UK LGBTI Donor Initiative

Background

UK LGBTI Donor Initiative is a now-defunct project hosted by Global Dialogue, a London-based philanthropic support program that was originally founded to support human rights-focused organizations but also hosts donor networks, funder collaboratives, and pooled funds for both United Kingdom-based and international causes. ^{1 2}

UK LGBTI Donor Initiative was created to encourage new institutional and individual donors for international LGBT causes. ³

Despite Global Dialogue’s website listing the UK LGBTI Donor Initiative as a current project as of late 2023, the organization’s link to the initiative returns a 404 error. According to an archived version of Global Dialogue’s project page, the page was only active between 2018 and 2020. ^{2 3 4}

Funding

According to Global Dialogue’s financial reports for 2020, the UK LGBTI Donor Initiative received funding from the Baring Foundation, a London-based grantmaking organization. ⁵

According to the financial report, the Baring Foundation granted £20,000 (approximately $24,134) to the initiative in 2019, and another £20,000 in 2020. The report also notes that the UK LGBTI Donor Initiative received an extra £10,000 (around $12,067) as “other” donations in both 2019, and 2020. ^{5 6}