With support from the Elton John AIDS Foundation COVID-19 Emergency Fund, the AIDS Funding Collaborative provided $25,000 in mini-grant awards for Cuyahoga County HIV/AIDS prevention and care organizations to support the procurement and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) to People Living with HIV/AIDS, service providers, volunteers, advocates and community members.
The AIDS Funding Collaborative, in partnership with the Elton John AIDS Foundation and Equitas Health, brings the OhioPrEP.org awareness campaign to Cuyahoga County. The creative includes local PrEP advocates as models – including a Ryan White case manager, a PrEP peer outreach staff and members of the LGBT community.
The AIDS Funding Collaborative (AFC) expands its programming to become the 8th national operating site for the AIDS United AmeriCorps program. The largest and longest running HIV/AIDS specific service program in the country, the AIDS United AmeriCorps program developed health leaders through direct HIV/AIDS service placements with community-based partner agencies. The AFC operated the AmeriCorps...
The AIDS Funding Collaborative partners release Strategic Commitments to reaffirm the AFC’s commitment to lessening the impact of HIV in Greater Cleveland through a focus on Community Impact, Advocacy and Integration of HIV Services.
The Alcohol & Drug Addiction Services Board of Cuyahoga County, City of Cleveland and The George Gund Foundation join the AIDS Funding Collaborative between 2006 and 2007 – growing the partnership to 8 public and private funders. This year the AFC also convenes its first training for local HIV/AIDS professionals – on designing effective interventions...
The AFC leads grassroots outreach in partnership with RTA for World AIDS Day – a tradition that continues to the present.
In order to carry out the new level of programming set forth in its strategic plan, the AIDS Funding Collaborative (AFC) formed a new partnership with The Center for Community Solutions, aimed at raising the visibility of HIV/AIDS in Greater Cleveland and attracting new forms of support to the cause of prevention, intervention, and service....
The AIDS Funding Collaborative (AFC) began a strategic planning process to address questions about its future direction, structure, governance, management, and grantmaking. That process resulted in a decision to expand the AFC’s role to include not only grantmaking, but also advocacy and community leadership activities.
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.
