A partnership proposal · May 2026

She & HER×K Stewart Foundation

What we sat down at that bar to start.
And the shape of what we keep building together.
Prepared for K. Stewart and Kiralee · From Desirée at She & HER
She & HER KSF SAFETY ACCESS FAMILY EDUCATION
01 · What we heard you say

The work is happening. The reporting is what's missing.

"We have people getting engaged. We have masc folks taking on pregnancy. We have people taking on financial literacy and realigning their lives in productive ways. They're not invisible — they're visible. We're having a hard time extracting that." K. Stewart, K Stewart Foundation
By the numbers
<1%
of US foundation giving flows to LGBTQ+ orgs
smaller still
the share that reaches Black, queer, women-led work
0
pillars KSF has already locked
0
outcome categories KSF is producing — and not yet capturing

Without legible measurement, even orgs doing real work get skipped at the funding table. That's the gap the data lane closes — and it compounds across every lane underneath it.

The lives are real. The pregnancies are real. The realignments are real. What's missing is a way to extract what you already see — make the visible legible to a funder, a board, a city.

That's the part we can hand you. And it's the kind of work She & HER was built to do — data & product, in service of the population every other system has skipped.

Safety
held space, low harm
Access
doorways, equity
Family Services
masc parenting, kin-building
Education
career, literacy, the Academy
02 · What this is

Not a deliverable. A partnership.

"We exclusively work with people we like." Same.

The way you said it back to us is the way we've already been working — slow, in person, with the people we'd sit at a bar with. So this proposal isn't a contract. It's a sketch of where we sit down together, and where it could grow.

We're going to anchor on one concrete piece of work — the data lane — because it's what you named, and it's what we can hand you fastest. Everything else we're proposing stacks under it: lanes we grow into together, on a timeline that has to feel right to both of us.

03 · Where we start

The data lane.

Your stated #1. Our strongest lane to lead with. The artifact that proves we listened.

Anchor lane

Data & Impact Measurement

Making your visible work reportable.

A measurement framework mapped to your four pillars, lightweight enough that KSF can run it on its own once it's built. We design it together, we build it, we hand it over.

What we build

  • Measurement framework mapped to safety / access / family / education
  • 2–3 KPIs per pillar — chosen with you, not handed down
  • Lightweight data setup (forms, tracking, the connective tissue) that KSF can run after handoff
  • Quarterly impact report template — board-ready, funder-ready

What it gives you

Engagements. Masc pregnancies. Financial literacy outcomes. Retention. All of it quantified, contextualized, on one page that funders read without translation. Boards read it without asking you to translate.

Timeline

v1 in 6–8 weeks once we've scoped together. Iteration pass at week 12.

What we get

A picture of what reach looks like for the population most underserved by every other queer measurement framework. That data shapes how She & HER builds. Mutuality, not extraction.

Preview — your v1 impact one-pager

Illustrative · animates on scroll
Safety
Events held0
Community-hours of held space0
Reported safety incidents0
Access
First-time members0
Service connections made0
Jobs / opportunities surfaced0
Family Services
Masc pregnancies supported0
Family-building consults0
Financial literacy participants0
Education
Academy enrollments0
Mentor matches0
Career-pathway placements0
Quarterly trend
Community-hours of held space, +71% in 4 quarters
Q3 '25 Q4 '25 Q1 '26 Q2 '26 140 195 215 240

Numbers are illustrative — pulled to show shape, not actual KSF figures. Real KPIs and ranges land in the scoping session. The shape — pillar-mapped, board-readable, on one page — is what your funders see at v1.

04 · Right now

Your gala — what do you actually need?

Before any framework gets shipped, before NYC Pride, before any longer lane — y'all have a gala on the near horizon. The fastest way to prove this partnership is real is to be useful for the thing already on your calendar.

Tell us what you need. Here's where we can land.

None of these are commitments yet. They're lanes we could plug into depending on where the gala's actual pressure points are. Pick what's useful, ignore what isn't.

Sponsorship outreach. Our brand-target list (~80 vetted, mapped to values) overlaps with corporate giving cycles. We can co-pitch or warm-intro to the right ones for the gala specifically.
Pre/post-gala data capture. Attendee engagement, donor pipeline, RSVP-to-attendance conversion. Bonus: it's a dry run of the measurement framework on a real event.
Invitations & copy. Brand-voice support on invitations, social, run-of-show, post-gala recap — written so it sounds like KSF, not a corporate gala script.
Press & media. Plug into our Houston / Fox 26 / sapphic-press relationships if any of the gala's narrative travels.
On-the-ground. Desi physically present if logistics work. Whatever bodies and hands we can offer the day-of.
Or — something we haven't named. Tell us what's actually keeping you up about it. We figure it out from there.

The gala becomes the first thing we ship together. Real-time proof of how we work. And the data we capture there feeds directly into the framework conversation that follows.

05 · Where we grow into

Five lanes. None of them due Friday.

Filter by pillar — or click any lane to open it. Sequencing is a conversation, not a commitment.

Oakland Pride 2027 — Conference Track

From party-only to "you leave with something."
Education Access
+

What we'd build

The Powder Room as a sapphic conversation track inside Oakland Pride 2027. It's a format we've already shipped — concept brief, signup spec, pilot plan all live. Drops in clean.

The mutuality

You bring the audience and the city. We bring the format and the production. Both names on the door. Oakland Pride stops being only a party — and gains a track that earns its conference-future positioning.

NYC Pride 2026 — What You Want to Activate

We're bringing the float. You bring what you want to make alive.
Access Safety Family Services
+

What's open

She & HER's NYC Pride 2026 is already in motion — confirmed float, brand activation across the weekend, and a Greyhound busing initiative bringing folks in from cities that otherwise wouldn't get there. There's room inside that weekend for KSF to land in NYC and activate what y'all want to activate. Not slotted into our brief — yours. The supper club idea you named is the obvious place to start: a She & HER × KSF supper club, KSF-shaped, with our budget and field-team support making it possible. But the lane is open — tell us what you want, we work backward from there.

The real mutuality

You get a NYC Pride moment that's KSF-shaped, not folded into someone else's brand brief. We get real field-team presence on the ground — bodies, hands, community who carry the weekend with us, since we still need a field team in some shape. Geographic complement on the surface; a practical reciprocity underneath that we can't easily get any other way.

Case Steward Academy — Curriculum Support

The salaries lesbians end up in, made teachable.
Education
+

What we'd build

Career pathways for lesbians in safety, security, marketing — the salaries you already named in the room. We show up as guest mentors, sponsor a track, or co-design a data-literacy module so the next generation of KSF community reads the same dashboards we just built for you.

The mutuality

You get curriculum credibility from a team that's actually shipped at scale. We get to put our story in front of community members who are about to enter the fields we recruit from. Pipeline both ways.

Family Services — Masc Parenting Co-Research

Lived experience as primary source.
Family Services
+

What we'd build

K's lived experience getting pregnant masc-presenting is rare primary-source insight that almost no platform has. We co-research user needs around queer family-building. You get a structured deliverable that feeds the family-services pillar. We get to make sure She & HER's family-building features are designed by, not for.

Pace

Slow lane. Long-term. The kind of work that earns the right to be done together — not the kind that gets rushed.

501(c)(3) Funding Rail — Later

Flagging the possibility, not pitching it.
All Pillars Long-term
+

The shape

Once the rest of the work has shape, KSF as a foundation could be a donation / grant rail for She & HER community programs — or we fundraise with you on shared work.

Why it's last

This kind of structure works when there's already a trust record between two orgs. The other four lanes build that record. Then this becomes obvious. Naming it now so we both see the horizon.

06 · How we work

Three things we won't bend on.

01

Values first.

We exclusively work with people we like, too. Same line, different room. Everything downstream of that.

02

Slow + in person where it matters.

We met at a bar. The next move is also in person if we can manage it, video if we can't. The big stuff doesn't get hashed out in email.

03

Mutuality, not extraction.

Every lane has to give us both something. If it doesn't, it doesn't ship. Your community isn't a research site. Ours isn't either.

07 · What's next

A 30-minute working session — in the next week or two.

In person if we can swing it. Video if we can't. Just the three of us scoping the data lane together — the two or three KPIs per pillar that actually matter to you, and what shape the v1 wants to take. We walk out with a plan we both like.

Sooner is better. Right is best.

With love and structure,
Desirée Yvonne Mayon · CEO and founder, She & HER · desiree@sheandher.io