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The Teresa Group,
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International HIV/AIDS
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Children Affected
by AIDS Foundation (CAAF), Los Angeles
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Elizabeth Glaser
Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Santa Monica
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Grantmakers Without
Borders (GWOB), Boston
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Hesperian Foundation,
Berkeley
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Jacob’s Heart,
Santa Cruz
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Keep A Child Alive,
New York
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Moxie Firecracker
Films, New York
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Youth Philanthropy
Worldwide (YPW), Berkeley
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CANADA
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The Teresa Group, Toronto
2005 – $ 20,000 (Two-year grant)
The Teresa Group assists children and families affected by HIV/AIDS
with practical resources and emotional support delivered by
trained volunteers. This grant supports the Teresa Group to
hire a coordinator for The Coalition for Children Affected By
AIDS (CCABA) and to organize Envisioning the Future, a satellite
symposium preceding the XVI International AIDS Conference, to
be held in Toronto, August 2006. CCABA is a group of foundations
and regrantors working to increase the visibility of children
at the International AIDS Conference, and at other venues. The
symposium provides an international forum for discussion of
best practices and emerging issues relating to children affected
by HIV/AIDS. Funds cover consultancy and planning costs, advocacy
activities, scholarships for, and documentation of the proceedings.
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International HIV/AIDS Alliance (IHAA), Brighton
2005 – $ 5,000
IHAA promotes community involvement in the global effort for
HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support. Firelight funds
support IHAA to present a film representing Nigerian children’s
views about the effects of HIV/AIDS on their lives and to
convene a youth-led skills-building session on Hero Books
at the 2005 International Conference on HIV/AIDS and STIs
in Africa (ICASA) in Nigeria. Additionally, IHAA is documenting
and disseminating ethical and logistical guidelines surrounding
the participation of children at significant international
conferences on HIV/AIDS.
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Children Affected by AIDS Foundation (CAAF),
Los Angeles, California
2001 – $ 10,000
This grant supports the development of their international programs
to assist children and families affected by AIDS.
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Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation,
Santa Monica, California
2000 – $ 12,500
The Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation is at the forefront
of a global effort to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission.
This grant supports “Call to Action,” an effort to
reduce the rate of mother-to-infant AIDS transmission in Africa
and other developing regions through community education, health
care worker training, HIV counseling and testing, and the provision
of antiretroviral medicines.
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Grantmakers Without Borders (GWOB), Boston
2005 – $ 5,000
GWOB is a network of individual donors, staff, and trustees
of foundations practicing global social change philanthropy.
GWOB advocates for greater investment in social change efforts
and functions as an information resource for organizations actively
engaged in this type of grantmaking. This grant provides GWOB
with core operating expenses, funding a portion of staff salaries.
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Hesperian Foundation, Berkeley
2004 – $ 4,000
This grant helps the Hesperian Foundation to revise and expand
its publication “HIV, Health, and Your Community.”
This book, first published in 1999, is an information source
and teaching tool for community groups and non-governmental
organizations addressing HIV/AIDS in the developing world. This
important resource is distributed internationally.
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Jacob’s Heart, Santa Cruz, California
2002 – $ 3,801
Jacob’s Heart provides emotional support and recreational
opportunities for children facing terminal illness and their
families. This grant provides access to movement therapy for
nine children in the Santa Cruz area who are coping with life-threatening
or chronic illnesses.
2001 – $ 9,549
This grant provides access to movement therapy for 18 children
in the Santa Cruz area who are coping with life-threatening
or chronic illnesses.
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Keep A Child Alive,
New York
2004 – $ 10,000
Keep A Child Alive is a unique campaign aimed at mobilizing
public support for the provision of lifesaving HIV/AIDS medicines
directly to children and families with HIV/AIDS in Africa and
other impoverished countries. This grant supports Keep A Child
Alive’s launch through a targeted media campaign. The grant
award also supports the production of educational materials
and purchases essential office equipment.
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Moxie Firecracker Films, New York, New York
2000 – $ 10,000
This social issues-oriented documentary film production company
has produced a film, Pandemic: Facing AIDS, that shows the faces
of very different people living with HIV on five continents.
Firelight support funds the production of educational materials
to accompany the film, to be used to raise awareness among policymakers
and the general public about the extent and impact of the HIV/AIDS
crisis in developing countries.
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Youth Philanthropy Worldwide (YPW), Berkeley,
California
2005 – $35,000
YPW inspires American youth to engage in global social change
activities by functioning as a hub for sharing information,
resources, ideas, and skills. Firelight has previously funded
YPW’s leadership of Youth Together Against AIDS, originally
a pen-pal program including youth in California and youth involved
in Firelight’s African grantee-partners’ activities.
With this regrant YPW is increasing the number of U.S. and African
youth participants in the Youth Together Against AIDS program,
which now includes letter exchanges, creative self-expression
projects, social-service activities, and fundraising efforts.
Additionally, YPW is using funds to prepare an Activist-Philanthropist
Kit, which includes a resource guide designed to lead interested
youth advocacy groups into taking action against AIDS.
2005 – $1,300
Funds support the implementation and documentation of youth-led
HIV/AIDS projects in communities in Cameroon, South Africa,
and Uganda. Each of four youth groups is implementing an event
or activity designed to promote awareness of HIV/AIDS and to
mobilize greater community involvement in prevention, care,
and support efforts. Approximately 1,600 people are being reached
by these activities. Funding covers the costs of meeting planning,
materials, transportation, and post-event documentation.
2003 – $ 36,500
Firelight is partnering with Youth Philanthropy Worldwide (YPW),
an organization that works to foster global awareness in young
people, to enhance its Pen Pal Exchange. Firelight funds support
letter-writing activities between Firelight’s grantee-partners
and students in the U.S. YPW is also developing a website, a
service learning project, and a small grants program for groups
of youth in the U.S. and in African countries.
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