In partnership with ViiV Healthcare, AIDS United, is pleased to invite your organization to submit a pre-application through the Conexiones Positivas/Positive Connections Fund.
Donor Name: AIDS United
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/12/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
The Conexiones Positivas/Positive Connections Fund (CPPCF) invests in proven and effective community driven leadership and capacity development of Latinx people living with HIV across intersecting movements to address the reduction of HIV stigma, enhance and coordinate HIV prevention, care, and support services and advocacy and movement-building. Funding will prioritize organizations serving, led by, and advocating with and for Latinx people living with and affected by HIV from communities of gay, bisexual, queer, and same-gender-loving men and people of transmasculine experience, including binary trans men, nonbinary men, demiboys, multigender people, gender fluid people who identify as masculine more often than other genders, and nonbinary people if they identify with masculinity.
AIDS United will award CPPCF grants this round in two categories.
- Project-specific grants to support culturally relevant distinct projects with clear goals, objectives, activities, and measurable outcomes that are applied with a lens of cultural humility. Projectspecific grants aligned with CPPCF will support projects such as:
- HIV prevention services
- HIV care and treatment services
- Supportive services for Latinx people living with and affected by HIV from communities of gay, bisexual, and same-gender-loving men and people of transmasculine experience.
- HIV-focused policy, social action, and advocacy
- General operating requests must be aligned with CPPCF and support activities, as noted in number 1.
Funding Information
For the 2023-2024 cycle, $150,000 in funding is available through CPPCF. AIDS United anticipates making approximately 6 (six) grants up to $25,000 each to community-based organizations, racial and social justice organizations, AIDS service organizations, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), and networks of People Living with HIV across the United States, Puerto Rico, and other U.S. Territories. Grants will be eight months in length (February 29, 2024 – October 31, 2024).
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible through CPPCF, the applicant must meet the following criteria:
- Nonprofit Status – Applicants must be nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations, either, per the guidelines set forth by the Internal Revenue Service, with proper 501(c)(3) status, hold 501(c)(7) status. Organizations or coalitions that do not hold a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(7) status or Puerto Rico’s nonprofit certification must have a fiscal sponsor. Note that 501(c)(4) designation is different. While an organization can have both IRS (c)(3) and (c)(4) status, AIDS United will verify that each applicant organization has a (c)(3) designation.
- Geographic Location – Applicants must be located and provide services within the United States, Puerto Rico, or U.S. Territories.
- Financial Stability – Applicants should be fiscally stable and viable before submission of the funding application.
- Operating Budget – Applicants submitting a pre-application should have an annual operating budget that does not exceed $1 million. This parameter applies to the applicant organization, not the organization’s fiscal sponsor; the organization’s fiscal sponsor can have an annual operating budget exceeding $1 million.
- Equity – CPPCF recognizes that HIV outcomes are significantly impacted by systemic racism, poverty, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, heterosexism, and misogyny. As such, CPPCF will prioritize funding for organizations led by, majority staffed with, and serving Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) gay, bisexual, queer, and same-gender-loving men and people of transmasculine experience, including binary trans men, nonbinary men, demiboys, multigender people, genderfluid people who identify as masculine more often than other genders, and nonbinary people if they identify with masculinity; BIPOC people with disabilities; BIPOC youth and older adults; other communities of color; and gender identities and sexual orientations of people of color that letters and words cannot fully describe.
- Good Standing – Current or previous grantee partners of any AIDS United funding portfolio must be in good standing concerning reporting and all other grant requirements.
- Grant Period – Applicants must be able to utilize the funds within eight months, beginning February 29, 2024, and ending October 31, 2024.
- Protection of Information – All applicants must provide a plan to protect patient information, including following guidelines in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), as applicable.
- Relationship to AIDS United – Current AIDS United grantee partners, including current and past grantee partners of People Organizing Positively and the Conexiones Positivas/Positive Connections Fund, are eligible to apply. Organizations not previously funded by AIDS United are also eligible to apply.
For more information, visit AIDS United.
