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Spotlight: Alabama (May 2008) 32 pages This report synthesizes three main sources of information: epidemiological research provided by the UCLA Program in Global Health, resource tracking data generated by FCAA, and qualitative, front-line perspectives from both foundation and AIDS service executives. It seeks to present a multi-layered portrait of HIV/AIDS in Alabama, the past philanthropic response, and key opportunities for funders.  Please click here to download the press release.

One-Sheet Report: What Funders Should Know About AIDS Service Organization Sustainability: Mergers and Redefining Missions (February 2008) 2 pages On November 27, 2007, Funders Concerned About AIDS hosted a funders-only teleconference titled “Domestic ASO Sustainability: Mergers and Redefining Missions: What Funders Should Know.” This One-Sheet Report is a brief sketch of the issues covered by the teleconference. Representatives from 27 foundations participated in this call. Mary-Shannon Ryan, FCAA’s Program Director, moderated.

AIDS-Related Organization Packet (October 2007) 95 pages This Resource Packet for AIDS-related organizations presents a range of informative resources for grantseekers. While FCAA does not offer technical assistance or services to grantseekers, this Packet includes a diverse set of resources geared towards exploring the world of HIV/AIDS funding opportunities. Also included is FCAA's signature publication, U.S. Philanthropic Commitments for HIV/AIDS: 2005 & 2006.

Fact Sheet: HIV/AIDS and Education (October 2007) 2 pages In every setting, education programs, whether targeted at increasing school enrollment for children at risk for HIV in the developing world, improving the quality of existing reproductive health education, or training health and outreach workers to bring care and services to marginalized populations, can reduce the spread of HIV and improve the prospects of people affected by AIDS. Education is often cited as the single most effective tool in preventing HIV and furthering development.  This Fact Sheet highlights some key issues and points of engagement for funders.

U.S. Philanthropic Commitments for HIV/AIDS: 2005 & 2006 (September 2007) 52 pages This year's resource tracking report incorporates several new elements, including reporting of actual disbursements in addition to commitments in a given year; data for two years (2005 and 2006); and revised regional classifications to match broadly accepted definitions. U.S.Philanthropic Commitments for HIV/AIDS: 2005 & 2006 also features "sidebar" narratives on innovative grantmaking that cannot be reflected in the reported data, including Katrina-related HIV/AIDS giving, funding critical issues, collaborative funding alliances, foundations who did not make the "Top Funders" list, and in-kind giving. Please click here to download the press release.

Fact Sheet: AIDS Is Your Issue (September 2007) 2 pages We all have issues. But whether you know it or not, AIDS is your issue. This Fact Sheet shows the linkages between HIV/AIDS and a number of other grantmaking topics, including education, the environment, and the arts, culture, and media. This is an update of FCAA's earlier report (also titled AIDS Is Your Issue), published for Council on Foundations 2006 Annual Conference.

Fact Sheet: HIV/AIDS Should Always Be Front Page News (August 2007) 2 pages FCAA believes that HIV/AIDS should be on the front page of the newspaper every day. This Fact Sheet compiles recent newsworthy facts about the global and domestic epidemics, the growing challenges, and the funding issues. This is an update of FCAA's earlier report (also titled HIV/AIDS Should Always Be Front Page News), published for Council on Foundations 2006 Annual Conference.

Fact Sheet: HIV/AIDS is a Human Rights Issue (July 2007) 2 pages Created for the International Human Rights Funders Group Semi-Annual Meeting, this Fact Sheet illustrates the overlapping concerns of human rights funders and HIV/AIDS funders. HIV/AIDS is an amplifying locus for human rights abuses. Disenfranchised populations already subject to the intersection of discrimination, oppression, and exploitation are more susceptible to HIV, and HIV infection further increases their physical and social vulnerability. But by the same token, building a rights-based movement increases the autonomy and health of people living with HIV/AIDS. And fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS furthers the exercise of human rights.

Fact Sheet: HIV/AIDS in the Domestic LGBT Community (June 2007) 2 pages This Fact Sheet highlights the ways in which HIV/AIDS continues to disproportionately affect the LGBT community, especially men who have sex with men and youth. This report also contains important information about "re-investing" in HIV/AIDS programs for the LGBT community, prevention, and how the epidemic impacts transgendered people and lesbians and bisexual women.

One-Sheet Report: What Funders Should Know About Reproductive Justice, Sexual Rights, and HIV (June 2007) 2 pages This report is based on the discussion from our teleconference earlier this year, co-sponsored by Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health & Rights and Ms. Foundation for Women. It is designed to inform funders about reproductive justice and sexual rights, how they relate to HIV/AIDS, and how to incorporate these strategies into their current grantmaking dockets.

One-Sheet Report: What Funders Should Know About the Ryan White Program (May 2007) 2 pages This is the inaugural issue in FCAA's One-Sheet Report series, which will provide a brief sketch of the issues covered by FCAA's teleconferences. On January 24, 2007, FCAA hosted a teleconference called "What Funders Should Know About Ryan White CARE Act Reauthorization" as part of our Program-related policy work.  The teleconference helped funders understand the changes to the Program, what gaps may result from the changes, and how the changes may impact their own grantmaking strategies.

Funders Concerned About AIDS 20th Year Commemorative Booklet (February 2007) 15 pages In honor of its twentieth year, FCAA developed a commemorative booklet featuring memories from past and current board and staff members, as well as pictures from the past twenty years. To see photos from our February 2007 reception, at which this publication was launched, please click here.

Interview with Jen Jamula (February 2007) 4 pages

Mary-Shannon Ryan, Program Manager, interviewed Jen Jamula of the Michael Palm Foundation about young people's leadership in philanthropy. A truncated version of this interview appeared in Classical Action: Performing Artists Against AIDS' newsletter.

Collaborative Funding Dialogue: Ryan White CARE Act Reauthorization and California: What Funders Should Know (January 2007) 4 pages HIV/AIDS funders and key stakeholders engaged in a collaborative dialogue in Los Angeles on November 15, 2006, at Project Angel Food. The event launched an initiative by FCAA to mobilize the philanthropic community around Southern California's HIV/AIDS funding needs in preparation for the impact of Ryan White CARE Act reauthorization, which was passed by Congress in December of 2007. This report is an invitation to the entire funding community to join in the continuing conversation and take action to combat HIV/AIDS by addressing funding gaps locally in Los Angeles, statewide throughout California, and across geographic borders.

Dialogue About Collaborative Funding: A Conversation Among HIV/AIDS Funders at the International AIDS Conference (October 2006) 4 pages

This Dialogue report is intended to share the main themes of a recent international funder meeting sponsored by FCAA and the Ford Foundation. With support from the Ford Foundation and other partners, FCAA will continue to encourage similar opportunities for dialogue among philanthropic funders. The sixteenth International AIDS Conference was held in Toronto from August 12-18, 2006. Organized around the theme “Time to Deliver,” it focused on the promises and progress made to scale-up HIV treatment, care, and prevention. On the evening of August 16, FCAA and the Ford Foundation co-sponsored an event to convene 75 participants from more than 30 grantmaking organizations for a discussion about the current challenges and opportunities in HIV/AIDS philanthropy.

U.S. Philanthropic Commitments to HIV/AIDS: 2004 (August 2006) 32 pages

This report was launched on August 16th, 2006, at a funders briefing organized by FCAA and the Ford Foundation as part of the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada. Our colleagues at the European HIV/AIDS Funders Group simultaneously released new data on European HIV/AIDS philanthropic disbursements in 2005.

FCAA has created this report as a practical tool for grantmakers in developing, assessing, and sustaining their HIV/AIDS efforts. As always, our central aim in creating this document is to assist in mobilizing a broader, more diverse, and increasingly strategic philanthropic response to the AIDS epidemic. For FCAA's press release regarding this publication, please click here.

For 2005 data from the European HIV/AIDS Funders Group, please click here.

The Fight Against AIDS: Concrete Action Steps for Health Funders by Mary-Shannon Ryan (July 2006) 2 pages

Written for Grantmakers in Health's newlsetter, the article suggests ways health funders could fund HIV/AIDS, specifically in the U.S., within their current grantmaking priorities.

Feeding Food Program Growth by Mary-Shannon Ryan (Summer 2006) 1 page

Written for Classical Action: Performing Artists Against AIDS' newsletter, the article examines the question of sustainability particularly for AIDS food programs and what philanthropy can do to help those in need.

Interviews with David Barr and Eve Weng-Jing Lee (November 2005) 3 pages, 6 pages

FCAA's Interim Executive Director Derek Hodel interviewed David Barr and Even Weng-Jing Lee about HIV/AIDS funding in China. These interviews were published from Grantmakers Without Borders' series of conference on Philanthropy in China in Novermber 2005.

AIDS Grantmaking in Troubled Times: An Overview, (National Guide to Funding in AIDS) (June 2005) (full guide available through The Foundation Center, 1-800-424-9836) 19 pages

Published by the Foundation Center, the National Guide to Funding in AIDS is the most comprehensive resource available on grantmaking in the field of HIV/AIDS. The volume includes current information on the grantmaking programs of foundations, corporate giving programs and other public charities and is an excellent resource for both funders and grantseekers. The Executive Summary, written by FCAA Executive Director Paul A. Di Donato, provides a description of the changes that have occurred in the HIV/AIDS field, a brief historical overview of HIV/AIDS philanthropy and step-by-step guidelines to assist grantseekers.

Small and Medium-Sized Business & HIV Giving: Detroit, Michigan (June 2005) 47 pages

This packet of materials was put together by FCAA as part of its partnership with Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Business Responds to AIDS/Labor Responds to AIDS (BRTA/LRTA) program. As part of FCAA's efforts to engage business and labor in specific and highly impacted neighborhoods, this packets presents information about Detroit, Michigan's HIV/AIDS rates and what its local businesses can do help its communities.

AIDS Is Your Business Corporate Update (May 2005) 8 pages

This publication serves as a timely assessment of the state of corporate philanthropic support for, opinions on and involvement in HIV/AIDS issues in the United States and abroad. Made possible by FCAA’s unique collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Business Responds to AIDS/Labor Responds to AIDS (BRTA/LRTA) program, this issue features an article about small and medium sized business engagement in philanthropic efforts, reporting on the corporate philanthropic response to HIV/AIDS, Funding Shorts that allow FCAA to expand coverage of innovative corporate grantmaking, and useful resources for both small and medium sized businesses as well as corporations.

FCAA Domestic Bibliographies: An on-line resource for HIV/AIDS grantmakers (updated May 2005)

A new and unique set of resources for grantmakers, these twelve bibliographies provide detailed population--specific information on the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic and are available exclusively on line at www.fcaaids.org. These bibliographies are part of FCAA's ongoing efforts to prioritize grantmaker support of disenfranchised populations. Issue areas include:

U.S. Philanthropic Commitments for HIV/AIDS (March 2005) 44 pages

This publication (the latest in FCAA’s HIV/AIDS Resource Tracking series) provides data and analysis on HIV/AIDS-related philanthropic commitments in 2003 by U.S.-based private philanthropic institutions, including private, family, and community foundations, public charities, and corporate grantmaking programs. It includes:

At the Crossroads: A Study of Federal HIV/AIDS Advocacy Institutions
(May 2004) 106 pages
The report documents a two-phased method for capturing an objective snapshot of the organizations working to affect federal HIV/AIDS policy. Phase I conducts a media analysis examining the amount and type of media coverage organizations registered over a two-year period. These data are supplemented by interviews with key informants from the organizations analyzed. In Phase II, Mr. Hodel walks us through a case study charting the evolution of the "global aids initiative" culminating in the bill HR1298 The United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003. The findings of this study are particularly important as a documentation of a status quo and a possible road map of what could be. It is also unique in its approach to analyzing the impact of policy and advocacy institutions where there are few methodological examples from which to follow.

Report on HIV/AIDS Grantmaking by U.S. Philanthropy (November 2003) 20 pages

This publication analyzes 2001 and 2002 data on HIV-related grantmaking from all sectors of U.S. philanthropy. It includes a Top 50 HIV/AIDS grantmaker list for the years 2001 and 2002, data for two years (2001 and 2002) of U.S.-based HIV/AIDS grantmaking, expanded reporting on the corporate response to HIV/AIDS, and information about the regional and international distribution of private U.S.-based HIV/AIDS grants. This report serves as both a practical tool for grantmakers in developing and sustaining their HIV/AIDS efforts and a resource for those outside of philanthropy to help them better understand the critical role grantmakers play in the response to the pandemic and work more effectively with grantmakers in enhancing all types of resources flowing to HIV/AIDS initiatives.

AIDS Is Your Business Corporate Update (September 2003) 16 pages

The latest edition of FCAA’s corporate philanthropy newsletter, the 2003 AIDS is Your Business Corporate Update serves as a timely assessment of the state of corporate philanthropic support for, opinions on and involvement in HIV/AIDS issues in the United States and abroad. Made possible by FCAA’s unique collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Business Responds to AIDS/Labor Responds to AIDS (BRTA/LRTA) program, this issue features FCAA’s Executive Director’s message, new Funding Shorts that allow FCAA to expand coverage of innovative corporate grantmaking, graphical illustration of current data on the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and detailed descriptions of FCAA’s many products and services for corporate and foundation grantmakers.

AIDS Grantmaking in Changing Times: An Overview (National Guide to Funding in AIDS) (June 2003) 10 pages (full guide available through The Foundation Center, 1-800-424-9836)

Published by the Foundation Center, the National Guide to Funding in AIDS is the most comprehensive resource available on grantmaking in the field of HIV/AIDS. The volume includes current information on the grantmaking programs of foundations, corporate giving programs and other public charities and is an excellent resource for both funders and grantseekers. The Executive Summary, written by FCAA Executive Director Paul A. Di Donato, provides a description of the changes that have occurred in the HIV/AIDS field, a brief historical overview of HIV/AIDS philanthropy and step-by-step guidelines to assist grantseekers.

HIV/AIDS Philanthropy: History and Current Parameters 1981 – 2000(January 2003) 26 pages plus multiple appendices

A one-of-a-kind compilation of primary and secondary research documents on the history and present state of HIV/AIDS philanthropy, “HIV/AIDS Philanthropy: History and Current Parameters 1981 2000” is the result of months of extensive research and includes multiple sections and appendices.

Report on AIDS Grantmaking by U.S. Philanthropy (June 2002) 6 pages

FCAA's “Report on AIDS Grantmaking by U.S. Philanthropy” focuses exclusively on the size and scope of philanthropic support for HIV/AIDS from U.S. foundations and corporations. The report is the first in what has become a new series of important FCAA educational and technical assistance publications. The information in the report showed the largest increase ever in U.S. philanthropic HIV/AIDS funding from 1999 to 2000.

AIDS Is Your Business Corporate Update (April 2002) 16 pages

The 2002 AIDS Is Your Business Update newsletter is one in a series of publications for HIV/AIDS funders in the business sector and others interested in corporate AIDS philanthropy. This collaborative effort with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Business Responds to AIDS/Labor Responds to AIDS (BRTA/LRTA) program features several articles and funding updates on corporate HIV/AIDS grantmaking efforts. As with all FCAA publications, the newsletter features a revised and comprehensive HIV/AIDS and philanthropy resource section for corporate grantmakers. New to this edition of the newsletter is a full page of HIV/AIDS epidemiological information.

Voices from the Field: Remobilizing HIV/AIDS Philanthropy for the 21st Century (July 2001) 41 Pages

This publication, based on our ongoing Funder Remobilization Project, is designed to build upon the work conducted in the groundbreaking FCAA/Gallup project of 1999 which led to FCAA’s publication, “Philanthropy and AIDS: Assessing the Past, Shaping the Future.” This publication, which focuses on domestic and international grantmaking, assists private funders and others in better understanding the current nature of HIV/AIDS grantmaking, the decision-making behavior of HIV/AIDS funders and, most importantly, the current and likely future challenges and opportunities in this arena. The publication concludes with a series of “next steps” to assist in the remobilization of private support for HIV/AIDS initiatives for both new and established HIV/AIDS funders.

Philanthropy and AIDS: Assessing the Past, Shaping the Future (April 1999) 43 Pages

Philanthropic commitment to HIV/AIDS issues appeared in decline in the mid to late 1990s, while the pandemic raged furiously on. With information gathered through a Gallup survey commissioned by FCAA and additional key informant interviews with representatives from the philanthropic and AIDS communities, FCAA’s publication, “Philanthropy and AIDS: Assessing the Past, Shaping the Future,” explores this disturbing phenomenon. In addition to detailing the then current state of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and identifying the various philanthropic responses to the domestic and international HIV/AIDS crises, the publication presents a bold call to action and outlines an aggressive blueprint for future HIV/AIDS grantmaking.

AIDS Is Your Business Corporate Update (October 1999) 16 pages

In October 1999, FCAA released the first AIDS Is Your Business Corporate Update newsletter, presenting feature articles on corporate AIDS philanthropy, additional examples of innovative corporate AIDS funding and a comprehensive resource section to assist corporate foundations and giving programs in their HIV/AIDS funding.

Building Strategic Partnerships to Fight Global HIV/AIDS (October 1998) 39 Pages

HIV/AIDS has taken a devastating toll on the developing world where more than 90% of those with HIV/AIDS now live. FCAA convened a first-ever meeting of funders, both private and public, and other experts on HIV/AIDS in March 1998 to discuss the role of international grantmaking in combating global HIV/AIDS. This publication documents the results of that meeting, where participants took a critical look at HIV/AIDS funding, strategic funding partnerships, and ideas for developing and deepening cooperation between private funders of all types and among private and public funders. This report embodies these reflections on effective HIV/AIDS funding in the international arena including the challenges and opportunities that may lie ahead.

AIDS Is Your Business: A Guide to Corporate HIV/AIDS Grantmaking, 3rd edition (August 1998) 22 Pages

Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Business Responds to AIDS/Labor Responds to AIDS (BRTA/LRTA) program (of which FCAA has been a partner for many years), this publication looks at options businesses--large and small--have in identifying and leveraging monetary, in-kind and volunteer resources to support HIV prevention and other HIV/AIDS programs. The booklet features a guide for developing appropriate program options and presents case studies of successful programs developed by businesses throughout the country. It makes the important case for new businesses to join this effort and provides suggestions for new approaches to sustaining and broadening that commitment. This publication is the second revised follow-up to the highly successful and widely acclaimed AIDS Is Your Business originally published by FCAA in 1994.