Band Fun. Campaigns to Raise $250,000 for Detroit LGBT Youth Center

The Grammy award-winning band fun. has launched a campaign to raise $250,000 to build a community health center for the Ruth Ellis Cente, which provides housing, meals, clothing and medical services for LGBT youth in need in Detroit (MI). Funds will be raised through its LGBT support organization, The Ally Coalition (TAC). Band members are singer Nate Ruess, guitarist Jack Antonoff and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Dost, who is from Detroit.

In 2012, the group released their RIAA-certified platinum album Some Nights which featured the chart-topping singles “We Are Young” and “Some Nights.” Antonoff’s sister, designer Rachel Antonoff, created TAC with the band. While LGBTQ youth comprise 5 to 7 percent of the general population, they represent up to 40 percent of the overall homeless youth population and are also far more likely than straight peers to be victims of depression, violence, bullying and suicide. Throughout its last three tours, fun. has donated $1 of each ticket sold to TAC which distributes these funds at the discretion of the band. The band will use up to $50,000 of these funds to match the gifts of TAC donors to support the Ruth Ellis Center’s capital campaign. 

 

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