Contigo Fund

Contigo Fund For all those affected by the Pulse tragedy -whether physically present at the club or otherwise- we want them to know: Estamos Contigo - We’re With You.

Community-led grantmaking advancing equity and justice for LGBTQ+, immigrant, BIPOC, and allied communities across Central Florida, rooted in the Pulse response. The Contigo Fund launched in response to the horrific act of hate that occurred on Latin Night at Pulse nightclub targeting LGBTQ people of color. “Contigo” means “with you” in Spanish. Contigo Fund is focused on medium-term to long-term

solutions to bring meaningful, transformative and lasting change to these Pulse-affected and historically marginalized LGBTQ communities in Orlando and across Central Florida. We believe supporting the most marginalized and oppressed brings our full community closer to justice and liberation. The Contigo Fund financially supports organizations - including emerging and grassroots organizations that lack access to philanthropy - that are working to heal, educate and empower LGBTQ, Latinx and Black individuals, immigrants, and other people of color, as well as those working to end all forms of bigotry. Contigo Fund through our community-driven grantmaking seeks to build bridges across Central Florida’s diverse communities and to raise awareness of homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, racism, and other forms of bigotry that divide our communities rather than bring them together. We support our grantees' vision with resources, training, and opportunities to build community with each other. Through our work, we aim to create a sanctuary where all are welcomed, safe, and affirmed. In accordance with these values, Contigo Fund does not tolerate or engage in forms of hate speech including homophobic, transphobic, racist, etc. speech and will hide any comments that engage in this hurtful discourse.

For more than a decade, community leadership has been at the heart of Contigo Fund.The first photo was taken in Septembe...
06/24/2026

For more than a decade, community leadership has been at the heart of Contigo Fund.

The first photo was taken in September 2016, just months after Pulse.

The second was taken nearly ten years later.

These photos capture two moments in a much larger story. Not every Steering Committee member from each moment is pictured here, but every person who has served has helped shape the work, the vision, and the legacy of Contigo Fund.

Some faces have changed. New leaders have stepped forward. Others have completed their service and passed the torch. And some have continued to hold that torch across the years, helping carry the vision from one chapter to the next.

Contigo Fund was built on a simple belief: the people closest to our communities should help shape the decisions that impact them.

For ten years, our Steering Committee has helped guide grantmaking, strategy, partnerships, and investments across Central Florida. They have asked hard questions, wrestled with difficult decisions, challenged assumptions, celebrated victories, and helped ensure that community voice remains at the center of this work.

As we celebrate Pride Month and reflect on the road from 2016 to today, we’re reminded that movements are not sustained by any one person. They are sustained by generations of leaders willing to show up, learn from one another, and continue building long-term community power.

We’re grateful for every Steering Committee member, past and present, who has helped shape this journey.

Here’s to ten years of community leadership.
And to everything still ahead. 🧡

Tomorrow, we gather.Join us Sunday, June 21 for From Remembrance to Empowerment: Reimagining a Collective Future 10 Year...
06/20/2026

Tomorrow, we gather.

Join us Sunday, June 21 for From Remembrance to Empowerment: Reimagining a Collective Future 10 Years After Pulse, a community gathering rooted in remembrance, reflection, cultural expression, political education, interfaith solidarity, and collective action.

Ten years after Pulse, we continue to honor the 49 lives taken, the families and survivors forever impacted, and the communities who have carried grief, memory, resistance, and love forward.

But remembrance cannot stop at a moment. It must also ask us what we are willing to build together now.

This special evening at Joy MCC will include:

A remembrance altar/offrenda held by QLatinx.

A musical offering from Mimi Bautista with Descolonizarte Teatro.

Remarks from Rep. Anna Eskamani.

A community conversation with Rev. Terri Steed Pierce of Joy MCC, Joél Junior Morales of Contigo Fund, and George Wallace of The Center Orlando, facilitated by Tahil Sharma with the National LGBTQ Task Force.

We Are Becoming, a performance by five ensemble members with Conscious Art for Change.

A guided participant discussion facilitated by Taylor Biro with the National LGBTQ Task Force.

A theatrical excerpt from Nico with Descolonizarte Teatro exploring immigration, q***rness, belonging, and the stories being carried in community.

An interfaith reflection and call to action from David Williamson representing the Interfaith Council of Central Florida.

This is a space for remembrance, but also for relationship, strategy, imagination, and movement. We invite faith communities, LGBTQ+ communities, immigrant communities, allies, artists, organizers, and neighbors to join us as we reimagine what collective responsibility, protection, leadership, and action can look like over the next 10 years.

Sunday, June 21, 2026
4:00 to 6:00 PM ET
Joy Metropolitan Community Church
2351 S Ferncreek Ave, Orlando, FL 32806

Register at https://bit.ly/tfcfjmcc

Registration helps us plan, but all are welcome. Please continue sharing with your networks and join us tomorrow.

For Juneteenth, Chevalier Lovett reminds us that remembrance and organizing must move together.A movement strategist, co...
06/19/2026

For Juneteenth, Chevalier Lovett reminds us that remembrance and organizing must move together.

A movement strategist, community advocate, father, and member of Contigo Fund’s Steering Committee, Chev’s reflection calls us to honor Black freedom not only as history, but as a responsibility we continue to carry forward.

Black freedom has always required vision, strategy, courage, and people willing to build beyond what systems allow. It has required families, artists, organizers, advocates, and community leaders who imagine more than survival and keep working toward futures rooted in dignity, power, and joy.

Chev’s words remind us that liberation is not passive. It is built through daily choices, collective strategy, and a commitment to creating conditions where our communities can thrive.

We are grateful for Chev’s leadership and the ways he continues to help shape community-rooted work across Central Florida.

Honor the past. Build the future. Keep moving toward liberation.

We are honored to share the Juneteenth reflection of Nino Franklin (they/he) a Black transmasculine leader, deeply roote...
06/19/2026

We are honored to share the Juneteenth reflection of Nino Franklin (they/he) a Black transmasculine leader, deeply rooted in Southern Black tradition, culture, and community leadership, and a member of Contigo Fund’s Steering Committee.

Nino reminds us that Juneteenth is both legacy and responsibility. They draw strength from generations who fought for freedom they may never have fully experienced themselves. In their words, “I do not take that legacy for granted.”

For Nino, honoring that past means creating intentional spaces by and for transmasculine people—spaces where connection, healing, celebration, and thriving in community are possible. They remind us that the work we carry forward today makes greater freedom, dignity, and belonging possible for future generations.

We are grateful for Nino’s leadership, and for the ways they continue to weave legacy, voice, and community into liberation.

Honor the past. Build the future. Keep moving toward liberation.

On this Juneteenth, we invite reflection from Sheena Hampton-Johnson—an artist, strategist, movement worker, and a membe...
06/19/2026

On this Juneteenth, we invite reflection from Sheena Hampton-Johnson—an artist, strategist, movement worker, and a member of Contigo Fund’s Steering Committee.

Sheena reminds us that Juneteenth is not only about freedom as a political act. It is about healing, culture, embodiment, imagination, and the ongoing work of building new worlds where Black, q***r, trans, and intersectional communities can imagine, live fully, and be safe.

We are grateful for Sheena’s leadership, her vision, and the ways she roots movement work in healing, creativity, and collective liberation.

Honor the past. Build the future. Keep moving toward liberation.

We’re honored to lift up the voice of Quincy “Q Major” Wilson is a spoken word poet, storyteller, creative organizer, an...
06/19/2026

We’re honored to lift up the voice of Quincy “Q Major” Wilson is a spoken word poet, storyteller, creative organizer, and member of Contigo Fund’s Steering Committee.

For Quincy, Juneteenth is both a reminder of struggle and a call into joy.

“For me, Juneteenth is a reminder of how fiercely our ancestors fought for freedom and how hard we must continue to fight to hold onto that freedom and push forward, because the struggle is not over.

But it is also a reminder to rest, celebrate, dance, be Black, be joyful, be whole, and do all the things they said we couldn’t do.

Freedom is only truly realized when we are all free.

Through song, dance, poetry, and spoken word, we found ways to scream, heal, and release our pain. We communed through stories, songs, and riddles, creating pathways to freedom. We braided seeds into our hair and carried hope and survival wherever we went. We endured.

And in the words of Maya Angelou, ‘Still, we rise.’

As a storyteller who uses many mediums to share stories, I believe in the power of storytelling to change the conditions in which we live. I believe freedom can be found in our collective stories, our collective voices, and our collective dreams.

Free. Free. Free.

Freedom.

Today, we celebrate. Tomorrow, we continue to push forward.”

— Quincy “Q Major” Wilson
Contigo Fund Steering Committee Member

In moments like these, we’re honored to lift up the voice of Ronnie McCrea, a Black q***r leader, HIV care advocate, and...
06/19/2026

In moments like these, we’re honored to lift up the voice of Ronnie McCrea, a Black q***r leader, HIV care advocate, and member of Contigo Fund’s Steering Committee.

Ronnie’s reflection reminds us that Juneteenth is not only about remembering history. It is about protecting freedom in the present and continuing the work of changing the systems that deny our communities dignity, safety, health, and joy.

We are grateful for Ronnie McCrea Jr.’s leadership, his heart for community, and the ways he continues to show up for Black, q***r, and HIV-impacted communities across Central Florida.

Honor the past. Build the future. Keep moving toward liberation.

Juneteenth is not only a date in history. It is a reminder that freedom was delayed, fought for, claimed, protected, and...
06/19/2026

Juneteenth is not only a date in history. It is a reminder that freedom was delayed, fought for, claimed, protected, and still demands our commitment.

Today, we honor June 19, 1865, when enslaved Black people in Texas were finally informed of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. We also recognize that liberation has never been a single moment. It has always been a movement carried by Black communities, organizers, families, artists, educators, faith leaders, and freedom fighters across generations.

At Contigo Fund, this truth grounds our work: supporting Black, Latinx, LGBTQ+, immigrant, and other communities across Central Florida as they organize, lead, and build long-term community power in the face of systemic injustice.

May this day call us into remembrance, truth-telling, celebration, and continued action toward a future where freedom is real, shared, and protected for all.

Honor the past. Build the future. Keep moving toward liberation.

We’re honored to share more of what’s planned for From Remembrance to Empowerment: Reimagining a Collective Future 10 Ye...
06/18/2026

We’re honored to share more of what’s planned for From Remembrance to Empowerment: Reimagining a Collective Future 10 Years After Pulse.

Ten years after Pulse, we are called not only to remember, but to keep imagining and building the future our communities deserve.

This special evening will bring together faith leaders, LGBTQ+ advocates, organizers, artists, elected officials, and community members for remembrance, reflection, storytelling, political education, cultural expression, and collective action.

In the spirit of QLatinx’s recent Con Amor y Resistencia remembrance work, QLatinx will help hold sacred space through an altar/ofrenda honoring the 49 lives taken at Pulse and the families, survivors, loved ones, and communities forever impacted.

The evening will include remarks from Rep. Anna Eskamani, a conversation with Rev. Terri Pierce of Joy MCC, Joél Junior Morales of Contigo Fund, George Wallace of The Center Orlando, and Nadia Garzón of Descolonizarte Teatro, facilitated by Tahil Sharma with the National LGBTQ Task Force.

The program will also include a theatrical excerpt from Descolonizarte Teatro centering q***r and immigrant stories, a participant discussion guided by the National LGBTQ Task Force team, interfaith reflection, a call to action, and a poetic offering from Quincy “Q Major” Wilson with Conscious Art for Change.

Ten years later, remembrance cannot stop at a moment. It must help us ask what we are willing to build together beyond June. We invite faith communities, allies, and community members to join us, not just to remember, but to be part of shaping a future of shared responsibility, protection, leadership, and action.

Sunday, June 21, 2026
4:00 to 6:00 PM ET
Joy Metropolitan Community Church
2351 S Ferncreek Ave, Orlando, FL 32806

Register here: https://bit.ly/tfcfjmcc
Link also in bio.

Join us for an evening of remembrance, cultural expression, community reflection, and renewed commitment to the work ahead.

National LGBTQ Task Force LGBT+ Center Orlando - The Center Contigo Fund QLatinx Descolonizarte Teatro Representative Anna V. Eskamani

Ten years after Pulse, we are called not only to remember, but to keep imagining and building the future our communities...
06/16/2026

Ten years after Pulse, we are called not only to remember, but to keep imagining and building the future our communities deserve.

Contigo Fund is honored to join Joy Metropolitan Community Church, the National LGBTQ Task Force, The Center Orlando, and community partners for From Remembrance to Empowerment: Reimagining a Collective Future 10 Years After Pulse.

This gathering will bring together faith leaders, elected officials, advocates, organizers, and community members for an evening of reflection, storytelling, political education, and collective action as we honor the 49 lives taken at Pulse and the families, survivors, and communities forever impacted.

The evening will feature voices including Representative Anna V. Eskamani, Joél Junior Morales with Contigo Fund, Rev. Terri Pierce with Joy MCC, George Wallace with LGBT+ Center Orlando - The Center, Rev. Dr. Nancy Wilson, Former MCC Moderator, and Taylor Biro with the National LGBTQ Task Force.

Sunday, June 21, 2026
4:00 to 6:00 PM ET
Joy Metropolitan Community Church
2351 S Ferncreek Ave, Orlando, FL 32806

Register here: https://bit.ly/tfcfjmcc

We hope you’ll join us and help spread the word.

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