question: what would you do if you could make things better for LGBTQ+ youth in your community or at your school?
second question: what if you could get a grant to actually help fund your project and make it a reality?
well we gotchu!
since 2022, we've awarded $1.6 million in funding to 170 youth-led projects across the U.S., including things like gender-affirming clothing closets, regional LGBTQ+ youth conferences, student wellness programs and safe spaces, and inclusive arts and education projects.
and yup, we're doing it again.
with It Gets Better: Changemakers, we want to help you create a lasting impact at your school, your library, your local LGBTQ+ center, or wherever it’s needed most in your own local community.
maybe a community service project? hosting a Queer Homecoming? painting a downtown Pride mural? let's dooo it!
you can apply now for a grant through May 3, 2026 at itgetsbetter.org/changemakers.
P.S.: Look out for upcoming info sessions where we'll answer all your FAQs about the application and funding process. Can't wait to see your ideas. 💜
2026 LingComm Grants – Small Grants for Communicating Linguistics to Wider Audiences
We want to see more linguistics in the world!
The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 (USD) to support linguistics communication projects that bring pop linguistics to broader audiences in new and engaging ways. The grants also include a mentoring meeting with Gretchen McCulloch, Lauren Gawne, and/or an experienced lingcommer who we have personally selected to be relevant to your project to ask your lingcomm process questions, and promotion of your project to our lingthusiastic audience.
We have six $300 LingComm Grants on any topic related to linguistics and an additional $300 Kirby Conrod and Friends LGBTQ+ LingComm Grant.
The initial grants are funded by Lingthusiasm, thanks to the kind support of our patrons, and judged by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. You can help fund the grants and other LingComm projects here. Additional grants in 2026 were funded thanks to Daniel Currie Hall, Sarah Kelen, Lukas Graf, Rob Monarch and other anonymous donors.
Please apply and/or share with any up and coming lingcommers you know!
For more information, and to apply, visit the Grants page of the LingComm website.
To stay in the loop on LingComm, we have a LingComm Google Groups mailing list.
[Sacramento, Calif.] – The California State Library announces the award of $750,000 in grant funds to ensure the physical and digital preservation and increased accessibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer archives relating to LGBTQ+ history in California. Read the full press release at https://www.library.ca.gov/about/press-releases/lgbtq2026-grant-award/
The Trump administration conceded that 284 research grants were canceled because they were in states that voted against President Donald Tru
Gary Grumbach and Kyla Guilfoil at NBC News:
The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants “solely because” the projects were connected to states that voted against President Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings.
The administration made the admission in a court filing this month responding to a lawsuit brought by University of California researchers challenging the cancellation.
In the filing, the administration wrote as an undisputed statement of fact that on a list of more than 2,300 financial assistance awards across the Department of Energy, 624 grants on these lists were designated either “termination” or “cancel.”
Of those 624 grants, Jeff Novak, the principal deputy general counsel of the Department of Energy, wrote that in October 2025 the Office of Management and Budget identified 284 specific grants that were marked to be terminated.
Novak wrote that with one exception, “the 284 terminated grants had a recipient location and/or at least one place of performance in a state that awarded its electoral votes to Kamala Harris in the 2024 election and has two Democratic-caucusing Senators.”
Novak added that the remaining 340 grants proposed for termination were ultimately not canceled in October 2025 nor since then.
“All such grants had a recipient location and/or at least one place of performance in a state that awarded its electoral votes to President Trump in the 2024 election or has at least one Republican-caucusing Senator,” Novak wrote of the unterminated grants.
Novak wrote that the decision to cancel the grants listed in the October notice tranche — those 284 — was not “based on any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction, or performance-based factor.”
“DOE accepts that the inclusion of grants in the October notice tranche was based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state, i.e., whether the recipient’s location and/or place of performance was in a Blue State or a non-Blue State,” Novak wrote.
He added that the Department of Energy “will not contend that it looked beyond the prime grantee(s) to consider the political identity or geographic distribution of downstream beneficiaries of the grant funds.”
The New York Times first reported this filing.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Department of Energy argued in a statement Friday that court filings did not show that termination decisions were made on a political basis.
The Trump Regime’s Department of Energy basically admitted that it cancelled 284 research grants in states voted for Kamala Harris for President in 2024 and has 2 Democratic Senators for partisan political gain, per court filings in Thakur v. Trump.
See Also:
MS NOW: White House admits it scrapped grants to blue states because they didn’t vote for Trump
PDF: Full list of grant revocations, as highlighted in Thakur v. Trump.
