AIDS Partnership California (APC)

APC LogoCHRP/APC Embark on New Partnership

AIDS Partnership California (APC) is a statewide public/private collaboration whose purpose is to arrest the escalating rate of HIV in California, inform sound policy decisions, and strengthen the systems of HIV prevention and care and treatment. APC identifies emerging issues with a statewide impact, funds innovative solutions, and promotes learning through grantmaking, convening, training, and dissemination of findings. APC benefits persons with HIV or at risk for HIV, community-based organizations providing HIV services, health departments, and foundations.

On March 21, 2007 CHRP and the AIDS Partnership California formally embarked on a new partnership to fund community-based efforts to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in California. APC (formerly sponsored by the Northern California Grantmakers) is a collaborative HIV/AIDS grantmaking enterprise currently funded by The Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, The California Healthcare Foundation, and The California Endowment.

APC started as a regional grantmaking fund at Northern California Grantmakers in 1987 and expanded statewide in 2000. The new CHRP/APC partnership will enable both organizations to expand and grow to address the most critical emerging issues in the evolving HIV epidemic. The partnership will leverage the advantages of each program to involve a wider constituency and have a greater impact on the epidemic, and in the communities it affects.

APC will retain its identity as a distinct funding program within CHRP and the existing APC Advisory Committee will continue to provide leadership and guidance to the fund.

For more information, please contact:

Kathleen Erwin, PhD
Manager, Community Research & Dissemination Initiatives, CHRP
Kathleen.Erwin@ucop.edu

Advisory Committee Members

Michael Allerton
Kaiser Permanente

Reggie Caldwell
State of California – Office of AIDS

Alicia Dixon
The California Endowment

Jennifer Kates
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Grantees

  • AIDS Project Los Angeles, Grant Award: $25,000
  • Bienestar, Grant Award: $25,000
  • San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Grant Award: $25,000

These three organizations are funded to learn how PrEP might affect agency policies and operations and the delivery of prevention services, as well as the strategies that could be used to educate the various at-risk populations about PrEP.

The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Medicine.
Division of Infectious Disease, Grant Amount: $70,000
UCLA, Department of Medicine is funded to develop and maintain a web-based PrEP information clearinghouse.

Tenderloin Health, Grant Award: $11,700
Tenderloin Health is funded to participate in planning, facilitation, and evaluation of the Managing Scarcity Initiative.

Funders

  • The Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
  • The California Healthcare Foundation
  • The California Endowment