2007 South Florida

Community AIDS Partnership

Grantees

Dade Community Foundation is proud to announce $360,000 in grants to eight local organizations dedicated to preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS. The grants through the Foundation's Community AIDS Partnership continue the long-standing commitment of the Foundation with its local and national funding partners to supporting HIV prevention, promoting testing and counseling and connecting people with resources for care and treatment and the problems that put them at risk for infection.

The Foundation's AIDS Partnership is a collaboration between private funders and the public sector funders, with significant support from Miami-Dade County. The Foundation's Partnership is a grantmaking fund through which a variety of donors can pool their dollars to award to effective HIV prevention programs countywide. The 2007 South Florida Community AIDS Partnership grantees are:

Camillus House - $30,000 -  to support a comprehensive HIV/AIDS program that targets homeless members of racial/ethnic minority communities who are either HIV positive or are at very high risk for HIV infection due to injection drug use and/or heterosexual contact.

CARE Resource - $60,000 -  to support the SISTA program which is offered in collaboration with Greater Bethel AME Church as part of the Partners in Faith program which is a social skills training intervention aimed at reducing HIV sexual risk behavior among African American women.

Empower U  - $30,000 - to support the 'What's the D'Gaga' program which targets black men who have sex with men (MSM) in Model/Liberty City, Brownsville, West Little River and surrounding areas. This program is run by a core group of gay men from the community and paid staff who will conduct formal outreach, M-group meetings, informal outreach and an on-going publicity campaign.

Hep-C Alert - $30,000 - to support Project ALERT a community focused program employing a mix of social marketing and prevention strategies that increases HIV awareness, support risk reduction behaviors, and provides access to counseling, testing and linkage to care in Northeast Miami-Dade County.

King David Foundation - $60,000 - to support the Coalition Builders of HIV Prevention project which seeks to strengthen local capacity building for HIV/AIDS prevention activities to reduce the disproportionate rate of HIV/AIDS and substance abuse incidence in Hispanic women and youth in South Florida.

Mothers' Voices of South Florida - $60,000 - to support a collaborative effort between Mothers' Voices, Family Counseling Services and the University of Miami to provide educational intervention targeted to HIV positive parents/caregivers to address the issues of family communication around the topics of healthy sexuality, sexual abuse and disease prevention.

MUJER - $30,000 - to continue the Nosotras Viviremos project which seeks to increase awareness about HIV/AIDS in migrant farmworker communities in South Miami-Dade County.

South Florida AIDS Network - $60,000 - to provide HIV/AIDS outreach and prevention education to Miami-Dade County youth and young adults between the ages of 13-24 who are actively engaged in high-risk behaviors.