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AardvarkGoodSwimmer
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02 Nov 2013, 11:56 am
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MGH: Can you outline the various types of services provided?
NJK: AFH provides more than 30 unique services, including educating over 50,000 Houstonians about HIV/AIDS annually. We offer confidential HIV and syphilis screening, housing and assistance for those living with an HIV diagnosis, such as food assistance through Stone Soup, Camp Hope for children and teens living with HIV, Universal Teens to teach HIV positive youth how to live independently and fiscal responsibility and benefits counseling to HIV positive individuals connecting them with direct care and other resources. We operate a peer-to-peer education initiative in Texas state prisons to prevent the transmission of HIV in incarcerated individuals. AFH serves over 6,000 men, women and children each year.
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MGH: Can you outline the various types of services provided?
NJK: AFH provides more than 30 unique services, including educating over 50,000 Houstonians about HIV/AIDS annually. We offer confidential HIV and syphilis screening, housing and assistance for those living with an HIV diagnosis, such as food assistance through Stone Soup, Camp Hope for children and teens living with HIV, Universal Teens to teach HIV positive youth how to live independently and fiscal responsibility and benefits counseling to HIV positive individuals connecting them with direct care and other resources. We operate a peer-to-peer education initiative in Texas state prisons to prevent the transmission of HIV in incarcerated individuals. AFH serves over 6,000 men, women and children each year.
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MGH: How does the organization raise most of its money? Who are the donors?
NJK: AIDS Foundation Houston produces AIDS Walk Houston, the largest fundraiser of its kind in Texas. In 2011, AIDS Walk Houston raised over $800,000. We also host the World AIDS Day Luncheon, Art4Life | arts for AIDS -silent art auction, Dining Out For Life and a number of other fundraising events throughout the year. We are fortunate to have the support of Houston’s corporate community including Marathon, which is the presenting sponsor of AIDS Walk Houston, Chevron which is the presenting sponsor of World AIDS Day and many other event sponsors like ExxonMobil, Shell, H-E-B, Starbucks, Fiesta, Southwest Airlines, MAC AIDS Fund and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS to name a few. AFH also receives funding from numerous grants, Foundations and local, state and federal programs.
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MGH: How does the organization raise most of its money? Who are the donors?
NJK: AIDS Foundation Houston produces AIDS Walk Houston, the largest fundraiser of its kind in Texas. In 2011, AIDS Walk Houston raised over $800,000. We also host the World AIDS Day Luncheon, Art4Life | arts for AIDS -silent art auction, Dining Out For Life and a number of other fundraising events throughout the year. We are fortunate to have the support of Houston’s corporate community including Marathon, which is the presenting sponsor of AIDS Walk Houston, Chevron which is the presenting sponsor of World AIDS Day and many other event sponsors like ExxonMobil, Shell, H-E-B, Starbucks, Fiesta, Southwest Airlines, MAC AIDS Fund and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS to name a few. AFH also receives funding from numerous grants, Foundations and local, state and federal programs.
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My guess is that back in the 1980s when the AIDS Foundation Houston was probably just getting started, they were not able to tap into this corporate funding. Now, they can.
And in general, I think we can learn a whole lot from how the LGBT community has advocated and worked for equal rights, still in progress.
And what we as people on the Asperger's-Autism Spectrum share in common with LGBT equality advocates is the right to authentically be ourselves, even if different.
AardvarkGoodSwimmer
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02 Nov 2013, 11:59 am
