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Beneficiaries for the coming year are usually selected in October of the current year in order to begin soliciting underwriting/sponsorships in November of the current year. This is necessary as many companies' philanthropy budgets for the coming year are often planned and set by the end of the current year.

REAF's Board of Director's is currently evaluating REAF's funding for 2008 to determine what events we will produce in 2008. While we anticipate producing the same annual events, declining corporate funding could impact our plans for 2008 events.

Deadline for 2008 beneficiary applications is October 8, 2007

BENEFICIARY APPLICATIONS FOR 2008 ARE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD NOW!
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION.

Beneficiaries for 2008 will be selected for both the annual summer gala "Help is on the Way XIV"
and "Help is on the Way for the Holidyays X".

Applications can be downloaded from this site or obtained by writing to:
Ken Henderson, Executive Director
Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation
942 Divisadero Street, Suite. 201
San Francisco, CA 94115-4407
or emailing ken@richmondermet.org

Because REAF is a small, primarily volunteer-run agency, beneficiaries are expected to partner with REAF in the production of fundraising events by sharing resources, helping solicit auction items, sell raffle tickets and other support as available. While beneficiaries are selected based on overall need and other funding sources, consideration must also be given to an agencies ability to partner with us.

Help is on the Way for the Holidays IX- Beneficiaries for 2007


Meals of Marin. MOM’s mission is to provide nourishment, comfort, hope and dignity for homebound people in Marin County with AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses through the preparation and home-delivery of freshly cooked, healthy and appetizing meals, geared to the individual clients’ nutritional needs. Most of their clients are homebound and all are either too ill or too poor to cook for themselves. Without MOM’s support, they simply would not be able to eat. With every delivery, they provide a hot dinner and a bagged lunch for the next day. They have never turned anyone away.

Positive Resource Center. (PRC) Since 1987, PRC has provided benefits counseling, advocacy and employment services to people affected by or at risk for HIV/AIDS. The Benefits Counseling Program maintains a 90 percent success rate in all Social Security and State Disability claims filed on behalf of clients. In 2004, Employment Services Program achieved 435 job placements including 134 long-term placements. Positive Resource Center serves 2,200 people annually.

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Aguilas. In November of 1991, a group of Gay Latinos organized to address the various needs of the Gay Latino community. The group met on a monthly basis at various homes until they found a regular meeting place at the St. Francis Lutheran Church in San Francisco, California in March 1992. They established the name AGUILAS which is an acronym for Asociación Gay Unida Impactando Latinos/Latinas A Superarse, which translates to Association of United Gays Impacting Latinos/Latinas towards Self-Empowerment. Today, AGUILAS is a non-profit organization and the largest Gay Latino organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. El Ambiente is an HIV prevention program of AGUILAS created by and for gay and bisexual Latino men. Their goal is to support their members self-empowerment in order to prevent the occurrence and relapse of unsafe sexual practices. They achieve this by providing a safe environment, specifically designed to address issues related to Latino culture, being gay and bisexual, and sexuality.

AIDS Legal Referral Panel. The AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP) is the only institution in the San Francisco Bay Area whose entire mission is dedicated to providing free and low-cost legal assistance and education on virtually any civil matter to persons living with HIV/AIDS. This includes such widely disparate areas as housing, employment, insurance, confidentiality matters, family law, credit, government benefits or public accommodations, to name just a few. This is accomplished through either direct representation of clients by one of ALRP’s five attorneys or by careful placement of clients with one of ALRP’s 600 panel attorneys. ALRP has handled over 45,000 legal matters for their clients over the last 23 years.

Maitri. Maitri is one of San Francisco’s most respected and valued resources in providing care to people severely debilitated by AIDS. Their current home on Duboce Avenue opened in 1997 after ten years as a residential hospice on Hartford Street. Maitri is licensed as a RCFCI (Residential Care Facility for the Chronically Ill), and offers an innovative, multi-focal program designed to meet the changing needs of people living with AIDS in a dignified and caring manner. The three types of care offered at Maitri are:

  • hospice care
  • l ong-term skilled nursing care
  • short-term intensive transitional support

Maitri’s comprehensive program includes these main components: Access to multi-disciplinary care professionals including nurses, attendants, social workers, physicians, and psychiatrists; Single-occupancy room in a facility designed as a healing space, nurturing home, and functional dwelling; Spiritual and pastoral support; Emotional and practical support volunteers; Activities including art therapy, meditation, and body work; and Home-cooked meals by a stellar kitchen staff and individual dietary plans to meet specific needs

STOP AIDS Project. Since 1985, STOP AIDS has been working to prevent HIV transmission among all gay, bisexual and transgender men in San Francisco through collaborative, multicultural and community-based organizing. Initiating a new approach to HIV transmission they focus on identifying those individuals most at risk through their involvement in one or more of six sexual networks: the African American community, public and commercial sex environments, dance clubs, gyms, the leather community and internet sex sites. They also provide services for HIV positive people through their prevention for positives program whereby they inform the newly infected and those close to them with options for retaining their own good health and committing to a lifestyle free of further infection.

Vital Life Services. Vital Life Services (formerly The Center for AIDS Services) is a non-profit day center in Oakland providing vital services to those living with HIV/AIDS. VLS provides a nutritious hot breakfast and lunch daily, mental health counseling, case management services, transportation, massage therapy, chiropractic care, acupuncture and herbal therapies, and day center activities such as art class, bingo, and picnics. The Center serves a high percentage of homeless clients therefore they also provide hot showers, laundry service, and a client telephone. They are open Monday through Friday, 9:30am - 4:00pm. All of our services are free of charge.

Beneficiaries for Help is on the Way for the Holidays IX will be selected later in the year.

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Primary Beneficiaries

AIDS Legal Referral Panel. The AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP) is the only institution in the San Francisco Bay Area whose entire mission is dedicated to providing free and low-cost legal assistance and education on virtually any civil matter to persons living with HIV/AIDS. This includes such widely disparate areas as housing, employment, insurance, confidentiality matters, family law, credit, government benefits or public accommodations, to name just a few. This is accomplished through either direct representation of clients by one of ALRP’s five attorneys or by careful placement of clients with one of ALRP’s 600 panel attorneys. ALRP has handled over 45,000 legal matters for their clients over the last 23 years.

Larkin Street Youth Center. Larkin Street Youth Services provides HIV-positive homeless and runaway youth, aged 12 – 24, with the critical HIV medical care they need and delivers it in the context of other supportive services to ensure that youth can exit street life, stabilize, and fully benefit from their treatment plans. By providing a full complement of age-appropriate and youth-sensitive services out of a single location in the Tenderloin/Civic Center area, in a single centralized location, Larkin Street’s HIV services increase youth’s access to medical care, help combat the spread of HIV among vulnerable youth, and help youth develop the independent living skills they will need to exit street life permanently. Services include an HIV Specialty Clinic; the Assisted Care Program, a 12-bed licensed residential care facility for the chronically ill; an Aftercare Program, offering emergency housing and rental subsidies for HIV+ youth; comprehensive mental health, substance abuse services and counseling services; conventional and rapid HIV testing; and access to youth-specific HIV clinical trials..

Meals of Marin. MOM’s mission is to provide nourishment, comfort, hope and dignity for homebound people in Marin County with AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses through the preparation and home-delivery of freshly cooked, healthy and appetizing meals, geared to the individual clients’ nutritional needs. Most of their clients are homebound and all are either too ill or too poor to cook for themselves. Without MOM’s support, they simply would not be able to eat. With every delivery, they provide a hot dinner and a bagged lunch for the next day. They have never turned anyone away.

Positive Resource Center. (PRC) Since 1987, PRC has provided benefits counseling, advocacy and employment services to people affected by or at risk for HIV/AIDS. The Benefits Counseling Program maintains a 90 percent success rate in all Social Security and State Disability claims filed on behalf of clients. In 2004, Employment Services Program achieved 435 job placements including 134 long-term placements. Positive Resource Center serves 2,200 people annually.

STOP AIDS Project. Since 1985, STOP AIDS has been working to prevent HIV transmission among all gay, bisexual and transgender men in San Francisco through collaborative, multicultural and community-based organizing. Initiating a new approach to HIV transmission they focus on identifying those individuals most at risk through their involvement in one or more of six sexual networks: the African American community, public and commercial sex environments, dance clubs, gyms, the leather community and internet sex sites. They also provide services for HIV positive people through their prevention for positives program whereby they inform the newly infected and those close to them with options for retaining their own good health and committing to a lifestyle free of further infection.

Level II Beneficiaries

A&PI Wellness Center. Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center (A&PIWC) HIV Care Services provides free and confidential HIV treatment case management, mental health and substance abuse counseling, on-site primary medical and psychiatric care, client and treatment advocacy, and group and individual support to A&PIs living with HIV/AIDS.

New Leaf: Services for Our Community. New Leaf provides professional mental health, substance abuse, and social support services to clients in San Francisco.

Youth Aware Program at New Conservatory Theatre Center. The Youth Aware program uses theatre to teach school age children age-appropriate about AIDS and AIDS discrimination, giving them the knowledge and tools to make healthy choices.

Project Inform. PI provides HIV treatment education to people with HIV through it’s National HIV/AIDS Treatment Infoline, various treatment publications, website and trainings and town meetings.

Vital Life Services. (Formerly Center for AIDS Services, Oakland) VLS provides all of the essential direct services in one convenient location including congregate meals, day cneter facilities, mental health therapy, case managemtn assistance, transportation acupunture and massage.

Help is on the Wayfor the Holidays VIII Gala- Beneficiaries for 2006

Pediatric HIV/AIDS Program of Children’s Hospital Oakland. Since 1986, the Pediatric HIV/AIDS program at Children’s Hospital Oakland has provided comprehensive, state-of-the-art care for children with known or suspected HIV infection. Treatment ranges from initial diagnosis through all stages of disease progression, including end-stage disease and terminal care. By participating in the AIDS clinical trials groups through N.I.H., the hospital’s patients are offered the chance to be treated with new HIV drug therapies, vaccines, and medications to help prevent life-threatening infections—treatments not otherwise available to them.

Lyon-Martin Women’s Health Services. Lyon-Martin offers comprehensive case management services to 150 multi-diagnosed, predominantly homeless/marginally-housed HIV+ women annually through their coordination of care for the Women’s Integrated Delivery System (WIDS). WIDS is an established collaboration between Lyon-Martin, UCSF, The Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital (Ward 86) and the Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Center. In addition to overseeing the coordination of care for the collaboration as a whole, they provide direct medical care to a portion of the WIDS clients. In conjunction with this program, Lyon-Martin offers one of only two support groups in the city for HIV+ women.They provide weekly support groups that focus on treatment adherence and education as well as provide emergency food, housing vouchers, transportation assistance, benefits counseling and peer advocacy.

PAST BENEFICIARIES

  • Aguilas
  • ALRP (AIDS Legal Referral Panel)
  • Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center
  • ARIS (AIDS Resources and Information Services)
  • BAY (Bay Area Young) Positives
  • Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
  • Center for AIDS Services, Oakland
  • Center for Caregiver Training
  • Coming Home Hospice
  • Continuum HIV Day Services
  • HIV Care at St. Francis Memorial Hospital
  • HIV Education Project at New Conservatory Theatre Center
  • Lyon-Martin Women's Health Center
  • Maitri
  • Meals of Marin
  • Native American AIDS Project
  • New Conservatory Theatre Center HIV Education Program
  • New Leaf
  • New Village
  • PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support)
  • Pediatric HIV/AIDS Program at Children’s Hospital
  • Positive Resource Center
  • Project Inform
  • Project Open Hand
  • Projecto ContraSIDA Por Vida
  • Shanti
  • Stop AIDS Project
  • Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
  • UCSF AIDS Health Project
  • UCSF Women’s & Children’s Specialty Services
  • Visiting Nurses & Hospice of San Francisco
  • Ward 86 of San Francisco General Hospital

We also provided smaller grants to:

  • AIDS Interfaith Chapel at Grace Cathedral
  • Broadway Cares: Equity Fights AIDS
  • HIV Reentry and Empowerment Program at New College of California

To apply to be a beneficiary, click here to download application.


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