New York City AIDS Fund

Thank you for your interest in applying to the New York City AIDS Fund. We are not currently accepting proposals. Our last RFP was issued July 17th, 2009 and the deadline was September 14, 2009. Please check back later in the summer for our 2010 RFP.

Congratulations to our 2010 grantees:

With the assistance of a lead grant of $1,100,000 from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and Vogue, The New York City AIDS Fund at The New York Community Trust has made $1,346,000 in grants for HIV prevention, advocacy and public policy, and organizational streamlining.

Advocacy and Public Policy

$60,000 to  Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, to advocate for improved  HIV prevention and care services for the Asian Pacific Islander community.

$60,000 to Correctional Association of New York, to monitor implementation of HIV and Hepatitis C health care services in State and local correctional facilities.

$60,000 to Harlem United Community AIDS Center, to train people living with AIDS to advocate for improved HIV counseling and testing in communities of color.

$40,000 to Harm Reduction Coalition, to help harm reduction agencies respond to lifting of the federal ban on funding for syringe exchange programs.

$60,000 to Legal Action Center of the City of New York, to advocate for repeal of a law criminalizing possession of syringes and to conduct HIV prevention for women and girls of color.

$40,000 to National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, to train faith-based organizations to advocate for improvements in HIV testing policies.

$40,000 to New York City AIDS Housing Network, to advocate for fair rental assistance policies for low-income New Yorkers living with AIDS.

HIV Prevention

$75,000 to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, for an HIV prevention program for high-risk adolescents at a charter high school in Hunts Point in the Bronx.

$15,000 to Child Center of New York, for a bilingual HIV prevention program for teens at a high school in Elmhurst, Queens.

$72,000 to Community Health Project, to expand HIV prevention, testing, and care for transgender individuals.

$75,000 to Community Healthcare Network, to expand HIV prevention, testing, and referral for care for transgender individuals.

$75,000 to Discipleship Outreach Ministries, for a mobile van providing clean syringes, HIV testing, and prevention messages to drug users in Brooklyn.

$50,000 to Fortune Society, to enhance a peer-led HIV prevention program for men being discharged from correctional facilities.

$75,000 to Health and Education Alternatives for Teens (HEAT), for an HIV prevention program for young, black men who have sex with men.

$75,000 to Latino Commission on AIDS, to strengthen an HIV prevention program for Latino men who have sex with men.

$50,000 to The Osborne Association, for an HIV prevention program for female partners of men being discharged from correctional facilities.

$74,000 to Planned Parenthood of New York City, to expand an HIV prevention program for girls and young women of color at high risk for AIDS.

$75,000 to Public Health Solutions, to develop and test an internet-based HIV prevention program for men who have sex with men.

$55,000 to Red Hook Initiative, to open a confidential HIV testing site within a health center in Brooklyn.

$45,000 to Voces Latinas, to expand its promotora HIV prevention program for poor women of color.

$75,000 to Women In Need, for an HIV prevention program for young girls living in homeless shelters in Central Brooklyn and East Harlem.

Streamlining Organizations

$100,000 to Brownsville Multi-Service Family Health Center, to share a patient accounts specialist with the Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center in order to improve billing practices and maximize revenue.

APPLYING FOR A GRANT

Please check back later in the summer for the 2010 RFP.

Background of the New York City AIDS Fund

Founded in 1989, the New York City AIDS Fund (the AIDS Fund) is a collaboration of grantmaking organizations in New York City whose goals are to increase private funding to fight the AIDS epidemic and the spectrum of HIV illness at the community level and to improve the coordination and targeting  of those resources in the City.  Housed at The New York Community Trust, the AIDS Fund has been dedicated to helping community groups provide vital programs and implement advocacy efforts that address the local HIV/AIDS epidemic. It also serves as a local community partnership site of the National AIDS Fund.

The AIDS Fund is guided by an advisory committee representing grantmaking organizations, public agencies, human service organizations, and persons living with AIDS to help set grantmaking priorities.  Each year, the advisory committee reviews previous grants, completes an assessment to evaluate the current status of the local AIDS epidemic, and helps analyze the availability of government funding in order to determine where private funding is most needed and can have the greatest effect.

Since inception, the AIDS Fund has awarded approximately $17.3 million to nonprofit agencies throughout the City’s five boroughs.  This year, with a lead grant of $1.1 million from the Council of Fashion Designers of America & Vogue’s Seventh on Sale event, the AIDS Fund expects to make grants totaling $1.4 million for innovative programs and efforts in the areas of HIV prevention, advocacy, and services.

For further details about the New York City AIDS Fund and questions about the application process, please call Len McNally, Program Director at (212) 686-0010, ext. 556 or Nancy DeKoven, Program Assistant at ext. 525.