Community Health Awareness Group (CHAG), Detroit, MI
To enable the expansion of mobile/street outreach services targeting high-risk clients and providing them with health education, condoms, wound care supplies, hygiene kits and educational materials. CHAG targets Detroit’s poorest, neediest high risk and HIV+ African-Americans, reaching them through information exchange with other agencies and through CHAG outreach teams. The agency is seen as a leader in: reaching the high-risk community through culturally appropriate and ethnically sensitive means; utilizing interventions proven effective with poor, inner-city, substance-using African Americans; and going where clients are to link them to testing, treatment and care.

IV CHARIS, Cincinnati, OH
To operate a prevention program aimed at decreasing the spread of HIV/AIDS among the African American incarcerated community. Numerous HIV/AIDS experts have attributed the increase of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African Americans to a host of issues including: higher incarceration rates, poverty, risky sexual behaviors, and chemical dependence.

Matthew 25 AIDS Services (MAS), Henderson, KY
To expand its food pantry services to include a larger, more nutritional supply of food items for the 200 clients it serves throughout Western Kentucky.  MAS requests support to purchase a walk in refrigerator and freezer unit. MAS services are a necessary program to ensure HIV positive clients maintain better health and a higher quality of life.

Neighborhood House (NH), St. Paul, MN
To support ‘Plain Talk’, a community based initiative designed to assist neighborhood groups and residents create and implement effective strategies to prevent HIV/AIDS/STIs and teen pregnancy.  The target populations for this project are Latino and African American persons.  This effort is crucial in the Saint Paul area as these target groups have disproportionately high adolescent birth rates and high rates of unprotected sex among teens. Moreover, they face a variety of factors that place them at even higher risk of contracting HIV including: poverty, cultural and/or language barriers, early initiation of sexual activity, exposure to violence, sexual abuse, and parental chemical abuse.