Lorde Project acts to "build capacity and support the organizational development" of LGBT people of color organizations by making available the Project's meeting space, office infrastructure and training as well as offering technical assistance, networking and coalition-building opportunities. Some of the groups that have met in the Project's meeting space "include African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change (formerly the Salsa Soul Sisters), Arab and Iranian LBT Women’s Group (formerly Arab and Persian LBT Women’s Group), Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA), Brooklyn Pride, Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD), Queer Koreans of New York, South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA), Las Buenas Amigas, and Latino Gay Men of New York." Awards In 2000, then-executive director Joo-Hyun Kang was awarded the Union Square Award from the Fund for the City of New York. In its award, the fund declared the Audre Lorde Project to be "an important cultural and information center in New York City." See also Audre Lorde Sylvia Rivera Law Project Black Radical Congress Critical Resistance The New York Foundation References External links Audre Lorde Project website Profile of then-executive director Joo-Hyun Kang, Curve magazine HIV/AIDS activism Audre Lorde Feminist organizations in the United States Organizations for LGBT people of color Health and disability rights organizations in the United States Immigration political advocacy groups in the United States LGBT and multiculturalism LGBT organizations based in New York City LGBT political advocacy groups in New York (state) Organizations established in 1994 1994 establishments in New York City Women in New York City 1994 in LGBT history