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BRO and its politi cal action committees reported an annual budget of nearly $1.7 million for 2010. HRC is the largest organization focus ing on LGBTQ_rights in the United States. Founded in 1980, it’s based in Washington, D.C., with a 140-person staff and more than a million volunteers and contributors nationwide. It lobbies for pro-equality fed Local and national eral legislation and works to elect pro equality candidates to political office. It Many of you by this point are blinking in also has educational and outreach programs disbelief that Ju st Out is running a story on on issues like coming out and discrimina the differences between BRO and HRC. tion in the workplace. H RC’s lobbying arm You’re screaming, “HRC is a huge, national and outreach programs had a combined an organization based in Washington, D .C.!” nual budget last year of $37.9 million. as you swat the paper with the back of your So in a nutshell, BRO is local and HRC is hand. “BRO is a scrappy team of locals who national. While BRO worked to defend Or do work only in Oregon!” egon’s domestic partnership and anti-dis Yes, that is the main difference between crimination laws, HRC worked to repeal BRO and H RC, though believe it or not, “Don’t ask, don’t tell” on the national level. it’s not clear to everyone—the staff at Ju st While BRO worked to elect Governor John Out have run into members of the commu Kitzhaber, HRC worked to elect Senator nity who couldn’t point to this one, key Ron Wyden. Both organizations do work difference. that affects the lives of Oregonians, either on BRO was founded in 1996 as an Oregon a state level or a national one. nonprofit and has since grown to a 15-person organization, plus about 15,000 volunteers W orking together and contributors. It works throughout the state to end discrimination based on sexual Sometimes the work of the two organi orientation and gender identity. It fights anti zations overlaps. HRC does have a small equality ballot measures and works to elect outpost of Portland-based volunteers that BRO and HRC, by the numbers T Pro > Photo NIKON INC. LIMITED WARRANTY INCLUDED 2011 NIKON INC. All rebates limited to strxk on hand This year, as you watch different groups march past you in the Pride parade, you might say to yourself, “Gee, Portland has a lot of gay nonprofits.” And youd be right. You might also ask, “W hy are all these groups necessary? Don’t they do the same thing?” Then, you wouldn’t be right, at least not entirely. Take two prominent groups, Basic Rights Oregon and the Human Rights Campaign. They both fight for equality. They both are involved politically. They both shorten their names to three-letter acronyms (BRO and HRC).To an outsider, they look pretty simi lar. But when you understand how they work, you see the differences between them are pretty big. This comparison of BRO and HRC will help answer the question, “How are they different?” Or perhaps more importantly, “Which one should get my money?” ■ Basic Rights Oregon Human Rights Campaign Based Portland W ashington, D.C. Year founded 1996 1980 Annual budget $1.7 million $37.9 million Staff 15 140 Supporters 15,000 1 million
