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Grantees 2001

Arts & Culture

Jon Sims Center for the Arts, San Francisco $2,000
To support LIT@JSC, a monthly queer literary reading series that pairs established and emerging writers, currently the Bay Area's only queer literary reading series in a non-commercial setting.

La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley $2,000
To Support the fourth annual La Lesbian at La Peña: A Lesbian Performance and Film Series.

Liquid Fire Productions, San Francisco $5,000
To support Liquid FireVI, an interdisciplinary performance piece celebrating the erotic powers of lesbians of color.

Mujadarra Grrls, San Francisco $2,000
To support the diversification of the "Bint el nas" content, expansion of their web site's audiences and technical capacities and to organize a panel discussion addressing Arab sexual identity issues.

Queer Latino/a Artists Coalition- QueLACO, San Francisco $5,000
To support the June 2002 fifth annual QueLACo Festival's production and audience development expenses.

Rose Street House of Music, Berkeley $500
Support to expand outreach capabilities specifically in the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender community (Funded by BACW's a Fund Of Our Own).

Sister Spit, San Francisco $4,000
To support the creation, development and production costs of "Displacement", a technology-based spoken word performance.

Tranny Fest: Transgender and Transgenre Film Festival, San Francisco $7000
To support Tranny Fest, North America's first and only arts and cultural event, including a film festival and other cultural and community events, dedicated to and created by transgender people.

Awareness, Advocacy & Civil Rights

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society, San Francisco $4,000
To support the Transgender Community Empowerment Project, which combines historical and ethnographic methodologies to produce a grassroots picture of the transgender community in the Tenderloin.

No Secret Anymore- The Life and Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, Woman Vision, San Francisco $4,000
To support this video documentary tracing the life and achievements of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon.

ProLatino de San Jose, San Jose $2,500
To support publication of bilingual brochures to inform and attract new members and educate the community at large.

Transaction/Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, San Francisco $7,500
To support TransAction's efforts towards developing the capacity of TG/TS people to organize to hold law enforcement agencies accountable.CHILDREN, YOUTH & FAMILIES

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center, San Francisco $7,500
To support the AQU25A program for API queer and questioning youth.Center for Human

Development (CHD). Pleasant Hill $5,000
To support staff time and youth stipends for the Queer Youth Action Team (QYAT).

Center for Young Women's Development (CYWD), San Francisco $8,500
To support the peer-designed educational and recreational activities of the Nelly Velasco Project, which provides young (12-21 year old) lesbians of color with weekly peer designed educational and recreational events ($2,000 funded by BACW's A Fund Of Our Own).

Children of Lesbians & Gays Everywhere (COLAGE), San Francisco $4,500
To support expansion of COLAGE's Bay Area programming in the LGBT Community Center.

Health Initiatives for Youth (HIFY), San Francisco $3,500
To support HIFY's LGBTQ youth initiative.

National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, San Francisco $2,450
To support data gathering and analysis for their 10 year old (or Time 4) study of lesbian families (Funded by BACW's a Fund Of Our Own).

Queer Youth Training Collaborative (QYTC), San Francisco $4,500
To support the expansion of QYTC's outreach, referral and job training services to LGBTQ youth ages 18 to 25.

San Francisco Black Coalition On AIDS, San Francisco $4000
To support the purchase of multi-media equipment for BCA's Youth Employment, Training and Outreach Program.

Spectrum Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns, San Anselmo $3,500
Support for Spectrum's Hate Violence and Harassment Prevention Program.

Youth Gender Project, Berkeley $6,500
To support Youth Gender Project's Education and Social Change program.

Elders

Lavender Seniors of the East Bay, San Leandro $5,000
To support expansion of Lavender Seniors' Program Coordinator position and fund development consultant time.

National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), San Francisco $4,000
To support the National Center for Lesbian Rights' elders program.

New Leaf Services for our Community, San Francisco $4,000
To support creation of a Geriatric Mental Health Program to serve LGBT seniors.

Rainbow Adult Community Housing (RACH), San Francisco $3,000
To support RACH in the process of building an organization that can study housing possibilities, choose the best plan and do what is needed to implement a practical solution to the housing needs of LGBT elders.

Health & Human Services

AGUILAS, Inc. / El Ambiente Program, San Francisco $2,300
To support El Ambiente Program in promoting condom use among latino gay/bisexual men or men who have sex with men.

Immune Enhancement Project (IEP)-C.A.M.P, San Francisco $4,000
To support the CAMP program to bring complementary health care to chronically ill, at-risk people with low and no income.

Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services, San Francisco $8,000
To support the Health Education for Lesbians Program that provides appropriate accessible health care for younger and older lesbians ($1,000 funded by BACW's A Fund Of Our Own).

Pacific Center for Human Growth, Berkeley $4,000
To support the creation of a full time volunteer coordinator position.

Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County, Concord $4,000
To support consultant costs in board development including governance and board recruitment.

W.O.M.A.N., Inc., San Francisco $1,250
Support for W.O.M.A.N.'s Lesbian Center for Domestic Violence.AIDS

AIDS Alliance DBA The Center for AIDS Services, Oakland $10,000
To support the Center for AIDS Services congregate meal program (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

AIDS Community Network, Richmond $15,000
General support for multi-purpose day center services to people living with HIV/AIDS and their families (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

AIDS Community Research Consortium (ACRC), Redwood City $20,000
To support ACRC's HIV Food Services Program and the Living Now Program (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

AIDS Emergency Fund (AEF), San Francisco $50,000
General support to provide direct and immediate emergency financial aid for people living with AIDS or disabling HIV (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

AIDS Project East Bay, Oakland $10,000
General support for APEB's AIDS policy advocacy activities in Alameda County (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC), Washington, DC $10,000
To support educational advocacy on vaccine legislation to provide incentive for private industry to develop an HIV/AIDS Vaccine (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

ALRP-AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the SF Bay Area, San Francisco $20,000
General support for ALRP's free and low-cost legal services to people with HIV or an HIV-related legal problem, particularly concerning housing (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center, San Francisco $15,000
General support for a broad range of care and prevention services for Asian and Pacific Islanders living with HIV/AIDS (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Cities Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief (CAEAR) Coalition, Washington, DC $20,000
General support for CAEAR's national advocacy on behalf of funding for HIV programs (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Continuum, San Francisco $20,000
General support for Continuum's adult day HIV health care program, case management services and participation in the Tenderloin Cares program (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Diablo Valley AIDS Center, Concord $15,000
General support for the HIV/AIDS specific food distribution and nutrition education program (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

East Bay Community Law Center, Berkeley $15,000
To support the Housing Advocacy Project providing free legal assistance, including counseling, case management, outreach, and education, for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Ellipse Peninsula AIDS Services, San Mateo $20,000
General support for comprehensive services for people living with HIV/AIDS (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

HIV Education & Prevention Project of Alameda County (HEPPAC), Oakland $17,500
General support for HEPPAC's needle exchange, food and related programs to stop the spread of HIV and Hepatitis B and C infection among injection drug users and their partners (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Huckleberry Youth Program, San Francisco $5,000
To support the HIV Prevention Education Program (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Larkin Street Youth Center, San Francisco $12,500
To support the comprehensive housing component of LSYC's HIV services (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services, San Francisco $17,500
To provide additional Peer Advocacy and Treatment Advocacy services to HIV/AIDS clients in greatest need (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Maitri Compassionate Care, San Francisco $15,000
General support for hospice care, social and other services (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Marin AIDS Project, San Rafael $20,000
General support for the needle exchange efforts of Needle Exchange Program of Marin (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Needle Exchange Emergency Distribution ( N.E.E.D.), Berkeley $15,000
To support intern salaries for their needle exchange program (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Neighborhood House of North Richmond, Richmond $5000
To support the HIV/AIDS Prevention, Education and Support Services (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

New Connections, Concord $10,000
To support case management services for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS throughout Contra Costa County (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

New Leaf: Services for Our Community, San Francisco $15,000
To support the Transgender Initiative to Prevent HIV Infection and Transmission by supporting the salary of a transgender-identified clinician (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Positive Resource Center, San Francisco $22,000
To support the Public Benefits Outreach and Counseling Program, and creation of the "Positiveworkforce.org" Web site ($17,500 Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Project Open Hand, San Francisco $15,000
To support comprehensive nutrition services for people living with HIV/AIDS in Alameda County (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Quan Yin Healing Arts Center, San Francisco $15,000
To support the Tenderloin Acupuncture Project, providing on-site acupuncture treatment for clients of Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

San Francisco Black Coalition On AIDS, San Francisco $15,000
To support BCA's advocacy work on the local, regional, and national level (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium, San Francisco $10,000
To support the Street Outreach Services: HIV Intervention Project (SOS/HIP) (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

San Francisco Project Inform, Inc., San Francisco $30,000
General support for programs providing vital information on the diagnosis and treatment of HIV disease to HIV-infected people (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

SFAF HIV Prevention Project, San Francisco $320,000
General support for needle exchange and prevention programs (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Shanti, San Francisco $32,500
To support the Client Information System, designed for the purpose of increasing access to primary care for people with HIV by streamlining intake and access to services (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Swords to Plowshares, San Francisco $10,000
To support securing Veterans Benefits for homeless and low-income Veterans With HIV and AIDS (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center (TARC), San Francisco $16,500
General support for TARC's programs in HIV prevention, treatment education, case management, transgender support groups for Tenderloin residents ($10,000 Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

The Ark of Refuge, Inc., San Francisco $15,000
To support Case Management services for underserved individuals with HIV/AIDS in East Oakland (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

The National Association of People Living with AIDS- NAPWA, Washington, DC $12,500
To support participation of Bay Area residents in AIDSWatch 2002, which seeks to educate members of Congress and build support for funding HIV/AIDS programs (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Tri-City Health Center- Generations Project, Fremont $5,000
To support the Generations Project/ South Central County Needle Exchange Program, providing needle exchange and related core harm reduction services (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

UCSF AIDS Health Project, San Francisco $85,000
For general support for a broad range of HIV care and prevention programs, serving more than 10,000 clients annually (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).

Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases (WORLD), Oakland $35,000
To support two 3-day retreats, each for 80-100 women with HIV/AIDS (Funded by SFAF AIDS Walk 2001).