Pride Fund India is empowering grassroots LGBTQIA+ organisations across the country. This fund goes beyond financial support.
Pride Fund India is empowering grassroots LGBTQIA+ organisations across the country. This fund goes beyond financial support.
Our founding patrons saw a need and came together to build a path forward.
1513 LGBTQIA+ individuals were supported through medical support, counselling support, laser treatment, and mental health support
1513 LGBTQIA+ individuals were supported through medical support, counselling support, laser treatment, and mental health support
1513 LGBTQIA+ individuals were supported through medical support, counselling support, laser treatment, and mental health support
Health and Well-being
Health and Well-being
110 LGBTQIA+ individuals were empowered through legal aid trainings, and ecosystem partners were empowered on queer and trans issues
110 LGBTQIA+ individuals were empowered through legal aid trainings, and ecosystem partners were empowered on queer and trans issues
110 LGBTQIA+ individuals were empowered through legal aid trainings, and ecosystem partners were empowered on queer and trans issues
Safety and Community
Safety and Community
Visibility, Narrative Building and Storytelling
Visibility, Narrative Building and Storytelling
726 Diverse stakeholders were engaged through public events, Queer melas, and theatre performances
726 Diverse stakeholders were engaged through public events, Queer melas, and theatre performances
726 Diverse stakeholders were engaged through public events, Queer melas, and theatre performances
316 Participants supported with the help of multiple skilling programs.
74 participants were linked to employment opportunities and supported for their small businesses
316 Participants supported with the help of multiple skilling programs.
74 participants were linked to employment opportunities and supported for their small businesses
316 Participants supported with the help of multiple skilling programs.
74 participants were linked to employment opportunities and supported for their small businesses
Economic Agency through Skilling & Livelihood
Economic Agency through Skilling & Livelihood
OUR INSIGHTS
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Progress Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Progress Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Progress Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Progress Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Progress Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Progress Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Progress Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Progress Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Report
“Co-creation and Collaboration with the ecosystem partners like police, welfare officers, private employers and even correctional institutions, have shown meaningful participation during the sensitisation programs. This slowly opens up the dialogue and trust-building with the institution.”
Pride Fund India
April to November Report
OUR CHALLENGES
The grantee organisations under Pride Fund India continue to navigate complex and deeply rooted challenges which reflect both the lived realities of the queer and trans community and the structural limitations that shape their access to the right to safety, opportunity,
equal and affirming life.
The grantee organisation under Pride Fund India continue to navigate complex and deeply rooted challenges which reflect both the lived realities of the queer and trans community and the structural limitations that shape their access to the right to safety, opportunity,
equal and affirming life.
The grantee organisation under Pride Fund India continue to navigate complex and deeply rooted challenges which reflect both the lived realities of the queer and trans community and the structural limitations that shape their access to the right to safety, opportunity,equal and affirming life.
External Factors
A few external factors, like festival seasons, transportation barriers, unpredictable weather, and academic schedules, led to delays or rescheduling, especially in remote and disaster-prone regions where the organisations are based. These challenges, however, are mitigated but highlight the vulnerable conditions under which most of our community-led organisations operate.
Brand Guidelines
Collateral Design
Rebranding Services
Financial and Livelihood Inclusion
Many LGBTQIA+ community members rely on informal work or sex work, making regular participation in skill programs difficult. Survival pressures, unsafe workplaces, and limited market access, especially in rural areas, lead to high dropout rates and hinder long-term employment opportunities.
Wireframing and Prototyping
User Interface Design
User Experience Testing
Responsive Design Solutions
Operational Challenges
Program delivery is slowed by operational challenges. Small CBO teams juggle multiple roles, leading to fatigue and uneven workloads, while limited budgets, rising costs, and logistical delays, sometimes tied to FCRA approvals, further complicate implementation.
Animated Explainer Videos
Interactive Presentations
Resource Gap
Given that the community rely highly on self-sustaining methods, stipends for day-to-day expenses become crucial for continuity and survival; however, that becomes a challenge for a lot of CBOs to provide. The lack of gender affirming healthcare infrastructure, such as laser machines, restricts access to essential services for many transgender individuals.
Animated Explainer Videos
Interactive Presentations
Social Stigma
Social stigma affects LGBTQIA+ participation and well-being, making public events feel unsafe or judgmental. Shelter homes offer safety from discrimination but add trauma and require ongoing psychosocial support, increasing the emotional burden on staff.
Animated Explainer Videos
Interactive Presentations
Structural Challenges
LGBTQIA+ individuals often face misgendering, invisibility, or denial of services in healthcare, government, and employment systems. Lack of ID documents due to family rejection or frequent mobility further limits access to welfare, financial services, and livelihoods, reflecting systemic neglect rather than simple administrative errors.
Animated Explainer Videos
Interactive Presentations
External Factors
A few external factors, like festival seasons, transportation barriers, unpredictable weather, and academic schedules, led to delays or rescheduling, especially in remote and disaster-prone regions where the organisations are based. These challenges, however, are mitigated but highlight the vulnerable conditions under which most of our community-led organisations operate.
Brand Guidelines
Collateral Design
Rebranding Services
Financial and Livelihood Inclusion
Many LGBTQIA+ community members rely on informal work or sex work, making regular participation in skill programs difficult. Survival pressures, unsafe workplaces, and limited market access, especially in rural areas, lead to high dropout rates and hinder long-term employment opportunities.
Wireframing and Prototyping
User Interface Design
User Experience Testing
Responsive Design Solutions
Operational Challenges
Program delivery is slowed by operational challenges. Small CBO teams juggle multiple roles, leading to fatigue and uneven workloads, while limited budgets, rising costs, and logistical delays, sometimes tied to FCRA approvals, further complicate implementation.
Animated Explainer Videos
Interactive Presentations
Resource Gap
Given that the community rely highly on self-sustaining methods, stipends for day-to-day expenses become crucial for continuity and survival; however, that becomes a challenge for a lot of CBOs to provide. The lack of gender affirming healthcare infrastructure, such as laser machines, restricts access to essential services for many transgender individuals.
Animated Explainer Videos
Interactive Presentations
Social Stigma
Social stigma affects LGBTQIA+ participation and well-being, making public events feel unsafe or judgmental. Shelter homes offer safety from discrimination but add trauma and require ongoing psychosocial support, increasing the emotional burden on staff.
Animated Explainer Videos
Interactive Presentations
Structural Challenges
LGBTQIA+ individuals often face misgendering, invisibility, or denial of services in healthcare, government, and employment systems. Lack of ID documents due to family rejection or frequent mobility further limits access to welfare, financial services, and livelihoods, reflecting systemic neglect rather than simple administrative errors.
Animated Explainer Videos
Interactive Presentations
External Factors
A few external factors, like festival seasons, transportation barriers, unpredictable weather, and academic schedules, led to delays or rescheduling, especially in remote and disaster-prone regions where the organisations are based. These challenges, however, are mitigated but highlight the vulnerable conditions under which most of our community-led organisations operate.
Brand Guidelines
Collateral Design
Rebranding Services
Financial and Livelihood Inclusion
Many LGBTQIA+ community members rely on informal work or sex work, making regular participation in skill programs difficult. Survival pressures, unsafe workplaces, and limited market access, especially in rural areas, lead to high dropout rates and hinder long-term employment opportunities.
Wireframing and Prototyping
User Interface Design
User Experience Testing
Responsive Design Solutions
Operational Challenges
Program delivery is slowed by operational challenges. Small CBO teams juggle multiple roles, leading to fatigue and uneven workloads, while limited budgets, rising costs, and logistical delays, sometimes tied to FCRA approvals, further complicate implementation.
Animated Explainer Videos
Interactive Presentations
Resource Gap
Given that the community rely highly on self-sustaining methods, stipends for day-to-day expenses become crucial for continuity and survival; however, that becomes a challenge for a lot of CBOs to provide. The lack of gender affirming healthcare infrastructure, such as laser machines, restricts access to essential services for many transgender individuals.
Animated Explainer Videos
Interactive Presentations
Social Stigma
Social stigma affects LGBTQIA+ participation and well-being, making public events feel unsafe or judgmental. Shelter homes offer safety from discrimination but add trauma and require ongoing psychosocial support, increasing the emotional burden on staff.
Animated Explainer Videos
Interactive Presentations
Structural Challenges
LGBTQIA+ individuals often face misgendering, invisibility, or denial of services in healthcare, government, and employment systems. Lack of ID documents due to family rejection or frequent mobility further limits access to welfare, financial services, and livelihoods, reflecting systemic neglect rather than simple administrative errors.
Animated Explainer Videos
Interactive Presentations
TESTIMONIALS
Meena
Basera Samajik Sansthan
Meena learned how to track her expenses, set financial goals, and explore safe saving options. With support from Basera Samajik Sansthan facilitators and a community ally, she successfully opened her first bank account and began contributing to a recurring deposit scheme.
Sonal
Vikalp
Sonal a long-time partner of transmasculine person based in Ahmedabad, has learnt to drive a four-wheeler. Her profession as a singer, inevitably involves late evenings sometimes well into late night specially during the Navratri days of ‘Garba’.
Prticipants for Rongdhonu Mela
Sappho for Equality
One participant shared that for the first time, they are thinking about their work as something valuable, something that deserves to be shown and celebrated publicly. These everyday moments of recognition and self-belief are becoming powerful stories of change
Meena
Basera Samajik Sansthan
Meena learned how to track her expenses, set financial goals, and explore safe saving options. With support from Basera Samajik Sansthan facilitators and a community ally, she successfully opened her first bank account and began contributing to a recurring deposit scheme.
Sonal
Vikalp
Sonal a long-time partner of transmasculine person based in Ahmedabad, has learnt to drive a four-wheeler. Her profession as a singer, inevitably involves late evenings sometimes well into late night specially during the Navratri days of ‘Garba’.
Prticipants for Rongdhonu Mela
Sappho for Equality
One participant shared that for the first time, they are thinking about their work as something valuable, something that deserves to be shown and celebrated publicly. These everyday moments of recognition and self-belief are becoming powerful stories of change
Meena
Basera Samajik Sansthan
Meena learned how to track her expenses, set financial goals, and explore safe saving options. With support from Basera Samajik Sansthan facilitators and a community ally, she successfully opened her first bank account and began contributing to a recurring deposit scheme.
Sonal
Vikalp
Sonal a long-time partner of transmasculine person based in Ahmedabad, has learnt to drive a four-wheeler. Her profession as a singer, inevitably involves late evenings sometimes well into late night specially during the Navratri days of ‘Garba’.
Prticipants for Rongdhonu Mela
Sappho for Equality
One participant shared that for the first time, they are thinking about their work as something valuable, something that deserves to be shown and celebrated publicly. These everyday moments of recognition and self-belief are becoming powerful stories of change
AP
Ya_All
When AP first joined the QueeLead Fellowship, she wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. She only knew that she wanted to make a difference, to learn, to lead, and to contribute to something meaningful.
Anonymous
The Naz Foundation
A woman in her 30s, married and raising a young child, reached out to the Naz Dost Helpline after realizing her attraction toward women. She shared feelings of confusion and conflict, expressing a deep desire to live authentically while feeling bound by family responsibilities and social expectations.
Mohit Gayal
Tweet Foundation
My name is Mohit Gayal, and I currently live at AASRA Shelter Home. After my surgery, I faced many challenges finding a job due to documentation issues. At AASRA, I am now updating my name and gender in my documents to restart my career.
Meena
Basera Samajik Sansthan
Meena learned how to track her expenses, set financial goals, and explore safe saving options. With support from Basera Samajik Sansthan facilitators and a community ally, she successfully opened her first bank account and began contributing to a recurring deposit scheme.
Sonal
Vikalp
Sonal a long-time partner of transmasculine person based in Ahmedabad, has learnt to drive a four-wheeler. Her profession as a singer, inevitably involves late evenings sometimes well into late night specially during the Navratri days of ‘Garba’.
Prticipants for Rongdhonu Mela
Sappho for Equality
One participant shared that for the first time, they are thinking about their work as something valuable, something that deserves to be shown and celebrated publicly. These everyday moments of recognition and self-belief are becoming powerful stories of change
AP
Ya_All
When AP first joined the QueeLead Fellowship, she wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. She only knew that she wanted to make a difference, to learn, to lead, and to contribute to something meaningful.
Anonymous
The Naz Foundation
A woman in her 30s, married and raising a young child, reached out to the Naz Dost Helpline after realizing her attraction toward women. She shared feelings of confusion and conflict, expressing a deep desire to live authentically while feeling bound by family responsibilities and social expectations.
Mohit Gayal
Tweet Foundation
My name is Mohit Gayal, and I currently live at AASRA Shelter Home. After my surgery, I faced many challenges finding a job due to documentation issues. At AASRA, I am now updating my name and gender in my documents to restart my career.
Meena
Basera Samajik Sansthan
Meena learned how to track her expenses, set financial goals, and explore safe saving options. With support from Basera Samajik Sansthan facilitators and a community ally, she successfully opened her first bank account and began contributing to a recurring deposit scheme.
Sonal
Vikalp
Sonal a long-time partner of transmasculine person based in Ahmedabad, has learnt to drive a four-wheeler. Her profession as a singer, inevitably involves late evenings sometimes well into late night specially during the Navratri days of ‘Garba’.
Prticipants for Rongdhonu Mela
Sappho for Equality
One participant shared that for the first time, they are thinking about their work as something valuable, something that deserves to be shown and celebrated publicly. These everyday moments of recognition and self-belief are becoming powerful stories of change
AP
Ya_All
When AP first joined the QueeLead Fellowship, she wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. She only knew that she wanted to make a difference, to learn, to lead, and to contribute to something meaningful.
Anonymous
The Naz Foundation
A woman in her 30s, married and raising a young child, reached out to the Naz Dost Helpline after realizing her attraction toward women. She shared feelings of confusion and conflict, expressing a deep desire to live authentically while feeling bound by family responsibilities and social expectations.
Mohit Gayal
Tweet Foundation
My name is Mohit Gayal, and I currently live at AASRA Shelter Home. After my surgery, I faced many challenges finding a job due to documentation issues. At AASRA, I am now updating my name and gender in my documents to restart my career.
Meena
Basera Samajik Sansthan
Meena learned how to track her expenses, set financial goals, and explore safe saving options. With support from Basera Samajik Sansthan facilitators and a community ally, she successfully opened her first bank account and began contributing to a recurring deposit scheme.
Sonal
Vikalp
Sonal a long-time partner of transmasculine person based in Ahmedabad, has learnt to drive a four-wheeler. Her profession as a singer, inevitably involves late evenings sometimes well into late night specially during the Navratri days of ‘Garba’.
Prticipants for Rongdhonu Mela
Sappho for Equality
One participant shared that for the first time, they are thinking about their work as something valuable, something that deserves to be shown and celebrated publicly. These everyday moments of recognition and self-belief are becoming powerful stories of change
AP
Ya_All
When AP first joined the QueeLead Fellowship, she wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. She only knew that she wanted to make a difference, to learn, to lead, and to contribute to something meaningful.
Anonymous
The Naz Foundation
A woman in her 30s, married and raising a young child, reached out to the Naz Dost Helpline after realizing her attraction toward women. She shared feelings of confusion and conflict, expressing a deep desire to live authentically while feeling bound by family responsibilities and social expectations.
Mohit Gayal
Tweet Foundation
My name is Mohit Gayal, and I currently live at AASRA Shelter Home. After my surgery, I faced many challenges finding a job due to documentation issues. At AASRA, I am now updating my name and gender in my documents to restart my career.
India’s first dedicated LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund | India’s first dedicated LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund
India’s First Dedicated LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund
India’s First Dedicated LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund
India’s First Dedicated LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund
India’s first dedicated LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund | India’s first dedicated LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund
India’s first dedicated LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund | India’s first dedicated LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund
Latest News about Pride Fund India Grantees
The launch of The Pride Fund, India's First LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund
By Press Trust of India
The launch of The Pride Fund, India's First LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund
By Press Trust of India
Funding Pride: Radhika Piramal on Empowering LGBTQIA+ Communities in India
By No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi
Funding Pride: Radhika Piramal on Empowering LGBTQIA+ Communities in India
By No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi
Critical funding shortfall for India's queer community: Study
By Times of India
Critical funding shortfall for India's queer community: Study
By Times of India
Launch of 'Against All Odds'
By Dasra, Radhika Piramal, Godrej DEI Lab
Launch of 'Against All Odds'
By Dasra, Radhika Piramal, Godrej DEI Lab
India’s first dedicated LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund | India’s first dedicated LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund
India’s first dedicated LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund | India’s first dedicated LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund