CenterLink
CenterLink's logo
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| Founded | 1994 |
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| Type | Non-profit |
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Key people
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Terry Stone, executive director |
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Revenue
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$356,160 (2011) |
| Mission | "CenterLink exists to support the development of strong, sustainable LGBT community centers and to build a unified center movement." |
| Website | lgbtcenters |
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Formerly called
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National Association of LGBT Community Centers |
CenterLink is an American member-based coalition of community centers serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. The organization, founded in 1994 as the National Association of LGBT Community Centers, provides services which support the development of LGBT community centers. Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, CenterLink also works with other national organizations to advance the rights of LGBT individuals and to provide LGBT community centers with information and analysis of key issues.
CenterLink produces an annual summit for executive directors and board leaders of LGBT community centers and provides technical assistance and support to over 500 individuals and centers every year.
CenterLink comprises over 140 LGBT community centers across the country in over 40 states and the District of Columbia, as well as centers in Australia, Canada, and Cameroon, which in turn serve over 600,000 people.
Of the member community centers, 40% provide direct health care and 10% of these centers exclusively serve LGBT communities of color, youth, seniors or women. Half of the LGBT community centers have budgets under $50,000 and no full-time staff.
CenterLink's website currently provides a web-based directory (and map) of community centers both within and outside of the United States, including Australia, Canada, and Cameroon.
Current members of CenterLink include:
In July 1987 Eric Rofes and Richard Burns convened a gathering of lesbian and gay community center leaders at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Center in conjunction with the National Gay and Lesbian Health Association annual conference, seeking to build peer support and an exchange of ideas.
In June 1994 the heads of the Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and New York Centers (respectively, John Thomas, Kat Morgan, Lorri L. Jean, Ann DeGroot and Richard Burns) launched the National Association of LGBT Community Centers as part of the celebrations marking the 25th Anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion with the goal of strengthening the movement of LGBT community centers. At that time, more than thirty centers gathered for an all-day meeting at the Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center of New York during the Stonewall 25 commemorations.
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