January Was A Wake-Up Call
From the Desk of Aaron Zimmerman
January was an alarming wake-up call for many in our community, and a relentless, daily trauma for our undocumented neighbors and our queer communities of color. Any lingering illusion of safety has been shattered.
For the PFund community, the second Trump administration has brought a four-alarm, existential crisis. Bearing firsthand witness to state-sanctioned political violence, kidnappings, relentless disinformation, the systematic dehumanization of our communities, and even outright murder carried out with impunity is profoundly destabilizing. It is also the clearest possible call to action: we must stand together, or we fall apart.
In response, PFund immediately granted $50,000 to five LGBTQ+ organizations providing frontline support and mutual aid in the Twin Cities. Twin Cities Pride, OutFront MN, Gender Justice, The Aliveness Project, and Transforming Generations each received $10,000 support grants to continue delivering emergency food, clothing, supplies, legal services, and advocacy for our queer and undocumented neighbors.
PFund Foundation has also launched a $2 million emergency fundraising campaign to help prepare our communities across the Upper Midwest for the escalating attacks still to come. These funds will be deployed through responsive grants to meet urgent frontline needs, expand LGBTQ+ civic engagement, and mount a philanthropic response to the de facto ban on gender-affirming care.
This campaign is not only about surviving the next headline. These emergency dollars are about defending the present—and investing in our collective future.
PFund Foundation was built for moments like this. As a regional LGBTQ+ community foundation rooted in the Upper Midwest, we offer something no single donor, organization, or short-term campaign can achieve alone: the power to pool resources at scale and move them quickly across both urban and rural networks, where they are needed most.
Join us. Your gift is an act of courage, protection, and hope.
