Horizons Foundation grantmaking increased from $250,000 in 1998 to well over $1 million in 1999. In addition to Horizons' traditional Community Issues grant cycle, Horizons assumed management of the San Francisco AIDS Walk 1999 grantmaking and also completed the first round of grantmaking from Horizons Foundation’s collaboration with the San Francisco Foundation on the Gateway Initiative.

1999 Community Issues Grants Grants
This year, Horizons' traditional Community Issues grant cycle received 40 percent more proposals for funding than last year. There was a substantial increase in grants to organizations serving communities of color and to organizations serving youth. In addition, nearly 50 percent of grants were made to organizations outside the San Francisco Bay Area. Horizons continues to be the first funder of organizations or good ideas that have few other funding options. For example, six grants were made to organizations serving transgender people. Two of the innovative programs we are supporting this year are "Beloved Daughter", a program of the Family Letters Project of the API-PFLAG of San Francisco, and "American Socrates" a documentary film project on the life of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
AIDS Legal Referral Panel Bayard Rustin Documentary Film Project Ella Baker Center for Human Rights / Transaction The Harry Hay Project Transsexual News Telegraph Afro Solo Theatre Company AIDS Emergency Fund Maitri: Residential Care for People Living with AIDS New Leaf: Services for Our Community The Center for AIDS Services Women's Cancer Resource Center Afro Solo Theatre Company Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits East Bay Pride - Stonewall 30 Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) Juha Luna Sea Womens Performance Project LVA: Lesbians in the Visual Arts Purple Moon Dance Project Theatre Rhinoceros Bay Area Gay Straight Alliance Network Bay Area Young (BAY) Positives Center for Alternative Families Center for Human Development - Empowerment Project COLAGE (Children of Lesbian and Gays Everywhere) Family Letter Project - SF/PFLAG API Family Project Free Zone c/o The Wedge Program Harvey Milk Institute	Health Initiatives for Youth Immune Enhancement Project Legal Services For Children National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study Pacific Center for Human Growth Presidio Community YMCA Project FOCYS, a program of the Peninsula Family YMCA Queer Youth Training Collaborative (QYTC) c/o CUAV The "Daddies" Film Project Ultra Down Productions YMCA of San Francisco - Mission Branch YWCA of the Mid-Peninsula Able-Together Inc. Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center Central City Hospitality House Horizons Services Inc. / CommPre Jewish Family and Children Services Solano Pride Center Project W.O.M.A.N., Inc. Lesbian & Gay Senior Services Collaborative National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) Spectrum Center for Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual,Transgender Concerns API Queer Women's Community Coalition Deaf Communities Together Inc. FTM International Inc. GELAAM de San Mateo County Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County

The Gateway Initiative, a collaboration between the San Francisco Foundation and the Horizons Foundation, is one of 20 participants in the National Lesbian and Gay Community Funding Partnership (NLGCFP) which provides matching grants to community foundations to leverage additional funding. The San Francisco Foundation pledged to match the NLGCFP grant of $100,000 and conduct additional fundraising from other foundations with a final goal of raising $500,000. Thus far, $365,000 has been raised. In this first Gateway grant cycle, ninety-one applications requesting a total amount of $1,361,338 were received.

The following lists the grants made in the first Gateway Initiative grant cycle. The community based allocations and review committee for the Gateway Initiative recommended the following 34 organizations for a total of $309,528 in grant funding.

1999 Gateway Initiative Grants
Project Support - Arts
Himaphiliac Productions Black Gay Letters & Arts Movement La Pena Cultural Center Magic Theatre Queer Latino/a Artists Coalition Luna Sea Women's Performance Afro Solo Frameline Lesbian and Gay Dance Festival Queer Cultural Center Gay Asian Pacific Alliance SUB-TOTAL	$5,000 $ 5,000 $ 3,000 $10,000 $ 5,000 $ 9,600 $10,000 $ 5,000 $10,000 $10,000 $ 5,000 $62,600
Project Support - Youth
Gay-Straight Alliance Network Girls Incorporated Xanthos Inc. Dimensions: Health Services for Youth Catholic Charities of the East Bay COLAGE Queer Youth Training Collaborative Project FOCYS Youth & Family Assistance SUB-TOTAL	$10,000 $ 7,000 $10,000 $15,000 $ 3,000 $10,000 $15,000 $ 5,000 $10,000 $85,000
Project Support - Other
Lesbian & Gay Senior Services Collaborative NIA Collective Women's Cancer Resource Center Asian Women's Shelter Center for Human Development FTM International, Inc. SUB-TOTAL	$13,000 $13,000 $14,428 $11,000 $ 2,500 $ 8,000 $74,928
Strategic Partnerships
Community Center of San Francisco Community United Against Violence Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa Gay Lesbian Historical Society LYRIC Pacific Center for Human Growth Spectrum Center for LGBT Concerns SUB-TOTAL	$10,000 $15,000 $ 7,000 $15,000 $10,000 $15,000 $15,000 $87,000

Horizons received the 1999 AIDS WALK Grant making contract, with the blessing of the Tides Foundation, the past AIDS WALK grant administrator. Forty-seven proposals were received, and 37 grants totaling $895,000 were recommended by the AIDS Walk Community Review panel and by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. The approved grants are as follows.

AIDS Benefits Counselors $15,000
To support the Public Benefits Outreach Program which helps low-income people with HIV/AIDS secure financial benefits so they have resources to obtain housing, medical care and food.

AIDS Community Network $10,000
To provide general support: for ACN's expanded services which include HIV/AIDS self-help educational series designed to empower and motivate clients to be active participants in their health care.

AIDS Community Research Consortium (ACRC) $18,000
To support the Living Now and HIV/AIDS health maintenance education project with the goal of helping improve the quality and length of life of HIV+ people through peer education, empowerment and HIV prevention.

AIDS Emergency Fund (AEF) $50,000
To provide general support for AEF's emergency financial assistance for people living with AIDS/HIV.

AIDS Health Project $80,000
General Support.

AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the SF Bay Area (ALRP) $15,000
To provide general support for legal advocacy to help people living with AIDS/HIV secure and maintain affordable housing.

AIDS Project East Bay $20,000
To support the Project Hope program of street outreach and risk reduction groups for people struggling with substance abuse issues.

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center $25,000
To provide multi-lingual treatment case management for Asians and Pacific Islanders.

CAEAR Coalition $25,000
To support the CAEAR Coalition project to secure reauthorization of the Ryan White CARE Act Amendments of 1996.

California AIDS Intervention Training Center $25,000
For support of the Nia project by funding one health educator to conduct HIV education and prevention interventions to women and youth in the Bayview-Hunters Point area of San Francisco.

Catholic Charities Of the Archdiocese of San Francisco $10,000
To provide additional services and support to residents of Peter Claver & Leland House Communities.

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice $ 5,000
To support the PWA Peer advocate component of the Homeless Release Program which provides emergency housing and food, along with client advocacy to homeless misdemeanants getting out of San Francisco County Jail

Continuum HIV Day Services $20,000
To provide general support for the adult day care treatment and drop-in center.

Diablo Valley AIDS Center $20,000
To provide general support for food and nutrition services.

Dolores Street Community Services $10,000
To help upgrade and repair DSCS's Victorian Era cottage and carriage house and renew and update facilities to insure their residents have a safe and healthy environment.

East Bay Community Law Center $10,000
To provide housing advocacy for low-income people living with disabling HIV/AIDS, and legal representation and case management for issues related to reasonable accommodation, eviction defense and discrimination.

Eden I&R, Inc. $ 5,000
To support the AIDS Housing and Information Project (AHIP), which includes phone based services, and on-site visits to 8 regional shelters and hospitals, to help people connect with affordable housing and health care.

Ellipse Peninsula AIDS Services $ 7,000
To provide general support for multiple social services and case management.

HEPPAC $17,500
To provide general support for comprehensive needle exchange program in Alameda County

Immune Enhancement Program $10,000
To provide acupuncture treatment at various, easily accessible locations, to meet the needs of multi-diagnosed/multi-problem individuals with HIV & at risk for HIV.

La Clinica de La Raza-Fruitvale Health Project $10,000
To support Project Hope which provides street outreach and training workshops to increase knowledge , change beliefs and behaviors and develop risk reduction skills to reduce HIV/AIDS transmission among at risk populations in Oakland.

Maitri: Residential Care for People Living with AIDS $10,000
General Support.

Marin AIDS Interfaith Network $15,500
To purchase syringes for the Needle Exchange Program Of Marin (NEPOM) which provides a comprehensive one-for-one syringe exchange and prevention education program.

Marin AIDS Project $10,000
To provide general support for the Substance Abuse & Needle exchange Education (SANE) program which provides risk reduction education to drug users and their sex partners as well as indigent and incarcerated populations.

Meals Of Marin $ 5,000
To provide general support for food and nutrition services.

Needle Exchange Emergency Distribution $17,500
To provide funds for purchase of syringes and for stipends of three volunteer staff positions.

New Leaf: Services for Our Community $15,000
To provide 50% funding for a Spanish bilingual full-time clinician to provide HIV substance abuse and mental health intake, counseling, therapy, HIV prevention and other integrated services to low-income, multi-diagnosed individuals.

HPP - Prevention Point $260,000
General Support

Project Open Hand $ 5,000
To provide general support for comprehensive nutrition services for people living with symptomatic HIV & AIDS in Alameda County.

Quan Yin Healing Arts Center $10,000
To support Quan Yin's Sister Care Program, providing acupuncture and self-care training advocacy for HIV+ women.

San Francisco Project Inform., Inc $37,000
General Support.

Shanti $32,500
To support client information system (CIS) software, network architecture and communications system for unified intake/assessment

Stop AIDS Project $10,000
To support Street Trade, an outreach program to commercial sex workers, low income gay and bisexual men, male youth, and substance users in San Francisco's Polk and Tenderloin districts.

Swords to Plowshares $ 5,000
To support Swords to Plowshares' work to secure Veterans Benefits for Veterans With HIV and AIDS by providing legal assistance to veterans with HIV and promoting their access to stable income, housing and health care.

Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center $ 5,000
General Support.

The Ark of Refuge, Inc. $20,000
To provide general support for case management and multiple social services.

WORLD $30,000
To support retreats for Women with HIV/AIDS that focus on treatment education with a focus on helping women make informed decisions about their treatment regimens as well as provide social support and empowerment.

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