| About
Face Theatre - to support the education outreach work of the About
Face Youth Theatre. |
$5,000 |
| Access
Community Health Network - to support the AIDS Pastoral Care Network's
community-based prevention education/pastoral care program Faith Responds
to AIDS, which serves African-American and Latino populations on Chicago’s
south and west sides. |
$10,000 |
| Advocate
Metro Outreach Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program - to implement
and evaluate a culturally competent HIV/AIDS continuum of care and
prevention services for the deaf and hard of hearing. |
$5,000 |
| Agape
Missions, Inc. - for general operating support of this multi-service
AIDS service provider. |
$15,000 |
| AIDS
Legal Council of Chicago - to provide legal services for people
living with HIV. |
$30,000 |
| AIDSCare
- for general operating support of this residential program serving
people living with HIV/AIDS. |
$10,000 |
| Asian
Human Services, Inc. - to support the African Refugee AIDS Project,
which will provide HIV prevention education to recent African immigrants.
|
$15,000 |
| Aunt
Martha's Youth Service Center - to provide HIV prevention education
and anonymous STD testing to youth and young adults in southern Cook
County. |
$10,000 |
| Better
Existence with HIV - to enhance and expand the Prevention for
Life program targeting people living with HIV. |
$20,000 |
| Bonaventure
House - to support the Occupational Therapy Program, which helps
people living with HIV develop or regain employment and life skills. |
$5,000 |
| Bridging
the Tys to Jordan - for general operating support of Jordan's
Place, a residential facility serving people living with and at-risk
for contracting HIV. |
$10,000 |
| Catholic
Charities of Lake County - to support the opeartion of the food
pantry that serves HIV-positive clients. |
$5,000 |
| Centro
Communitario Juan Diego - to support the HIV/AIDS Prevention Health
Promoter training program targeting Latinas. |
$10,000 |
|
Centro Romero - to support the HIV/AIDS awareness program for
adolescent Latinas on the north side of Chicago. |
$10,000 |
| Centro
San Bonifacio - to provide general operating support for the Community
Health Promoters program, a peer-led HIV prevention education effort. |
$10,000 |
| Chicago
House & Social Service Agency - to support the activities
of the Project CHOICE Prevention with Positives initiative targeting
the residents of Chicago House. |
$15,000 |
| Chicago
Recovery Alliance - to purchase sterile syringes to be exchanged
by adult males within Chicago neighborhoods. |
$15,000 |
| Chicago
Women's AIDS Project - to support the salaries of a full-time
supervisor and a full-time program manager for the client services
programs. |
$25,000 |
|
Christian Community Health Center - to support a manager of
information systems position. |
$15,000 |
| Community
Supportive Living Systems - to provide general operating support
for this southside supportive housing agency. |
$10,000 |
| CORE
Center - to provide support for a peer leadership program to assist
new patients in accessing care services at the CORE Center. |
$15,000 |
| Genesis
House - to support residential and supportive services for women
who are recovering from prostitution. |
$5,000 |
| Haymarket
Center - to support the implementation of an off-site HIV prevention
outreach center in Uptown. |
$10,000 |
| HealthWorks
Theatre - to support 14 free performances of HealthWorks’ HIV/AIDS
prevention program in Chicago public high schools and to update Break
It Down, a hip hop play staged to increase HIV awareness. |
$5,000 |
| Heartland
Human Care Services, Inc. - to support the Specialized Resettlement
Services for refugees and refugee families impacted by HIV. |
$5,000 |
| Holy
Cross Chruch - Immaculate Heart of Mary - to continue the HIV/AIDS
Outreach Prevention Education (H.O.P.E.) program, offering social
services and prevention outreach in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. |
$10,000 |
| Horizons
Community Services, Inc. - to provide general operating support
for the Youth Program and Psychology Services. |
$10,000 |
| Howard
Area Community Center - to support the HIV prevention project
serving communities of color in Rogers Park. |
$15,000 |
| Howard
Brown Health Center - to support individual and group HIV prevention
education services for gay and bisexual men in Lakeview and Uptown.
|
$10,000 |
| Interfaith
House - to support the HIV/AIDS Education and Services Project,
which aims to reduce the risk of HIV infection among Chicago's homeless
population and support residents who are living with HIV/AIDS. |
$10,000 |
| Jelani
Unified Men's Project (Greater Chicago Committee) - for operating
support of this agency that provides prevention services to gay and
bisexual men of color. |
$10,000 |
| Lambda
Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc. - to support the AIDS
Project, which provides advocacy services on behalf of people living
with HIV/AIDS in the Chicago metropolitan area. |
$15,000 |
| Legal
Assistance Foundation of Chicago - to support legal services provided
to people living with HIV/AIDS. |
$15,000 |
| Near
North Health Service Corporation - to provide culturally appropriate
HIV prevention materials and condoms to clients through its health
centers located throughout the city. |
$5,000 |
| Open
Door Clinic - to continue the delivery of primary medical care
for people living with HIV in the collar counties. |
$20,000 |
| Project
VIDA - to support the HIV prevention and risk-reduction project
targeting young African-American and Latino men. |
$15,000 |
| Questioning
Youth Center - to support HIV prevention programs targeting gay,
bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth in DeKalb. |
$5,000 |
| Regional
CARE Association - for general operating support of this Joliet-based
primary care organization. |
$15,000 |
| Research
& Education Foundation of Michael Reese - to provide medication
adherence education and counseling services to clients of its HIVCare
program. |
$20,000 |
| Roger
Baldwin Foundation/ACLU - to support statewide litigation, education,
and public policy work aimed at ending discrimination and mistreatment
of those affected by HIV and AIDS. |
$10,000 |
| Sisters
and Brothers Helping Each Other - to provide general operating
support for this HIV prevention agency serving Will, Kankakee, and
Grundy counties. |
$5,000 |
| South
Side Help Center - to support the Prevention for Positives Program
targeting HIV-positive African-Americans. |
$15,000 |
| TaskForce
AIDS Prevention - to support outreach, education, and prevention
services targeting HIV-positive gay and bisexual men of color. |
$10,000 |
| Test
Positive Aware Network - to expand distribution of its HIV/AIDS
journals Positively Aware and Positively Aware en Español. |
$10,000 |
| The
Night Ministry - to support the Outreach and Health Ministry program
staff, Health Outreach bus, and HIV prevention services. |
$10,000 |
| University
of Illinois Community Outreach Intervention Project - to provide
syringe exchange and harm reduction services on the west side of Chicago.
|
$15,000 |
| University
of Illinois HIV/AIDS Dental Program - to support the salary of
a dentist and expand dental care services to clients living with HIV |
$10,000 |
| University
of Illinois HIV/AIDS Project - to support medical adherence and
treatment services for minority HIV-infected populations at seven
community-based outreach sites. |
$10,000 |
| Vida/SIDA
- The Puerto Rican Cultural Center - to support HIV counseling
and testing, prevention, and risk-reduction education projects targeting
Latino clients. |
$15,000 |
| Vision
House - for general operating support of this southside HIV/AIDS
housing provider. |
$10,000 |
| Vital
Bridges - to provide food and nutrition services to people living
with HIV/AIDS on Chicago’s south and west sides. |
$25,000 |
| Westside
Holistic Family Services - to support Project Decrease, which
provides prevention outreach and education to high-risk populations
on Chicago’s west side. |
$10,000 |
| Women's
Resource Assistance Program - to continue and expand community
and street outreach, risk reduction, and HIV prevention services targeting
high-risk women in Chicago’s south suburbs. |
$10,000 |
| Working
for Togetherness - to expand the Prevention Outreach for Positives
program. |
$5,000 |
| Young
Women's Empowerment Project - to provide HIV prevention services
to young, female sex workers. |
$5,000 |
| SPECIAL
INITIATIVES |
|
Chicago Housing for Health Partnership - to support evaluation
activities of this multi-agency partnership for which AFC serves
as the lead agency. The Partnership is a three-year demonstration
project that provides housing for chronically ill homeless individuals
and evaluates the cost-benefits of a comprehensive array of housing
and social services.
|
$428,847
|
|
|
Perinatal HIV Case Management Project - to provide intensive case
management services to pregnant HIV-positive women. The project, which
is funded through the Pediatric AIDS Chicago Prevention Initiative,
aims to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV by increasing
women's participation in prenatal care. Sinai Health Systems and University
of Chicago are the funded agencies providing case management services
through this project. |
$115,761 |
| |
Dance for Life - to support the beneficiaries -- Chicago House,
Project VIDA, and the Dance for Life Fund -- of the annual fundraiser
Dance for Life. This grant is made possible by Chicago Dancers
United. |
$35,000 |
| |
|
AmeriCorps Program Matching Grant - to support seven AmeriCorps
members at seven different agencies throughout the Chicagoland area.
The participating agencies are: AIDS Legal Council of Chicago, Chicago
House & Social Service Agency, Chicago Recovery Alliance, Christian
Community Health Center, Haymarket Center, Horizons Community Services,
and Infant Welfare Society.
AmeriCorps
members provide HIV prevention, care, and testing services as part
of a year-long term of service. This grant is coordinated through
the National AIDS Fund.
|
$17,500 |
