Practical Support. Greater Stability. Room to Grow.
Access to everyday essentials can help someone move through a difficult moment and take their next step. This Doesn’t Define Me supports transgender, immigrant, and other marginalized young adults ages 18 and older across the Southeast, with an emphasis on rural communities.
Through direct assistance and community partnerships, our programs address immediate needs while building relationships that support connection, confidence, and community leadership.
The Glow Bag Project
Essential care for communities that are too often overlooked.
The Glow Bag Project is a direct support initiative of This Doesn’t Define Me that provides hygiene and wellness kits to people facing barriers to basic care, including unhoused individuals, low income community members, LGBTQ+ people, and others impacted by marginalization.
Through this program, TDDM prepares and distributes Glow Bags to trusted community partners who are already doing outreach, organizing, and direct service work on the ground. Glow Bags are also distributed at TDDM events, community programs, protests, outreach efforts, and other spaces where we are directly engaging with the people we serve.
Each Glow Bag includes practical essentials such as wipes, hand sanitizer, over the counter pain relief, first aid supplies, period products, hygiene items, and resource information. These items may seem small, but they can make an immediate difference for someone who does not have reliable access to basic necessities.
The goal of The Glow Bag Project is simple: to help make care more accessible. By working through community partners and showing up in the spaces where support is needed most, TDDM is able to reach people who are often left out of traditional systems of care.
The Glow Bag Project reflects our belief that dignity should not depend on someone’s housing status, income, identity, or circumstances. Everyone deserves access to the basic items that help them stay safe, clean, and cared for.
The Glow Bag Project helps us turn community care into direct action.
Your support helps us purchase supplies, assemble kits, and reach more people through local distribution partners and outreach.
The Bridge Fund
Timely assistance when an essential expense cannot wait.
A transportation expense or prescription cost can become a serious barrier when someone is already struggling to make ends meet. The Bridge Fund provides eligible adults ages 18 and older with up to $100 in direct assistance to help address urgent needs.
The fund prioritizes transgender young adults and other marginalized community members across the Southeast facing financial hardship, housing instability, or barriers to care and employment.
Assistance may help cover:
- Prescriptions and health care expenses.
- Mental health services.
- Transportation to work, health care, or therapy.
- Transportation related to housing instability or immigration needs.
- Other urgent basic necessities.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Awards depend on eligibility and available funding, and submitting an application does not guarantee assistance.
Your support helps fund direct assistance and the coordination needed to review requests and deliver support. Flexible funding allows us to respond to the needs applicants bring to us.
Flagship Program
No One Left Behind
A Gender-Affirming Access Program
Cost, distance, and limited local options can make affirming resources difficult to access. Through our partnership with NWGA Queer Care Closet, No One Left Behind provides free resources for transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse adults ages 18 and older.
What the Program Provides
- Free gender-affirming garments
- Makeup kits
- HIV self-test kits
Who We Serve
Transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse individuals living in the Southeastern United States.
How Access Works
- In-person pickup locations:
Cartersville, Georgia
Rome, Georgia - Shipping: Available to eligible states throughout the Southeast
This program is rooted in the belief that access to affirming care is not a privilege, but a necessity. No cost. No judgment. No one left behind.
