Mukti Fund supports a safe, thriving, and resilient queer college climate at UCF, Valencia College, and Seminole State.
Queer excellence, leadership development, learning, and community collaboration.
The Mukti Fund is a small private foundation established in 1983. For many years it funded cultural heritage and environmental projects in the eastern Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis. After completing that program in 2005, the Mukti Fund began supporting Queer youth initiatives as part of a funding circle with Liberty Hill Foundation. In 2009, we started the Queer Youth Theater Fund (QYTF).
A total of nearly $2 million dollars was awarded to theaters, the Pride Youth Theater Alliance, and to the annual convening of QYT directors and young people. In 2021, Mukti Fund began exploring funding opportunities in central Florida focusing on LGBTQ youth issues. Now in 2024, the Mukti Fund has supported multiple central Florida colleges in fostering community and leadership development among their students.
Projects
Central Florida Campus Collaboration
Many educational materials in local languages are often out of date. We work with school leaders and publishers to ensure that students have access to current textbooks that are age appropriate and written in their primary language.
Queer Youth Theater Project
Queer Youth Theater offered queer and allied youth safe spaces to creatively express themselves while providing unique methods for representing and empowering queer voices in their community.
St. Kitts Nevis Project
How a small foundation can make a difference. The first St. Kitts and Nevis grants initiated in the 1985-1989 period by Mike Dively, with support from founding trustee Martin Dupuis and newly elected trustees Bill Moody and then Tom Fox.
Splash Float Swim
A vision to ensure all six-year old children can swim.
