YOU CAN MAKE AN IMPACT
Family Diversity Projects is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization devoted to educating people of all ages about the full range of diversity, and contributions are tax-deductible.
Please donate what you can, and share this important initiative with those you love. If you prefer to mail a check, please contact us and we will be happy to facilitate a contribution and tax receipt.
Help Support our Brand New Exhibit and Book!
Family Diversity Projects has exciting plans for 2023 — but we need your financial help!
Dear Friend,
We are writing to you with an update on Family Diversity Projects, the non-profit we founded in 1996 to help reduce bullying and prejudice towards marginalized people in our society. Since then, we have created eight timely and powerful traveling photo-text exhibits that challenge hatred and bigotry and teach people of all ages to appreciate the full range of human diversity! Our most well-known exhibit (and book) is LOVE MAKES A FAMILY: Portraits of LGBTQ People and their Families, and our most popular one now is BUILDING BRIDGES: Portraits of Immigrants and Refugees.
However, in this terribly polarized political climate we have seen how fragile even our democracy can be. Even though the midterms went better than we expected, the bullying rhetoric and homophobic and transphobic bills passing in legislatures all over our country have put our LGBTQ+ youth and their families at great risk. And the rising of white nationalist hate groups threatens all BIPOC people, as well as Jews, Muslims, and asylum seekers and refugees from all over the world.
This has made the need for education provided by our exhibits even more vital. So, at this critical moment in American history, we are going to redouble our efforts to reach children, teens, and adults in schools, colleges, houses of worship, businesses, libraries, and museums. This will take significant investment in PR and marketing, and a lot of work. But with your help, we can reach an infinitely larger audience.
New Exhibit! New Book!
BREAKING NEWS! Our brand-new exhibit AUTHENTIC SELVES: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and their Families will be ready to travel in January 2023 and will have its world premiere at Penn State University. The photos are currently being framed, and Peggy has also finished the book of the same title, which will be published by Skinner House Books in May 2023. Preorder at http://familydiversityprojects.org/books
Both the exhibit and the book will be crucial resources in creating support for trans and nonbinary people. We are so proud of this new project! To get all of our exhibits out in the world and pay for the costs of creating this new exhibit, we need your financial support today!
Each frame for the new exhibit, for example, costs $90. (We are thankful for the John-Pierre Pasche, owner of Big Red Frame in Easthampton, MA for reducing the costs to support our non-profit. I hope you will support this great frame shop too.)
Real Stories, Real Impact
We are thrilled with the ways we are evolving to further our mission to fight bigotry and bullying. Thanks for joining us in these exciting efforts, at this critical time. If you can, please stretch and donate as much as possible to challenge bigotry, bullying, and hatred of marginalized people.
Please consider becoming one of our Ambassadors of Diversity & Inclusion and donate $500 or more, to help us continue our work and give scholarships to every venue that needs one.
Or by check to :
Family Diversity Projects
61 Ford Xing
Northampton, MA 01060
THANK YOU!!!
Warmly,
Peggy Gillespie and Gigi Kaeser, Co-Directors
“It is crucial to keep their exhibitions circulating. Family Diversity Projects plans to create digital interactive versions of their exhibits, with curriculum, and I strongly support this new digitization project. It is a perfect project for these times when we need hopeful and affirming educational materials that address social justice, access, and equity. I recommend Family Diversity Projects exhibits as one of the best educational resources available on diversity themes. Digital versions will enhance their ability to reach a far wider audience during this pandemic and into the future. I hope you can help make this possible."
— Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts and author of Affirming Diversity