Giving Tuesday 2023

The mission of the National LGBTQ Society is to create a safe space and safe environment for members of the LGBTQIA+ Community and our allies through our purpose of providing meaningful support, resourceful resources, and education.

This is the official Giving Tuesday Campaign for the National LGBTQ Society.

If you are interested to learn more about organization please visit our website at https://thenatlgbt.org

2014 - 2019

• In 2014, while Blake was still in high school. Blake decided that he wanted to create a organization for the community. Even though when Blake came out of the closet in 2013 to most of his family, and his family accepted him and supported him, he wanted to create an organization that would provide support for people who wasn't as lucky, and didn't have the support like he did. At first, the organization was simply just a Facebook page and subreddit on Reddit. This is still where our presence is mostly to this day. The facebook page was mostly made up of Blake's friends and family who supported him. Blake's vision was to create an organization that can provide a safe space and environment for members of the LGBTQ community, and to provide support and resources to those people that needed that support, and resources.

2019 -

• In 2019, Blake decided that he wanted to grow his facebook page in to an actually organization, and actually wanted to get into the community to start helping out his local community. Blake registered the organization as a non-profit organization on June 21st, 2019 with the State of Minnesota.
• In August 2019, Blake officially sent in the paperwork to the IRS to be recognized as a tax exempt organization.
• On September 14th, 2019, The National LGBTQ Society was official recognized as a tax exempt public charity under 501c(3)

2020 - Present

• Blake wanted to bring in more people to the Board of Director's, the Board of Director's grew from just Blake to now two Executive Vice President's.
• The mission of the organization was created.
• We currently have about 500 people who follow us on our facebook page
• Created goals for our organization, which we will talk about shortly!