We are thrilled to invite you to the 27th Annual Queer Youth Leadership Awards (QYLA), on Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 5:30 pm at Scotts Valley High School in Scotts Valley. Your financial support helps us to produce QYLA, to offer cash awards and donation stipends to each awardee, and to continue the vital programs of the Queer Youth Task Force.
Host a QYLA table for families, student clubs, businesses, or community organizations.
Table Sponsorship is $600-$1,500, and includes 10 tickets for one full table at this year’s QYLA event.
To ensure an equitable event, we offer sliding scale ticket and table prices. Please support the Queer Youth Leadership Awards by selecting a ticket or table price that works for you.
Each table will be listed as a co-sponsor in the Printed Program if reserved before April 17, 2024.
Final table reservations are accepted until May 3, 2024.
- Sign up to be a Table Captain at this year’s QYLA
- Submit the Names for your Table at this year’s QYLA
- For any name changes at your table
Full Table sponsorship, and donations in addition to your table sponsorship, can be made by contacting Stuart Rosenstein, QYLA’s fundraising coordinator. Stuart can be reached via Email or phone at (831) 325-9988.
PayPal, Credit Card, or Debit Card for QYLA 2024 Table Sponsorships via our fiscal sponsor, The Diversity Center.
- Step 1: Visit the PayPal/Credit/Debit Card link
- Step 2: Write a note (Optional) — Add any information you’d like to share with QYLA.
- Step 3: Complete the PayPal, Credit Card, or Debit Card information.
- Thank you for supporting QYLA via a Table Sponsorship!
Mailing a check for your Table Sponsorship
- Please make check payable to our fiscal sponsor “The Diversity Center.” In memo of check, please write “QYLA Table Sponsor.”
- Please mail to: Queer Youth Leadership Awards (QYLA), P. O. Box 3143, Santa Cruz, CA 95063
QYLA is a program of the Queer Youth Task Force of Santa Cruz County, a fiscally sponsored agent of The Diversity Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization serving the LGBTIQ community of Santa Cruz County.
The mission of the QYLA is to improve the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth by increasing positive awareness of queer youth leadership, and increasing safe and welcoming environments in home, school, and community. QYLA 2023 is cosponsored in part by the New Brighton Middle School Queer Straight Alliance (QSA). QYLA is a project of the Queer Youth Task Force, a fiscally sponsored agent of the Diversity Center.