The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF), which funds innovative HIV prevention, stigma reduction, and direct care and support programs for people living with HIV/AIDS in the Americas and the Caribbean, today announced its first round of grants for calendar year 2010 - a comprehensive award of $1.3 million to the National AIDS Fund (NAF).
This significant award supports EJAF's long-standing Challenge and Leadership Grant collaboration with NAF. These Challenge Grants must be matched $2 for every $1 by locally-raised funds, thereby at least tripling the impact of EJAF's investments. During 2009, total NAF and Community Partnership grant making, including locally raised funds, amounted to $8,640,393 - a sum over six times EJAF's investment.
NAF currently supports 39 Community Partnerships across the U.S. that help local communities and grassroots organizations develop HIV prevention and service programs specific to their unique needs. NAF's Community Partnerships provide an infrastructure for channeling national resources to local programs across the country that can best utilize that support. Community Partnerships serve not only as collaborative fund-raising and grant-making bodies, but also often as conveners, technical assistance providers, community builders, and policy advocates.
According to NAF's President and CEO Kandy Ferree, "We regard NAF's partnership with EJAF as an excellent model for how two complementary organizations can work together to maximize each other's strengths." EJAF's Executive Director Scott Campbell added, "Over the years, NAF has demonstrated extraordinary leadership in support of grassroots, community-based responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. All of us at EJAF are extremely proud to have played an integral part in the growth and expansion of NAF's Community Partnership Network, and we look forward to partnering with NAF in their effort to extend the network into uncovered areas of the country."
Project Description
National AIDS Fund (NAF), New York, NY, $1.3 million - This grant will support the National AIDS Fund's core grant-making in 2010. NAF aims to create a total Challenge Grant funding pool of at least $1.6 million, which will be used to leverage approximately an additional $6 million in local funding. NAF will focus EJAF's entire $1.3 million Community Partnership Program investment on the Challenge Grants Program, which will emphasize the following population and geographic priorities: (1) Highly impacted populations prioritized by NAF, specifically men who have sex with men, injection drug users, communities of color, women, and those affected by incarceration; and (2) Highly impacted geographic areas prioritized by NAF, specifically large epicenters (i.e. Washington, DC, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta), the Southern United States, and Puerto Rico. Programmatically, NAF will be emphasizing programs that fall into one or more of the following categories: (1) Evidence-based HIV prevention; (2) Community innovations; and (3) Structural interventions.
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