The San Francisco-based Horizons Foundation recently announced it's awarding $350,000 in grants to help organizations build support for same-sex marriage in communities of color.

The funds are part of a new Horizons grant program, People of Color Creating Equality.

"These grants are extremely important because the issue of our equality is extremely important, and because we have, as a movement, a tremendous amount of learning and work to do in and with communities of color," said Roger Doughty, Horizons' executive director.

Following the Proposition 8 campaign two years ago, the No on 8 side was widely criticized for virtually ignoring black, Latino, and other communities of color during the unsuccessful battle against California's same-sex marriage ban in 2008.