The only U.S.-based organization focused exclusively on the economic power of LBQ+ women in the Global South.
With your resources, LesbianGlobal directs funding to LBQ+ women leaders, entrepreneurs, and community builders—so they can build sustainable livelihoods, protect their safety, and strengthen a resilient global LBQ+ movement.
Why Invest in LesbianGlobal
LBQ+ women in the Global South are among the most talented, innovative, and community-rooted leaders in the global movement—yet they remain the most underfunded in global philanthropy.
Without economic independence, many LBQ+ women face violence, instability, and forced dependence on unsafe systems.
LesbianGlobal is powering strategic investment, not charity.
When LBQ+ women gain access to income, capital, and opportunity, the return is lasting safety, autonomy, and community-wide impact.
What Economic Empowerment Means for LBQ+ Women
Economic power creates wider change.
LBQ+ women who become entrepreneurs, workers, and community leaders gain visibility and influence that can challenge discrimination and criminalizing systems. In our partners’ work in Nigeria, women shared that economic independence could have helped them avoid forced marriages and abuse.
Who We Fund
LesbianGlobal funds lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ+) women in the Global South who are leading economic, social, and community-based initiatives.
This includes:
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Cisgender and transgender women who identify as lesbians
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LBQ+ women entrepreneurs, organizers, and social entrepreneurs (“actipreneurs”)
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LBQ+ Women-led businesses, collectives, and grassroots initiatives
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Community-rooted leaders building economic opportunity and resilience
We recognize that trans women who identify as lesbians face overlapping forms of economic exclusion, discrimination, and violence. Our funding approach is intentionally inclusive of their leadership, lived experience, and economic realities.
Why Economic Empowerment
This video draws from a Human Rights Watch report co-developed with LesbianGlobal, documenting the realities LBQ+ women face across the Global South—and why economic empowerment is a critical part of reducing the risks, discrimaination and violence they face.
Grantee Recipients
Every investment through LesbianGlobal supports initiatives that strengthen the economic power of LBQ+ women, with a clear focus on the Global South. We work with grantee partners to fund programs that expand access to income, skills, capital, and sustainable livelihoods.
Our funding is directed toward economic empowerment efforts that increase independence, safety, and long-term opportunity for LBQ+ women and their communities.
Our grants goes to their projects led by and benefiting LBQ+ women in the Global South.
For member organizations that are not in the UK or EU.
Our grants goes to their projects led by and benefiting LBQ+ women in the Global South.
Our Global Impact
Our work focuses on LBQ+ women in the Global South, as shown below through our partner organizations highlighted in different colors.
OVERVIEW
Countries reached: 20+
Sister Organizations reached: 12+