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Private Grants Awarded
July 2006 - June 2007

About Face Theatre - to support a series of arts-based programs designed to increase the safety, empowerment, and leadership capacity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and allied youth.

$5,000

Agape Missions, Inc. – to provide general operating support of this multi-service AIDS service provider based in Joliet.

$10,000

AIDSCare – to provide general operating support of this residential program serving people living with HIV/AIDS.

$5,000

AIDS Legal Council of Chicago - to provide legal services for people living with HIV/AIDS.

$30,000

AIDS Pastoral Care Network/Access Community Health Network - to support the HIV Services Program that provides care to underserved populations.

$15,000

Alexian Brothers-Bonaventure House - to support the agency’s new Connextions After Care Program that offers transitional living for people living with HIV/AIDS.

$5,000

Alexian Brothers-The Harbor - to support the new mentor program serving clients living with HIV in this residential facility in Waukegan.

$5,000

Asian Human Services, Inc. - to support the African Refugee AIDS Project, which provides HIV prevention education to recent African immigrants.

$12,000

Aunt Martha's Youth Service Center - to provide HIV prevention education for men who have sex with men, youth, and young adults in southern Cook County.

$5,000

Austin Health Center - to support an AIDS awareness and prevention education peer advocate program targeting African-American youth.

$12,000

Better Existence with HIV - to support capacity building initiatives and invest in resources to bolster direct services including office relocation.

$15,000

Carepoint Adult, Child, and Family Association - to support men and women who are incarcerated, on probation or homeless.

$5,000

Catholic Charities of Lake County - to support the operation of the food pantry for HIV-positive clients.

$5,000

Center on Halsted - to test and implement a meth/HIV prevention program targeting LGBT youth, ages 14-24.

$10,000

Centro Comunitario Juan Diego - to provide general operating support for the HIV/AIDS prevention program.

$7,500

Centro Romero - to support a full-time instructor for the HIV/AIDS awareness program for adolescent Latinas, and to expand the program to include adult Latinas on the northeast side of Chicago.

$10,000

Centro San Bonifacio - to provide general operating support for an HIV/AIDS prevention education program.

$10,000

Chicago House & Social Service Agency - to support the Food Voucher Program for working residents.

$10,000

Chicago Women’s AIDS Project – to provide general operating support for continuation of prevention, care, and advocacy programs for women.

$10,000

Chicago’s Black Gay Men’s Caucus/Public Health Institute of Metro Chicago - to support the website and social marketing campaign “I Know. (Do You Know?)”.

$5,000

Children’s Place Association - to support the Lifelong Families Program for families impacted by HIV/AIDS.

$7,500

Christian Community Health Center - to support the prevention activities associated with the Women’s Collaborative of Greater Chicago, providing coordinated prevention and care services targeting African-American women.

$10,000

Churches United in the Fight against AIDS - to support ledership development, fundraising, and prevention education programs.

$7,500

Community Supportive Living Systems - to provide general operating support for this south side supportive housing agency.

$10,000
Cottage Grove Health Center - to support and expand HIV/AIDS prevention, education, and risk reduction programs targeting African-American young men and women in Ford Heights. $10,000

Erie Family Health Center - to support existing HIV outreach and prevention programs on the west side.

$5,000

FCAN - to support the Family Options program that provides direct legal and social work services to HIV-impacted families.

$5,000

Franciscan Outreach Association - to support HIV prevention activities and to fund an HIV prevention coordinator.

$10,000
Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance - to support an HIV prevention program targeting high-risk African Americans on the west side. $5,000
God’s House of Hope - to support counseling, testing, and referrals for the HIV/AIDS Substance Abuse Awareness program. $3,000

Greater Westside Development Corporation - to provide general operating support to increase the level of awareness on the west side of Chicago.

$7,500

Haymarket Center - to provide administrative support for prevention programs targeting African-American men who have sex with men ages 18-25.

$5,000

Howard Area Community Center - to support the HIV prevention project serving young men who have sex with men in Rogers Park.

$10,000

Howard Brown Health Center - to help underwrite laboratory tests for uninsured clients living with HIV in the HIV Primary Care Program.

$10,000
HRDI, Inc. - to support care services such as housing, utilities, food, hygiene products, and household cleaning supplies for people living with HIV/AIDS. $5,000
Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health - to support a five-day advocacy training camp for adolescents. $5,000

Interfaith House - to support their HIV/AIDS Services and Education Project, which provides short-term housing and care as well as supportive services and education for individuals living with HIV.

$10,000

Jo-Ray House - to provide general operating support to assist HIV-positive residents.

$10,000

Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc. - to support the AIDS Project that provides advocacy services on behalf of people living with HIV/AIDS in the Chicago metropolitan area.

$7,000

Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago - to support legal services provided to people living with HIV/AIDS.

$15,000

Liberty Baptist Church - to support the HIV/AIDS ministry program Visions, which provides prevention education.

$5,000
Links/North Shore Youth Health Services - to purchase HIV testing kits and support lab and administrative fees. $3,000

Men & Women in Prison Ministries - to support HIV/AIDS prevention outreach activities to ex-offenders, their families, and communities.

$5,000
New Phoenix Assistance Center - to support and expand outreach services to homeless and other high-risk youth. $10,000
New Vision of Hope Foundation - to support the hiring of a certified testing counselor to provide prevention education and testing. $3,000

Open Door Clinic - to continue the delivery of primary medical care for people living with HIV in the Collar Counties.

$15,000
People’s Resource Center - to support nutritional programs and personal hygeine items for individuals living with HIV/AIDS in DuPage County. $10,000
Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area - to conduct affordable HIV rapid testing in their 10 Chicagoland health centers. $10,000

Proactive Community Services - to support the hiring of a part-time outreach educator for their HIV/AIDS prevention education youth program in the south suburban area.

$7,500

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, drop-in center, and a youth leader coordinator serving GLBTQ youth in Naperville, Aurora, and DeKalb.

$7,500

Research & Education Foundation of Michael Reese - to support the Medication Adherence Project of the HIV Care Program, which provides adherence education and counseling services.

$10,000

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
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. $10,000

South Side Help Center - to support the Prevention for Positive's Program, which targets HIV-positive African-American males and females.

$10,000

Southwest Youth Collaborative - to support peer outreach, prevention education, and referrals.

$5,000

Test Positive Aware Network - to support TPAN’s Positive Buddy Program for HIV-positive individuals.

$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 at Chicago’s HIV/AIDS Community Clinic - to support and enhance the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data.

$10,000

Vida/SIDA - to support an HIV prevention and risk-reduction education project. Puerto Rican Cultural Center.

$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

Wesley United Methodist Church - for support of HIV/AIDS prevention education, events, and referrals for services.

$7,500

Westside Holistic Family Service - for continued support for the HIV/AIDS education project, Project Assist, in the Austin, Garfield, Near West, and North Lawndale communities.

$7,500

Young Women's Empowerment Project - to provide peer-led HIV prevention services to young women in the sex trade.

$10,000
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