Strengthen diversity- Support the Queer Center Göttingen

About the supporting association and its goals:
Queeres Göttingen e.V. is the supporting association of the Queer Center Göttingen (QZG) and the Queer CULTURAL DAYS. The QZG is a meeting place, event and advice center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, non-binary, inter*, poly, asexual and other queer people and groups. A place for young people and adults, community and empowerment, culture and education, self-organization and advocacy. Since its beginnings, the QZG has grown continuously and has since moved to larger premises in order to accommodate both the larger full-time team and the ever-increasing number of groups and offers. The QZG offers queer people in Göttingen and the surrounding area spaces for empowerment, leisure activities, networking, civic engagement and anti-discrimination work.

How do we work?
The organization and coordination of our groups, members, users and employees and of events such as the Queer Culture Days is the responsibility of one of three half-time full-time positions. Two other half-time positions take care of the administration and organization of the equity* youth project. Without this work, most of the center's services - (specialist) consultations, leisure activities, maintenance of the premises, group offers, use of rooms, Queer Culture Days, summer festivals, information stands, lectures and training courses - could not take place or could only take place to a very limited extent. The successful work of the departments and groups is based on a broad volunteer base, which in turn would remain without support and supervision if the full-time positions were to be eliminated.

This is exactly where this appeal for donations comes in:
Unfortunately, the Queer Center Göttingen - like so many queer and social institutions - is chronically underfunded. Although the center rooms, infrastructure and our accounting office have so far been secured by municipal funds, our full-time positions depend on the application for and approval of temporary project funding. This project funding provides for a considerable amount of own funds, which an association of our size cannot come close to raising through membership fees, for example. At the same time, the willingness to provide selective funding through small project applications, e.g. from foundations or companies, has also declined noticeably, which we attribute to the political situation and the increasingly harsh social climate.
In order to continue our work, we are therefore also heavily dependent on donations.

Over the next two years, we need a total of €24,000 to secure our coordination office and to continue our youth project equity*. Only in this way can the center, group, youth and counseling work be sustainable and continuously planned and (further) developed.

To make this possible, we have now set up this fundraising campaign until the end of the year. Are you joining us? Would you like to support us along the way? Every donation supports us on the next stage.