The Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation and Saint Luke’s Foundation join the founding funders at the AIDS Funding Collaborative (AFC) table, while the George Gund Foundation and City of Cleveland align their grantmaking with the AFC. For its first ten years, the AFC was housed at United Way of Greater Cleveland and carried out its...
In response to a recommendation of the Citizen’s Committee to develop a “method of allocating and distributing” local funding, the AIDS Funding Collaborative (AFC) was founded by Cuyahoga County, the Cleveland Foundation, United Way of Greater Cleveland and The George Gund Foundation.
The AIDS Funding Collaborative (AFC) was preceded by the Cleveland Community AIDS Partnership (CCAP) – one of the original 8 U.S. philanthropic partnerships of the National AIDS Fund. The Community Partnership model was established to support local philanthropic responses to HIV/AIDS and the lack of public resources. There were over 30 like partnerships established nationally...
