Our Fundraising Team
Join members of the Translate Gender staff, board, facilitators, volunteers, youth leaders, and family members as we raise funds and awareness for this incredible, local Western Massachusetts organization. From its humble beginnings, we're excited to see Translate Gender into its next chapter supporting trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive youth and their families connect to one another, share resources, and build power.
Our Story
Translate Gender is a trans-led community organization founded in 2006 to serve trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive youth and their families, helping them build community, resilience, and joy. We provide clinical services to support mental health, peer groups for families, training and advocacy for k-12 schools, and arts programming to ensure trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive youth can flourish in Western Massachusetts.
Translate Gender’s work is rooted in serving trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive youth and their families and we believe it is essential that our staff and board is reflective of the communities we serve. We primarily connect with youth and families in Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire counties, but regularly have people join our events from all across Massachusetts.
After 15 years operating as a volunteer effort, we incorporated as a 501c3 in 2021 to strengthen and expand our programs.
Why Give
Much of our work is sustained by generous contributions of time and money from our community. We are working hard to create a sustainable future for our organization, which means building infrastructure for our team to grow - i.e. being compensated and supported in their positions with a thriving wage and benefits; being able to pay general operating expenses including rent / utilities / supply expenses; bolstering our programming for trans youth and their families; and expanding our gender affirming clinical services and training initiatives across Western Massachusetts.
We hope you are just as excited as we are in this venture. We need your support to make this happen!
Go team and Translate Gender!