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Retooled, ReeneRgized, and Refocused! AIDS WALK SAN FRANCISCO TM SPONSORSHIP July 19, 2015 OPPORTUNITIES Benefiting and HIV/AIDS programs and services throughout the Bay Area. 29th ANNUAL AIDS WALK SAN FRANCISCO ince 1987, AIDS Walk San Francisco has raised $85 million for HIV programs and services in the Bay Area, and has grown into the largest AIDS fundraising Sevent in Northern California. 2014 AIDS Walk In 2014 alone, 20,000 participants, many of whom were members of nearly San Francisco Statistics: 600 corporate and community teams, raised more than $2.2 million for Project Inform and 43 Bay Area AIDS service organizations – a record-breaking number of Number of Participants: 20,000 co-beneficiaries. Along with the restored Grants Program, this will ensure thatmore money goes to more groups than ever before, serving the greatest unmet needs in the Number of Volunteers: 1,500 fight against AIDS. Those are just some of the reasons why the Bay Area Reporter called the 2014 AIDS Benefiting AIDS Organizations: 43 Walk San Francisco a “crowning achievement” – and why so many others have called it “the best AIDS Walk in years.” Number of Teams: 581 In 2015, AIDS Walk San Francisco will continue to benefit Project Inform and Number of Corporate Teams: 199 provide grants to dozens of other organizations that work to stop new infections and support people living with HIV/AIDS throughout the Bay Area. Number of Corporate Sponsors 53 By becoming a sponsor of the 29th annual AIDS Walk, you can make a significant contribution to the fight against AIDS and play a central role in one of the most Total Raised: $2.2 millon longstanding and respected AIDS fundraising events in the world. Your partnership will be highlighted within the AIDS Walk’s extensive promotional campaign, which extends into virtually every medium and conveys the extraordinary energy of one of the country’s most highly embraced community events. “As the leading provider of HIV testing services in the US, we are proud of our partnership with AIDS Walk San Francisco and its lead beneficiary, Project Inform – an organization who’s goals are so strongly in line with ours. Both through our sponsorship and by organizing a large team of our employees, AIDS Walk San Francisco provides us with an ideal opportunity for Quest Diagnostics to better educate and serve the Bay Area community.” - Ricky Kim, Quest Diagnostics | Director, Product Management, Infectious Diseases Photo by Fred Goldsmith This year’s refreshed Opening Ceremony highlighted the 2014 co-beneficiaries and the direct, tangible services that AIDS Walk San Francisco supporters help them provide. 2 PROJECT INFORM Project Inform fights the HIV epidemic by assuring the development of effective treatments and a cure; supporting individuals to make informed choices about their health; advocating for quality, affordable health care; and promoting medical strategies that prevent new infections. Project Inform is perhaps best known for 29 years of leadership in speeding dozens of safe and effective HIV medica- tions to people who most need them; educating hundreds of thousands of people with HIV and their providers about HIV care; and making sure that people with HIV have unfettered access to quality, affordable health care services. Today, we are also fighting to end the hepatitis C epidemic, which affects more than 3.5 million people in the US, including 300,000 of the nation’s 1.2 million HIV-positive people. Nationally, we: • Have answered over a million calls from people living with HIV, their caregivers, families and medical providers seeking care and treatment information; • Lead advocacy to find the cure for HIV; • Represent the needs of people with HIV and hepatitis C to researchers developing new and better medications; • Fight to make sure that all people with HIV and hepatitis C have quality, affordable health care, treatments and prevention services; • Fight to make sure that HIV and hepatitis C medications are priced fairly; • Advance innovative ways to prevent HIV that use medications to help people remain uninfected; and • Advance policies and programs that bring greater urgency, focus and effectiveness to the Project Inform supporters nation’s response to HIV and hepatitis C. rally against cuts to government HIV programs. In California and the Bay Area, we: • Assure that 38,000+ Californians get free HIV medications who could not otherwise afford them; • Lead efforts to make sure that national health care reform is implemented in ways that meet the needs of people with HIV and hepatitis C; • Educate thousands of people with HIV and hepatitis C about how to stay healthy; • Participate in research to assure that California is responding in the strongest possible way to HIV and hepatitis C. Project Inform Executive • Lead efforts to heighten the state’s response to hepatitis C. Director, Dana van Gorder, advocating for cure-based research in San Francisco. 3 One Walk: DOzens of Benefiting ORganizations AIDS Walk San Francisco benefits Project Inform and dozens of other HIV/AIDS service organizations throughout the Bay Area. As a sponsor of this powerful event, your organization will be part of a united community that is committed to ending HIV/AIDS in the Bay Area and beyond. AIDS Walk San Francisco co-beneficiaries* include: 360: Positive Care (UCSF) Healing Waters Project Open Hand AIDS Community Research Consortium HIV Nightline/SF Suicide Prevention Quan Yin Healing Arts Center A & PI Wellness Center Homeless Youth Alliance Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa AIDS Emergency Fund Huckleberry Youth Programs County AIDS Legal Referral Panel La Clinica De La Raza Shanti Project AIDS Project of the East Bay Larkin Street Youth Services St. James Infirmary Alliance Health Project, UCSF Let’s Kick Ass (LKA) UCSF HIV/AIDS Division at SFGH Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Center (part of Positive Maitri Compassionate Care (Positive Health Program) Health) Marin AIDS Project UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies Bay Area Young Positives Technology and Information Exchange Core, National AIDS Memorial Grove TIE Core (CAPS) Black Coalition on AIDS/Rafiki Wellness Pacific Center for Human Growth Welcome Ministry Castro Country Club Partisquad West County Health Centers Community Awareness & Treatment Service PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support) (CATS) Westside Community Services Pediatric HIV / AIDS Program of Children’s Women’s Community Clinic Dolores Street Community Services Hospital & Research Center Oakland Envy La Clinica Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Positive Being - Healing Through Touch Diseases (WORLD) Face to Face Positive Resource Center Praise for Project Inform’s Leadership of AIDS Walk San Francisco “The AIDS Walk not only raises much “The AIDS Walk has been a source of invaluable sup- needed funds and awareness for HIV/AIDS port for the AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP) for many service providers, but brings the years. We look forward to working with Project Inform community together to connect on this to produce another successful event in 2015 that issue. Larkin Street is a longtime beneficiary continues the Community Partners Program and the restored Community Grants Program. More people are of the Walk, which provides irreplaceable living with HIV than ever before, and we must sustain help for our HIV program that offers testing the San Francisco Model of Care that serves some of the and prevention along with housing, most vulnerable members of our community.” medical and support services for HIV- positive youth. We encourage the community to continue Bill Hirsh, Executive Director, AIDS Legal Referral Panel to sponsor the Walk in 2015 and help us complete the fight against HIV and AIDS.” “Over the years, the large community of local AIDS Sherilyn Adams, Executive Director, service providers has come to depend on the crucial Larkin Street Youth Services funds raised and distributed by AIDS Walk San Fran- cisco. It is heartening to know that Project Inform “Project Open Hand participates annually in the maintains its commitment to the restored Grants AIDS Walk because it’s a great opportunity to Program for 2015. We urge corporate support for gather donors, volunteers, staff, clients, and this event because the funds we raise through it friends for a beautiful walk in Golden Gate Park in support of a cause that is near and dear to our cannot be replaced by any other source.” hearts. We look forward to working with Project Brett Andrews, Executive Director, Inform to make the 2015 event an even bigger Positive Resource Center success. We encourage our community partners to continue working together to ensure that the Walk remains strong and successful.” Kevin Winge, Executive Director, Project Open Hand *Listing from 2014. Final roster for 2015 still in progress. 4 One Walk: DOzens of Benefiting ORganizations “AIDS Emergency Fund (AEF) is very pleased with “AIDS Walk San Francisco is of critical importance to the Project Inform’s stewardship of AIDS Walk. PI well-being of the entire AIDS Service Organization (ASO) enjoys overwhelming community support to con- community, not just to Project Inform. Project Inform tinue leading the event in 2015 and beyond. We is committed to maintaining the Grants Program it are pleased that the restored Community Grants restored in 2014, and to continuing the Community Partners Program, which allows ASOs to build a team Program will continue under its leadership, and and retain the revenue. Project Inform has also really that Project Inform’s work on AIDS Walk has delivered on its promise to work with co-beneficiaries resulted in greater resources and visibility for to increase their role and visibility in the Walk. AIDS the many agencies working to end AIDS. AEF will continue to be an Walk has been vital to HIV Nightline’s ability to keep its active and engaged community partner, working closely with Project hotline open and continue to provide services to the community.