Every year Los Verdes joins up with Prideraiser a national organization to help bring visibility and fundraising to local LGBTQ+ charities.
This year, members have voted and selected to raise funds for for Black Trans Leadership Austin. Please pledge a dollar amount that you will donate for every goal and every save made by an Austin FC player in the month of October.
From their website: "Black Trans Leadership of Austin was formed by local queer black activists who identified issues directly affecting us that other LGBTQIA2+ organizations had yet to address. From our lived experience and direct connection to black trans people, we have intimate knowledge of the problems our community faces and powerful insights into the solutions. We have experienced and lived through the effects of the intersectional issues of racism, state violence, transphobia, misogyny, and homophobia. We seek to de-commodify human needs such as food, shelter, and healthcare services as well as provide a bridge to the finer things in life in for a community that is often forced live on the margins of society and miss out on living our fullest lives. Black Trans Leadership of Austin lives by the principle that we uplift our community through a grassroots approach to building solidarity and power. BTLA exists to help our community to thrive, not just survive."
There are plenty of opportunities to make a pledge that can make a difference -- choose a dollar amount to pledge! Your pledges will be your dollar amount given per Austin FC goal and Stuver save.
