The LGBT Resource Center at Grand Valley received a grant from the Arcus Foundation to help build student leaders and connect them to social justice efforts.
The $150,000 grant for the next two academic years will help empower students to create change through social programs, conferences and training sessions, according to center director Colette Seguin Beighley. Two key areas are highlighted below:
Grant money will help support the second year of “Change U: Training for Social Justice.” Limited to 100 applicants, Change U participants will receive training at either introductory or advanced levels facilitated by local and national speakers. Sessions will run January to April. Visit the website www.gvsu.edu/socialjustice for more information; registration begins November 1.
The Arcus grant helps fund the center’s participation in “A People’s History of the LGBTQ Community in Grand Rapids,” a community partnership with the Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy and Grand Valley’s Kutsche Office of Local History.
Seguin Beighley said the People’s History project grew from the center’s previous Arcus grant to videotape interviews with the LGBTQ community and create a documentary. “A People’s History of the LGBTQ Community in Grand Rapids” will premiere November 17 in the DeVos Center.
More information is online at www.gvsu.edu/lgbtrc and click on “A People’s History.”
