Letter: Federal Evidence Agenda on LGBTQI+ Equity RFI

This letter was submitted as public comment to NSTC Subcommittee on Equitable Data Office of Science and Technology Policy, in October 2022 by Gary D. Bass, GDB Consulting & Executive Director Emeritus, Bauman Foundation, Chair, Census Equity Initiative; LaShanda A. Jackson, Executive Director, Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation; and Sol Marie Alfonso-Jones, Program Director, Long Island Community Foundation, Chair, Funders’ Committee Census Initiative (FCCI).

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Dear Subcommittee Members:
We write in response to the August 24, 2022 Federal Register notice from the Office of Science and Technology Policy requesting information to help develop the Federal Evidence Agenda on LGBTQI+ Equity. Thank you for the opportunity to share why the government should collect data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and variations in sex characteristics (SOGI) and why such equity data are important to philanthropy.

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