AIDS Partnership California

About AIDS Partnership California

What's New?

Please note that there will not be a second-cycle of Service Delivery Grants. The original Funding Announcement gave March 3, 2003 as a second-cycle deadline. Again, there will no longer be a second-cycle. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

In July of 2000, Northern California Grantmakers established AIDS Partnership California (APC) to specifically address the continuing crisis of HIV/AIDS in the communities of color throughout the State of California. APC is a statewide public/private collaboration, jointly funded by foundations, corporate philanthropy and the California State Office of AIDS.

In September 2000, APC launched its Prevention with Positive People of Color Initiative to increase the capacity of California's extensive network of community-based organizations (CBOs) to provide prevention services to people of color living with HIV/AIDS.

The Initiative's activities consist of building the knowledge base about both ethnic populations, who are HIV positive, and the HIV prevention services they need; assisting CBOs in the design of programs that effectively serve ethnic populations; and supporting the delivery of prevention for positives programs. The Initiative's innovative design aims to implement effective prevention programs that will help to arrest the escalating rate of HIV/AIDS in ethnic minority communities in California; communities that have been, and continue to be, devastated by this disease and its related impact.

In addition, APC is working to increase the efficacy of HIV-grantmaking by providing information and technical assistance to California's private foundation and corporate funders, to help raise the awareness of the need for additional funding to the types of community-based organizations that have the greatest chances to effectively address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in California.