LGBTQIA+ Family Building Options
HOW WE CAN HELP
Financial Assistance: Fertility Grants
Our fertility grants are open to anyone in the LGBTQIA+ community, including grants that cover IUI, IVF, FETs, and parts of some surrogacy journeys!
Apply For a GrantHOW WE CAN HELP
Emotional Support: Support Groups
You are always welcome to attend one of our local support groups if you live in one of our locations. We also have an LGBTQIA+ Peer-to-Peer Support Group that meets monthly! This is open to anyone in the US, regardless of whether or not you live in one of our locations.
Join a Support GroupHOW WE CAN HELP
Emotional Support: Fertility Buddy Program
You can request a buddy, and your local JFF manager will match you with someone who has gone through a family building journey that is similar to yours! This is open to anyone in the US, regardless of whether or not you live in one of our locations.
Request a BuddyJFF Resources to Support You on Your Journey
A few more additional resources that can provide support for your journey to parenthood.
Check Out These Episodes
Empowering an Alternate Path to Parenthood
Empower does education, emotional support, and matching for people looking to donate their embryos or those looking to receive donor embryos.
The Surrogacy Guru Erez Baron’s Tale of Two Countries: Coming to the US from Israel for Surrogacy
Erez Baron is known as “The Surrogacy Guru”, who many turn to for answers on this complex but important family building pathway.
Trans Family Building and Pregnancy with Trystan Reese
In this entertaining, eye-opening, and extremely touching interview, Trystan Reese, author and advocate, shares his experience with transitioning, to his unique family building journey, including both adoption and trans pregnancy.
Creating a Family Building Option that Puts YOU First
Meet Lauren Makler, the CEO and Co-Founder of Cofertility, an incredible company focused on making fertility preservation and third-party reproduction more accessible, human, and community-driven.
What Makes a Baby Jewish
What makes someone Jewish? From its painful historic connotations to its open invitation for exclusion, this is a loaded question. Yet, there is a deceptively simple answer: one is “technically” Jewish if their mother is Jewish.
