These are the kinds of questions that PFund Foundation set out to explore. After conducting site visits in 2007 and 2008 with health organizations serving LGBT communities, PFund learned that most of these organizations felt they were working in silos and disconnected from their partners and community members. Each organization had a sense of the overall health disparities facing LGBT communities, but lacked connection to other agencies doing this important work. Staff at each agency expressed a desire to meet and learn with other agencies around issues of LGBT health, but didn’t have a mechanism to do so. PFund saw an opportunity to help connect these organizations and to then share information about the healthcare needs of LGBT communities with a broader audience. By convening health agencies serving LGBT communities, PFund’s hope was to put those agencies in a better position to do what they do best. Instead of working in isolation from other organizations, they would now have a connection to advance the overall health and wellness for LGBT communities in a collaborative fashion. This report is part of this effort.

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