Readiness & Resilience Fund
The Readiness and Resilience Fund is designated for LGBTQ+ communities impacted by emergent or ongoing crises or systems of oppression.
The Readiness and Resilience fund was created by the PFund board of directors during the pandemic as a successor to the foundation’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund.
The fund provides community leaders, board members, and other stakeholders with the flexibility and agility to support queer communities facing and responding to crises. These include emergencies or ongoing systems of oppression. Most recently, the Readiness and Resilience Fund has served as the funding distribution mechanism for PFund’s TRANSCEND Campaign. You can support this fund with a gift here; please be sure to note your donation is for the Readiness and Resilience Fund.
In 2023, the Readiness & Resilience Fund received major support (via the TRANSCEND Campaign) from the Northwest Area Foundation and Saint Paul Foundation, with additional support from Cargill.
Am I Eligible to Apply?
Organizations must be invited by PFund Foundation to apply for support from the Readiness and Resilience Fund. For more information, please send an email to info@pfundfoundation.org.
The organization or group must be primarily serving communities in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and the First Nations therein.
The purpose of the request must primarily serve LGBTQ+ communities.
States We Serve
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
North Dakota
South Dakota
The First Nations therein
Chase Iron Eyes, Chief John Spotted Tail, Senator Red Dawn Foster, Monique “Muffie” Mousseau, and Felipa De Leon inside the South Dakota state capitol on a day they provided testimony in support of proposed legislation protecting watersheds and providing for their management. Photo courtesy of Uniting Resilience.
Grant Recipient:
Uniting Resilience
Uniting Resilience is a Native Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ nonprofit organization located in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Over the course of the pandemic, the unhoused population in Rapid City had dramatically increased. Many of the people experiencing housing instability in Rapid City identify as part of the Native Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ communities. During the fall of 2021, tensions were rising between housing and social justice activities and city officials regarding how the community should respond to the needs of unhoused people.
PFund Foundation worked with Uniting Resilience’s cofounders Monique “Muffie” Mosseau and Felipa De Leon to send Readiness and Resilience funds that Uniting Resilience used to aid queer unhoused people with food, winter clothing, and other supplies.