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Available 24 hours 1-800-398-5177 Positive Living Resources donates a portion of all proceeds to local and national associations dedicated to fighting HIV and AIDS. Task Force launches journalism scholarship fund by David Elliot Special to Q-Notes WASHINGTON, DC—The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has released details on a new $240,000 scholarship program for high school seniors and undergraduate college stu dents who plan to pursue a bachelor’s degree in journalism at an accredited four-year college or university. The Messenger-Anderson Scholarship — believed to be the largest ever of its type — was donated by Larry Messenger and Jim Ander son in memory of Lawrence and Selina Mes senger. “The Messengers believed that there is a pressing need to encourage gay and lesbian people to become more involved in shaping media coverage,” explained NGLTF Executive Director Kerry Lobel. “Fair coverage of GLBT issues insists upon the basic premise that all of us are created equally,” Lobel added. “But media coverage today often begins with the discriminatory no tion that equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people is somehow a matter for debate. By encouraging GLBT students to pur sue journalism and by assisting them with their studies, the Task Force hopes to improve the way the GLBT communities and movement are covered.” During each year of the program’s duration, four Messenger-Anderson scholarships will be available at $5000 the first year, followed by $2500 the next two years for a total award of $10,000. Winners are required to panicipate in the Messenger-Anderson Scholarship Intern Program at NGLTF offices in Washington, DC or New York City during the summer. Guidelines and applications for the schol arship fund can be downloaded from the Task Force’s web site at www.ngltf.org. To meet eli gibility requirements, applications must be postmarked by February 15,2000. Wnners will be announced in March, and the first awards will be distributed in August 2000. A commit tee of journalists in both the GLBT and the general circulation media will decide the win ners. NGLTF has a history of helping organize young GLBT leaders. In 1995, the group or ganized the Youth Leadership Instimte (YLI), which brings together GLBT youth from dif ferent racial, cultural, religious and class back grounds. So far, 95 graduates have emerged ftom intensive YLI trainings and have returned to their communities more confident and bet ter trained and equipped to organize. V Shefa Fund grants earmarked for Jewish GLBT programs by Sue Hoffman Special to Q-Notes PHILADELPHIA—The Shefa Fund (TSF), a public foundation that financially as sists programs that move the Jewish commu nity toward a more welcoming stance of GLBT Jews, recently announced that $50,000 in grants had been earmarked for seven Jewish organizations across the country — including one in Durham, NC. The Shefa Fund is the only national fund of its kind and the grants represent the first-ever awards from the group’s Pooled Fund for Jewish Community Activism on fund projects at both the local and national lev els. The national initiatives include an effort by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to raise awareness of GLBT issues within the ADL and in the Jewish community at-large through its World of Difference workshops. “Since the Jewish community understands how it feels to be targeted, discriminated against and perceived as ‘others,’ it is important that its members welcome and celebrate gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Jews.... ADL is pleased to be working with The Shefa Fund to achieve our common goal,” said Caryl Stern-LaRosa, head of ADL’s Education Divi- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues. The Fund’s pooled contribu tions enable smaller-sum funders to combine their gifts for greater impact on specific funding priorities. More than 75 individuals and foun dations united their contributions to support this initial round of grantmaking. According to TSF President Jeffrey Dekro, the grants underscore the point that “gay, lesbian and bisexual oppression is a main stream Jewish issue. Our communal leaders are concerned about Jewish continuity. By reach ing out to GLBT Jewish adults and teens and promoting a more pluralistic community. The Shefa Fund hopes to expand the base of com mitted Jews.” The awards, recommended by an Advisory Board of experts from around the country, will Sion. The local programs funded include support for GLBT Jew ish teens and their families in Minneapolis/St. Paul, South Palm Beach and Philadelphia; and Jewish community-wide awareness projects in Boston and Durham. The latter’s Jewish Family Service re ceived a $5000 grant to underwrite a year long series of classes, lectures, discussion groups, holiday observances and more designed to address the issue of Jewish communal diver sity. 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