The AIDS
Memorial Project [Donate] [Volunteer]
The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a poignant memorial, a powerful tool for
prevention education and the largest ongoing community arts project in the
world. Each of the more than 44,000 colorful panels in the Quilt
memorializes the life of a person lost to AIDS. As the epidemic claims
more lives, the Quilt continues to grow and to reach more communities with
its messages of remembrance, awareness and hope.
Project Open
Hand [Donate] [Volunteer]
Project Open Hand provides food and nourishment to improve the quality of
life for the men, women and children it serves. Project Open Hand programs
include: meal, grocery and nutrition counseling for people with
symptomatic HIV and AIDS; congregate lunch and nutrition education for
people over 60 years of age; meal service for homebound and critically ill
people under the age of 60. Services are available to eligible clients
living in San Francisco and Alameda counties, regardless of their race,
color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, religious
affiliation, disability or ability to pay.
San Francisco AIDS
Foundation [Donate] [Volunteer]
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation was founded in 1982 in San Francisco's
Castro district as an emergency response to a quickly emerging health
crisis. Its primary purpose was simply to assemble and disseminate
critical information to gay men who were being diagnosed with a rare and
frightening cancer. As the health crisis grew to epidemic proportions and
spread into new populations, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation
correspondingly grew and responded to new challenges. Building upon its
original mission to educate, the AIDS Foundation added comprehensive
services for people living with HIV disease and AIDS and an aggressive
public policy component to compel federal and state governments to address
the growing epidemic. Twenty-one years later, the San Francisco AIDS
Foundation is firmly established as a global leader in the fight against
AIDS.
STOP AIDS
Project [Donate] [Volunteer]
Established in 1984, the STOP AIDS project works to prevent HIV
transmission among all gay and bisexual men in San Francisco through
multicultural, community-based organizing. Internationally recognized as
a successful model of grassroots prevention and support, STOP AIDS brings
diverse gay and bisexual men together to talk about the challenges and
issues posed by HIV/AIDS through neighborhood outreach, workshops and
community forums. Their work extends beyond education-- they help change
behavior, create personal commitment to safer sex, build community support for
each individual, and live these d compelling beliefs: HIV transmission
can be prevented.
