AIDS WALK SAN FRANCISCO TM July 16, 2017 SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AIDS WALK SAN FRANCISCO ince 1987, AIDS Walk San Francisco has raised more than $88 million for HIV programs and services in the Bay Area, and has grown into 2016 AIDS Walk Sthe largest AIDS fundraising event in Northern California. San Francisco Statistics: In 2016, the event funded a new, cutting-edge program of care for older Participants: 10,000 people living with HIV launched this year at Zuckerberg San Francisco Participants’ Sponsors: 50,000 General Hospital’s Ward 86; meals for thousands of people living with HIV served by Project Open Hand; and advocacy on crucial health care policy Volunteers: 1,000 affecting people with HIV/AIDS by Project Inform. Additionally, the event Benefiting AIDS Organizations: 35 provided grants to a broad array of other vital HIV/AIDS organizations in all Teams: 461 seven Bay Area counties. AIDS Walk San Francisco will continue to fund Corporate Teams: 256 critical work in 2017 while uniting thousands of caring people dedicated to ending HIV/AIDS. Corporate Sponsors: 27 As a sponsor of the annual AIDS Walk, you will make a significant contri- Total Raised: $2.1 millon bution to one of the most long-standing 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 this most widely embraced community event. Photo by Fred Goldsmith “As the leading provider of HIV testing services in the U.S., we are proud of our partnership with AIDS Walk San Francisco – an organization whose goals are so strongly in line with ours. Both through our sponsorship and by organizing a large team of our employees, Quest Diagnostics has an ideal opportunity to better educate and serve the Bay Area community.” – Clu Connors, Quest Diagnostics | Director, Regional Customer Marketing – West 2 AIDS WALK SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION he AIDS Walk San Francisco Foundation is the governing body of AIDS Walk San Francisco. The Foundation’s Board of Directors is intimately familiar with the AIDS Walk and the Tcommunities it serves. The Board oversees the event’s production and finances, and it determines how the event’s net proceeds are distributed. The Foundation’s mission is to raise funds for San Francisco Bay Area HIV/AIDS service organizations that enhance the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS, and to promote HIV education, prevention, and testing. For individual Board Member bios, visit: sf.aidswalk.net/About. AIDS Walk San Francisco Foundation Board of Directors. Seated, left to right: Robert Mansfield, Treasurer; Serafina Palandech, Chair; Linda Walubengo. Standing, left to right: Frank De Rosa; Bryce Kumagai; Richie McAllister. Not pictured: Susannah Dunlap; Isaac Rodriguez. 3 ONE WALK: DOZENS OF BENEFITING ORGANIZATIONS In 2016, the event funded a new, cutting-edge program of care for older people living with HIV launched this year at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital’s Ward 86; meals for thousands of people living with HIV served by Project Open Hand; and advocacy on crucial health care policy affecting people with HIV/AIDS by Project Inform. Additionally, the event provided grants to a broad array of other vital HIV/AIDS organizations in all seven Bay Area counties. In 2017, AIDS Walk San Francisco will again provide funding for critical programs like these and dozens of others. As a sponsor of this powerful event, your organization will be a part of a united community committed to ending HIV/AIDS in the Bay Area and beyond. AIDS Walk San Francisco co-beneficiaries* include: 360: Positive Care (UCSF) Healing Waters Quan Yin Healing Arts Center AIDS Community Research Consortium HIV Nightline/SF Suicide Prevention Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa A & PI Wellness Center Homeless Youth Alliance County AIDS Emergency Fund Huckleberry Youth Programs Shanti Project AIDS Legal Referral Panel Larkin Street Youth Services St. James Infirmary AIDS Project of the East Bay Maitri Compassionate Care UCSF HIV/AIDS Division at SFGH Alliance Health Project, UCSF Marin AIDS Project (Positive Health Program) Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Center (part of Positive National AIDS Memorial Grove UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies Technology and Information Exchange Core, Health) Pacific Center for Human Growth TIE Core (CAPS) Bay Area Young Positives Partisquad West County Health Centers Black Coalition on AIDS/Rafiki Wellness Pediatric HIV / AIDS Program of Children’s Women’s Community Clinic Castro Country Club Hospital & Research Center Oakland Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Positive Being - Healing Through Touch Community Awareness & Treatment Service Diseases (WORLD) (CATS) Project Open Hand Face to Face Photo by Daniel Ransom On World AIDS Day, 2016, more than 25 Bay Area HIV/AIDS AIDS Walk San Francisco awards San Francisco General Hospital’s organizations gathered to receive their AIDS Walk grants. Ward 86 at UCSF with a $100,000 grant that funded the launch of its new Golden Compass program. Pictured above from left to right: UCSF Chancellor, Sam Hawgood; Ward 86 Medical Director, Mon- ica Gandhi; AIDS Walk Founder & Senior Organizer, Craig R. Miller; *Listing from 2016. Final roster for 2017 still in progress. and ABC7 San Francisco General Manager, Bill Burton. 4 PRAISE FOR AIDS WALK SAN FRANCISCO “The AIDS Walk not only raises much needed “AIDS Walk is a key event in San Francisco. funds and awareness for HIV/AIDS service It raises HIV awareness and it gives all of us providers, but brings the community together to – people living with and affected by HIV – a connect on this issue. Larkin Street is a longtime chance to come together and contribute to the beneficiary of the Walk, which provides fight. Our communities thrive because of our irreplaceable help for our HIV program that offers love, strength, and hope. The funds AIDS Walk testing and prevention along with housing, raises support life-saving HIV treatment and medical, and support services for HIV-positive prevention services in San Francisco. We’re youth. We encourage the community to continue excited to work with the AIDS Walk San to sponsor the Walk in 2017 and help us complete Francisco Foundation to make AIDS Walk 2017 the fight against HIV and AIDS.” another big triumph!” Sherilyn Adams, Executive Director, Lance Toma, Executive Director, Larkin Street Youth Services Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center “AIDS Walk San Francisco is of critical importance to “Shanti is very grateful to be a part of AIDS Walk the well-being of the entire AIDS Service Organization San Francisco. In a time of continued government (ASO) community, not just to AIDS Walk San Francisco funding reductions, Shanti, along with so many other Foundation. The AIDS Walk San Francisco AIDS service organizations, values the financial Foundation is thoroughly committed to expanding the support it receives from participating in the Walk. grants program, and to continuing the Community It allows us to collectively provide all the services Partners program, which allows ASOs to build teams people living with HIV in San Francisco require.” and retain the revenue.” Kaushik Roy, Executive Director, Eve Meyer, Executive Director, Shanti SF Suicide Prevention “Over the years, the large community of local “For many years since the start of AIDS Walk San AIDS service providers has come to depend on the Francisco, WORLD has been honored to walk, lend our crucial funds raised and distributed by AIDS Walk support as a community partner, and be chosen as a San Francisco. It is heartening to know that AIDS beneficiary of the Community Grants Program. We Walk San Francisco Foundation will continue its encourage all AIDS Walk San Francisco sponsors and funders to continue alongside WORLD and AIDS Walk commitment to augment the Grants Program for San Francisco Foundation with renewed energy as our 2017. We urge corporate support for this event community strives to make possible the vision of an because the funds we raise through it cannot be HIV-free generation.” replaced by any other source.” Cynthia Carey-Grant, Executive Director, Brett Andrews, Executive Director, Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Positive Resource Center Diseases (WORLD) “Our new AIDS Walk-funded program will allow “Alliance Health Project (AHP) believes we now have the us to provide the best possible care to all of our very real opportunity to create the first HIV-free genera- patients, whether they have been living with HIV tion. Doing so requires an increased investment in a for three years or 30.” range of vital services at a time when HIV/AIDS funding is diminishing and threatened. AIDS Walk San Francisco Dr. Monica Gandhi, Medical Director, is an incredibly vital resource for the entire Bay Area Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital’s community of people living with HIV and the service Ward 86 organizations they rely on.” Lori Thoemmes, LMFT Director, UCSF Alliance Health Project 5 PROMOTIONAL RECOGNITION ur sponsors enjoy tremendous exposure 2016 Promotional Statistics: Owithin the AIDS Walk Point-of-Purchase Displays & Posters: 7,500 San Francisco campaign, which BART & Muni Posters: 315 generates millions of media Street Banners: 300 impressions that highlight our Website’s Unique Visitors: 500,000 sponsors and their support of the E-communications Sent to Supporters: 500,000+ event and community. Print & Digital Advertisements: 45 Print Letterhead*: 3,000 Sponsors are featured on: * also used digitally • BART and Muni Advertisements • Street Banners Sponsor logos are • E-communications featured exclusively on • Mailed Materials Street Banners installed along major thoroughfares • Point-of-Purchase Displays and intersections. and Posters • Newspaper, Magazine, and Online Advertisements More than 7,500 Point-of- Purchase Displays and Posters are distributed throughout San Francisco. Photo by Donna F. Aceto Every year AIDS Walk San Francisco is promoted via an assortment of different BART and Muni advertisements.