Previous Grant Award Chronology

Fiscal Year 2006 Total: $106,000

Community Services – AIDS Services and Prevention - $48,000

Catskill Rural AIDS - Oneonta, NY
Grant amount $10,000

Catskill Rural AIDS provides a variety of services for people living with HIV. This grant will help provide services to rural clients, including group meals and outings; transportation to events, medical and dental appointments; a food pantry and shopping trips; a monthly client newspaper; internet fee subsidies and a pet program.
 

HIV Alliance - Eugene, OR
Grant amount: $8,000

This grant will be used by the HIV Alliance to fund their 2005-2006 Outreach to HIV-positive men who have sex with men. This project involves both workshops and continuing education to rural health care professionals.

Mobile AIDS Support Services - Mobile AL
Grant amount: $10,000

This grant supports FUSION, an educational project using gay and bisexual men to provide education services in rural Alabama. Training in HIV education, sexual behavior negotiation and the proper use of condoms is provided.


Vermont CARES - Burlington, VT
Grant amount: $10,000

This grant will be used to provide care and prevention programming targeting Vermont’s diverse GLBTQ communities affected by HIV/AIDS. Specific services include case management as well as HIV prevention programs.


AIDS Services of North Texas – Denton, TX
Grant amount: $10,000

This grant will be used to provide increased mental health counseling. These services are a crucial component to the variety of services provided by ASNT. It provides a safe space where GLBT persons feel respected and valued; especially those diagnosed as HIV positive.
 

Community Services – Other - $35,000 

ALSO for Gay Youth - Sarasota, FL
Grant amount: $5,000

This grant will go to The Rainbow Youth Empowerment Project, designed to assist gay youth. The project works with young gays to provide empowerment tools, compensatory programming, life-skills coaching, and referrals through interwoven project components.


Face to Face/Sonoma County AIDS Network - Santa Rosa, CA
Grant amount: $5,000

Face to Face/Sonoma County AIDS Network will use these funds to support their Russian River office where they serve low-income gay men, all of whom struggle with poverty and HIV/AIDS.


First City Network - Savannah, GA
Grant amount: $5,000

First City Network will use these funds for Stand Out, a GLBTQ youth support group providing a safe place for young GLBTQ men and women, ages 16 – 23, to meet, build confidence and self-pride and talk about their concerns in a supportive environment.


Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center (MGLCC) - Memphis, TN
Grant amount: $10,000

This grant will help MGLCC serve as an alternative to the bars and stand as a beacon of tolerance in a city know for its history of racial strife, deeply internalized hatreds, use of force as a means of conflict resolution, and steadfast resistance to change.


New England Network - Burlington, VT
Grant amount: $10,000

This grant will go to The New England Network for Child, Youth and Family Services to support their “Reach Out” initiative in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Reach Out’s goal is to increase the health, safety, and well-being of GLBTQ young people in Northern New England. A total of eight youth service providers will serve up to 1,300 GLBTQ youth, ages 12-21.



Research and Public Education Awards - $20,000

Alliance for Full Acceptance (AFFA) - Charlestown, SC
Grant amount: $10,000

Recipient of this year’s Richard Karpawich Research and Public Education Award

AFFA is in the midst of their seventh year of a media campaign designed to support and advance the full acceptance of GLBTQ individuals within this conservative community. This grant supports this program, which includes billboards, television, radio, and direct mail advertising. AFFA will also use this grant to conduct workshops on sexual and gender orientation throughout South Carolina. AFFA plans to add a weekly half-hour radio talk show for thirteen weeks on the local progressive talk radio station and to develop additional video tools for educational campaigns.


Missoula AIDS Council (MAC) - Missoula, MT
Grant amount: $10,000

This grant will support the Missoula AIDS Council HIV Positive Speakers Bureau (HPSB). Since 1990, MAC has provided a Speaker’s Program of HIV Positive individuals serving schools and groups in Missoula and the surrounding areas of rural Montana. The HIV Positive Speakers Bureau Program reaches an average of 1,800 students per year with information on the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and provides audiences with the speaker’s personal experiences and struggles with HIV/AIDS.

Scholarship Awards - $3,000 

The Gamma Mu Foundation currently awards three $1,000 scholarships annually. Scholarship recipients will be selected in Spring 2006. Named Scholarships awards result from single or cumulative donations of $25,000 for a 5-year award time or $50,000 for an award in perpetuity.

The Robin McDonald Memorial Scholarship is awarded to a gay male in good scholastic standing that is pursuing an advanced degree.

The Art Huskey Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually to a gay male in good scholastic standing pursuing either an undergraduate or graduate degree.

The Aileen and Cliff Pettit Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually to a gay male in good scholastic standing pursuing either an undergraduate or graduate degree.