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Pride Foundation Australia

Pride Foundation Australia (PFA – formerly GALFA) is a national philanthropic foundation specifically focused on funding lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual and other (LGBTQIA+) community issues in Australia.

The Foundation actively works to increase philanthropic support for the Australian LGBTQIA+ and allied communities through fundraising, grant giving, collaboration and commissioning projects.

Specific LGBTQIA+ Priority Areas to date have been: healthy ageing, homelessness and disability; new focus area on asylum seekers and refugees living in Australia has been established and grants have been made. Our new area of support for LGBTQIA visual, literary and performing arts is being planned for launch in 2021.

  • Our Story
  • Our Purpose
  • What we do
Our Story

Our Story

Pride Foundation Australia (PFA – formerly GALFA) is a national philanthropic foundation specifically focused on funding lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual and other (LGBTQIA+) community issues in Australia.

The Foundation actively works to increase philanthropic support for the Australian LGBTQIA+ and allied communities through fundraising, grant giving, collaboration and commissioning projects.

Specific LGBTQIA+ Priority Areas to date have been: healthy ageing, homelessness and disability; new focus area on asylum seekers and refugees living in Australia has been established and grants have been made. Our new area of support for LGBTQIA visual, literary and performing arts is being planned for launch in 2021.

Our Purpose

Our Purpose

To benefit LGBTQIA+ people and allied communities in Australia by advancing equity for the most disadvantaged LGBTQIA+ Australians and support for LGBTQIA creative arts.
What we do

What we do

LEADING THE WAY IN LGBTQIA+ PHILANTHROPY

The Gay and Lesbian Foundation of Australia (GALFA) began in 2004 when a group of like-minded people from Melbourne’s LGBTQIA+ community and the Reichstein Foundation came together to discuss the need for an LGBTQIA+ specific philanthropic organisation.  Both Philanthropy Australia and Reichstein identified in the early 2000’s that LGBTQIA+ projects were significantly underrepresented in mainstream philanthropic funding. 

GALFA arose as a logical step in our community’s evolution to be out, proud and supportive of ourselves. From the liberation movement of the 1970’s gay and lesbian communities emerged across Australian capital cities and sometime later in regional Australia. The HIV/Aids epidemic in the 1980’s resulted in enhanced community activism to provide support for those with illness, fight for the latest drugs, promote safe sex and overcome discrimination. By the early 2000’s significant law reform occurred with many rights and responsibilities of LGBTQIA+ citizens equivalent to others in society. However further law reform, marriage equality and campaigns to overcome homophobia, biphobia and transphobia, and equal access to services were needed, as was ongoing support for the disadvantaged and most vulnerable in our community – the younger people, aged and those with illness.

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