Within the AIDS Foundation of Chicago's general grantmaking cycle, we fund seventeen special initiatives geared toward building capacity at agencies and communities at the frontlines of the epidemic.

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Those initiatives are:

A Call to Action: HIV/AIDS in Illinois' Latino Community

AIDS Run & Walk Chicago CommunityDirect Grants

African American Housing and Heath Collaborative

AmeriCorps

Corrections Case Managment Initiative

Communities of Color Collaborative

Dance for Life

Emergency Fund

Faith Responds to AIDS

Global Grants Initiative 

Great Lakes AIDS Policy Connection/Broadway Cares

Illinois Syringe Access FundPerinatal HIV Case Management Project

Project CRYSP

Harm Reduction Services Initiative