About The New York City AIDS Fund

Founded in 1989, the New York City AIDS Fund (the AIDS Fund) is one of several funders groups at The Trust.  The AIDS Fund has successfully increased private funding to fight the AIDS epidemic and the spectrum of HIV illness at the community level and to improve the coordination and targeting of those resources in the City.  It is dedicated to helping community groups provide vital programs and implement advocacy efforts that address the local HIV/AIDS epidemic. It also serves as a local community partnership site of the National AIDS Fund. 

The New York City AIDS Fund is guided by an advisory committee representing grantmaking organizations, public agencies, human service organizations, and persons living with AIDS to help set grantmaking priorities. Each year, the advisory committee reviews previous grants, completes a needs assessment to evaluate the current status of the local AIDS epidemic, and helps analyze the availability of government funding in order to determine where private funding is most needed and can have the greatest effect. 

Since inception, and with lead support from the Council of Fashion Designers of America & Vogue’s Seventh on Sale events, the AIDS Fund has awarded approximately $19 million in grants to 180 nonprofits located throughout the City’s five boroughs. The AIDS Fund also participated in New York City's Fashion's Night Out.

Funding partners include:

• Council of Fashion Designers of America/Vogue Initiative
• DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS)
• MAC AIDS Fund
• National AIDS Fund/Elton John AIDS Foundation
• The New York Community Trust
• The Paul Rapoport Foundation
• United Hospital Fund of New York

Honors

The New York City AIDS Fund was recognized by Mayor Bloomberg on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2009.  Read more>>

NYC AIDS Fund Grantees from 2004 - 2010

• African Services Committee
• AIDS Center of Queens County
• AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
• American Foundation for AIDS Research
• Asian & Pacific Island Coalition on HIV/AIDS
• Bellevue Hospital Center
• Black Leadership Commission on AIDS
• Brownsville Multi-Service Family Health Center
• Cable Positive
• Caribbean Women’s Health Association
• Citywide Harm Reduction Program
• Community Counseling and Mediation Service
• Community Health Action of Staten Island
• Community Health Project
• Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization for Power
• Discipleship Outreach Ministries
• Drug Policy Alliance
• El Puente de Williamsburg
• Exponents
• Family Center
• Fortune Society
• Gay Men of African Descent
• Gay Men’s Health Crisis
• God’s Love We Deliver
• Greenhope Services for Women
• Greenwich Village Youth Council
• Greyston Health Services
• Harlem United Community AIDS Center
• Harm Reduction Coalition
• Health and Education Alternatives for Teens
• Heights Hill Mental Health Service, Community Advisory Board
• HIV Forum
• HIV Law Project
• Hunter College Center for Community and Urban Health
• In the Life Media
• Iris House
• Latino Commission on AIDS
• Legal Action Center of the City of New York
• Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center
• Life Force: Women Fighting AIDS
• Long Island Association for AIDS Care
• Love Heals
• Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center
• Make the Road New York
• Mixteca Organization
• National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS
• NetAid
• New York AIDS Coalition
• New York Cares
• New York City AIDS Housing Network
• New York-Presbyterian Hospital
• Outreach Project
• Planned Parenthood of New York City
• Project Reach Youth
• Public Health Solutions
• Queers for Economic Justice
• Red Hook Health Initiative
• Safe Space
• St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New York
• Staying Alive Foundation
• The After Hours Project
• The Alpha Workshops
• The Correctional Association of New York
• The Hetrick-Martin Institute
• The Osborne Association
• Turning Point
• Unity Fellowship/Breaking Ground
• VIP Community Services
• Voces Latinas
• Women in Need
• Women’s Prison Association and Home
• Young Women of Color HIV/AIDS Coalition

Fashion's Night Out

September 8, 2011

New York's Fashion's Night Out: Where Fashion Meets Charity

Proceeds from Fashion's Night Out merchandise benefit The New York City AIDS Fund in The Trust.

Council of Fashion Designers, Vogue, City of New York, and NYC & Co. to Benefit NYC AIDS Fund. Read press release>>

For further information about the New York City AIDS Fund and questions about the application process, please contact Len McNally, chair of the AIDS Fund at (212) 686-0010 x556 or Phoebe Scarborough program assistant at x525.