| 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. |
$15,000 |
| Advocate
Metro Outreach Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program - to implement
and evaluate a culturally competent HIV/AIDS continuum of prevention
and care services for the deaf and hard of hearing. |
$5,000 |
| Agape
Missions, Inc. - to provide general operating support of this
multi-service AIDS organization. |
$13,000 |
| AIDS
Legal Council of Chicago - to provide legal services for people
living with HIV/AIDS. |
$30,000 |
| AIDSCare
- to provide general operating support of this residential program
serving people living with HIV/AIDS. |
$10,000 |
| Alexian
Brothers Bonaventure House - to support the Occupational Therapy
Program, which helps people living with HIV/AIDS develop or regain
employment and life skills. |
$5,000 |
| Alexian
Brothers The Harbor - to support the sobriety program serving
clients living with HIV/AIDS in this residential facility in Waukegan.
|
$10,000 |
| Asian
Human Services, Inc. - to support the African Refugee AIDS Project,
which will provide HIV prevention education to recent African immigrants.
|
$10,000 |
| 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 support capacity-building initiatives
in volunteer development, human resources, and technology. |
$15,000 |
| 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 operation of the food
pantry that serves HIV-positive clients. |
$5,000 |
| Center
on Halsted - to provide general operating support of the youth
program and psychotherapy services. |
$15,000 |
| 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 and to expand the program to include adult Latinas
on Chicago's northeast side. |
$10,000 |
| Centro
San Bonifacio - to provide general operating support for the community
health promoters program, a peer HIV prevention education effort. |
$10,000 |
| Chicago
House & Social Service Agency - to support the activities
of the Project CHOICE Prevention with Positives initiative targeting
clients of Chicago House. |
$15,000 |
| Chicago
Recovery Alliance - to purchase sterile syringes to be exchanged
by adults in suburban Cook County. |
$15,000 |
| Chicago
Women's AIDS Project - to support partial salaries of a supervisor
and a program manager for the client services programs. |
$25,000 |
| Children's
Place Association - to support the Lifelong Families Program. |
$10,000 |
|
Christian Community Health Center - to support the prevention
activities associated with the South Side Women's Collaborative, which
provides coordinated prevention and care services targeting African-American
women. |
$15,000 |
| Community
Supportive Living Systems -to provide general operating support
for this southside supportive housing agency. |
$15,000 |
| Haymarket
Center - to support the adolescent and family specialist to strengthen
HIV prevention services. |
$10,000 |
| Heartland
Health Outreach - to support specialized resettlement services
for refugees and refugee families impacted by HIV/AIDS. |
$10,000 |
| Holy
Cross Chruch - Immaculate Heart of Mary - - to continue the HIV/AIDS
Outreach Prevention Education program, which offers social services
and prevention outreach in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. |
$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 help underwrite the uncompensated costs
of laboratory tests for a portion of the uninsured in the HIV Primary
Care Program. |
$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 |
| Jo-Ray
House - to provide housing services for people living with HIV/AIDS
who have been recently released from the Illinois Department of Corrections. |
$5,000 |
| Lambda
Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc. - to support the AIDS
Project that provides advocacy services on behalf of people living
with HIV/AIDS. |
$15,000 |
| Legal
Assistance Foundation of Chicago - to support legal services provided
to people living with HIV/AIDS. |
$15,000 |
| Open
Door Clinic - to continue the delivery of medical care for people
living with HIV in the collar counties. |
$20,000 |
| Pilsen-Little
Village Community Mental Health Center - to develop a housing
advocate program to assist HIV-positive clients with their housing
needs. |
$10,000 |
| Project
VIDA - to support the HIV prevention and risk-reduction project
targeting young African-American and Latino men. |
$10,000 |
| Questioning
Youth Center - to support HIV prevention programs targeting sexual
minority youth in DeKalb. |
$5,000 |
| Regional
CARE Association - fto provide general operating support of this
Joliet-based primary care organization. |
$15,000 |
| Research
& Education Foundation of Michael Reese - to support the medication
adherence project of the HIV Care Program, which provides adherence
education and counseling services. |
$15,000 |
| Roger
Baldwin Foundation/ACLU - to support statewide litigation, education,
and public policy work aimed at ending discrimination and mistreatment
of those affected by HIV/AIDS. |
$10,000 |
| Ruth
M. Rothstein CORE Center - to provide support for a peer leadership
program to assist new patients in accessing care services at the CORE
Center. |
$15,000 |
| Safer
Foundation - to provide HIV/AIDS education to the ex-offender
community. |
$5,000 |
| School
Street Movement - to provide support for its performance workshop
series entitled HIV/AIDS: Exploring Risky Behaviors. |
$10,000 |
| South
Side Help Center - to support the Prevention for Positives Program. |
$20,000 |
| SouthWest
Youth Collaborative
- to provide HIV/AIDS education, peer education, and testing services
to youth of color. |
$10,000 |
| TaskForce
Prevention and Community Services - to support the prevention
outreach program Project STOP HIV. |
$15,000 |
| Test
Positive Aware Network - to support the redesign and online distribution
of the HIV/AIDS services directory. |
$15,000 |
| 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 - for the partial salary of
a dentist to expand dental care services to clients living with HIV/AIDS. |
$10,000 |
| University
of Illinois HIV/AIDS Project - to support information systems
relating to the medical adherence and treatment program for minority
HIV-positive 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 |
$10,000 |
| Vital
Bridges - to provide food and nutrition services to people living
with HIV/AIDS on Chicago's south and west sides. |
$20,000 |
| Young
Women's Empowerment Project - to provide peer-led HIV prevention
services to young women in the sex trade. |
$10,000 |
| SPECIAL
INITIATIVES |
|
Altria Food and Nutrition Advocacy Partnership - AFC is leading
a coalition, funded by the Altria Group, Inc., to help improve access
to food and nutritional counseling for chronically ill individuals,
including seniors and those living with HIV/AIDS. Funded partners
include Catholic Charities Lake County Services, Greater Chicago
Food Depository, Health & Disability Advocates, Illinois Hunger
Coalition, People's Resource Center, and Vital Bridges.
|
$129,460
|
AmeriCorps Matching Grant - AFC places seven AmeriCorps members
at seven different agencies throughout the Chicagoland area to provide
HIV prevention, care, and testing services. AFC is required to pay
a matching grant of $3,000 per member to the National AIDS Fund for
administrative costs related to this grant. |
$21,000 |
Chicago Housing for Health Partnership - AFC continues to be
the lead agency in the third year of a three-year demonstration project
to provide housing for chronically ill homeless individuals and to
evaluate the cost-benefits of a comprehensive array of housing and
social services. Components of this initiative were funded through
private resources including the Michael Reese Health Trust, Chicago
Community Trust, and the Field Foundation. |
$329,000 |
Dance for Life - AFC earmarks a portion of the proceeds raised
through Dance for Life to support beneficiary agencies and an emergency
fund for clients living with HIV. |
$37,500 |
Faith in Prevention - AFC supports faith-based organizations in
their efforts to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS on the health of African-American
men and women in Chicago. Twelve funded churches and faith-based organizations
each received a leadership grant of $10,000 to support a variety of
HIV prevention and outreach activities. This project was made possible
by a one-time grant from the federal Office of Minority Health secured
by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin |
$120,000 |
Perinatal
HIV Case Management Project - AFC coordinates this project, which
is funded by the Pediatric AIDS Chicago Prevention Initiative. The
initiative aims to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV by
increasing pregnant HIV-positive women's participation in prenatal
care. |
$101,915 |
AIDS Run & Walk CommunityDirect Grants - AFC provides grants through
CommunityDirect, a fundraising program that benefits AFC's Service
Provider Council (SPC). SPC agencies that formed teams for the 2004
AIDS Run & Walk received 50% of the pledges their teams raised to
directly benefit their programs and communities. |
$31,273
|
South Side Women's Collaborative - AFC coordinates a collaborative
project between Chicago Women's AIDS Project, Christian Community
Health Center, and South Side Help Center to increase access to HIV
prevention and primary care services for African-American women on
the south side of Chicago. The collaborative is funded by the National
AIDS Fund and Johnson & Johnson. |
$60,000 |
Syringe Disposal Project
- AFC provided two grants to Chicago Recovery Alliance and University
of Illinois at Chicago Community Outreach Intervention Project to
help promote syringe disposal. These awards were made possible by
the Illinois Department of Public Health through the Syringe Disposal
Pilot Program. |
$40,000 |
Working to Fight AIDS - AFC provided $500 matching grants to Faith
in Prevention partners through an initiative funded by the National
AIDS Fund. The purpose of this initiative is to secure the support
and leadership of minority business owners to reduce the disproportionate
impact of HIV/AIDS on communities of color in Chicago. |
$6,000 |
