2025 Community Tech Grant Announcement: Big News, Huge Impact, New Tech!

PowerOn is excited to announce the 2025 Community Tech Grant Grantees!

44 incredible LGBTQ+ centers and grassroots non-profits across the country are receiving brand-new tech devices to help power their mission-driven magic. That’s right, from desktops and laptops to tablets and printers, these tools are headed straight to the heart of community work. Because we know changing the world takes more than love alone (though there’s plenty of that, too). It takes working printers. Functioning laptops. Stable Wi-Fi. And tech that actually turns on before your coffee gets cold.

Here’s what’s going down:

• 44 centers granted brand-new tech

• 156 organizations applied (we’re still swooning over the love!)

• 2 new PowerOn states: Utah and Hawai’i , Aloha & welcome!

• $128,020+ in granted tech value, and counting!

Who are the 2025 PowerOn Centers?

• Inside Out Youth Services – Colorado Springs, CO

• Pridelines Youth Services, Inc. - DBA “Pridelines” – Miami, FL

• TransYOUniting – Pittsburgh, PA

• Transformations Youth Group – Kansas City, MO

• LGBT+ Center Orlando, INC. – Orlando, FL

• THE QUEER TRANS PROJECT – Jacksonville, FL

• Side by Side VA, Inc. – Richmond, VA

• I Am Human Foundation – Ellenwood, GA

• Pride Center San Antonio – San Antonio, TX

• We Are Family – North Charleston, SC

• Omaha ForUs – Omaha, NE

• Support Volusia (dba Volusia Pride) – DeLand, FL

• Safe Zone Utah – Salt Lake City, UT

• Lancaster County Chooses Love Association – Lititz, PA

• Rockland County Pride Center – Nyack, NY

• Sembrando Resistencias – San Juan, PR

• Center on Halsted – Chicago, IL

• LGBT Center Intercultural Collective Inc – Jackson Heights, NY

• New Orleans Pride Center – New Orleans, LA

• Waves Ahead Corp. – San Juan, PR

• Trans Women of Color Collective – Kansas City, MO

• Immigration Equality – Brooklyn, NY

• The Montrose Center – Houston, TX

• Therapy Center of Philadelphia – Philadelphia, PA

• Brown Boi Project – Nipomo, CA

• Eastern PA Trans Equity Project – Orefield, PA

• Hawaiʻi LGBT Legacy Foundation – Honolulu, HI

• GotBliss Inc dba Tri-County Diversity – Marysville, CA

• Black Liberation Autonomous Collective – Duquesne, PA

• Finn's Place – Fort Worth, TX

• Shenandoah LGBTQ Center – Staunton, VA

• 1N10 Inc. dba one-n-ten – Phoenix, AZ

• New Orleans Advocates for LGBTQ+ Elders – New Orleans, LA

• LGBTQ Center of the Cape Fear Coast – Wilmington, NC

• Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois – Chicago, IL

• Thrive Youth Center – San Antonio, TX

• Contigo Fund – Orlando, FL

• HOTS Initiative (House Of The South) – Margate, FL

• Liminal Works, Inc. – West Hollywood, CA

• Trans Tech Social Enterprise – Detroit, MI

• The OUTreach Center – Lancaster, CA

• Invisible Histories – Birmingham, AL

• Basically Wonderful – Oviedo, FL

• Mary's House for Older Adults (MHFOA) – Washington, DC

We believe when non-profits have the tools they need, they can focus on what they do best: building community, saving lives, and spreading love like it’s going out of style. So here’s to the advocates, organizers, front-desk warriors, peer counselors, and all the beautiful humans who make these spaces shine. You deserve good tech.. And this is just the beginning.

Keep your eyes peeled, we’ll be spotlighting these phenomenal orgs in the weeks to come!