Funding and Professional Development
Funding and Professional development include pages on Mutual Aid networks to support, information on financing your academics including grants and scholarships, as well as Professional Development opportunities like Mentorship programs and career opportunities. Please use the menu to navigate to these individual pages.
Mutual Aid
This page will update as more mutual aid networks become publicized.
Financing Academics
Cal Pride Scholarship
The Cal Pride Scholarship is a one-year, merit-based award that recognizes Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors at UC Berkeley and incoming transfer students for academic achievement, leadership, and community involvement, as well as their contribution to the LGBTQ community. Previous recipients of the Cal Pride Scholarship are not eligible to re-apply.
The Stonewall Fund
The Stonewall Fund is a collaboration between the Gender Equity Resource Center and the Cal Alumni Association to better facilitate alumni giving to campus LGBTQ initiatives. The Stonewall Fund includes an emergency fund grant, paid leadership initiatives, and a leadership scholarship entitled the Pride Scholarship.
League Foundation
Since 1996, LEAGUE Foundation has awarded 220 college scholarships totaling $480,500 to self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBTQ+) graduating US High School Students. LEAGUE Foundation scholars are selected through a multi-round process where applicants academic, community involvement, and educational goals determine LEAGUE Scholars.
NLGJA Association of LGBTQ Journalists
The Association of LGBTQ Journalists scholarships are awarded annually to students who demonstrate a commitment to providing fair and accurate coverage of the LGBTQ community. Several of these annual scholarships are presented in honor of prominent journalists.
LEROY F. AARONS SCHOLARSHIP
Since 1996, LEAGUE Foundation has awarded 220 college scholarships totaling $480,500 to self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBTQ+) graduating US High School Students. LEAGUE Foundation scholars are selected through a multi-round process where applicants’ academic, community involvement, and educational goals determine LEAGUE Scholars.
KAY LONGCOPE SCHOLARSHIP
The Kay Longcope scholarship was established in 2008 in memory of Boston Globe journalist Kay Longcope, who co-founded the Texas Triangle, a LGBTQ weekly newspaper that would eventually grow to become the major source for all things gay in Texas, covering the gamut from news to art, relationships to music reviews. This scholarship provides tuition assistance to an LGBTQ student of color who plans a career in journalism.
Markowski-Leach Scholarship Fund
The Markowski-Leach Scholarship fund was established as a result of the vision of Tom Markowski and Jim Leach. Tom and Jim were a gay couple living in San Francisco. As the AIDS crisis spread in the early 1980s, they talked about what they would like their legacy to be. They “wanted to make a difference” and felt that, at that time, there was a dearth of positive role models for gays and lesbians. This became the defining theme of the scholarships: to assist in the education of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) people who would then have an impact on other LGBTQ people through their works.
Point Foundation
The Point Foundation mission is to empower promising lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students to achieve their full academic and leadership potential – despite the obstacles often put before them – to make a significant impact on society.
Point provides financial support, a community of peers, leadership training, and mentorship, to US college students from around the world. Point also generates research to document the challenges LGBTQ students face on US campuses so that we can provide data and resources to help mitigate these issues.
NSWA Awards and Prizes
Established in 1977, the National Women's Studies Association has as one of its primary objectives promoting and supporting the production and dissemination of knowledge about women and gender through teaching, learning, research and service in academic and other settings.
Each year, NWSA in coordination with the NWSA Women's Center Committee gives multiple awards to deserving people working in women's and gender equity centers. All nominees must be current members of NWSA.
Our commitments are to: illuminate the ways in which women’s studies are vital to education; to demonstrate the contributions of feminist scholarship that is comparative, global, intersectional and interdisciplinary to understandings of the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences; and to promote synergistic relationships between scholarship, teaching and civic engagement in understandings of culture and society.
Ronald P. Wilmot Scholarship
- Eligibility: High school seniors or graduates who are planning to enroll or already enrolled in a full-time undergraduate or graduate program at an accredited college or university who are children of a gay or lesbian parent(s).
- Qualifications: Academic and artistic excellence, and financial need.
- Residency requirements: Applicant whose permanent residence is in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, which includes San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Marin, Napa, and Sonoma Counties.
- Approximately 10 scholarships of up to $2,000 each are expected to be awarded. Provided eligibility requirements are met, past recipients may reapply.
Tang Scholarship
Mr. Edward C. Tang established this award in 2007 to provide financial assistance to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (l/g/b/t) Asian and Pacific Islanders (API) for post-secondary Education. This scholarship is to help LGBT youth proudly achieve educational pursuits and dreams without shame. This scholarship awards up to four outstanding students annually, a combined scholarships totaling up to $60,000, awarded over up to four years. These scholarships are renewable for a maximum of three more years (a total of four years) provided each student annually meets the renewal requirements.
Trans Wellness Request Fund
A program run by the Multicultural Community Center Trans Wellness team. More information on this year's program coming soon.
Professional Development
bridges Multicultural Resource Center
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
GLMA is a national organization committed to ensuring health equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) and all sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals, and equality for LGBTQ/SGM health professionals in their work and learning environments. To achieve this mission, GLMA utilizes the scientific expertise of its diverse multidisciplinary membership to inform and drive advocacy, education, and research.
National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
The National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), the business voice of the LGBTQ community, is the only national advocacy organization dedicated to expanding economic opportunities for the LGBTQ business community.
The Out List
The Out List is an ongoing list of out LGBTQ+ faculty and staff at UC Berkeley run by LavenderCal. LavenderCal is a member-based organization working to build community and belonging among all LGBTQ+ staff, faculty, postdocs, and visiting scholars at UC Berkeley—inclusive of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression as experienced through the lens of race, ethnicity, disability, class, age, faith, culture, and other intersecting identities.
Reaching Out (MBA)
Reaching Out is the biggest and best-known organization focused on supporting the LGBT+ MBA Community. Reaching Out MBA's mission is to increase the influence of the LGBTQ+ community in business by educating, inspiring, and connecting MBA students and alumni.They host a ROMBA conference, a variety of events, and a fellowship program.
UCLA QGrad: Queer Graduate Conference
An annual conference presented by LGBTQ Studies and Q-Grad Students at UCLA. This year’s conference theme is “New Coalitions”, a theme which speaks to the rich new forms of coalitional thought and practices emerging in our complex 21st-century world. The day’s varied assortment of graduate student-led panels includes discussions of suturing borders, scrambling archives, trusting spaces, the aesthetics of solidarity, and emerging conceptions of care, to name a few.