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Previous Grant Award Chronology


2001 - 2002 - $147,600

Community Services – AIDS Services and Prevention - $95,600 (68%)

  • AIDS Community Resource Network (White River Junction, VT) - $7,500
    Supports Well Being Program, enabling clients living with HIV/AIDS access to alternative therapies and non-traditional well being enhancements that are not covered by most insurance programs.

  • AIDS Services of the Monadnock Region (Keene, NH) - $10,000
    ASMR is using these grant funds to support the “Sex, Drugs & Consequences” project which is aimed at seropositive men through an innovative media campaign and testing outreach with a mobile van. This program is pattered after the CDC's Serostatus Approach to Fighting the Epidemic, or SAFE, which has the goal of halving new HIV infections by targeting HIV positive individuals who do not know they are carrying the virus. Funds from this grant will assist ASMR with print, radio, and television media programming along with providing additional funding for the mobile van which is used to travel in rural areas and provide an official HIV testing site.

  • AIDS Services of Northern Texas (Denton, TX) - $10,000
    Supports Rural Outreach project, which focuses on gay men teaching other gay men about safe sex behavior; includes outreach, small groups, and a publicity campaign.

  • AIDS Task Force (SE Central Indiana) - $4,600
    AIDS Task Force provides direct supportive services for HIV/AIDS within the East Central region of Indiana. This grant will provide funds for supportive services including transportation and food and nutritional services. It will also provide funds for gas vouchers and bus passes to clients so that they can affordably attend doctor visits regularly either local or non-local. It will also provide food vouchers to clients and mileage reimbursement to those individuals transporting clients unable to transport themselves.

  • David's House of Compassion (Toledo, OH) - $8,500
    Provides services through the only HIV/AIDS service organization in an 8 county area in northwest Ohio. Supports the Gay and Lesbian Youth at Risk Project providing HIV/AIDS education, peer training and empowerment to area youth.

  • Flathead AIDS Council (Kalispell, MT) - $4,400
    Supports HIV infected speakers in the schools and a gay/bisexual men's support group for Flathead Valley and surrounding areas.

  • Fraternity House, Inc. (Escondido, CA) - $7,750
    Supports the Rehabilitation Transportation Program providing a means for destitute clients to get to Fraternity House activities.

  • Idaho AIDS Foundation (Boise, ID) - $10,000
    Provides food and nutritional support to individuals with HIV/AIDS throughout the State of Idaho. Zip Code 83704; Telephone (208) 250-6520

  • Mobile AIDS Support Services (MASS) (Mobile, AL) - $10,000
    Helps ensure access of clients throughout a 10 county region to HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention services.

  • Rural AIDS Network (Minneapolis, MN) - $3,000
    Provides toll-free line for HIV/AIDS prevention.

  • The Living Room (Fresno, CA) - $10,000
    Funds facilities used by various service providers for HIV/AIDS programs.

  • Tuesday's Angels, Fort Lauderdale, FL - $10,000
    Provides immediate support for specific basic living (or death) costs for people with AIDS who have exhausted funding sources.

Community Services – Other $30,000 (25%)

  • New England Network for Child, Youth, & Family Services (Boxboro, MA) - $10,000
    Supports “Serving GLBT Youth in Rural New England,” a project of NEN, a network with 162 member agencies throughout New England. This project teaches agencies in rural areas how to be sensitive and knowledgeable concerning the needs of GLBT youth in social service situations.

  • Resource Center of Dallas (Dallas, TX) - $10,000
    Resource Community Center provides temporary shelter to gay male victims of domestic violence through its Domestic Violence Program (DVP). Services include overnight shelter for gay male victims, emergency dental services, HIV and STD screening and treatment. DVP works with existing area service providers to educate their staff on the specific problems and issues related to gay and lesbian victims of domestic violence. 

  • Walt Whitman School (Dallas, TX) - $10,000
    Supports a private alternative school that emphasizes acceptance of sexual orientation diversity.

  • We are Family (Charleston, SC) - $5,000
    Provides a Safe Space support group, and education and advocacy services for gay youth and their families.

Research and Public Education - $40,000 (6%)

  • From Tearooms to Chat rooms (VT) - $8,000
    Supports the research and development phase of a 90 minute documentary: ”From Tearooms to Chatrooms: Gay Male Sexuality and its Explosive Impact on Society Since Stonewall” (from the producers of “After Stonewall” and “Oliver Button” is a Star”).

 

Scholarships - $2,000 (1%)

  • Kevin Pedretti, Alliant University, San Francisco - $1,000
    Supports doctoral dissertation research titled, “After the Son Comes Out: Adult Gay Men's Relationships with Their Parents,” providing better understanding of the implications, positive and negative, and short-term versus long-term, of coming out to family.

  • Stephanie Schacher, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University - $1,000
    Supports doctoral dissertation research titled, “Fathering Experiences of the ‘New' Gay Fathers: A Qualitative Research Study,” which is investigating the implications on parenting and family roles and relationships when gay men become fathers through adoption, surrogacy, or biological unions. 

 

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