Previous Grant Award Chronology

Fiscal Year 2007 Total: $131,000

Community Services – AIDS Services and Prevention - $65,000 (50%)

AIDS Resource Center - Dayton, OH
Grant amount: $5,000

AIDS Resource Center (ARC) will use this grant to enhance already existing HIV testing sites, and expand to other areas where weaknesses and gaps have been identified in their 35 county service region. Specifically, ARC will better target those populations most at risk for HIV including MSM, youth, substance abusers, and minorities.
 

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

AIDS Services will use this grant to supplement their Outpatient Primary Care Clinic. Funds received will support a transition from 2½ to 3 full time clinicians. AIDS Services operates in a five county region where the rate of HIV infection has more than doubled between 2000 and 2004. As this region has no public service medical facilities providing HIV-specific treatment and virtually no public transportation system, ASNT becomes crucial to the lives of these individuals.


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

Catskill Rural AIDS will use this grant as part of their program to alleviate isolation for HIV/AIDS clients. Catskill Rural AIDS provides a variety of services including frequent congregate meals, transportation to communal events, to medical, dental and social services appointments, to their in-office food pantry, and shopping, plus a monthly newsletter, internet fee subsidies and a pet program.


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

Face to Face will use this grant to support operation of their Guerneville (Russian River) office. This office provides support to 163 persons with HIV/AIDS, most of whom are gay or bisexual and classified as low or very low income. Many live without transportation. Without the services provided by Face to Face they would be unable to live productive lives.


HIV Alliance - Eugene, OR
Grant amount: $5,000

HIV Alliance will use this grant to provide four high-quality HIV prevention workshops that provide cutting-edge risk reduction strategies without demonizing sexual activity. Workshops will be open to any gay or bisexual man and all men who have sex with men.


Rural AIDS Action Network - Little Falls, MN
Grant amount: $10,000

RAAN is conducting a capacity building project in 2006/2007 to strengthen its organization. As a result, RAAN will be more effective in delivering critical services, support and referrals to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Minnesota. RAAN will use this grant to expand services to a sixth region.


South Alabama CARES - Mobile AL
Grant amount: $10,000

This grant will be used to continue the FUSION project, which uses peer educators (gay and bisexual men) to provide services to the target community. The project is based on the Mpowerment model, where young gay and bisexual men are recruited and trained in HIV education, sexual behavior negotiation and proper use of condoms. They then take these skills back into the community as peer educators in social gatherings and other places where gay and bisexual men meet. South Alabama was previously known as Mobile AIDS Support.


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

Vermont CARES will use this grant for care and HIV prevention, targeting Vermont’s diverse GLBTQ communities affected by HIV/AIDS. Specific services will include support and case management for HIV+ individuals to improve quality of life and reduce isolation, as well as HIV prevention programs including peer outreach, HIV testing and education to stop the spread of HIV.


Community Services – Other - $31,000 (24%)

AFFIRM - Greenville, SC
Grant amount: $10,000

AFFIRM will use this grant to fund their Community Awareness Initiative. The goal is to create change in the internal and external hostile environments hurting not only GLBTQ youth of Upstate SC but the entire community as well. Project goals are to reduce isolation and loneliness and increase health awareness among GLBTQ youth along with increasing community awareness of GLBTQ youth.


ALSO for Gay Youth - Sarasota, FL
Grant amount: $6,000

This grant will help fund the Rainbow Youth Empowerment Project that provides empowerment tools, compensatory programming, life-skills coaching, and referrals through interwoven project components. Major components of the project include a youth drop-in center with activities, workshops and an individual assistant, weekly peer support group meetings and 24-hour crisis support.


GLBT Community Center - Denver, CO
Grant amount: $10,000

This grant will help fund the Rainbow Alley project that is accessed annually by approximately 850 youths. Rainbow Alley is the only drop-in center in the Denver area designed to serve GLBTQ youth. These youths receive free medical care from a weekly medical clinic with HIV testing and prevention education along with tutoring, counseling, and mentoring. This is the first Gamma Mu Foundation grant to the GLBT Community Center in Denver.


Memphis Gay and Lesbian Center - Memphis, TN
Grant amount: $5,000

This grant will be used to support publication of “Triangle Journal”, the newspaper of the Memphis gay and lesbian community.
 

Research and Public Education Awards - $35,000 (26%)

 
GLSEN South Florida - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Grant amount: $10,000

This grant will be used to expand the Safe Schools Project into non-urban areas of South Florida, specifically Belle Glade in Palm Beach County, Davie in Broward County, and Homestead in Dade County. The Project is designed to promote respect and safety, and create safe learning environments for all students with an emphasis on GLBT youth.


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

This grant will be used to continue AFA’s media and education campaign that includes billboards, television, radio and direct mail advertising, plus a 30 minute weekly radio show. AFA’s Gender Orientation workshop continues to train medical, professional, school and law-enforcement personnel two counties in SC.


Equality Virginia Education Fund - Richmond, VA
Grant amount: $10,000

This grant will be used by EVEF to continue the development and expansion of volunteer Community Action Teams across rural and urban Virginia. These teams are EVEF’s principal grassroots mechanism: a network of key volunteers who are influencing an ever-greater number of citizens and local, county and state representatives to vote for equality and make Virginia a more hospitable place for its GLBT citizens.


Gay and Lesbian Community Center of South Florida - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Grant amount: $5,000

GLCC will use this grant to partially fund the Youth Education and Prevention of Substance Abuse (YEPSA) program. YEPSA will provide internet chat-based substance abuse prevention information, education, referral and support to approximately 1,700 LGBTQ youth throughout Broward County. YEPSA uses internet technology in a manner that overcomes transportation and geographic barriers associated with targeting specific county ZIP codes. This is the first Gamma Mu Foundation grant to GLCC.

Scholarship Awards - $3,000 

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.