Receiving Support:
Please read this.
This program is only made available once per calendar year per household once approved for any funding or services.
This program is currently available in the state of Ohio and the requests are currently available once per person per calendar year.
You must have reached out to two programs, services, or organizations before applying for this program or have been directly referred to our program by an agency.
You must complete an online completed application and all information requested should be completed.
You must be a resident of the State of Ohio at this time.
At this time all requests will be digitally delivered. There is no in person gift cards or money that is handed out if you apply. Sometimes the emails received may go to spam.
Applications are reviewed and fulfilled as possible. We encourage applicants to continue to reach out to other LGBTQIA+ inclusive resources during the consideration process, as the Ada Gaden Project funding is limited to community donations and at times fulfilling requests may take time.
Applying is not a guarantee of service and service may be in the form of referral to another agency based on the situation.
* In the State of Ohio, kicking a child out of their home is considered abandonment. Therefore we are not able to provide emergency assistance to minors at this time. We encourage any child facing abandonment to contact an advocate.
Ada Swart Gaden, passed away on April 29, 2022. She was born in Austin, Texas on April 7, 1975. She grew up in Williamson County, Texas and attended Leander High School. Ada attended Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas where she graduated Magna com Laude with Bachelor of Arts and Master’s degree in History. Ada was a historian and a student of the human experience. She loved history, art, music, Karaoke, and dogs, especially Pugs. Ada was a very talented artist. She will always be remembered for her unique and wonderful sense of humor.
These words alone will never fully describe how amazing Ada was and is. She would give you everything she had and opened up her couch and home to anyone in need. She would give you everything even if she didn’t have it to give just to see you thrive. That being said there were times when Ada faced the world and the world wasn’t kind. There were moments when humanity should have been slower to judge and faster to be kind.
The Ada Gaden Project is about being slower to judge and faster to be kind. It is also about being multi-faceted and changing and growing based on the needs of the community and as we learn we will change to fill the need. There were moments that Ada fought to live and thrive and it is beyond fitting that Have A Gay Day as an organization she volunteered with would name this program for her.
We would like to thank the community that supports this program and acknowledge that this program wouldn’t be possible without a combined community collective supporting this critical work.
