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Boston Mayor To Headline LGBT-Rights Fundraiser

By Chuck Colbert for The Rainbow Times

 

BOSTON, Mass. — A Massachusetts statewide advocacy group hopes to raise its public profile and revenue coffers through a new venue.

Voilà Icon Awards, a signature fundraising event for MassEquality, an organization dedicated to securing equality from “cradle to grave” for residents of the Commonwealth and beyond.

The idea of the 2011 inaugural Icon Awards “is to showcase who we are as an organization and the unique role we play in the community,” said executive director Kara Suffredini.

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Feb 23, 2012

Menino to receive Icon Award from MassEquality

By Colin A. Young for Boston.com

 

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino will receive an inaugural Icon Award from MassEquality, which is calling him a national leader on gay rights.

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Feb 23, 2012

Menino, gay icon

By Sue O'Connell for Bay Windows

 

MassEquality bestows honor.

On Wednesday, Feb. 29, LGBT advocacy organization MassEquality will honor Boston Mayor Tom Menino, philanthropic icon Ron Ansin, corporate icon Eastern Bank, and community icon Gladys Vega of Chelsea Collaborative at its Icon Awards. The event takes place at 6 p.m. at The State Room (60 State St., Boston).

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Feb 22, 2012

Finances at ‘turning point’ for LGBT groups, stabilizing; but donors fleeing

By Chuck Colbert for The Rainbow Times

 Good news and some concerns about the LGBT equality movement emerge from a new study by a LGBT think tank.

Finances of the nation’s leading LGBT organizations have stabilized following the recent economic downturn, and the overall financial health of the LGBT movement remains strong, the study found.

But fewer than three percent of LGBT adults contribute to national LGBT organizations; and the number of individual donors to LGBT groups dropped 12 percent between 2009 and 2010, a continuing trend now for five years.

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Feb 21, 2012