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The president of the Give A Damn was interviewed by Gijs de Swarte for The Optimist magazine. In the interview, Edith explains that Karen Kraan, Vera Peerdeman and she founded the Give A Damn Foundation almost 10 years ago. She talks about what drives her and what we do as Give A Damn. Read the […]

At the Give a Damn Foundation, we are committed to the acceptance and empowerment of the LGBTQ+ community worldwide. Inspired by our mission, Proud ERG, Paramount’s LGBTQ+ employee community, decided to organize a bake sale to collect donations from employees. The proceeds were donated to the Give a Damn Foundation, allowing us to use them […]

On 23 January 2025, many of the Give A Damn Circle gathered for the first 2025 members’ meeting. With this time as guest speaker; Sophie de Graaf. Director of Lawyers for Lawyers. Lawyers for Lawyers has long been a valuable ambassador organisation for the Give A Damn Foundation. For example, in 2017, through L4L, we […]

The Give a Damn Foundation has provided emergency fund support to the organization LGBT+ Rights Ghana, which advocates for the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community in Ghana. The situation in the country has worsened in recent years, with increasing discrimination, violence, and repression against LGBTIQ+ individuals and their allies. In 2024, the threat escalated further […]

On 7 November, a good number of members gathered at Van der Valk in the Zuidas for the last members’ evening of this year.Successes celebrated, the Give A Damn circle has grown to 56 members this year and we hope to continue to grow even further. Especially in these times with reports of the tap […]

Edith Molemans was interviewed by the Amsterdams Balie Bulletin (the digital publication of the Amsterdam Bar Association); in the interview, she explains how she founded the Give a Damn Foundation with Vera Peerdeman and Karen Kraan almost a decade ago. From a privileged position, in a prosperous and relatively tolerant country like the Netherlands, they […]

Full house for Give A Damn Foundation during the Pride gathering at Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam. With our members and some of our ambassador organisations (Amnesty International, Hivos, PlanetRomeo Foundation, Shelter City, UN Women, Lawyers for Lawyers), we watched videos of LGBTIQ+ organisations from Uganda, Costa Rica and Morocco that received our donations in […]

On April 18, 5 LGBTQI+ organizations presented themselves online to the members of The Give A Damn Foundation. This year the proposed organizations came from Indonesia, Uganda, Morocco, Hungary and Costa Rica. Like every year, this year too it was not an easy task to make a choice.  After counting the votes, we came to […]