On the plane ride home from IGLTA’s 30th Annual Convention in Chicago last week, the woman seated next to me asked if she could borrow my newspaper. I had just tucked away in the seat pocket in front of me a copy of the Windy City Times that I had picked up during the media trade show. … Read more »
On Sunday, May 5, the winners of the IGLTA Foundation’s Building Bridges Scholarship spent a “Day Out in Chicago” with Chicago-based UrbanBuddy. Thanks to generous donations from UrbanBuddy and its partners, the scholarship winners spent a day experiencing some of the best Chicago has to offer.… Read more »
According to Kate Meehr, Executive Director & CEO of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, “increasingly, hunger is the face of somebody who has a job, it’s an older adult, a veteran, a child and not who you think it is”.… Read more »
Attendees at the 30th IGLTA Annual Global Convention in Chicago will have the opportunity to provide much needed support to a number of charitable organizations during the IGLTA Foundation’s Volunteer Day Event.… Read more »
One of the IGLTA Foundation’s May 4 volunteer events will support the Nettelhorst Community Group. Learn more about the dynamic organization that turned this struggling Boystown public school into one of Chicago’s most successful:
The incredible transformation of Chicago’s Nettelhorst Public School began with the simple question, “what do I have to do to get your kids to come here?” The following day, Jacqueline Edelberg returned with an extensive list.… Read more »
Teddy J. Frank is a student participant in the 2013 Building Bridges Scholarship Program. He lives in Liberia, a country in West Africa with a population of 3.7 million people. This is a nation in which the LGBT community face significant issues.… Read more »
Kleber de Oliveira da Silva is a student participant in the 2013 Building Bridges Scholarship program. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Tourism & Hospitality at Brazil’s University of Vale do Itajaí.… Read more »
Kathy Eow is a student participant in the 2013 Building Bridges Scholarship program. She is currently studying Hospitality and Tourism Management at Florida International University, where she notes that the topic of LGBT travel has only been mentioned on a few occasions.… Read more »
Jermain hails from the Republic of Suriname, a country located in the northern tip of South America with a population of approximately 500,000 people. While he never set out to become a human rights activist, his organization LGBT PLATFORM Suriname has been active in raising the profile for Suriname’s LGBT community.… Read more »
Aaron Paiva Leyton is the 2013 Small Business Participant in the IGLTA Foundation’s Building Bridges Scholarship Program. He will be attending the IGLTA Convention in Chicago this May.
Aaron remembers being told that “to do something different was wrong”, a belief he has never bought into.… Read more »
On the plane ride home from IGLTA’s 30th Annual Convention in Chicago last week, the woman seated next to me asked if she could borrow my newspaper. I had just tucked away in the seat pocket in front of me a copy of the Windy City Times that I had picked up during the media trade show. … Read more »