M. Saida Agostini Bostic
President at Funders for LGBTQ Issues
- Role
- President at Funders For Lgbtq Issues
- Location
- Poughkeepsie, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About M. Saida Agostini Bostic
Saida is a longtime cultural organizer, activist, and seasoned nonprofit leader. She has guided statewide advocacy efforts promoting the rights of LGBTQ youth in foster care, education, and juvenile justice, winning critical new protections, and directed national art actions uplifting the visibility of Black girls, women, and LGBTQ communities. Founder of the Rooted Collective, a gathering of Black LGBTQ healing justice activists in Baltimore, Saida is dedicated to building radical healing spaces that move us towards freedom. Saida is the President of Funders for LGBTQ Issues, a philanthropic support organization working to increase the scale and impact of philanthropic resources aimed at enhancing the well-being of LGBTQ communities, promoting equity, and advancing racial, economic and gender justice. She comes to Funders from YWCA USA, where she served as Vice President of Member Services, directing a department responsible for stewarding a national network of over two hundred local associations serving 2.3 million women and girls annually. Prior to YWCA USA, Saida was Chief Operating Officer for FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, an artist collective dedicated to ending rape culture. During Saida’s tenure, she guided critical coalition building efforts to ensure the success of key organizational projects, most notably, the display of the Monument Quilt on the National Mall, a collection of over three thousand quilt squares crowdsourced from survivors over several years. In November 2017, Saida was named a Movement Maker by the Move to End Violence, a program of the NoVo Foundation. A graduate Cave Canem Fellow, she has received honors for her art and activism from the Baltimore Sun, R.W. Deutsch Foundation, Leeway Foundation, and the Blue Mountain Center. She holds a Masters of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania.
Experience
President
Aug 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US
Funders for LGBTQ Issues works to increase the scale and impact of philanthropic resources aimed at enhancing the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, promoting equity, and advancing racial, economic and gender justice
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Masters of Social Work, Social Work
2007 — 2009
University of Pittsburgh
Bachelor of Arts, Urban Studies & Poetry
2000 — 2004
Skills
- Teaching
- Crisis Intervention
- Public Speaking
- Community Outreach
- Community Development
- Community Organizing
- Program Development
- Management
- Mental Health
- Case Management
- Adolescents
- Leadership Development
- Leadership
- Grant Writing
- Research
- Fundraising
- Community Engagement
- Program Evaluation
- Family Therapy
- Event Planning
- Mental Health Counseling
- Social Services
- Case Managment
- Staff Development
- Grants
- Psychotherapy
- Counselling
- Youth Development
- Public Policy
- Policy
- Volunteer Management
- Training
- Therapists
- Nonprofits
- Group Therapy
- Workshop Facilitation
- Program Management
- Writing
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