Now is the time

2013 ANNUAL REPORT Table of Contents

Message from the President & CEO 3

Message from the Board Chair 4

The Big Picture 5

Grantmaking: Advancing the Care Continuum 7

Grantmaking: Addressing Health Disparities 10

Capacity Building 14

Policy Activities 17

Finances 20

AIDS United Donors and Supporters 22

AIDS United Board of Trustees 24

AIDS United Staff 25 Message from the President & CEO

AIDS United operates with a clear and concise mission of ending AIDS in America—and that’s a battle the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has declared can be won. While there remains much to do to get there, it’s clear the time for action is now.

In the last four years, the government outlined our country’s first National HIV/AIDS Strategy and expanded access to care through the Affordable Care Act. New research has shown that early treatment not only extends the life of those infected, but can also reduce transmissibility by 96%. We’ve seen the FDA approve a single daily pill for populations at high risk for HIV infection, as well as the introduction of the care continuum, which offers new ways of effectively targeting resources around those most in need.

We know more—and have more—at our disposal than I ever could have dreamt of 23 years ago when I was first diagnosed HIV-positive. Yet the challenges we face remain clear: Of the more than 1.1 million people estimated to be living with HIV in the United States,

l 18% don’t know their status l 34% haven’t seen an HIV doctor l 63% don’t regularly see their doctor, and l 75% aren’t virally suppressed.

That’s why, whether through strategic grantmaking to improve linkage and retention in care, syringe access, advocacy for expanded health care or sector transformation, all of it is undertaken to achieve and advance our mission. Because we know that at the end of the day these aren’t just numbers, they’re people’s lives.

Four years ago AIDS United was born out of the successful merger between National AIDS Fund and AIDS Action Council, and I’ve felt blessed to have taken over the helm. As you’ll see on the following pages, there’s so much for us to be proud of.

We know that to end AIDS requires we all work together, and so I would like to dedicate this report to our many partners: the generous donors that make this work possible; the Board of Trustees that give talent and treasure to help guide us; grantees, members, and advocates who amplify our results; and our hardworking staff who show up every day with a full heart and a clear mission of what we’re all fighting for.

Thank you for your help, your partnership, your investment, and your belief in AIDS United. We do this work together, and together we can end AIDS.

Michael Kaplan

3 Message from the Board Chair

HIV has been a part of my life since 1987 when my best friend was diagnosed. Since then, I have been involved with what is now known as Legacy Community Health Services, first as a volunteer, then a board member, and for the past 17 years as CEO. I have witnessed the profound shifts and breakthroughs in the epidemic—how we test for it, how we treat it, and how we prevent its transmission.

I am truly honored to have been elected Chair of AIDS United’s Board of Trustees. My predecessor, Douglas M. Brooks, was appointed as the new director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy. He is the first gay African-American man living with HIV to hold the post, and we on the AIDS United Board of Trustees could not be more proud of this incredible achievement. Douglas was the founding Chair of AIDS United when National AIDS Fund and AIDS Action Council merged in 2011, and he saw the organization through some wonderful growth in a short period of time. We wish him well in his new position, and know that his experience and dedication makes him uniquely qualified to continue advancing the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy.

The work of AIDS United continues on! We remain committed to grantmaking, policy, advocacy, and capacity building. These efforts support innovative community-based interventions, advocacy for sound health policy, and tested and tried capacity-building tools.

We are grateful for your dedication and support of our cause. On behalf of AIDS United’s Board of Trustees, I offer this 2013 Annual Report. It tells a story of how far we have come. The next chapters of the AIDS United story are ours to write together, they lead to the finale of our epic tale, a country—a world—without HIV/AIDS.

Katy Caldwell

4 The Big Picture

The mission of AIDS United is to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, and it’s this mission that drives all that we do. We recognize that we have more tools—and information—at our disposal than ever before and we’re able to address this epidemic with exacting precision previously unimaginable.

To maximize our efforts and ensure every dollar, every effort, and every step of the way is headed in the right direction we employ a multipronged, We have more tools proven approach. This includes the following targeted efforts, which are outlined in more detail in the annual report sections to follow. and information at our Strategic Grantmaking disposal than ever before. We strategically prioritize where our investments go so that we can make the greatest impact in achieving our mission. This includes staying abreast of best practices in HIV treatment and care as well as changes in surveillance and epidemiological data so every effort is a targeted intervention for patients and communities alike.

Advancing the Care Continuum. The care continuum—often called the treatment cascade—is a way to show, in visual form, the numbers of individuals living with HIV who know their status, who are linked and retained in care, who are on treatment, and who are virally suppressed. Now that we know definitively that viral suppression is not only critical to improved health outcomes for those infected, but in stopping potential for further transmission, the care continuum has given the HIV world a common lens to look through and evaluate our work. It has underscored the need for removing barriers to care as well as the promise of what’s possible when we effectively target resources. To support such efforts we funded activities such as our Access to Care (A2C) and Retention in Care (RiC) initiatives, which have seen incredible successes. The A2C work was held up as a national model in a 2013 White House Office of National AIDS Policy report on improving outcomes along the care continuum.

100 CDC, percent engaged in stages of care United States, 2010 82% 80 66% Of the 1.1 million Americans living with HIV, 60 only 25% are virally suppressed.

37% 40 33% 25% 20

percent of all people with hiv in the united states percent 0 diagnosed linked to retained prescribed virally care in care art suppressed

5 Addressing Health Disparities. While so many great strides have been made in our understanding of disease progression and treatment, prevalence and health disparities still increasingly affect racial and ethnic minorities including gay and bisexual men, women of color, and substance users (such as injection drug users). As such, we’ve focused grants to those communities most disproportionately affected, including our EMPOWERED Community Grants project and our Syringe Access project. In Puerto Rico, we funded recent work to help curtail the island’s high HIV death rate and prevalence among its residents. In the Deep South, lack of infrastructure, continued stigma, and delayed testing have impacted the epidemic. To assist local organizations we funded our Southern REACH project. We do this because we know that often times the power to address local challenges require community-driven responses.

Capacity Building

Successfully addressing HIV requires sharing lessons learned, increasing workforce capacity, and improving uptake of best practices. To facilitate this, AIDS United supports both the Sector Transformation initiative to help communities in restructuring efforts and AmeriCorps, which addresses workforce shortages across the country. In an effort to increase capacity and re-engage lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) organizations to focus on more HIV/AIDS work, we created the m2MPower project. With adequate capacity and active commit- ment, communities and providers can play their critical part in ending AIDS.

Policy Activities

To make broad-scale change requires influencing policy. AIDS United is at the forefront of policy efforts from helping to lead AIDSWatch where stakeholders from across the country came to Capitol Hill to our Public Policy Committee (PPC) to the legislative activities we do day in and day out. We know that treatment is prevention and access to that treatment is critical to improved health outcomes and in curtailing the epidemic. We also know that barriers such as discrimination continue even today. For these reasons our myriad policy efforts are focused not only on improving care and treatment access but in removing those barriers that exist.

To keep a finger on the pulse, AIDS United actively sends out weekly electronic policy updates and communicates with stakeholders and grantees on the frontlines. Doing so ensures we’re working together, and working together we can do more. Now is the time.

Grantmaking by the Numbers

AIDS United provides grants and creates programmatic partnerships with approximately 90 organizations each 90 year—including more than 300 subgrantees. In 2013 alone, AIDS United provided grants to organizations in 28 U.S. states and territories with the 28 highest HIV prevalence.

To date, our strategic grantmaking initiatives have directly funded more than $85.8 million to local communities, and have leveraged more than $110 million $110 in additional investments for programs that include, but are not limited to, HIV million prevention, access to care, capacity building, harm reduction, and advocacy.

6 Medical AIDS Outreach of Alabama’s unique and innovative telemedicine links people living with HIV in some of the most remote parts of the state with HIV specialists. GRANTMAKING Advancing the Care Continuum

“With the nearest HIV provider nearly three hours away, this patient would otherwise have had no access to proper HIV care. Through telemedicine, she was able to be seen immediately by an HIV- specializing physician during her hospitalization. Within one month, she completely recovered from Pneumocystic Pneumonia and was able to breathe without specialized treatments.”

Project Coordinator, Medical AIDS Outreach of Alabama

7 Grantmaking: advancing the care continuum AIDS United’s A2C Initiative Grantees

• ActionAIDS, Philadelphia, PA • AIDS Action Committee, Boston, MA • AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, IL • AIDS Project Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA Access to Care • Amida Care, New York, NY • Christie’s Place, San Diego, CA Advancing the Care Continuum • Damien Center, Indianapolis, IN • Louisiana Public Health Initiative (LPHI), Baton Rouge, LA AIDS United’s Access to Care (A2C) initiative is a public-private partnership with the • Medical AIDS Outreach of Alabama, Corporation for National and Community Service’s Social Innovation Fund (SIF) and Montgomery, AL 14 private funders. A2C supports innovative, evidence-based, collaborative programs • St. Louis Effort for AIDS, St. Louis, MO to connect thousands of low-income and marginalized individuals living with HIV • University of Alabama at to supportive services and health care. AIDS United’s support includes cash grants, Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL technical assistance, evaluation, and networking opportunities that help to maximize • USC/Center for Health Justice, the impact of each A2C program. Los Angeles, CA • Washington AIDS Partnership, Washington, DC Another pivotal component of this program is the multi-pronged evaluation that measures health outcomes, community impact, and cost analysis. The evaluation is led by Dr. David Holtgrave and Dr. Catherine Maulsby at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

In 2013, thanks to the commitment and tenacity of these collaborations, AIDS United’s A2C initiative continued to see encouraging results, helping to get more than 3,200 individuals into the lifesaving care that they need. Clients served by these programs are working toward self-sufficiency through treatment adherence, job training, housing stabilization, and peer support. Most notably was A2C’s recognition by the White House in a report released in conjunction with World AIDS Day 2013 entitled National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Improving Outcomes: Accelerating Progress Along the HIV Care Continuum. The report highlights A2C’s seminal work in leveraging public-private partnerships to tackle barriers, meet the goals of the national strategy, and advance vulnerable populations beyond barriers and into care.

AIDS United A2C Program Recognized in White House Report A2C is designed to help bridge access to services for the most marginalized people living with HIV by serving as an innovation hub for local strategies to tackle barriers to care . . . The work being done by A2C’s grantees is inspiring.

2013 White House Report, “National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Improving Outcomes: Accelerating Progress Along the HIV Care Continuum”

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2013 Retention in Care Grantees

• AIDS Alabama, Birmingham, AL • BOOM!Health, Bronx, NY • Christie’s Place, San Diego, CA Retention in Care • Institute for Public Health Innovation, Prince George’s County, MD • Mazonni Center, Philadelphia, PA AIDS United’s Retention in Care (RiC) initiative is a three-year partnership with • The Open Door, Pittsburgh, PA the MAC AIDS Fund to identify, document, and evaluate innovative, emerging, or • The University of Virginia, promising program models for improving retention in care. The initiative uses a Charlottesville, VA national evaluation framework that works hand-in-hand with local evaluators to document the ability of programs to improve individual health, affect systems change, and measure cost effectiveness.

RiC grantees focus on populations that often experience some of the worst HIV- related health disparities in the United States. The grantees implement programs to address a multitude of retention barriers to addressing one of the largest drop-off points along the HIV care continuum (illustrated on page 5).

New research documents the dramatic impact viral suppression has on extending the lives of those living with HIV, but also in substantially reducing new transmissions. Thus, moving patients along the care continuum to where they are not only engaged but also retained, prescribed, and adherent to HIV medication is critical to public health efforts.

“Trans women across the city are utilizing our T.R.U.E. Care Clinic . . . as an alternative access point to receive HIV testing, medical care, and case management . . . This project is truly having an impact on the larger community!”

Staff member, Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia, PA

RiC grantee the Mazzoni Center in Philadelphia, PA helps to keep trans women living with HIV in care and on treatment through its peer-based TransWellness Project.

9 EMPOWERED advisory council hosts its first meeting with Alicia Keys.

GRANTMAKING Addressing Health Disparities

“Rarely is there a space available to women of color to come together and share their personal stories, learn about positive sexual health choices, and engage in fun activities.”

Staff member, City University of New York’s CHERISH program, which promotes positive health messages to young women of color through artistic performances

10 EMPOWERED Community Grants Program Organizations GRANTMAKING: Addressing Health Disparities • Creative Arts Team, Research Foundation of the City University of New York, New York City • Frannie Peabody Center, Portland, ME • North Carolina AIDS Action Network, Durham, NC • SisterLove, Atlanta, GA

Advisory Committee Empowered • Dawn Averitt – Founder and Chair of The Well Project • Dr. Ada Adimora – Professor of Medicine, Community Grants Program University of North Carolina • Paurvi Bhatt – Senior Director for Global Access, Medtronic Philanthropy

The EMPOWERED Community Grants Program is part of a broader effort • Tayla Colton – Senior Director of Programs, Keep a Child Alive by 14-time Grammy Award-winning artist and HIV advocate Alicia Keys • Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick – Medical Director, Infectious Dis- to reach women in the U.S about HIV/AIDS, including a cross-platform ease Care Center at the United Medical Center public information campaign developed with Greater Than AIDS, called • Anu Gupta – Director, Corporate Contributions Division, EMPOWERED. Other elements include targeted media messages and Johnson & Johnson community outreach. Greater Than AIDS is a domestic response to the HIV • Vanessa Johnson, JD – Co-owner and Manager, Ribbon Consulting Group epidemic; the campaign is led by the Kaiser Family Foundation together • Alicia Keys – Singer-songwriter; with the Black AIDS Institute and supported by a broad coalition of public Co-Founder, Keep a Child Alive; HIV/AIDS advocate and private sector partners. • Naina Khanna, JD - Executive Director, Positive Women’s Network – US (PWN-USA) Distinguished women on the EMPOWERED advisory committee and across • Terry McGovern – Professor of Population and Family four community-based organizations assumed key leadership roles. The Health and Director of the Women’s Health and Human Rights Advocacy Initiative, Columbia University women will be focused on efforts to ending HIV among women across the • Leisha McKinley-Beach – Director of country. Each organization receives $20,000 to help advance community- Stakeholder Engagement and Technical Assistance, level efforts focused on women and HIV/AIDS. the Black AIDS Institute

Puerto Rico 2013 Puerto Rico Grantees

• Family Planning Association of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico has an HIV death rate higher than any U.S. state or territory— (PROFAMILIA), San Juan, PR a rate nearly four times the national rate. • Hogar Fortaleza Del Caido, Inc., Loíza, PR • Migrant Health Center, Mayagüez, PR AIDS United’s funding collaborative with Elton John AIDS Foundation, • Puerto Rico Community Network for H. van Ameringen Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, and MAC AIDS Fund Clinical Research on AIDS (PR CoNCRA), San Juan, PR is designed to build capacity of community-based organizations on the • Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, PR island to more effectively combat the epidemic. In 2013, the funds from this • Taller Salud, Loíza, PR collaborative supported the prevention work of six organizations, reaching Puerto Rico’s most impacted populations including young gay and bisexual men, young people, and substance users.

A pivotal event for 2013 was the convening of Puerto Rico community- based organizations, which included a grantees-only meeting, as well as a capacity-building institute for all current and former applicants. Topics focused on utilizing social media, grant-writing basics, and a session on the Affordable Care Act from both the national and local perspective.

11 GRANTMAKING: Addressing Health Disparities SAF 2013 Grantees:

• AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts – MA • AIDS Foundation of Chicago – IL • AIDS Project Hartford – CT • AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland, Inc. – OH* • Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association - AK Syringe Access • amFAR* – NY/DC/Thailand • Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition, Inc. – GA • Bethany Place – IL* AIDS United has long been committed to supporting syringe access programs, • Border AIDS Partnership - TX which are scientifically proven to reduce the transmission of HIV, hepatitis C, and • Chicago Recovery Alliance - IL other blood-borne pathogens. Through several programmatic and policy initiatives, • Clean Needles Now / LA Community - CA • Colorado Nonprofit Development Center and AIDS United has supported both direct service programs and advocacy activities. Harm Reduction Action Center - CO • Community Health Awareness Group - MI One of those initiatives includes serving as the steward organization of the Syringe • Down East AIDS Network, Inc. - ME Access Fund, which was created in 2004 to support—and expand—sterile syringe • Drug Abuse Council of Snohomish County – WA exchange and public policy activities among injection drug users and their sexual • Drug Policy Alliance – NY* partners. To date, the Syringe Access Fund has awarded more than $15.1 million to • El Punto en la Montaña - PR grantees across the country. Alongside AIDS United, leading partners include the • Family Health Centers of San Diego - CA Elton John AIDS Foundation, Irene Diamond Fund, Levi Strauss Foundation, Open • Fresno Needle Exchange Program - CA • Grand Rapids Red Project - MI Society Foundations, and the Tides Foundation. • Harm Reduction Coalition – NY* The Syringe Access Fund awarded approximately two-year grants for a total of $2 • Harm Reduction Services - CA • Health Outreach Project - CA million. Through this collaboration, AIDS United directly funds a subset of the • HIPS - DC organizations supported by resources from the Irene Diamond Fund, Levi Strauss • HIV Education and Prevention Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and Tides Foundation. These grantees are Project of Alameda County - CA noted with an asterisk (*). The remaining grantees are funded directly under the • Homeless Youth Alliance – CA Elton John AIDS Foundation. • Howard Center, Inc. - VT • Kansas City Free Health Clinic – MO • Lower East Side Harm Reduction Coalition - NY • Mendocino County AIDS/Viral Hepatitis Network - CA • Migrant Health Center, Inc. - PR “Thanks to AIDS United’s support, we can reach • Needle Exchange Emergency Distribution (Berkeley NEED) - CA more people, host more meetings, organize • New York Harm Reduction Educators - NY • North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Inc. – NC more effectively around issues, improve the • Northern Exchange - AK • People’s Harm Reduction Alliance - WA quality of our services and, ultimately, move • Point Defiance AIDS Project – WA* • Points of Distribution - CA closer to severely reducing the HIV/AIDS and • Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region - OH • Prevention Point Philadelphia - PA hepatitis incidence in North Carolina.” • Prevention Point Pittsburgh - PA • Safe Alternatives through Networking and Education – CA • Santa Fe Mountain Center – NM* Robert Childs, • South Jersey Against AIDS, Inc., DBA South Jersey Executive Director, North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Inc. AIDS Alliance - NJ • St. James Infirmary - CA • Street Outreach Supporters - Venice Family Clinic - CA • Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY) – NY* • Washington AIDS Partnership – DC* • Well of Hope Community Development – NJ* • Women With a Vision, Inc. - LA

12 GRANTMAKING: Addressing Health Disparities REACH 2013 Grantees:

• Acadiana C.A.R.E.S., Lafayette, LA • ACCESS Network Inc., Ridgeland, SC • AIDS Alabama Inc., Birmingham, AL • BASIC NWFL Inc, Panama City, FL • Birmingham AIDS Outreach Inc., Birmingham, AL Southern REACH • Careteam Inc., Myrtle Beach, SC • Catawba Care, Rock Hill, SC • Choices, Memphis, TN The Southern REACH (Regional Expansion of Access and Capacity to Address • Collaborative Solutions, Inc., Birmingham, AL HIV/AIDS) initiative, a longstanding partnership with the Ford Foundation, • Duke University AIDS Legal Project, Durham, NC supports the improvement of HIV/AIDS-focused policy and advocacy activities • El Centro Hispano, Durham, NC of community-based organizations in nine states within the Southern United • Equality Foundation of Georgia Inc., Atlanta, GA States: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida (northern part of state), Georgia, Louisiana, • Friends for Life Corporation, Memphis, TN Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. • Health Planning Council of Northeast Florida Inc., Jacksonville, FL Southern REACH grantees target multiple advocacy issues each grant year • Health Students Taking Action Together Inc., Atlanta, GA and in various ways. Through advocacy and educational events, people living • Institute of Women and with HIV/AIDS were given the tools to become advocates and stakeholders. Ethnic Studies, New Orleans, LA Advocates then become engaged in policy improvement efforts. Grantees • Legal Services Alabama Inc., Montgomery, AL organized and sponsored thousands of advocacy and educational events that • Legal Services of Southern impacted over 50,000 people. Piedmont Inc., Charlotte, NC • Living Affected Corporation, Little Rock, AR Regional coordination remains a strong theme among the REACH grantees to • Mississippi Center for Justice, Jackson, MS strengthen their regional advocacy efforts. The Mississippi Center for Justice • National AIDS & Education in Jackson, Mississippi worked in partnership with AIDS Law of Louisiana, Services for Minorities, Atlanta, GA • Nashville CARES Inc., Nashville, TN a program of NO/AIDS Task Force, to collaborate on regional challenges of • NO/AIDS Task Force, New Orleans, LA people living with HIV/AIDS. • North Carolina AIDS Action Network, Raleigh, NC • North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Inc., Durham, NC • OASIS (Okaloosa AIDS Support & “We trained over 400 advocates at the Activate Informational Services, Inc.), Ft. Walton Beach, FL • SisterLove Inc., Atlanta, GA U Advocacy training held in conjunction with our • South Carolina HIV/AIDS Council, Columbia, SC • Southern AIDS Coalition, Birmingham, AL annual Positive Living Conference.” • Western North Carolina AIDS Project, Asheville, NC • Women With A Vision, New Orleans, LA Okaloosa AIDS Support & Informational Services, Inc. (OASIS)

Advocates from North Carolina AIDS Action Network help to share their voice to dispel HIV stigma.

13 AmeriCorps Team Cleveland World AIDS Day

CAPACITY BUILDING

“Being an AmeriCorps member has taught me about the strength and resiliency that people have. My experience has given me insight into some of the systems at play that create inequalities within our communities, and how we must understand these systems of inequality in order to begin to make actual, meaningful change.”

AmeriCorps Team Member, Cleveland, OH

14 capacity building

Americorps Placements in the 2013 Service Year As the first and broadest-reaching national AmeriCorps program focusing • Albuquerque/Santa Fe, NM specifically on HIV prevention and care, the AIDS United AmeriCorps Program • Chicago, IL delivers vital resources while training the next generation of AIDS leaders. • Cleveland, OH • Detroit, MI Since 1994, the AIDS United AmeriCorps Program has trained and supported • Indianapolis, IN more than 700 youth and adult members who share a passion for making a • New Orleans, LA difference and saving lives. Partnering cities value the impact and energy of • Washington, DC members who provide a variety of direct services where they are most needed.

Sector Transformation Initiative

Over the last few years new developments in the HIV/AIDS field have changed Sector Transformation funding availability and funding priorities for community-based organizations Initiative Grantees: across the United States. With catalytic support from Johnson & Johnson, AIDS • AIDS Alabama, Birmingham, AL United created the Sector Transformation initiative, which provides cash grants • AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, IL and/or specialized technical assistance for communities to engage in strategic • AIDS Funding Collaborative, Cleveland, OH restructuring efforts (e.g. mergers, responsible client transition, service integration) • Indiana AIDS Fund, Indianapolis, IN that will optimize HIV/AIDS service delivery in a new funding and regulatory • Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI), landscape. Some of the grantee activities included: educating stakeholders in New Orleans, LA community-wide meetings and initiating productive dialogue towards community • Michigan AIDS Coalition, Detroit, MI coordination; developing formal coalitions of community-based stakeholders to • New Jersey AIDS Partnership, New Brunswick, NJ address transformation on an ongoing basis; coordinating services among local • New Mexico Community Foundation, Santa Fe, NM • Washington AIDS Partnership, Washington, DC organizations like AIDS service organizations and community health centers; and exploring more in-depth transformation.

15 capacity building

m2M Power Top Three m2MPower Video Submissions Supported through a cooperative agreement with the CDC, m2MPower works to engage organizations focused on LGBTQ issues and mobilize them. In particular, “Knowing” m2MPower focuses on increasing attention on HIV and prevention efforts for Cascade AIDS Project, Portland, OR gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men (MSM). “HIV Prevention Toolbox 80s v. 10s” Recent m2MPower highlights include the “What’s in Your HIV Prevention Georgia Equality, Atlanta, GA Toolbox” social media video competition to encourage organizations to start “What’s In Your HIV Toolbox?” thinking in a broader framework. The competition invited community-based Metro Wellness and Community Centers, organizations to create their own social media video messages to address the Tampa Bay, FL question and garner the most votes. Winning organizations received a cash incentive from AIDS United to help further bolster HIV prevention outreach to the gay men they serve using the videos they created.

Another HIV mobilization effort was the partnership AIDS United created with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. AIDS United worked with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to encourage development of HIV-focused content for the January 2014 Creating Change Conference, which included 16 workshops focused exclusively on HIV/AIDS, an HIV testing campaign, a plenary session with some of the country’s top HIV leaders, and moderated by AIDS United President & CEO Michael Kaplan, and 4,000 other HIV-associated activities over the course of the conference.

AIDS United has also been working with several other national LGBTQ organizations to ensure a greater focus on HIV-related issues within their communication materials and training for all of their staff on the latest updates related to HIV/AIDS.

All of these efforts mobilize organizations and communities alike to increase their capacity to be able to discuss and educate others on HIV prevention in real and meaningful ways.

“Knowing” by Cascade AIDS Project, Portland, OR

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“As a first-year participant of AIDSWatch, I walk away from this event feeling more inspired than ever. The sense of camaraderie among the HIV/AIDS community was enlightening, and being a part of the resilient Illinois team was an honor.”

Lucy, AIDSWatch 2013 Participant, Chicago, Illinois

17 policy activities

Legislative Activities

AIDS United advocates for people living with or affected by HIV/ AIDS and the organizations that serve them. AIDS United houses the most seasoned, connected, and respected domestic AIDS policy team in Washington, DC, which has been instrumental in the development and implementation of major public health policies that improve the quality of life for those living with and affected by HIV/AIDS.

The time to end the epidemic is now. AIDS United is in a unique position to capitalize on scientific and planning advances that have the potential to end the HIV epidemic. We must fight policies that jeopardize our ability to take advantage of this unique opportunity to reverse the HIV epidemic.

AIDS United continued to lead efforts to ensure that the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program is well integrated into the evolving health care landscape resulting from Medicaid expansion and the health insurance marketplaces that were created by the Affordable Care Act. AIDSWatch

In 2013 AIDS United advocated against laws that target people liv- During February 25-26, 2013 there were more than 200 ing with HIV, including criminal prosecutions of people living with advocates that converged on Washington, D.C. for the HIV. Such laws and prosecutions, primarily based on outdated and country’s largest constituent-based HIV/AIDS advocacy unscientific understandings of HIV transmission, have resulted in event. Participants were engaged in an all-day intensive unjust sentences and often criminalize conduct that poses little or training where they learned about policy issues facing no significant risk of HIV transmission, thereby creating a strong people living with and affected by HIV in the United barrier to HIV testing and reinforcing HIV stigma. States, and how to share their personal stories with their lawmakers. The next day they took their newly acquired Thanks to the leadership of AIDS United, the REPEAL HIV Discrim- skills to Capitol Hill where, collectively, they participated in ination Act has continued to gain traction, being brought up by the more than 170 meetings with their Members of Congress. U.S. Senate for the first time in 2013 with bipartisan support. In AIDSWatch 2013 was organized as a partnership with conjunction with the bill, the Senate approved a department-wide Treatment Access Expansion Project. review of HIV policies within the Defense Department.

AIDS United also led efforts to end the ban on the use of federal funds for syringe exchange. Eight federally funded comprehensive scientific reviews have established that syringe services programs, when implemented as part of a comprehensive HIV/AIDS preven- tion strategy, are an effective HIV prevention intervention and do not promote drug use.

Our advocacy work within the federal budget and appropriations process helped maintain funding for domestic HIV programs in light of sequestration—a success in a challenging and contentious funding environment. Our Public Policy Committee’s commitment to an equitable distribution of federal funds led to AIDS United being the only national HIV organization to reach agreement on a policy position calling for reinstating a hold harmless provision for the distribution of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funds to the largest metropolitan jurisdictions affected by HIV.

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Public Policy Committee (PPC) PPC Organizations*

The AIDS United Public Policy Committee (PPC) brings together Leadership Council ($25,000 and above) organizations from across the United States to advocate for people living • AIDS Action Committee with or affected by HIV/AIDS and the organizations that serve them. • AIDS Foundation of Chicago AIDS United’s public policy work and priorities are informed by our PPC • AIDS Project Los Angeles member organizations, which include some of the largest AIDS-service • AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin organizations, community-based organizations, and community-health • Amida Care centers in the U.S., as well as smaller community-based organizations • GMHC from all regions of the country. • Justice Resource Institute • Legacy Community Health Services During 2013, the PPC gained 14 new members from 10 states, and • Lifelong AIDS Alliance expanded their presence in the southern region. At the end of 2013, • San Francisco AIDS Foundation the committee consisted of a national network of policy leaders from a • Whitman-Walker Health total of 29 organizations, and we are excited to continue welcoming new Basic Members organizations as membership continues to grow. • AIDS Action Coalition • AIDS Alabama • AIDS Resource Center Ohio • AIDS Arms • Association of Nurses in AIDS Care • BOOM!Health • Christie’s Place • Collaborative Solutions, Inc. • Delaware HIV Consortium • God’s Love We Deliver “Our participation in the PPC has been • IV CHARIS • Metro Wellness & Community Centers invaluable in helping us stay informed on • Minnesota AIDS Project • Nashville CARES policy and best practices. I never fail to • National Alliance for HIV Education and Workforce Development • NO/AIDS Task Force learn from interactions we have with • Project Inform • Southern AIDS Coalition PPC colleagues nationwide who are • Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative • Treatment Access Expansion Project grappling in their own communities with • Urban Coalition for HIV/AIDS Prevention Services many of the same issues facing our agency.” • Women With A Vision

-Joe Interrante, *PPC members as of June 30, 2014 Executive Director, Nashville CARES

19 FINANCES

Statements of Financial Position December 31, 2013 and 2012

12/31/2013 12/31/2012

assets Current Assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 5,261,619 $ 887,255 Investments 4,658,041 11,472,439 Grants and other receivables 5,446,431 4,723,277 Prepaid expenses 37,159 51,364

Total Current Assets 15,403,250 17,134,335

Furniture and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation of $103,790 and $121,263, respectively 78,113 5,335 Other assets 89,768 80,282 Investments restricted for long-term purposes 1,958,608 1,572,823

Total Assets $ 17,529,739 $ 18,792,775

liabilities and net assets Current Liabilities Accounts payable, accrued vacation and other liabilities $ 298,507 $ 388,918 Grants payable 2,293,399 2,949,860 Deposits held 18,622 16,895

Total Liabilities 2,610,528 3,355,673

Net Assets Undesignated 769,091 862,681 Board designated 13,129 10,651

Total Unrestricted 782,220 873,332 Temporarily restricted 12,733,149 13,204,518 Permanently restricted 1,403,842 1,359,252

Total Net Assets 14,919,211 15,437,102 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 17,529,739 $ 18,792,775

20 Statements of Activities and Changes in Net Assets For the Year Ended December 31, 2013 with Summarized Financial Information for the Year Ended December 31, 2012

Temporarily Permanently 2013 2012 Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Total Revenue and Support

Grants and Contributions $ 271,997 $ 6,981,441 $44,590 $7,298,028 $12,560,205 Federal grants - 2,972,019 – 2,972,019 3,000,788 Investment income 393,330 422,772 – 816,102 528,344 Other income 131,669 – – 131,669 123,798 Program service revenue & dues 369,604 – – 369,604 377,478 Net assets released from restrictions: Satisfaction of program restrictions: 10,847,601 (10,847,601) – – –

Total Revenue and Support 12,014,201 (471,369) 44,590 11,587,422 16,590,613

Expenses

Program services 11,302,252 – – 11,302,252 12,068,799 Fundraising 213,254 – – 213,254 712,610 General and administrative – – – – –

Total Expenses 11,515,506 – – 11,515,506 12,781,409

Realized loss on investments 544,498 – – 544,498 21,032 Unrealized loss on investments – – – - 125,287 Loss on disposition of assets 154 – – 154 – Loss due to cancellation of grant 45,155 – – 45,155 313,887

Total Expenses and Losses 12,105,313 – – 12,105,313 13,241,615

Change in Net Assets (91,112) (471,369) 44,590 (517,891) 3,348,998

Net Assets, Beginning of Year 873,332 13,204,518 1,359,252 15,437,102 12,088,104

Net Assets, End of Year $782,220 $12,733,149 $1,403,842 $14,919,211 $15,437,102

21 AIDS United Donors and Supporters

AIDS FUND

AIDS FUND

CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS, GOVERNMENT, ORGANIZATIONS & INDIVIDUALS

$1,000,000 – $3,999,999 Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS Corporation for National and Community Service Chevron Corporation MAC AIDS Fund GMHC The Ford Foundation Human Rights Campaign Justice Resource Institute $250,000 – $999,999 The Alicia Keys Family Foundation Johnson & Johnson Legacy Community Health Services Elton John AIDS Foundation Lifelong AIDS Alliance Gilead Sciences The New York Community Trust Alex E. Weinberg Fund Janssen Therapeutics San Francisco AIDS Foundation ViiV Healthcare Tides Foundation United Healthcare Services, Inc. $100,000 – $249,999 Walgreens Co. Whitman-Walker Health Open Society Foundations Women Deliver/ Catapult Project Bristol Meyers Squibb Centers for Disease Control and Prevention $10,000 – $24, 999 H. Van Ameringen Foundation Discovery Chicago $25,000 – $99,999 Family Health International (FHI) Development 360 LLC OraSure Technologies, Inc. AIDS Action Committee AIDS Foundation of Chicago AIDS Project Los Angeles AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin Amida Care

22 AIDS UNITED DONORS AND SUPPORTERS

$5,000 – $9,999 Morgan Stanley C/O Cybergrants, Inc. AIDS Resource Center of Ohio National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Directors Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Jamie Nesbitt Rick Gomez Network For Good IBM International Foundation President Barack H. Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama David Jensen Project Inform Michael Kaplan Thresholds Macy’s Foundation Treatment Access Expansion Project Nashville CARES TRUIST NO/AIDS Task Force United Way of Central Maryland Room & Board, Inc. $500 – $999 $1,000 – $4,999 Allstate Employee Giving Campaign AIDS Action Coalition Combined Federal Campaign - United Way National Capital Area AIDS Alabama Michael C. Curry Tim Armitage Duke University School of Law (Southern HIV/AIDS Christie’s Place Strategy Initiative) DC Care Consortium Melaina Eller Delaware HIV Consortium Employee Charity Organization (ECHO) of Northrop Grumman Family Medicine Foundation of West Virginia John Farnham Funders Concerned About AIDS Stephanie Bell Finkle GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Caryl Golden and Jim Gerson Marjorie J. Hill PhD Celia Gunn-Zaboli Daniel and Lynn Kaplan Tam Ho Heather Kaplan IBM Employee Services - CFC Stanley and Joanne Kaplan IV-CHARIS The Key Foundation Princeton University Chapel Celia J. Maxwell Michael Ruppal McDonald’s Corporation Matthew A. Studer Patrick A. McGeehin Women With A Vision Metro Wellness & Community Ctrs Minnesota AIDS Project

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23 AIDS United Board of Trustees

Ms. Katy Caldwell, Chair Ms. Amy Flood Executive Director Vice President of Public Affairs Legacy Community Health Services, Inc. Gilead Sciences, Inc. Houston, TX Foster City, CA

Ms. Tam Ho, Vice Chair Ms. Debra Fraser-Howze Executive Director, North America and Asia Pacific Programs Senior Vice President of Government and External Affairs M·A·C AIDS Fund OraSure Technologies New York, NY Bethlehem, PA

Mr. Rick Gomez, Treasurer Dr. Marjorie Hill, Ph.D. Senior Vice President, Marketing Consulting Services Target Corporation New York, NY Minneapolis, MN Mr. David Jensen Mr. Tim Armitage, Secretary Partner Brand & Marketing Strategy Monitor Deloitte Los Angeles, CA Santa Monica, CA

Ms. Paurvi Bhatt Dr. Jamie Nesbitt, Ph.D. Senior Director, Global Access Patent Agent Medtronic Philanthropy Genentech Minneapolis, MN San Francisco, CA

Mr. William H. Collier Mr. Glen Pietrandoni, R.Ph., AAHIVE Senior Vice President and General Manager, North America Pharmacy Services Manager ViiV Healthcare Walgreen Co. Philadelphia, PA Deerfield, IL

Ms. Gail Crockett Mr. Craig Thompson Director, Category Strategy and New Products – Executive Director US Supply Chain Management AIDS Project Los Angeles, McDonald’s Corporation Los Angeles, CA Oak Brook, IL

Note: Board as of December 2013

24 AIDS United Staff

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

Michael Kaplan Vignetta Charles, Ph.D. Philip Dickey President & CEO Senior Vice President Grant Writer & Program Liaison

Vignetta Charles, Ph.D. Maura Riordan Senior Vice President Vice President of Access & Innovation FINANCE AND OPERATIONS

Ronald Johnson Monique Tula Matthew J. Kessler, MBA Vice President of Policy & Advocacy Director, Capacity Building Vice President of Operations

Matthew J. Kessler, MBA Dustin Baker Bryan Wilt Vice President of Operations Program Associate Chief Fiscal Officer

Bryan Wilt Fredrica Bailey Josh Halko Chief Fiscal Officer Executive Associate Finance Associate

Rob Banaszak Liam Cabal Terrence Hamilton Director of Communications Program Manager Operations Associate

Stephanie Cruse POLICY AND ADVOCACY Program Manager

Ronald Johnson Melissa Donze Vice President of Policy & Advocacy Program Associate

Donna Crews, MSW Sarah Hashmall Director, Government Affairs Program Manager

William McColl Erin Nortrup Political Director Senior Program Manager, Access to Care

Joseph Drungil Kelly Stevens Policy Assistant Program Associate

Brad Ward Grants Compliance Officer

Note: Listing is based on data as of June 30, 2014 and may not directly correspond to the fiscal period reflected in this annual report.

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