Previous Grant Award Chronology

Fiscal Year 2005 Total: $103,000

Community Services – AIDS Services and Prevention - $41,000

AIDS Resource Center Ohio
211 South Main Street. Suite 850
Dayton, OH 45402
Grant amount: $10,000

This project is an expansion of the Counseling, testing and referral program of AIDS Resource Center Ohio (ARC Ohio). The service area has expanded from 31 to 36 counties. The ARC counseling, testing and referral program also emphasizes education for those engaging in high-risk behaviors and referral to/linkage between HIV- positive persons and the continuum of care, including diagnostic services, healthcare and supportive services. This is the second GMF grant to Aids Resource Center Ohio.
 

Catskill Rural AIDS
66 Chestnut Street
Onconta, 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, workshop/retreats, internet fee subsidies and transportation to program-sponsored events, shopping and to medical appointments. This is their third GMF grant.

Fraternity House
20702 Elfin Forest Road
Escondido, CA 92029
Grant amount: $6,000

Funding from Gamma Mu Foundation will support the Rehabilitation Activities Program (RAP) of Fraternity House for men and women 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 is their seventh GMF grant.


Rosehedge: AIDS Housing & Health Care
12718 15th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98125
Grant amount: $10,000

Rosehedge operates the only Enhanced Assisted Care Program in King County, Washington, serving a small, yet critical niche within the AIDS Housing Continuum of Care, specializing in the care of individuals who do not require 24-hour nursing care, but still require a high degree of supervision because of mental health issues, substance abuse histories, and/or AIDS dementia. This is Rosehedge’s first GMF grant.


Vermont Cares
PO Box 5248
Burlington, VT 05402
Grant amount: $10,000

Vermont Cares provides support targeted toward the GLBTQ community for HIV+ individuals to reduce isolation and improve quality of life, as well as HIV prevention efforts including counseling and testing, HIV prevention materials and education to stop the spread of HIV. This is the first GMF grant for them.
 

Community Services – Other - $42,000 

AFFIRM
P0 Box 8560
Greenville, SC 29604
Grant amount: $10,000

This grant funds AFFIRM’s Community Awareness Initiative project. The project’s goal is to create change in hostile environments and to increase the acceptance, visibility and understanding of LGBTQ youth. This is AFFIRM’s second GMF grant.


Equality Virginia Education Fund (EVEF)
6 N 6th Street, Suite 401
Richmond, VA 23219
Grant amount: $7,000

The mission of the Equality Virginia Education Fund (EVEF) is to change the legal, social, and employment climate for GLBT Virginians by educating Virginian voters and legislators and mobilizing them to take action on behalf of equal rights. The purpose of this grant is to continue the development and expansion 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. This is the second GMF grant for EVEF.


New England Network for Child, Youth & Family
156 College Street. Suite 301
Burlington, VT 05401-8423
Grant amount: $10,000

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 third GMF grant.


Sunshine Social Services, Inc/Sunserve
1480 SW 9th Avenue
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33315
Grant amount: $5,000

Grant funds will be used in establishing The Meeting Place which targets families struggling with the difficult issues raised by their children who are questioning their sexual orientation, especially families of children with serious emotional disorders. The program brings parents into peer support groups and gathers their children into similar groups for the purpose of support, education, and the establishment of a new level of communication. This is Sunserve’s first GMF grant.


We Are Family
P0 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 and a speakers’ bureau. This is the fifth GMF grant for We Are Family.



Research and Public Education Awards - $17,000

Alliance for Full Acceptance
PO Box 22088
Charleston, SC 29413-2088
Grant amount: $10,000

This grant helps support the Alliance for Full Acceptance 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. As the highest rated proposal in this category, Alliance for Full Acceptance received the Richard Karpawich Research and Public Education Award for 2004-2005. This is the third GMF grant to Alliance for Full Acceptance.


GLSEN/Miami
PO Box 347321
Coral Gables, FL 33234
Grant amount: $7,000

This grant supports the Florida Safe Schools Project that provides teacher training of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues in non-urban areas of the State of Florida By providing educators with proven training and resources, these educators learn how best to intervene and prevent GLBT student harassment and discrimination. This is GLSEN/Miami’s third GMF grant.

Scholarship Awards - $3,000 

Michael A. Hoyt
PhD candidate: Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Scholarship: $1,000

Michael Hoyt’s research proposal is entitled “Health Consequences of Perception of Homosexuality” and has been awarded the Robin McDonald Memorial Scholarship.

Jonathan R. Flojo
PhD candidate: Counseling Psychology
University of Oregon
Scholarship: $1,000

Jonathan R. Flojo’s research proposal, entitled “Disclosure, Identity, and Hetersexism: LGB Minority Stressors in the Workplace” has been awarded the Aileen and Cliff Pettit Memorial Scholarship.

James Pautz
Pursuing degree in both women gender and sexuality studies and Brazilia studies
Harvard University
Scholarship: $1,000

James Pautz is this year’s recipient of the Art Huskey Gamma Mu Scholarship which is awarded annually by the Gamma Mu Foundation to a deserving gay male is good scholastic standing. The award is coordinated through the Philanthrofund Foundation of Minneapolis, Minnesota.