Find your peers & collaborate
Many LGBTQIA+ professionals and organizers do complementary or parallel work. QWELL’s QUILT program connects you with peers to increase your impact and avoid duplication of effort and expenses.
What can we achieve together?
Peer groups already meeting, sharing work, and coordinating action.
Healthcare
Collaborate with local leaders in Austin to expand affirming healthcare access and delivery, building on the replicable success of QWELL’s Queer Health Equity Program.
Until LGBTQIA+ people receive affirming care everywhere
Out in AI
A QUILT collaborative of LGBTQIA+ technologists, researchers, and founders working in artificial intelligence — building visibility for queer people in the field and pushing for models, datasets, and products that serve our communities instead of erasing them.
Our community in the room where AI is built
Interfaith
A national QUILT collaborative of LGBTQIA+ spiritual leaders is already planning major projects together, including a National Pride Interfaith Broadcast and the Contrition billboard campaign. Locally, QWELL supports Austin’s Pride Interfaith Partnership.
Spiritual leaders changing culture
Entrepreneurs
A research initiative seeks to lower barriers to entrepreneurship by collaborating with centers, chambers, and startup orgs through a coordinated educational framework.
Sharing best practices and support
ERGs (Employee Resource Groups)
An initiative to integrate PRIDE ERG resources, directories, and support across QUILT coalitions and initiatives in both national and local communities.
Goal: build a unified career resources hub
On the horizon
As QWELL's capacity increases, QWELL will connect LGBTQIA+ and Ally leaders in diverse fields.
For example, leaders in direct service, intersectional, and professional organizing silos can collaborate, align technologies, and share best practices.
It's time we stop reinventing the wheel.
Improving LGBTQIA+ and Ally wellbeing means addressing more than healthcare and equal rights. We must improve the economic, cultural, and environmental systems causing harm.
- Immigration
- QTBIPOC Organizers
- Workers Rights
- Poverty
- Professional Associations
- Mutual Aid
- Voter Mobilization
“America is not like a blanket — one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.”