Campus Pride

Campus Pride is a United States nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a safer college environment for LGBT students. The organization is a volunteer-driven network "for" and "by" student leaders. The primary objective of Campus Pride is to develop necessary resources, programs and services to support LGBT and ally students on college campuses across the United States. The executive director is United States LGBT activist and WikiQueer Global Advisor Shane L. Windmeyer.

Mission Statement
Campus Pride serves LGBT and Ally student leaders and, or campus organizations in the areas of leadership development, support programs and services to create safer, more inclusive LGBT-friendly colleges and universities. It exists to develop, support and give “voice and action” in building future LGBT and ally student leaders.

Vision Statement
Campus Pride envisions campuses and a society free of LGBT prejudice, bigotry and hate. It works to develop student leaders, campus networks, and future actions to create such positive change.

Governing Values

 * Utilizing the diverse talents of student leaders.
 * Giving students a voice and action in leadership.
 * Empowering student leaders for positive change in society.
 * Building stronger LGBT and Ally communities on college campuses.
 * Celebrating and recognizing diversity.

National LGBT Events & Regional Conferences
Opportunity for LGBT college students and their allies to network, learn and celebrate with PRIDE. Hosted via several LGBT national events and regional conferences across the United States.

Voice & Action National Leadership Award
The Voice and Action National Leadership Award is an honorary recognition highlighting the accomplishments of young adult leaders at colleges and universities across the United States. The award is focused on the work of undergraduate college students who are creating positive change for LGBT and ally issues within their campus communities, local communities and region of the country.

CAMP PRIDE Summer Leadership Camp
The mission is to build leadership capacity among LGBT and Ally undergraduate college student leaders and to create safer and more inclusive campus communities in the United States.

LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index
The LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index is a tool for assisting campuses in learning ways to improve their LGBT campus life and ultimately shape the educational experience to be more inclusive, welcoming and respectful of LGBT and Ally people. The index is supported under the Campus Pride as well as benefits from strategic partnerships with professional organizations in higher education and related LGBT nonprofit organizations.

Campus Q Team
Eigtheen students in various regions of the United States who are devoted to serving LGBT and Ally student leaders in a national leadership capacity. The focus of the Campus Q Team is in the areas of leadership development, support programs and services to create safer, more LGBT-friendly colleges and universities.



Stop The Hate
The program was founded by Shane L. Windmeyer and was developed in partnership with the Anti-Defamation League, Association of College Unions International, The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, the Matthew Shepard Foundation, Wilbron Institute and the Higher Education Center for Drug and Other Alcohol Abuse and Violence Prevention.

Stop The Hate provides social justice tools for combatting bias and hate crimes in all its forms. The program supports colleges and universities in bias and hate crime prevention efforts as well as fostering the development of community. The Train the Trainer program specifically allows top administrators, student affairs professionals, faculty and students to learn strategies to take action on hate crimes and bias-motivated violence issues.

Lambda 10 Project
The Lambda 10 Project - National Clearinghouse for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Fraternity & Sorority Issues is an educational initiative that works to heighten the visibility of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender members of the college fraternity by serving as a clearinghouse for educational resources and educational materials related to sexual orientation and gender identity/expression.

Lambda 10 Project was founded in the Fall of 1995 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Lambda 10 is also an associate member of the Association of Fraternity Advisors and serves as a resource for many inter/national fraternity/sorority leaders. The Project created educational resources solely dedicated to this topic titled Out on Fraternity Row: Personal Accounts of Being Gay in a College Fraternity released by Alyson Publications, Inc in 1998, Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian & Bisexual in a College Sorority released by Alyson Publications, Inc. in 2001 and recently Brotherhood: Gay Life in College Fraternities released by Alyson Publications, Inc. in October 2005.

Q Research Institute for Higher Education
Founded in 2008, the Q Research Institute for Higher Education (QRIHE pronounced “queery”) is a national center for the scholarly study of LGBT people in higher education. The QRIHE is owned and operated by the national nonprofit organization Campus Pride in partnership with The Pennsylvania State University & Iowa State University. The Research Director is Dr. Susan R. Rankin, Associate Professor of Education at The Pennsylvania State University and Associate Research Director is Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Iowa State University.

History
Founded in the Fall of 2001 and launched a year later in October of 2002, Campus Pride started as an online community and resource clearinghouse under the name Campus PrideNet. The original founding partners were M. Chad Wilson, Sarah E. Holmes & Shane L. Windmeyer. In 2006, the organization broadened its outreach efforts and restructured as the current educational non-profit organization Campus Pride. As part of the restructuring process, the Lambda 10 Project for LGBT Fraternity & Sorority Issues became an educational initiative of Campus Pride.

2001

 * Founding year of Campus PrideNet and the launching of www.campuspride.net, online network for LGBT and Ally student leaders and campus groups.

2002

 * Develops the Dean’s List for LGBT and Ally student leaders to communicate statewide and across the country.
 * Forms partnership with Lambda 10 Project National Clearinghouse for LGBT Fraternity & Sorority Issues and Stop The Hate! National Bias & Hate Crime Prevention Program for colleges and universities.

2003

 * Releases a national public service announcement and educational campaign to address issues of anti-gay hate and "internalized homophobia." The PSA airs on mtvU to over 700 universities and 5.5 million viewers across college campuses.
 * Joins forces with the Collegiate Empowerment Company, Inc to support the book “Inspiration for LGBT Students & their Allies.”

2004

 * Publishes the “Power of an Ally Action Guide” with the support of Kepplers On Campus and distributed over 5000 copies.
 * Promotes special campus give-away with Kepplers On Campus for a lecture by Elizabeth Birch, former executive director of the Human Rights Campaign.

2005

 * Releases a national call soliciting the “Best of the Best” LGBT-Friendly campuses for new book authored by Shane L. Windmeyer and published by Alyson Books.
 * Lambda 10 Project National Clearinghouse for LGBT Fraternity & Sorority Issues becomes an educational initiative of Campus PrideNet.



2006

 * Campus PrideNet expands educational outreach and becomes Campus Pride, a national nonprofit organization 501(c)(3) for LGBT and Ally student leaders and campus groups.
 * Becomes an educational partner of Soulforce kicking off the history-making Equality Ride to end religious-based oppression at colleges and universities.
 * Develops special campus give-away with the Greater Talent Agency for Esera Tuaolo, openly gay former NFL football player.

2007

 * Plans LGBT and Ally Summer Leadership Camp to empower and train future LGBT and Ally student leaders from across the United States.
 * Publishes undergraduate journal “for and by” LGBT students titled “queer” and circulates to well-over 250+ campuses nationally.
 * Campus Pride membership tops 10,000+ student leaders at over 900+ colleges and universities.

2008

 * Acquires ownership of Stop The Hate Bias & Hate Crime Prevention program, which Campus Pride founder Shane Windmeyer developed and founded in 2000. Launched new updated site and resources online.
 * Nearly doubles attendance for the second annual LGBT and Ally Summer Leadership Camp to empower and train future LGBT and Ally student leaders from across the country.
 * Launches the LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index and grows the number of colleges to over 160+ in the first academic year.
 * Plans two LGBT-Friendly College Admission Fairs, one on the East Coast and one on the West Coast, to support LGBT and ally youth looking for LGBT-Friendly colleges and universities. Over 70 colleges were in attendance.
 * Releases the first-ever national formal research exploring the LGBT experience within fraternities and sororities from 1960 to 2007 through its educational initiative Lambda 10 Project.

2009

 * Hosts the first-ever national OUT & GREEK Leadership Conference for LGBT and Ally Fraternity and Sorority Members. The conference was hosted at DePaul University with over 70 fraternity and sorority members and advisors in attendance.
 * Awards the Campus Pride Voice & Action National Leadership Award to recognize outstanding LGBT and Ally students at colleges and universities across the country.
 * Hosts an East Coast and West Coast Stop The Hate Bias & Hate Crime Prevention Train the Trainer program in partnership with the Matthew Shepard Foundation to commemorate "10 Year Legacy of Matthew Sheaprd."
 * Hosts third annual LGBT and Ally Summer Leadership Camp to empower and train future LGBT and Ally student leaders from across the country.
 * Expands the LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index and the number of colleges to over 200+. The Index partners with the Consortium for LGBT Professionals in Higher Education and the American College Personnel Association.
 * Plans three LGBT-Friendly College Admission Fairs, one on the East Coast and one on the West Coast and a new fair in the Midwest, to support LGBT and ally youth looking for LGBT-Friendly colleges and universities. Over 120+ colleges in attendance.

Funding / Support
Campus Pride offers multiple ways to give, including planned giving, event sponsorship and purchase of Campus Pride materials.

Volunteers are also utilized in the implementation of many programs.


 * Donation information
 * Donate online
 * Volunteer
 * Purchase materials

Sponsorship Funding

 * Ben Cohen StandUp Foundation
 * Gamma Mu Foundation
 * Cargill
 * OUTmedia
 * Charlotte Lesbian and Gay Fund
 * Ernst & Youth
 * Food Lion
 * Alliance for Full Acceptance
 * CAMPUSPEAK
 * Hope's Voice