Victory Institute announces 2014 Movement Leaders Fellows

The Victory Institute has announced its second class of LGBT Movement Leaders Fellows. The program, which equips executive directors of LGBT organizations with critical non-profit management skills and a connection to a national network of their peers, is endowed by a $250,000, five-year grant from the LTR Lewis Cloverdale Foundation. The fellowship will send four executive directors to attend the prestigious Nonprofit Management Program at Duke University. 

“The fight for equality is only as successful as the people and organizations that wage it. Duke’s nonprofit management program will provide critical skills to our emerging nonprofit leaders to ensure their long-term success,” said Chuck Wolfe, president and CEO of the Victory Institute.

Brand tapped as Victory Fund's new deputy chief

The Victory Fund has named Robin Brand, formerly chief operating officer of the Gill Action Fund, as its deputy executive director. Brand, a longtime LGBT rights advocate who served a previous stint with the Victory Fund as its senior vice president and political director, will begin her new job on March 1.

Bid on a cruise and benefit Victory Fund

The cruise sets sail August 23rd from Seattle aboard Holland America's Westerdam 5-star cruise ship. 100% of the winning bid on eBay goes to support the mission of the Victory Fund—to grow the number of openly LGBT elected officials at all levels of government across the U.S.

For more information about the cruise and to place your bid, go to www.victoryfund.org/cruise before April 29th, when bidding ends.

Obama appoints a gaggle of gays

Maybe Rick Warren was just a terrible mistake. Obama is loading his upper echelon with gay men and lesbians. Well, loading might be overstating the case a bit, but he's appointing quite a few. The Blade talks about his latest here, and you can go to the Victory Fund Web site here to see all his G & L appointments.

Victory Fund endorses 10 out candidates for 2009

2009 is shaping up to be a good year politically.

Read all about the out and proud politicians being endorsed by the Victory Fund in 2009.

Aren't they cute?

Victory Fund backs the GLBT 100

As of Tuesday of last week, the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund has backed 100 candidates in this year's elections including Mark Ferrandino, Jared Polis and Sue Schafer from Colorado. - via the Washington Blade