HRC (Human Rights Campaign)
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About HRC
The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.
HRC seeks to improve the lives of LGBT Americans by advocating for equal rights and benefits in the workplace, ensuring families are treated equally under the law and increasing public support among all Americans through innovative advocacy, education and outreach programs. HRC works to secure equal rights for LGBT individuals and families at the federal and state levels by lobbying elected officials, mobilizing grassroots supporters, educating Americans, investing strategically to elect fair-minded officials and partnering with other LGBT organizations.
Their History
The Human Rights Campaign was founded in 1980, with a goal of raising money for congressional candidates who supported fairness. In the years that followed, the organization established itself as a resilient force in the overall movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights as it strived to achieve fundamental fairness and equality for all.
A Historical Snapshot
In 1980, Steve Endean, an advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality, founded the Human Rights Campaign Fund to raise money for pro-fairness congressional candidates. In that era, several extremist right-wing groups, including the Moral Majority and the National Conservative Political Action Committee, were gaining notoriety, and HRCF was created in part to counter their anti-gay tactics.
Over the decades that followed, the Human Rights Campaign — which dropped the word “Fund” from its name in 1995 — expanded its mission and became a leading player in the pro-equality movement nationwide. It lobbied for fair-minded legislation in Congress, worked alongside corporate America to gain needed protections for LGBT workers and spread the message of equality to every corner of the country.
What They Do
As the largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, the Human Rights Campaign represents a grassroots force of over 750,000 members and supporters nationwide — all committed to making HRC’s vision a reality.
Founded in 1980, the Human Rights Campaign advocates on behalf of LGBT Americans, mobilizes grassroots actions in diverse communities, invests strategically to elect fair-minded individuals to office and educates the public about LGBT issues.
Their Mission Statement
The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.
HRC seeks to improve the lives of LGBT Americans by advocating for equal rights and benefits in the workplace, ensuring families are treated equally under the law and increasing public support among all Americans through innovative advocacy, education and outreach programs. HRC works to secure equal rights for LGBT individuals and families at the federal and state levels by lobbying elected officials, mobilizing grassroots supporters, educating Americans, investing strategically to elect fair-minded officials and partnering with other LGBT organizations.
Educational Outreach
Through pioneering research, advocacy and education, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation supports and protects lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and their families in education, healthcare, corporate, public and private organizations across the country. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation believes that all Americans should have the opportunity to care for their families, earn a living, serve their country and live open, honest and safe lives at home, at work and in their community.
The HRC Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization. Programs funded in part or in full through the HRC Foundation include:
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- The Coming Out Project, which encourages LGBT and straight-supportive Americans to come out and live openly by providing resources that empower them to talk about their lives and advocate for LGBT equality.
- The Family Project, which empowers members of the LGBT community to take action to protect their families, improves the practices within key institutions that serve LGBT families and promotes visibility of LGBT families.
- The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Outreach Program, which trains student activists to sustain dialogue, build viable student-led LGBT organizations and open campus-wide debate on the issues that affect the LGBT community, often for the first time.
- The Religion & Faith Program, which amplifies the voices of clergy who support LGBT equality while also equipping and empowering people of faith to talk about LGBT issues from a religious perspective.
- The Workplace Project, which promotes equality in the workplace by advocating for policies that prohibit discrimination against LGBT workers, provide employees with equal benefits and diversity training and encourage appropriate marketing.
- The Youth & Campus Outreach Program, which provides tools, facilitates connections and empowers high school and college-aged young people to fight for LGBT equality on campus and beyond.