Deadline: 15-Aug-2025
The APCOM Foundation, through its “LGBTQI+ Emergency Support Fund” project, is launching a Small Grants Call to support LGBTIQ+ community-led organisations and initiative groups across the Asia-Pacific region. The goal is to help these groups respond swiftly and effectively to urgent threats, human rights emergencies, shrinking civic spaces, and anti-LGBT persecution.
These small grants aim to ensure safety, sustained activism, and the protection of rights in times of acute need. Funding of up to $5,000 USD is available for short-term projects running for up to three months, from September to November 2025.
Eligible projects can cover a range of emergency response needs. This includes combating stigmatisation and disinformation through rapid advocacy or documentation of rights violations, and responding to legal and policy threats with technical support or coalition-building.
Support is also available for urgent protection and legal aid, such as covering lawyer fees, security upgrades, psychosocial services, or emergency shelters for at-risk defenders. Additionally, the grants can assist displaced, migrant, or stateless LGBTIQ+ people with legal aid, psychosocial support, and access to basic needs like health, education, and employment.
Both registered NGOs and informal/unregistered groups in the Asia-Pacific are welcome to apply. Fiscal agents can be used where needed. Priority will be given to those groups that are directly affected by or actively responding to persecution, criminalisation, or human rights crises targeting the LGBTIQ+ community.
For more information, visit APCOM.
