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OUR MISSION

wayOUT empowers grassroots organizations to make a lasting, positive impact on LGBTQ+ youth across the nation.

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OUR MISSION

By making affirming spaces more accessible in local communities, we are creating a safer WAY for queer youth to be OUT as their most authentic selves wherever they are.

OUR

VISION

Through investing in organizations that provide life-saving resources, wayOUT

will change what it means to grow up as a gender or sexual minority in America.

OUR

AMBITION

By 2025, wayOUT will invest $3M in 30 life-saving projects across 30 cities.

IMPACT HIGHLIGHTS

$1,650,000

wayOUT has raised over $1.6M

since 2016.

25 grant recipients

By the end of 2024 we will have issued grants to 25 organizations.

5 local chapters

wayOUT has had chapters in the Bay Area, NYC, LA, Seattle & Atlanta

60+ Chapter Members

We are a fully volunteer organization with over 60 members.

5500+ individual donors

Our incredible network consists of over 5k individual donors.

21 CITIES, 16 STATES

wayOUT's grant's have had an impact on a local level.

OUR STORY

On a rooftop in San Francisco in 2016, five friends sat together discussing the changing and tumultuous political environment. Reflecting on an increasingly divided country and escalated threats to the emotional and mental health of LGBTQ+ individuals, the group collectively decided to act by combining their resources and focusing their efforts on a specific target. The result? wayOUT, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization focused on empowering LGBTQ+ youth by investing in LGBTQ+ centers in their local communities. 

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The Infamous "First Check"   |  wayOUT Bay Area Gayla 2017

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