Goals for 2008
The new grant process, instituted in 2006 has been wonderfully successful and we have received many requests for funding for 2008. In addition to the organizations that the IanThom Foundation supports on a regular basis, we would like to support the following groups as well in 2008 - The Friends of Music at Shepherd University, the new Equality type group being created in West Virginia and we would like to continue funding a couple of the Ohio organizations in memory of Nathan Langdon, whose extraordinary bequest was sadly received this spring.
2008 Donations
At present, the following organizations have received donations for 2008 (• signifies that a donor has designated their contribution to that charity) :
| ACLU of West Virginia Foundation |
| American Philatelic Society• |
| American Voices |
| Common Roads |
| Contemporary American Theatre Festival |
| CSSMM |
| Friends In Action |
| Equality Toledo |
| Friends of Music |
| GenderPac |
| Immigration Equality |
| Kennedy Center • |
| Lambda Legal Defense |
| National Gay and Lesbian Task Force |
| Pikes Peak Gay and Lesbian Community Center |
| The Shakespeare Theatre • |
| Smithsonian Institution • |
| The Theater Offensive |
| Transitional Housing Corporation |
| The Victory Fund |
Prior Awards
The following organizations have received awards since 2000. Some of these groups received small donations as acknowledgement and support of specific actions that they have taken (such as a donation to the Kennedy Center to thank them for inviting the Gay Mens Chorus of Washington to perform.)
| ACLU of West Virginia Foundation | http://www.aclu-wv.org |
| AIDS Action Coalition | http://www.aidsactioncoalition.org |
| AIDS Network of the Tri-State Area | http://www.antsa.org |
| American Conservation Film Festival | http://www.conservationfilm.org |
| American Humanist Association• | http://www.americanhumanist.org |
| American Philatelic Society • | http://www.stamps.org |
| CASA of the Eastern Panhandle | http://www.casaep.org |
| Chica Luna Productions | |
| Contemporary American Theatre Festival • | http://www.catf.org |
| Corcoran Gallery of Art • | http://www.corcoran.org |
| Crystal Meth Working Group | http://www.letstalkaboutmeth.org |
| Center for Studies of Sexual Minorities in the Military | http://www.gaymilitary.ucsb.edu |
| Daughters of Mumbi Global Resource Center | http://www.fntg.org/orgs/profile.php?op=view&orgid=673 |
| Equality Maryland | http://www.equalitymaryland.org |
| Equality Ohio Education Fund - Future Leaders Alliance | http://www.equalityohio.org |
| Equality Toledo Safe Schools Project | http://www.equalitytoledo.org/main.htm |
| Equality Virginia | http://www.equalityvirginiaorg |
| Foundation for All DC Families | |
| Friends of Music • | http://www.sufom.org |
| GenderPac | http://www.gpac.org |
| Gay Mens Chorus Of Washington | http://www.gmcw.org |
| Human Rights Campaign | http://www.hrc.org |
| Immigration Equality | http://www.immigrationequality.org |
| Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts • | http://www.kennedy-center.org |
| Lambda Legal Defense | http://www.lambdalegal.org |
| Lambda Literary Foundation | http://www.lambdaliterary.org |
| Leather Archives | http://www.leatherarchives.org |
| Mautner Project | http://www.mautnerproject.org |
| National AIDS Drug Assistance Program Conference • | |
| National Geographic • | http://www.nationalgeographic.com |
| National Postal Museum • | http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu |
| National Gay and Lesbian Task Force | http://www.ngltf.org |
| One Institute and Archives | http://www.oneinstitute.org |
| The Point Foundation | http://www.pointfoundation.org |
| Pikes Peak Gay and Lesbian Community Center | http://www.ppglcc.org |
| Servicemembers Legal Defense Network | http://www.sldn.org/templates/index.html |
| Shakespeare Theatre of Washington • | http://www.shakespearetheatre.org |
| Smithsonian Institution • | http://www.si.edu/ |
| The Arts Center | http://www.theartcentre.org |
| The Longest Day | |
| Transitional Housing Corporation | http://www.thcdc.org/ |
| United Way of Jefferson County | |
| The Victory Fund | http://victoryfund.org |
| WV Free | http://www.WVFree.org |
| Yankauer Fund |