2007 HIV/AIDS Community Grants

These grants are funded through revenues from the 2007 AIDS Walk and AIDS Marathon events, as well as through the National AIDS Fund/Elton John AIDS Foundation.

360: Positive Care Center - $15,000
For healthcare targeted toward African-American men who have sex with men

AGUILAS - $15,000
For El Ambiente, an HIV prevention and risk reduction program for gay/bi Latino men

AIDS Community Research Consortium (ACRC) - $20,000
For the Living Now series of health maintenance of peer education intervention program

AIDS Emergency Fund (AEF) - $15,000
General operating support to help maintain stable housing and improve the quality of life of people with HIV and hepatitis C

AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP) - $15,000
General operating support for low-cost legal services and programs for people living with HIV/AIDS

AIDS Prevention Action Network - $7,500
General operating support for needle exhange and referral services

AIDS Project East Bay (APEB) - $15,000
General operating support for prevention and care-related services to marginalized people with HIV

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center - $16,000
General operating support for a full range of care and preventions services for Asian and Pacific Islanders living with or risk for HIV/AIDS

Asian Americans for Community Involvement - $15,000
General operating support for HIV/AIDS prevention and education program for API immigrants, particularly men who have sex with men

Bay Area Young (BAY) Positives - $15,000
General operating support for peer-based support and outreach services for youth between 14 and 26 living with HIV

Black Coalition on AIDS - $10,000
General operating Support for the health and wellness services for people with HIV including education, housing, and case management

Community Health Empowerment / Exchange Works - $20,000
For education and risk reduction activities for underserved populations of IV drug users

Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center - $20,000
For the HIV education, counseling, and referral program for people living with HIV or those at risk

East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) - $12,000
For free HIV/AIDS law and healthcare advocacy

East Oakland Community Project - $10,000
For emergency shelter, case management, referrals, and counseling for people living with HIV

HIV Education and Prevention Project of Alameda County - $10,000
General operating support for needle exchange and food programs for people with HIV and hepatitis B or C

Huckleberry Youth Program - $15,000
For HYPE (HIV/AIDS Youth Prevention and Education), a peer-led prevention education workshop

Immune Enhancement Project - $10,000
For the Community Acupuncture and Massage Program for low/no-income people living with HIV/AIDS, primarily people of color and those underserved in the LGBT community

Larkin Street Youth Services - $15,000
For support of HIV-positive homeless and runaway youth (12-24), including medical care, mental health, and substance abuse services

Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services - $15,000
Primary healthcare and HIV risk assessment services for low-income uninsured women and transgendered women

Marin AIDS Project (MAP) - $10,000
General operating support of programs including needle exhange, care, and case management

Meals of Marin - $15,000
General operating support of programs including needle exhange, care, and case management

Native American AIDS Project - $15,000
For ongoing programs designed to eliminate new HIV infections among Native people using holisitc spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical approaches

New Leaf: Services For Our Community- $15,000
For expansion of HIV prevention and substance abuse services for LGBTQQ youth at LYRIC, the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, Eureka Valley Community Center, and five San Francisco high schools

Pacific Center for Human Growth - $12,500
For the HIV/AIDS - Crystal Meth Education Project, which aims to reduce the HIV infection rate of gay/bisexual men who use stimulants, as part of New Leaf's counseling and support services

Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation - $35,000
Broadening access to HIV/AIDS care for underserved populations around the world

Pittsburg Preschool and Community Council - $15,000
For case management for people with HIV, community outreach, education, prevention intervention, risk counseling, benefits, and needle exchange

Positive Resource Center (PRC) - $16,000
General operating support for programs that provide comprehensive benefits counseling and employment services to people with or at-risk for HIV/AIDS

Project Inform - $15,000
General operating support for providing information to people living with HIV about treatments, advocating for facilitation of research, treatment, and care

Project Open Hand - $10,000
For nutritional meals (picked up and/or delivered) and groceries to clients in San Francisco and Alameda

Quan Yin Healing Arts Center - $10,000
For holistic treatment of people living long-term with HIV/AIDS

St. James Infirmary - $15,000
General operating support for risk reduction counseling, needle exchange, and safer sex training for at-risk sex workers and their partners

San Francisco Gay Men’s Community Initiative - $15,000
For programs that mobilize gay men in grassroots community-building and health-promoting activities to help re-establish norms for safe sex and HIV prenvention

Shanti - $35,000
Information, counseling, peer support, and advocacy

STOP AIDS Project - $15,000
General operating support for prevention programs among the gay, bisexual, and transgender male population through multicultural, community-based organizing

Tenderloin Health - $15,000
General operating support for programs serving the homeless and others marginalized because of mental health issues, substance use, gender identity, ethnicity, and at-risk or living with HIV/AIDS

Tri-City Health Center - $15,000
General operating support of needle exhange, prevention, testing, and direct care

UCSF AIDS Health Project - $150,000
Counseling to stop the spread of HIV infection and provide psychological support

Vital Life Services (formerly The Center for AIDS Services) - $14,600
General operating support for direct services to people living with HIV/AIDS and other critical illnesses

Bill Wilson Center - $15,000
For the 2nd Street Drop-In center, which serves at-risk homeless and runaway youth

Women Organized to Respond to Life Threatening Diseases (WORLD) - $15,000
General operating support for HIV education and advocacy training for women and public awareness programs

Women's Community Clinic - $11,400
General operating support for outreach and prevention programs and support for women sex workers and homeless intravenous drug users in the Mission