Pictured above at the May 2008 campaign kickoff are Providence Mayor David Cicilline, honorary campaign chair, and Residential Properties President Sally Lapides, campaign chair. On that occasion, Sally declared, “I will absolutely not be able to put my head down on the pillow until we are all treated equally, we are all recognized for our diversity and people judge us by the quality of who we are inside, not what we look like, who we pray to, who we love.”
The million dollar campaign for Equity Action, the Foundation’s field of interest fund for sexual orientation and gender identity, will be completed by the end of March 2011. Every dollar raised up to $500,000 will be matched by the Foundation.
Since 2004, the Fund, which was seeded by a grant from the National Lesbian and Gay Community Funding Partnership, a national foundation now known as Funders for Gay and Lesbian Issues, has made grants of more than $340,000 to nonprofit organizations that break down barriers of prejudice and inequity.
Equity Action Advisory Council
- Sally Ann Hay, Co-Chair
- W. Lynn McKinney, Co-Chair
- Guy Abelson
- Judith Anderson
- Ken Fish
- Susan Gershkoff
- Alexis M.Gorriarán
- Eric Gould
- Carlos Hernandez
- Peter Hocking
- Martha Holt
- Janet Isserlis
- Barbara Margolis
- Angela Mazaris
- Ted Ngo
- Daniel Scott, III
- Jen Smith
- Arthi Sundaresh
- Maria Tocco
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The Million Dollar Challenge Campaign Committee
- The Honorable David Cicilline, Honorary Chair
- Sally Lapides, Chair
Committee Members
- Guy Abelson
- Curt Columbus
- Donna D'Aloia, MA
- Edythe M. DeMarco, CFP,CRPC
- James DeRentis
- Joyce Dolbec, MA
- Christine Edmonds & Phyllis Arffa
- Renee Evangelista, Esq.
- Michael Evora
- Jim Fortier
- The Honorable Gordon D. Fox
- Ann-Marie Harrington
- Stephen Hourahan
- Lise Iwon, Esq.
- Peg Langhammer
- Janette Talento Ley
- W. Lynn McKinney
- Nancy Markham, CRS
- The Honorable Edwin Pacheco
- Benjamin Paster, Esq.
- Louis Raymond
- The Honorable Elizabeth Roberts
- Marc Streisand
- Susan Symonds
- Joe Wilson, Jr.
- Alex Zima
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