Congratulations to this year's beneficiaries!
The AIDS Legal Referral Panel
ALRP is a civil rights and social services organization that addresses the legal needs of people living with HIV/AIDS in the San Francisco Bay Area. It provides free and low cost legal assistance and education on civil matters. Founded in 1983, ALRP has handled over 50,000 legal matters for its clients during the past 25 years. Last year alone, it helped over 1,500 people with HIV/AIDS in more than 2,000 legal matters. ALRP provides legal assistance in a wide variety of areas, including employment, housing, insurance, confidentiality matters, family law, immigration law, credit, government benefits, and public accommodations.
Dimensions Clinic
Dimensions Clinic offers medical and mental health services to youth, ages 12 to 25, who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or questioning (LGBTQIQ). The clinic prides itself on being an open and friendly place to get support for staying healthy. With an experienced staff made up of medical and mental health professionals, the clinic can answer just about any question its clients might have, including things kids may be too embarrassed to ask anyone else. The mission of the Dimensions Clinic is to increase the physical and mental health and wellness of LGBTQIQ young people in a culturally competent environment.
The GLBT Historical Society
The GLBT Historical Society maintains one of the world's largest collections of primary source materials about queer history. Since 1985, the GLBT Historical Society has been dedicated to collecting, documenting, preserving, and sharing the community’s rich and varied histories. It houses a substantial archive of the stories, struggles, and cultural contributions of GLBT people in Northern California and beyond. All year long, the Historical Society curates exhibits, sponsors programs, collects oral histories, and catalogues materials donated by collectors across the country. GLBT history that might have been lost forever now has a permanent home. The Historical Society will use its grant from GRGR/West to support the installation of a major exhibit called “History of the GLBT Community of San Francisco: Treasures from the Archives of the GLBT Historical Society.” The exhibit will be displayed at the former site of the Ritz Camera store at the corner of 18th and Castro.
Openhouse
openhouse is a housing, services, and advocacy organization for LGBT seniors. Its goal is to ensure safe housing and support services that are sensitive to the needs of LGBT seniors. openhouse combines visionary thinking with practical solutions. It is building a new kind of community — a place for older adults and their friends to age with dignity in San Francisco, with the support they need to remain connected to the home they love. openhouse is addressing this current and exploding need in the following ways:
• Housing — openhouse builds LGBT-welcoming senior housing in San Francisco addressing the need at all income levels. it is about to break ground on a new senior housing facility expressly welcoming to LGBT seniors at 55 Laguna, the site of the former UC Extension campus in San Francisco.
• Services — openhouse educates health, social service, and housing providers on the needs of LGBT seniors while working to develop a range of direct supportive services that complement and extend its own housing efforts.
• Community — openhouse connects LGBT seniors to social activities and neighborhood services that enable them to age at home.
360: The Positive Care Center At UCSF
360-UCSF is an HIV clinic that aims to serve all patients, including the uninsured and under-insured, in an equal access manner. It provides the highest quality HIV care to diverse populations in a compassionate and supportive environment using the clinical and scientific expertise of UCSF. Its dedication addresses the evolving issues of aging (HIV and Aging Program), disparities in HIV care in people of color (Men of Color Program), and implementing cost-efficient technology to increase its outreach to community clinics. The Urban HIV Telemedicine Program uses real-time broadband technology to support under-served individuals.
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