THE GILL FOUNDATION: EXECTIVE SUMMARY ABOUT THE GILL FOUNDATION Founded by Tim Gill, the goal of the

Foundation is to create an America in which all people are treated equally and respectfully. The Gill Foundation was incorporated in Colorado on January 10, 1994 and its IRS determination letter was dated November 15, 1994. That same year, the Foundation made it first grants, totaling $247,215 in 1994. Since then, the Gill Foundation has grown into one of the nations largest funders of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LBGT) equal rights work. Over the course of the last 19 years, the Gill Foundation has invested more than $220 million, including $132 million in grants (recent examples attached), to support programs and nonprofit organizations across the country that share its commitment to equal rights for all Americans. Over time, the vast majority of the Gill Foundations investments, nearly 80 percent, has been dedicated to national and state-level LGBT nonprofits. The remaining 20 percent of funding has been granted to nonprofits in Colorado that work to improve the quality of life for all the states residents, including the Colorado AIDS project. The Gill Foundations works in three primary areas to: 1. Advocate for Equality -- While the Gill Foundations work in this area is diverse, the focus of most of our efforts in bringing about change within the following areas of public policy: o Nondiscrimination in employment, housing, commerce, military service, and access. o Relationship recognition including marriage equality, civil unions, domestic partnerships, and the provision of equal rights and benefits to spouses. o Family recognition including foster care, adoption, joint adoption, second parent adoption, and equal rights and benefits for LGBT-parented children. o Safe schools that are supportive and free from harassment and violence for LGBT and LGBT-parented students. o Violence reduction including hate crimes prosecution, suicide prevention, and domestic violence reduction. 2. Build a Better Colorado -- Funding for these programs is awarded by the Gill Foundations Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado. In its 15-year history, the Fund has made $29 million in grants to high-impact Colorado nonprofits. The Fund provides support to important arts and culture, civic participation, healthy families, and local and state public broadcasting programs. The Gay & Lesbian Fund does not provide financial support to organizations that exclusively serve the states LGBT population. Recently, the Fund made a $1.3 million one-time gift to Rocky Mountain PBS through the donation of its building in Colorado Springs to create the Tim Gill Center for Public Media. One of its goals is to link higher education with public media so that area college students can be trained with the requisite skills necessary to thrive in the new media environment. The new center also will continue to offer free public meeting space to local nonprofits. When Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, the Fund provided nearly $1 million to the American Red Cross for disaster relief. Examples of other recent grants by the Fund are attached. 3. Engage Donors -- The Foundation believes that engaging, educating and energizing donors to the LGBT social justice movement is critical to achieving full equality for all. The Foundation works

to broaden the base of LGBT and allied supporters that are knowledgeable about local, state and national LGBT nonprofits and the importance of their work through a variety of tactics: o o o Hosting its signature OutGiving conferences. These conferences provide LGBT and allied donors with the resources they need to develop a more focused and strategic approach to their philanthropy. Through conversations, personal meetings and donor salons, The Gill Foundation educates donors about the LGBT movement, the variety of ways in which they can be involved and the importance of thoughtful planning as a part of their charitable giving. Encouraging the formation of Giving Circles, which allows individual donors to pool their resources and then jointly decide the manner in which the funds should be distributed. Together they can have greater impact. The Foundation believes that donors in giving circles give more, give more strategically and are more engaged in their communities.

ABOUT TIM GILL A software entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political activist, Tim Gill established the Gill Foundation after his involvement with a 1992 Colorado ballet initiative (Amendment 2) denying lesbians and gay men equal protection in the state. The initiative passed by a narrow margin and was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. In media interviews, Tim recalls being profoundly moved by this attack on civil and equal rights in his state; in 1993, he pledged $1 million to raise awareness in Colorado about the effects of discrimination, and in 1994 he established the Gill Foundation to secure equal opportunity for all Americans, regardless of sexual orientation or gender expression. Tim Gill, a self-made millionaire, who by most press accounts is exceedingly modest and media shy (refers to himself as a pathological introvert), founded Quark, Inc. 1981 with a $2,000 loan from his parents. Tim subsequently worked to build the company into a leading developer of page-layout software and today is recognized for revolutionizing the publishing industry with this innovative, affordable software. Its flagship software, QuarkXPress 4 is the worlds most widely used professional page-layout software. For years, Tim was one of the few openly gay members of the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans. (Tim Gill: Thomas Roberts Interviews Tim Gill) Tim, who lives with his husband, Scott Miller, in Denver, has always been an advocate for civil rights. In addition to funding the gay and lesbian movement for equal rights, he is also a strong supporter of social justice organizations and educational institutions. Tim was one of the first major contributors to the Colorado AIDS Project and has long supported local public radio and television through program underwriting. Tim is a major political donor to LBGT candidates and causes. He is one of seven members of a political organization known as the Cabinet, where these high dollar gay donors share information because they believed that they could accomplish more for gay and lesbian causes and candidates if they shared information rather than operate as "silo" givers. (The Gay Mafia Thats Redefining Liberal Politics)

Tim founded Gill Action in 2005, 501(c)(4) issue advocacy organization whose mission is to secure equal rights for all Americans regardless of sexual orientation and gender expression. Gill Action is intended to address the LGBT movement's most troubling deficits: its inability to provide direct candidate support, put lobbyists on the ground, and attract backing even from politicians who were genuinely progay but too intimidated to act. Gill Action largely focuses on state and local, rather than federal races because most antigay measures originate in state legislatures. 2

Tim employs Denver tobacco lobbyist and corporate attorney Ted Trimpa, who has been tagged as "Colorado's answer to Karl Rove," serves as a political adviser. According to a 2006 Atlantic article, Trimpa believes that the gay-rights community directs too much of its money to thoroughly admirable national candidates who dont need it, while neglecting less compelling races that would have a far greater impact on gay rights -- a tendency he calls glamour giving. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/03/they-won-t-know-what-hit-them/305619/4/ ABOUT THE GILL FOUNDTIONS LEADERSHIP TEAM Courtney Cuff joined the Gill Foundation as President and CEO in October 2013. She replaces Tim Sweeny, a pioneer in the LGTB, who worked with Harvey Milk in the No on 6 campaign and led organizations like Lambda Legal and Gay Mens Health Crisis. A respected leader with a strong record of accomplishment over her 20-year career in the nonprofit sector, Courtney most recently served as CEO of the Denver-based Western Conservation Foundation (WCF), which she co-founded in 2005. Through her work at WCF, Courtney served as a catalyst for social change by funding innovative state and federal campaigns that created champions for conservation and Americas public lands heritage. Previously, Courtney served as a strategic consultant to several private foundations and as Director for the Pacific Regional Office of the National Parks Conservation Association in California. She was also Legislative Director for Friends of the Earth in Washington, D.C. Courtney lives in Denver with her wife, Jessica Newman. Lauren Arnold, Chief of Staff, is responsible for leading the financial, administrative, HR, and IT operations for the foundations Denver office, as well as leading initiatives in staff engagement, development and training. Prior to joining the foundation in 2009, Lauren served as the chief financial officer and vice president for finance and administration at Visit Denver. Laurie Meili, CFO, originally joined the foundation in 2008 as the director of Finance and Accounting. Today, Laurie leads finance, grants administration, data management, information technology, human resources, and facilities for the foundation. Katherine Peck, Senior Vice President, Programs, is responsible for overseeing the foundations grant making and strategic programs, nationally and in Colorado. She is responsible for the development and implementation of policy advocacy programs, and programs directed at building alliances with nonLGBT individuals, organizations and institutions. Katherine came to the Gill Foundation from the Denver-based Rose Community Foundation, where she was vice president for programs and had oversight responsibility for the foundations grantmaking, which in 2004 totaled more than $8 million in the foundations five program areas: aging, child and family development, education, health, and Jewish life. Bobby Clark, Vice President, Marketing and Communications, leads the strategic communications efforts for the foundation and the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado. Most recently, Bobby served as the Executive Director of ProgressNow and ProgressNow Colorado, a nationally recognized network of progressive communications and advocacy organizations with affiliates in 12 states. ABOUT THE FOUNDATIONS NATIONAL ALLIES/UNEXPECTED PARTNERS The Gill Foundation supports and partners with national allies that are not exclusively focused on LBGT issues or equity. They tend to be progressive organizations and/or those focused on social justice. Some 3

of these include: Center for American Progress, National Education Association, People for the American Way, National Council of La Raza, Americas Promise Alliance and the Third Way Institute. A more comprehensive list of national allies is appended. Some of the more surprising, unexpected partners include media organizations like the American Independent News Network, In the Life Media, Inc., and Media Matters for America. Other partners that might be generally thought to be aligned with LBGT issues include the Clean Water Fund, the Dancers Group, and the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinsons Research. With respect to the Human Rights Campaign, I could not find documentation of a rift. The only reference was in a 2007 The Atlantic article I found was to different approaches to supporting LGBT candidates:
If your objective is to innovate and take risks, you move faster with a small group, Gills political director, Guerriero, told me. If Columbus had needed a conference call before setting sail for America, hed still be at the dock. (This kind of gridlock has long hampered the Human Rights Campaign, the countrys largest gay political organization.)

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/03/they-won-t-know-what-hit-them/305619/4/ On the contrary, a July 24, 2013 Bloomberg News story indicates that the Gill Action Fund and the Human Rights Campaign are working collaboratively on an effort to persuade New Jerseys Republican lawmakers to join Democrats seeking to overturn Governor Chris Christies veto of a measure to legalize same-sex marriage. The groups have had success in New York, Maryland, Rhode Island and Maine. They are turning to New Jersey, where Christie, a 50-year-old Republican, rejected a gay-marriage bill passed by the Democraticcontrolled legislature last year. National organizations joining the New Jersey campaign include American Unity Fund, a group founded by billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Singer, who donated at least $6,800 to Christies 2009 campaign for governor. The group is the voice of Republican voters who are committed to equal rights and full relationship recognition for gay and lesbian Americans, according to a press release. Other national groups include Gill Action Fund, founded in 2005 by Colorado software entrepreneur Tim Gill; the Washington-based Human Rights Campaign; New York-based Lambda Legal and Freedom to Marry, a New York-based group that said this month it is investing $500,000 in state marriage campaigns. http://origin-www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-24/gay-rights-groups-kick-off-n-j-same-sex-marriageeffort.html