Previous Grant Award Chronology

Fiscal Year 2004 Total: $103,000

Community Services – AIDS Services and Prevention - $43,000  (42%)

AIDS Project Southern Vermont
PO Box 1486
Brattleboro, VT 05302
Grant amount:  $3,000 

This grant supports T.H.E. Men's Program – HIV prevention for men, including gay-identified, non-gay-identified, bisexual, or questioning; substance users and abusers and those in recovery; individuals who identify as HIV+, HIV-, or serostatus undetermined.  This is the first Gamma Mu Foundation grant for AIDS Project of Southern Vermont.

AIDS Resource Center Ohio
211 South Main Street, Suite 850
Dayton, OH 45402
Grant amount:  $5,000 

This project initiates/expands HIV testing, counseling and referral services within 31 Ohio counties.  Currently, only one-third of these counties offer anonymous/confidential testing at least weekly.  No counties are utilizing CDC-endorsed Rapid HIV testing.  Activities will include awareness promotion, referrals to needed health care resources, and prevention counseling, in addition to testing.  This is the first GMF grant to AIDS Resource Center Ohio.

 
AIDS Services of North Texas
4210 Mesa Drive
Denton, TX 76207
Grant amount:  $5,000 

This funding helps to cover unreimbursed medical expenses for HIV clients who have serious co-infections with Hepatitis C or other chronic illnesses.  ASNT confers with specialists for diagnosis and treatment options to reduce the number of emergency room visits and hospital stays and help these patients manage their health.  This is the third GMF grant to ASNT.
 

AIDS Task Force Southeast Central Indiana
101 Chester Blvd.
Richmond, IN 47374
Grant amount:  $5,000 

The grant helps provide supportive services to persons living with HIV infection within the East Central region of Indiana.  Services include transportation assistance, such as gas vouchers and bus passes for clients, so that clients can affordably attend doctor visits both local and non-local; also food vouchers and assistance in obtaining nutritional meals.  This is the fifth Foundation grant for this organization.
 

Appetite for Life
1842 W. Cervantes Street
Pensacola, FL 32501
Grant amount:  $10,000 

This grant helps Appetite for Life to purchase bulk food supplies and to prepare and deliver delicious meals to persons living with symptomatic HIV/AIDS.  Clients receive two meals per day, seven days per week at no cost to them.   This is Appetite for Life's second GMF grant.
 

Catskill Rural AIDS
66 Chestnut Street
Oneonta, NY 13820
Grant amount:  $5,000 

This grant focuses on reducing problems of isolation faced by people living with HIV in rural areas.  Services include frequent congregate meals and outings, support groups, workshop/retreats, internet fee subsidies, transportation, and a person for clients to call when the offices of Catskill Rural AIDS Services are closed.  This is their second GMF grant.
 

Fraternity House
20702 Elfin Forest Road
Escondido, CA 92029
Grant amount:  $5,000 

Funding from Gamma Mu Foundation will support the Rehabilitation Activities Program (RAP) of Fraternity House for men disabled by AIDS.  In particular, the grant supports the RAP transportation program, which provides the residents of Fraternity House and Michaelle House with more than 1,500 trips throughout the year.  Fraternity House helps the residents to rebuild their health and regain their highest possible level of independence.  This grant is the sixth for Fraternity House.
 

Mobile AIDS Support Services (MASS)
PO Box 40296
Mobile, AL 36640-0296
Grant amount:  $5,000 

The grant to MASS helps fund an educational prevention project (FUSION), which uses peer educators to reach other men in settings where men who have sex with men (MSM) meet.  The project is based on the Mpowerment model, where young MSM's are recruited and trained in HIV education, sexual behavior negotiation, and proper use of condoms.  Peer educators take the skills learned back into the community.  This is the seventh GMF grant for MASS.
 

Community Services – Other - $40,000  (39%)

AIDS Community Resource Network (ACORN)
Rivermill Complex, 85 Mechanic Street
Lebanon, NH 03766
Grant amount:  $5,000 

This grant helps to establish a safe physical space in the community where gay, bisexual, and questioning men can come together to socialize, learn from one another, access health and socially relevant information, and provide support to one another.   This is ACORN's sixth GMF grant.

AFFIRM
PO Box 8560
Greenville, SC 29604
Grant amount:  $7,500 

The grant to AFFIRM will support hiring a part-time contract Youth Coordinator to lead programs for GLBT youth in Upstate South Carolina.  Project goals are to reduce isolation and loneliness, increase health awareness, and increase the community awareness and familiarity with AFFIRM programs for GLBT youth.  This is the first GMF grant to AFFIRM.
 

First City Network
PO Box 2442
Savannah, GA 31406
Grant amount:  $5,000 

First City Network will apply this grant to development and support of a new youth support group (Stand Out) in Savannah and Southeast Georgia.  The project's main goals are to reduce the fear and isolation that GLBT youth face.  Outreach includes meeting with school officials and social work professionals, and a 24-hour cell phone line.  Program elements are to include movie and pizza nights, weekly meetings, and a youth facilitator.  This is the first GMF grant to First City Network.

New England Network for Child, Youth & Family
2805 Lake Road
Charlotte, VT 05445
Grant amount:  $5,000 

New England Network, through its Reach Out Initiative, helps rural-based New England youth service providers to meet the needs of “out-of-home” LGBTQ youth through providing assessments, training, and technical assistance.  This grant will enable New England Network to expand and enhance its technical assistance, follow-up, and evaluation in order to lead to needed institutional changes in the policies of, and conditions in, agencies that serve out-of-home LGBTQ youth.  This is this organization's second GMF grant.

Resource Center of Dallas
PO Box 190869
Dallas, TX 75219-0869
Grant amount:  $7,500

This grant helps support the Domestic Violence Program (DVP).  These services include overnight shelter for gay male victims, emergency dental services, HIV testing, and STD screening and treatment for victims of same-sex domestic violence.  The program works to educate existing area service providers on issues relating to gay and lesbian victims and also educates the gay and lesbian community on the issue of same sex domestic violence through monthly seminars, brochures, and newspaper articles.  This is the fourth GMF grant for Resource Center of Dallas.

We Are Family
PO Box 30734
Charleston, SC 29417
Grant amount:  $10,000 

This grant helps support and expand We Are Family's peer support group, Safe Space, which reaches out to GLBT youth and their parents.  Other services include meetings for young adults, community panel discussions, a speakers' bureau, and assistance in providing space for T-Sisters, a transgender support group.   This is the fourth GMF grant for We Are Family.


Research and Public Education Awards - $17,000  (17%)

Alliance for Full Acceptance
PO Box 22088
Charleston, SC 29413-2088
Grant amount:  $7,000 

This grant helps support the Alliance for Full Acceptance 2003-2004 Media Campaign throughout South Carolina.  The funds will enable expansion of billboards and television ad time plus a quarterly 30-minute television show highlighting advances in the GLBT community and advocating better understanding and reduction in ignorance and fear about GLBT issues.  This is the second GMF grant to Alliance for Full Acceptance.

Equality Virginia Education Fund (EVEF)
6 N 6^th Street, LL3
Richmond, VA 23219
Grant amount:  $10,000 

The grant supports the development of volunteer community action teams (CATs) across rural and urban Virginia.  The CATs are key components of a program to bring about positive change in the legal, social, and employment climate for GLBT people throughout Virginia.  As the highest rated proposal in this category, Equality Virginia Education Fund received the Richard Karpawich Research and Public Education Award for 2003-2004.  This is the first GMF grant for EVEF.

Scholarship Awards - $3,000  (3%)

Steven David 
Department of Psychology
University of Southern California
Scholarship:  $1,000

Steven David's research proposal, titled, “Stress and coping among gay older adults,” is the winner of the Robin McDonald Scholarship Award for 2003-2004.
 

Melinda Spencer 
Department of Psychology
West Virginia University
Scholarship:  $1,000

Research proposal:  “Families of origin and families of choice: Differences in the social support of aging gay, lesbian, and heterosexual adults in the Eastern United States”

The Art Huskey Gamma Mu Scholarship
$1,000 (to be awarded)

The Art Huskey Scholarship is awarded annually by the Gamma Mu Foundation to a deserving gay male in good scholastic standing.  The award is coordinated through the Philanthrofund Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota.