Erie Gives Day 2026 Q+ Results

Erie's LGBTQ+ nonprofits increased their presence this Giving Day, each expanding their missions for our community. Here's what they work on and how they fared financially while raising over $51,000 this year.

The LGBT Community Endowment

What They Do: Fueled by The Erie Community Foundation's LGBT Fund, this endowment provides grants and scholarships addressing systemic inequities, supporting LGBTQ+ education, youth services, and leadership. For over a decade, they have distributed over $35K in grants and $12K+ in scholarships. Erie Gives Day Results: Raised $23,550

Compton's Table

What They Do: Named in honor of the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria uprising, Compton's Table uses a community health model to ensure queer and gender-expansive youth are connected to safe, inclusive, and affirming care. They partner with professionals across education, healthcare, and mental health systems to help young people access the support they need to thrive. Erie Gives Day Results: Raised $18,825

Erie Gay News

What They Do: The newest Q+ nonprofit to join Erie Gives Day amidst a year of coordinating 'give back' events where various local entities and non-profits in our Q+ Community came together to help improve the lives of our siblings, cousins, and beyond. Partnerships helped create a Boots and Coats Drive, the Second Harvest Food Drive, Persad Center Presentations on LGBTQ+ and Law Enforcement, and a Back to School Donation Drive. These events are part of our broader goal to collaborate across the LGBTQIA+ regional family in addition to the monthly EGN issues/articles. Erie Gives Day Results: Raised $2,153

Erie Pride 365

What They Do: A grassroots organization dedicated themselves to constructing inclusive communities and safe spaces that allow every individual to thrive. Their commitment is unwavering: to affirm every identity, to amplify every voice, and to assure every individual that they are seen, heard, and valued. Together, we build diversity, empower minorities, and cultivate spaces where everyone belongs, every day of the year. Erie Gives Day Results: Raised $450

Journey: Healing Together

What They Do: Focused on mindfulness and mental wellness, Journey: Healing Together offers therapeutic spaces for healing, especially for trauma and LGBTQ+ care thru their Learning Collective and Wellness Weekends. Erie Gives Day Results: Raised $275

NW PA Pride Alliance

What They Do: For the queer community in Erie and Crawford Counties, the NWPA Pride Alliance has been a constant presence. Donations help them create the moments that define Pride in NWPA including cornerstone events across two counties free and open to all. These events focus around: The Erie Pride Parade, Pride on the Bay, Meadville Pride on the Diamond, and the Presque Isle Pride Picnic. Erie Gives Day Results: Raised $6,075

From decades of events and support to increasing visibility and representation, Erie's LGBTQ+ nonprofits continue their community-first impacts. The LGBT Community Endowment continues to be a quiet force, investing in sustained, systemic transformation in the Erie region.

Erie Gives Day is more than just a fundraiser for our LGTBQ+ organizations. Collectively we support the greater queer community and our allies all year long in addition to this one great day of fundraising.

About the Author

Gary Snyder Gary Snyder (He/Him), has been involved with Erie Gay News submitting articles since 2005 and coordinating the Annual Pride Picnic kitchen in 2008. He currently serves as an Advisory Board member of the NWPA Pride Alliance [since 2012]. Gary is a graduate of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in HRIM. From 1999 to 2012 he was an active member and then executive officer of the non-profit Burgh Bears social club in Pittsburgh, PA. Currently Gary is employed by the Erie County Department of Health as the HIV Disease Intervention Specialist, serving as a community member of the HIV Planning Group in coordination with the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Along with advising the NWPAPA Board, he chairs the Erie County HIV Task Force, serves on the Erie Gay News Editorial Board, and is the President of the AFSCME Union Local 2666.