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Ariana Grande launches foundation to provide support for LGBTQ+ community
The charity will back LGBTQ+ rights, mental health care and emergency aid through four funds, with Lambda Legal and Trans Lifeline among the partners.
On Friday, musician Ariana Grande launched the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation, a new charity supporting the LGBTQ+ community with mental health services and arts education programs.
The foundation operates through four distinct funds: the Protect and Defend Fund supports grassroots LGBTQ+ advocacy, while the Heal and Dream Fund expands mental health access and the Emergency Support Fund responds to crises.
Grande has a history of LGBTQ+ philanthropy: she partnered with Better Help in 2021 to provide $2m in free therapy and launched the Protect & Defend Trans Youth Fund in 2022, raising more than $3m for 18 organizations.
The announcement followed Grande's recent criticism of the White House for using her music in an ICE video, which she called "barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense" in social media comments.
Grande is currently on her 41-date Eternal Sunshine tour, which began in Oakland, California, on June 6, and she will release her eighth studio album, Petal, on July 31.