A Match Made In…

…heaven, hopefully. Time will tell.

By now I’m sure you’ve heard the big news, but if you haven’t, here’s the scoop: Michigan Equality and the Triangle Foundation are getting married! …to each other. The details so far have been pretty sketchy, but the math is pretty simple. There’s only so much money out there for great organizations like these, a finite number of volunteer hours to be had, a finite number of politicians’ ears to be bent, and so forth, and by joining forces Triangle and M= can share these resources.

More importantly, on a molecular level the two organizations have totally different purposes (M= was originally intended to be Michigan’s LGBT political lobby, and Triangle is a resource and victim advocacy center), but over time both organizations had started to dip their toes in each other’s pool. By combining forces, the good people at Michigan Equality can continue to do what they do best: advocating for LGBT rights in our government, and the folks at Triangle can focus on victim advocacy and crisis counseling…but it’ll all be under one umbrella with one budget, one set of support staff, and so on. Less money goes to overhead, the best and the brightest in each field all get to work together instead of competing, everybody wins!

Right now the Powers That Be are working out the prenuptial agreement and picking out wedding rings, and the swankiest nonprofit corporate wedding ever should take place within a few months. As soon as the ceremony and the honeymoon are over, the folks at the Michigan Triangle Equality Foundation* can get back to kicking ass and taking names (and writing those names in sparkly purple ink).

*Disclaimer: I made this up. I hope they don’t use it, because it’s loooong…and kind of lame.