PHILLY AIDS THRIFT announces over $180,000 in GRANTS for 2017!!!

Philly AIDS Thrift (PAT) is pleased to award 20 local organizations more than $180,000 in grant funding for their work in fighting HIV/AIDS in the Delaware Valley. Funds distributed brings PAT’s total contributions to date to over $2 million dollars. Revenue generated from PAT’s two retail operations (Philly AIDS Thrift and Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni’s Room) is used to provide grants to 19 organizations providing HIV/AIDS services in the Delaware Valley.

Since 2014, PAT’s board of directors and grant committee have awarded organizations with grants for projects that help fight or prevent HIV/AIDS based on the organizations’ requests.

Grants awarded ranged from $1,500 to $10,000 with an average award of $5,000. Awarded organizations were required to provide direct services for adults and children living with HIV/AIDS, must be a nonprofit (or sponsored by a non-profit organization), and must be located in the Delaware Valley (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and/or Philadelphia counties as well as the Camden, Gloucester, and Burlington counties in New Jersey, and New Castle County in Delaware).

For the 2017-18 grant cycle, Philly AIDS Thrift awarded more than double the amount of money compared to its inaugural grant awards in 2014 ($73,000).

2017 Grant Recipients:

• • AccessMatters – SheMatters

  • Action Wellness (formerly ActionAIDS) – LGBT Med CM  Bachelor

  • AIDS Delaware – Food Pantry

  • AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania – Essential Document Legal Clinic

  • Attic Youth Center – MPower; Outreach; Education; Mentoring; Internships; Testing

  • Bebashi Transition to Hope – Incentives; Medical Case Manager

  • Camp Dreamcatcher – Camp 10

  • Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agricolas – CATA – Oureach Farmworker

  • Drexel University – Camp

  • Family Service of Chester County – Gen Op HOPWA Emergence needs

  • Family Service of Montgomery County – Transport and Insurance reimburse

  • GALAEI – QPOZ South Philly Outreach

  • Gay Community Center of Philadelphia dba William Way LGBT Community Center – Space Sharing and Archive Exhibit

  • LGBT Elder Initiative – HIV&Aging

  • MANNA (Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance) – PLWA Meals

  • Mazzoni Center – Welcome Home Kits; Hygiene Kits

  • Planned Parenthood Keystone – Rapid Testing; Syringe

  • Prevention Point Philadelphia – Syringe Exchange

  • RHD Morris Home – Gender affirming Education Outreach; syringe exchg

  • Siloam – Wellness for HIV