The Give a Damn Foundation has provided emergency fund support to the organization LGBT+ Rights Ghana, which advocates for the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community in Ghana. The situation in the country has worsened in recent years, with increasing discrimination, violence, and repression against LGBTIQ+ individuals and their allies. In 2024, the threat escalated further […]

On 7 November, a good number of members gathered at Van der Valk in the Zuidas for the last members’ evening of this year.Successes celebrated, the Give A Damn circle has grown to 56 members this year and we hope to continue to grow even further. Especially in these times with reports of the tap […]

Edith Molemans was interviewed by the Amsterdams Balie Bulletin (the digital publication of the Amsterdam Bar Association); in the interview, she explains how she founded the Give a Damn Foundation with Vera Peerdeman and Karen Kraan almost a decade ago. From a privileged position, in a prosperous and relatively tolerant country like the Netherlands, they […]

Full house for Give A Damn Foundation during the Pride gathering at Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam. With our members and some of our ambassador organisations (Amnesty International, Hivos, PlanetRomeo Foundation, Shelter City, UN Women, Lawyers for Lawyers), we watched videos of LGBTIQ+ organisations from Uganda, Costa Rica and Morocco that received our donations in […]

On April 18, 5 LGBTQI+ organizations presented themselves online to the members of The Give A Damn Foundation. This year the proposed organizations came from Indonesia, Uganda, Morocco, Hungary and Costa Rica. Like every year, this year too it was not an easy task to make a choice.  After counting the votes, we came to […]

The first members meeting of 2024 took place on February 15. We have grwon tot 44 members in the last year, making us bigger than ever. This allows us to support LGBTQI+ organizations worldwide more and continue to make an impact. At this members evening, Julia Ivan from Amnesty International gave an impressive presentation about […]

On Friday, December 15, the Give A Damn Foundation board closed the year with a final board meeting. The year 2023 was an eventful year in which the position of the LGBTQ+ community in the world has come under more pressure. It makes us realize that the Give A Damn is and remains of great […]

This time our annual autumn meeting started with a lecture by Monique Doppert, author of ‘Amsterdam – De Roze Geschiedenis’. The reason for Monique to write her book was because there was simply no book about the pink history of Amsterdam yet! She shared important passages from history included in her book. The members were […]