Fiscal Sponsorship

Fiscal sponsorship is a contractual arrangement between a legal 501(c)(3) organization and a project that does not have non-profit status. The non-profit organization provides limited financial and legal oversight for the project. During the period of fiscal sponsorship, the project is eligible to solicit grants and tax-deductible contributions that they would not be able to receive without non-profit status.

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Fiscal Sponsorship

Hearts + Minds Campaign

http://www.inlawsandoutlawsfilm.com/campaign/index.php

With remarkable honesty, good humor, great music and real heart, the award-winning documentary Inlaws & Outlaws weaves together true stories of couples and singles, gay and straight, to embrace what we all have in common: we love.  Through our innovative Hearts + Minds Campaign, we provide the film to activists and organizations large and small to help educate, advocate, and raise money for the cause of full marriage equality.  With the support of countless donors, sponsors and volunteers, Inlaws & Outlaws has had nearly 500 such screenings so far in communities from Washington to Maine, and Alaska to Florida.

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Bend It

http://www.myspace.com/bend_it

Bend It is a queer artist activist collective that makes the world a more fabulous place by building welcoming, liberated spaces, strengthening community, and creating meaningful alternatives for queer young people and their friends.

For the past five years, Bend-It has had the exclusive goal of organizing a three-day arts festival during the weekend of the Seattle Pride Parade in June. We designed our festival as a meaningful, non-corporate, proactively inclusive alternative to Pride, hosting community artists-led workshops, concerts, photography exhibits, film festivals, fashion/drag/burlesque shows, and spoken poetry open mic nights. We have encouraged DIY (do-it-yourself) and DIT (do-it-together) mentalities by offering reciprocal skill-building workshops—as opposed to top-down, one-way interactions.

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Out for Sustainability

http://www.outsustainability.com/

OUT for Sustainability brings the LGBT community together with social and environmental sustainability, connecting macro issues with individual choices and impact, through partner led events, education, consulting and advocacy.

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Remember His Name

http://www.lizardproductions.com/RememberHisName.html

The documentary film “Remember His Name” focuses on how the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr. opened the eyes of the Texas Legislature to hate crimes which ultimately led to the passage of The James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of Texas in 2001.  In October of 2010, President Barak Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act into law which the filmmaker, Liz Latham captured and can be seen in this trailer.

The film will have a two-part curriculum which will be designed as an educational tool to promote much needed dialogue around issues of violence and hate crimes in the U.S., who is targeted and what can be done to change it.  The curriculum will be developed for middle and high school students.

The second and concluding part of the curriculum will be developed specifically for all age groups, and will include a wellness perspective that incorporates recent research findings from such fields as the brain sciences, positive psychology and the scientific study of altruism and compassion. Liz’s mission with this project is to begin a much needed paradigm shift in the educational system that proactively supports a student’s whole being, mind, body and spirit.

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Ebony Chunky Love: Hardons and Heartaches

Ebony Chunky Love Story. This is the filming of the follow up to Keith’s one man show “Bitch Can’t Get a Date!” In this installment we learn about what happens when Keith gets some air time, how he deals with his Afro-latino identity at present, how he handles the loss of his parents and how the freaks come out of the woodwork to try to follow on his coattails. The show is unapologetic, endearing and most of all a call to arms to feel good to be yourself and be FABULOUS! All this to produce, Ebony Chunky Love: “Hardons and Heartaches.”

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heart breaks open

http://www.heartbreaksopen.com

‘heart breaks open’ is a feature-length narrative film about public health and community accountability. It follows our main character, Jesus, as he attempts to find his new voice after one unhealthy decision leads to an HIV+ status. The film features the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as well as a cast of local queer actors. It is being filmed in a documentary style where actors are put in real places to improv each scene, while 3-cameras (operated by award- winning doc filmmakers) follow the action using a cinema verité style. We’re using real Seattle locations and real experiences to tell a story that needs to be told.

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Like a Lady: The Fakaleitis of Tonga

“Like a Lady: The Fakaleitis of Tonga” explores the lifestyle and socio-cultural role and impact of a group of men and boys who identify as women in the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific. The filmmaker’s two-year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in this culturally rich Polynesian country, gives the audience the opportunity to discover and meet a majority of the fakaleitis, or transgenders, through his personal journey as a gay volunteer in a conservative Christian island nation.

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PUT THIS ON THE {MAP}

http://www.putthisonthemap.org/

PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} is a new documentary from east King County featuring 26 young people re-teaching gender and sexual identity through groundbreaking narratives. The project is both a participatory video documentary and a community development tool to strengthen communities for LGBTQ youth. PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} garners the expertise of young people in addressing youth issues and creates relevant and sustainable resources for educators, service providers, young people, families, and communities.

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Boys on the Inside

http://elliatcreative.com/?page_id=89

Boys on the Inside is a short documentary film about masculine presenting ‘boy’ culture in US women’s prisons. The documentary focuses on a small group of individuals formerly incarcerated in Washington State who speak about the affects of having been in prison, both positive and negative, and the role prison had for some in becoming ‘boys’ on the inside. Boys on the Inside follows the often silenced stories of prison culture and being gay inside, addressing the complexities of institutionalization, drugs and addiction, gender expression and living as an ex-felon in US society.