Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 15:10:37 -0500
From: Babngltf@aol.com

 *************************************************National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force
NEWS RELEASE

Contact:  Robin Kane         (202) 332-6483 ext. 3311
                                         (800) 757-7736 pager
               Beth Barrett      (202) 332-6483 ext. 3215

2320 17th Street NW   Washington, DC   20009
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UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS GRANT NGLTF $40,000

Funds to Support Activists Fighting the Radical Right

Washington, D.C., January 31, 1995 ... The Unitarian Universalist Veatch
Program this week approved a $40,000 grant for the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force (NGLTF).  The grant, which recognizes NGLTF's work "developing new
public policies and new ways of organizing from the grassroots," marks the
first time the Veatch Program has funded a gay and lesbian organization.  The
funds will be used to support NGLTF trainings and workshops.

 The Veatch grant will support NGLTF programs to fight anti-gay attacks
through specific skills-training workshops.  NGLTF field organizers will work
with local activists to use the media, fundraise, develop analysis, get out
the vote and develop strategies.  In 1994, NGLTF held trainings for local
activists in cities all across the country including Honolulu, Hawaii,
Lincoln, Nebraska and Albuquerque, New Mexico.

 "NGLTF is pleased to receive this pledge of support from the Unitarian
Universalist community," said NGLTF Executive Director Melinda Paras.  "With
support from the Veatch Program, NGLTF can further our commitment to infusing
local activists with the resources and skills necessary to battle the Radical
Right."

 In addition to crisis-focused trainings, the Veatch Program grant will fund
NGLTF's work toward long-term change through movement building institutes and
trainings.  Institutes such as those held last year in Kansas City, Missouri
and Denver, Colorado, provide an opportunity for activists to understand
Radical Right strategies and link oppressions in order to build coalition
partners.

 "NGLTF's movement building focus is unique in the national gay and lesbian
movement," said Paras.  "Task Force field organizers are conducting long
term, grassroots, multi-racial, multi-issue organizing in the field.  Support
from the Veatch Program will directly assist this coalition-building approach
to fighting the right-wing agenda."

 The Veatch Program is a grant-making program of the Unitarian Universalist
Congregation at Shelter Rock in Manhasset, New York.  The Veatch Program
supports Unitarian Universalist congregations and non-denominational
organizations whose goals reflect the principles of Unitarian Universalism.

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