner organizations to help them tackle the most pressing needs they have identified. The Task Force has no role in directing what steps or priorities a partner organization will take to build its capacity.
"This partnership will be an important boost, and help propel us on our trajectory to greater growth and effectiveness," said Jeffrey Montgomery, executive director of the Triangle Foundation.
"The 2004 election was a potent reminder that our communities are under siege and that grassroots strength is the key to prevailing over the long term," said Matt Foreman, executive director of the NGLTF.
"The capacity building project is a response to the specific needs of our movement. Our goal is to partner with statewide groups so that together we can turn the tide away from hate and anti-gay public policy," said Russell Roybal, the Task Force's director of Movement Building. "We want to help build a movement infrastructure that survives and thrives far into the future."

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