AIDS Foundation of Chicago

UPDATE
AIDS Foundation
of Chicago
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Fall 2008
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Under bright blue skies, more than 7,000 people showed their support
for the fight against HIV/AIDS at the 2008 AIDS Run & Walk Chicago in Grant
Park on September 20. Benefiting the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and
over 70 local AIDS organizations, this year’s event doubled its
participation and is projected to net more than $400,000 for
AIDS-related services. See event pictures, video, and race results at
aidsrunwalk.org.
AFC Contributes to the Global Fight
Against HIV/AIDS
AFC Launches the “Love the One
You’re With” Condom Campaign
AFC staff and volunteers distributed more than 2,500 free
safer sex packets, conducted condom education, and fielded
hundreds of questions as part of a new campaign called
“Love the One You’re With,” launched September 20 at the
2008 AIDS Run & Walk.
Dozens of volunteers, wearing bright pink “Love the
One You’re With” t-shirts, distributed colorful campaign
stickers and packets containing male and female condoms,
lubricants, and information about proper condom use. Other
volunteers dressed in condom costumes encouraged people
to visit the centrally located condom booth for additional safe
sex information and to learn about AFC’s federal advocacy
campaign calling for a National AIDS Strategy.
AFC created the condom campaign to remind the
thousands of event-goers that correct and consistent condom
use is the most effective way for sexually active individuals
to protect themselves and their partners from HIV and
other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). In the months
ahead, AFC will work with partner organizations to organize
additional condom awareness and distribution events. Learn
more at aidschicago.org/condoms.
This month, AFC will announce recipients of its Fourth Annual
Global Grants Initiative. Eight to ten local non-profits partnering
with HIV/AIDS service organizations abroad will receive up
to $5,000 to collaborate on projects pertaining to HIV/AIDS
prevention, advocacy, and treatment programs.
Looking to many of its longtime grantees that have done
international AIDS work for many years, AFC is able to enrich
international HIV/AIDS projects by supporting local agencies
with micro grants to augment their international activities. These
grants, distributed
to local agencies,
contribute to
projects with
an established
presence in
the countries
they serve. One
hundred percent
of granted funds
are spent on direct
Photo credit: leah missbach day
HIV/AIDS services
working in coordination with international partners, and ensuring
the recipient is making the most difference with the funds
awarded.
Past recipients have included World Bicycle Relief, an
organization that supplies bicycles to HIV/AIDS healthcare
workers in Zambia, Children’s Place Association for its work
helping Haitian children who are affected by HIV/AIDS, and
the Renz Addiction Counseling Center for its work in providing
prevention services and information to citizens of Oaxaca,
Mexico.
Learn more about how to donate to support this work at
aidschicago.org/global.
Dance for Life Dazzles
World of Chocolate Giveaway
New Case Management Model
Sold-out audience raises more than
$175,000 at the 17th annual event.
Take our online survey and win two
tickets to this year’s World of Chocolate!
aidschicago.org/survey
Developed by AFC and the Chicago
Department of Public Health.
H O W TO G IVE TO THE AI DS
FO U N DAT IO N OF C HI C AGO
L etter fro m the P resident / C E O
Dear Friends:
You probably saw the headlines this summer:
the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. is far worse than
previously known, with 56,000 people now thought
to be infected with HIV annually—a startling 40
percent jump from the government’s previous
estimate of 40,000.
That news broke on the eve of the 17th
International AIDS Conference in Mexico City (Aug.
3-8), which I attended, with thousands of world
leaders, researchers, and advocates.
These new estimates released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) paint a soberingly accurate portrait of the HIV epidemic and
underscore the utter lack of investment in HIV prevention research and programs,
especially for men who have sex with men (MSM) of all races/ethnicities and
among African-American individuals.
This year’s International AIDS Conference marked a turning point in the way
the world talks about the global fight against HIV/AIDS. For the first time, spurred
in part by the new CDC estimates, the domestic epidemic in the U.S. was framed
as a piece of the larger AIDS pandemic puzzle – not as a separate phenomenon.
This shift included a renewed recognition of the disproportionate impact of
HIV on gay and bisexual men and other vulnerable populations in the U.S. and
the developing world. To end AIDS, leaders called for approaches that combine a
sustained push for new HIV prevention technologies (i.e., vaccines, pre-exposure
prophylaxis, and vaginal and rectal microbicides) as well as protecting human
rights for MSM and other populations such as women and girls, sex workers,
drug users, and the homeless.
Political will to change the course of the pandemic is paramount.
It is simply unacceptable that nearly three decades into the epidemic
of our lifetime, the U.S. still has no comprehensive strategy to prevent HIV
transmission, increase access to HIV care, and reduce racial/ethnic disparities in
the epidemic. That is why the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) supports the call
for the next U.S. president to endorse and implement a national AIDS strategy
(nationalaidsstrategy.org).
Locally, AFC will continue to be a force for change through initiatives such
as Project CRYSP, LifeLube (lifelube.org), the Women’s Collaborative of Greater
Chicago, Faith Responds to AIDS, and the network of the International Rectal
Microbicide Advocates (rectalmicrobicides.org).
With your support, AFC will continue to strive for a world without HIV/AIDS.
Your gift will help provide services for people
affected by HIV/AIDS; fund communitybased agencies; educate the public,
policymakers, and service providers; as well
as support advocacy for sound AIDS policy
and programs. Give online at aidschicago.
org/donate or call Loren Leidinger-Avila at
(312) 922-2322 ext. 350.
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AFC’s work
Sincerely,
Mark Ishaug
President/CEO
Service Providers Council
Executive Committee
Board of Directors
Marcia Lazar, Chair
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Lisa Albores
Sandra Allen
Craig C. Andree
John Ansehl
Deborah Ashen
Aaron Baker
Russ Bauer
Daniel S. Berger, M.D.
Anthony Bruck
Isiaah Crawford, Ph.D.
Marcus Andre Dodd
Richard Paul Ellis
Sarah Esler
Toby Eveland
Susan Frank
Larry Giddings
J. Cunyon Gordon
Judi Gorman
Gary Harper, Ph.D.
Deitric Johnson
Lori Kaufman
Tom Kehoe
Condon McGlothlen
Michael T. McRaith
Gary Metzner
Thomas E. Mitchell
Leslie Morgan
David Morris
Rick Moser
Robert Neubert
Eva Janzen Powell
Tina Pittman
Curtis Reed, Jr.
Hilda Richards
Ernie Rodriguez
Mary Lu Roffe
Joseph Stokes, Ph.D.
Rev. Charles Straight
Joe Sullivan
Don Wiener
Gregg Braxton, Chicago House & Social
Service Agency
Christopher Brown, Chicago Dept. of Public
Health
Alicia Bunton, Jackson Park Hospital
Patricia Canessa, Salud Latina/Latino Health
Maurice Chapman, Austin Health Center- CBC
Michael Cook, Howard Brown
Jaime Delgado, UIC/COIP
John Dinauer, Heartland Human Care Services
Ann Dunmore, Ambulatory Community Health
Network
Ann Hilton Fisher, AIDS Legal Council of
Chicago
Michelle Gilbert, Legal Assistance Foundation
Debbie Hinde, Vital Bridges
Bethsheba Johnson, South Side Health
Association
Chet Kelly, Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center
Deb Klecha, Heartland Human Care Services
Simone Koehlinger, CDPH Office of LGBT
Health
Cathy Krieger, The Children’s Place Association
Fred Maclin, Christina Community Center
Perry Maier, Open Door Clinic
Donna-Shea McGee-Boyce, CORE Center
Maureen Murphy, Catholic Charities of Lake
County
Robyn Nardone, Planned Parenthood of Illinois
Ileana Nesbitt, Research & Education
Foundation of Michael Reese
Judy Perloff, Chicago House & Social Service
Agency
Lisa Razzano, UIC Mental Health Services
Research
David Roesler, Open Door Clinic
Barbara Schechtman, MATEC
Dan Sesztak, Chicago House & Social Service
Agency
Freddie Shufford, Ruth M. Rothstein CORE
Center
Vanessa Smith, South Side Help Center
Anne Statton, Pediatric AIDS Chicago
Prevention Initiative
Virgil Tolbert, Christian Community Health
Center
Modesto Tico Valle, Center on Halsted
Michelle Wetzel, Legal Assistance Foundation
Cindy Wilder, Project VIDA
Angela Wilson, Martin Temple AME Zion
Church
Pamela Wrenn, MATEC
THE AIDS FOUNDAT I O N
T H AN KS O UR SPONS O R S
2008 AIDS Run & Walk Chicago
Sponsors
100.3 LOVE fm
101.9fm The Mix
American Airlines
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Cellit Mobile Marketing
Chicago Dance Crash
Chicago Department of Public Health
ChicagoPride.com
CNA
FootworKINGZ
GlaxoSmithKline
Illinois Department of Public Health
PepsiCo
Polo Café & Catering
The Runner’s Edge
Walgreens
2008 Dance for Life Sponsors
Abbott
Alphawood Foundation
Amalfi Hotel
American Airlines
Boeing
Bristol-Myers Squibb
ChicagoPride.com
Chicago Tribune
FIJI Water
Gay Chicago Magazine
Harris Bank
Harris Theater for Music and Dance
HMS Media
J & L Catering
Leo’s Dancewear
M & M Special Events Company
National City
Stoli
Tibotec Therapeutics
Walgreens
WGN News/Talk 720
Dance for Life Raises More Than $175,000
A sold-out audience of 1,500 guests helped to raise more than $175,000 at the
17th annual Dance for Life – the largest performance-based HIV/AIDS fundraising
event in the Midwest. Held at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance on August 23,
the event brought together six of Chicago’s renowned dance companies to benefit
the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC), Howard Brown Health Center, Chicago
Recovery Alliance, The Night Ministry, and the Dance for Life Fund. Dance for Life
was founded and produced by Ruth Page Award winner Keith Elliott, and hosted
this year by WGN-TV and WGN Radio 720 entertainment critic and reporter Dean
Richards.
Over the past 17 years, Dance for Life has raised nearly $4 million in the
fight against HIV/AIDS, showcased Chicago’s top professional dance companies,
established a fund that provides assistance to dancers living with HIV/AIDS, produced
five spin-off pre-events, and supported essential services at Chicago’s leading AIDS
organizations.
For more information about past and future events, visit danceforlifechicago.com
Help AFC Get to Know You Better
Please take a moment to complete a short online survey meant to help us
develop better ways to communicate with our friends and supporters. As a token of
our appreciation, everyone who completes the survey will be invited to enter a raffle
to win two tickets for this year’s World of Chocolate. Complete your survey now by
visting aidschicago.org/survey.
Women’s Collaborative Featured on WBEZ
If you’re a listener of Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ 91.5 FM), you may have heard
a familiar name on air last month: the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC).
On September 8, WBEZ reporter Natalie Moore profiled the Women’s
Collaborative of Greater Chicago, AFC’s innovative HIV prevention and education
initiative that combines beauty salons and frank talk to reach African American and
Latina women with life-saving information. As noted in the piece: “An overwhelming
76 percent of Chicago women living with HIV/AIDS are black. That’s an infection rate
10 times the rate of white women. The Women’s Collaborative of Greater Chicago is
out to change that.”
Did you miss the story? Visit aidschicago.org/news to listen.
AFC Launches New Case Management Model
In order to better assist people with HIV/AIDS, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago
(AFC) and the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) have developed a new
and improved case management model with a range of options tailored to clients’
needs.
The new model features three levels of care: intensive, medical, and supportive
services case management. This new system will emphasize treatment and
appointment adherence, coordinate treatment for clients to ensure appropriate
access to clinical services, and monitor health outcomes with the goal of supporting
clients in maximizing their own care.
For more information visit aidschicago.org/care.
D ONO RS
We received the following donations of $500 or more between May 1, 2008 and September 30, 2008 (excluding event
sponsorships and tickets). Although space limitations prevent us from thanking all of our donors here, every contribution, regardless of
size, is important to the success of our work.
Sigmund E. Edelstone Fund
Ward C. Rogers Foundation Inc.
Abbott Laboratories
Allstate Giving Campaign
American Cancer Society
AON Foundation
AT&T Services, Inc.
AT&T United Way
Chicago Area Combined Federal Campaign
Community Shares of Illinois
Corporation for Supportive Housing
Discover Financial
Entertainment AIDS Alliance
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Inc.
Gilead Sciences
GlaxoSmithKline
Global Impact
Illinois Tool Works Foundation
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Kimball Hill Homes
Kraft Foods
Lambda Divers, Inc.
Legacy Community Health Services
MAC AIDS Fund
Michael Reese Health Trust
MNR. Fund
National AIDS Fund
North Suburban Gays
Ortho Biotech Inc.
Pediatric AIDS Chicago Prevention Initiative
Perlstein Foundation
Polk Bros. Foundation
Prince Charitable Trusts
Project VIDA
Seyfarth Shaw
Shefsky & Froelich, LTD.
Suda Enterprises
Test Positive Aware Network
The Chicago Community Trust
The Lucille E. and Joseph L. Block Foundation
Unilever United States Foundation, Inc.
WellPoint Foundation
Lisa Albores
Joanne and Joseph Armenio
Steven Armstrong
Brian Arseneau
Kevin D. Billingslea
Steven Blackburn and Antonio U. Real
Judith Block
Aimee Britt
James L. Carter and James Schmettzer
Oleg Chanyshev
Rumbidzayi Chidavaenzi
John and Jane C. Colman
Merle R. Cooper
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Beth A. Coughlin and David Wang
Martin Cournane
Siobhan Dantzler
Jaquenette Davis
Michel P. Desjardins and Pierre Desy
Ed W. Diffin, III
Matthew Dixon
Kenneth J. Duckmann
Cheryl K. Dusenbery
Judith M. Eder
William W. and Brigitte Erbe
Isaias Esquivel
Nicole Finaldi
Nancy Gershman and Anatole Gershman
Larry Giddings and Dr. Gerard F. Notario
Dominic Guagenti
Ahsan Hamid
Dr. Lisa M. Henry-Reid
Michael Hill
Sally L. Jackson
Jaime Jamieson
Ms. Kimberly Job
Mark G. Kennedy
Ms. Kathryn R. King
Paul Kleppner
Gregory M. Larson
James Ledger
Lois Lipton and R. P. Carey
Brian J. Marocchi
Linda Marron and Barb Schrantz
Gerald S. McCarthy
Thomas F. McDevitt, Jr.
Condon McGlothlen
Timothy McMurray
Linda Mister
Mary L. Mittler
Jennifer Mo
Gene E. Morey
Gerald Morrow
Richard A. Moser
Robert L. O’Hara
Karl F. Otto, Jr.
Justin Panther
Francis Pastorius
Nestor E. Perea
Gerardo R. Perez
William Pry
Stephen J. Raftery and Hal Stratton
Ronald Robert
Karel Schaepman
Jonathan Schmugge
Sandra M. Shakoor
Demba Sowe
Daniel Stelter
Michael Stornello and Thomas Konopiots
E. Doris Taerbaum
Jeff and Joan Timberlake
Giovani Twigge
Helen Tylka
Amy Verive
Paul D. Waas
David Wheadon
David E. Woolwine
Gifts were made in honor
of the following individuals:
Daniel S. Berger, M.D.
Brandee Butler
Lucas A. Cowan
Maria Davis
Ruth Durschslag
Robert (Bob) and Eudice Fogel
Mark S. Ishaug
Patricia B. Jung
Sakura A. Krohn
Marcia E. Lazar
Robert Mc Afee
Susan A. Ross
Richard J. Ruppel
David C. Schmidt
Aana M. Vigen
Delta Delta Chapter
Gifts were made in memory
of the following individuals:
Jeffrey Arseneau
Stephen Bates
Joseph Bradshaw
Robert C. Breard
Manuel Cruz
Michael Ellis
John A. Frejlich
Vincent Gillon
James P. Hazard
Kent Hinton
Bob Lance
Steve McCall
Terry McHugh
Dean Miller
Richard J. Oechsle
Len Overcash
Gerry Pavlick
Rick Pearl
Ron Sable
Pauline Taylor
If we have made an error either
in the spelling of your name
or have omitted your name, please
accept our apology, and contact
the development department
at (312) 334-0936.
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