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Benefiting Agencies & Services

When deciding to support a charity it is best to learn a bit about the organization. 
Here are two reputable sources that may help:

GuideStar
A national database of non-profit organizations. 
You can evaluate and access their IRS tax information to make an informed decision.

BBB Wise Giving Alliance
A merger of the National Charities Information Bureau and the Council of Better Business Bureaus' Foundation and its Philanthropic Advisory Service. 
The BBB Wise Giving Alliance offers guidance to donors on making informed giving decisions.

We recommend that potential donors and participants read the
BBB Wise Giving Alliance revised Standards for Charitable Accountability.  This includes requirements for charities to spend at least 65% of revenue on program expenses and no more than 35% on fundraising and its administration.


Beneficiaries of AIDS/LifeCycle 4

San Francisco AIDS Foundation Logo

Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center Logo

San Francisco
AIDS Foundation

Los Angeles
Gay & Lesbian Center

Services offered are non-discriminatory and are utilized by both the heterosexual and homosexual community. These organizations provide a comprehensive array of HIV/AIDS services, offering medical, educational, legal, psycho-social and HIV-prevention services for California.

Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center Logo
Jeffrey Goodman Special Care Clinic
& other HIV/AIDS Services of the LA Gay & Lesbian Center

www.laglc.org


IRS Form 990 for Yr 2000 (Large! PDF file - 895K)
IRS Summary
Total Budget: $29,823,197
Programs: $23,471,191 (78.7%)
Fundraising: $3,520,423 (11.8%)
Administration: $2,831,583 (9.5%)

Jeffrey Goodman Special Care Clinic - located in Hollywood, offers a full range of high quality medical services and complimentary care for HIV-infected individuals including psychiatry, hematology, dermatology, neurology, gynecology, urology, cardiology, radiology, chiropractic services, acupuncture and massage therapy all at minimal or no cost to the patient. The clinic is the largest community-based, anonymous, HIV test site in the U.S., testing 14,000 people each year. Seventy-five percent of those who have tested in positive in L.A. have tested at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, and half of all tested are heterosexual.

Pedro Zamora Youth HIV Clinic - a peer care clinic to address the unique needs of youth who are dealing with HIV.

Audre Lorde Lesbian Health Clinic - attends to the special needs of HIV infected women.

Community Unity for AIDS Care - a program which offers express delivery of AIDS medication and pharmaceutical counseling to the Clinic’s patients and the patients/clients of 18 other affiliated AIDS service organizations.

Jeff Griffith Youth Center - located on Santa Monica Blvd. in an area highly populated by homeless youth. Works to prevent new infections among this high risk group by providing HIV/STD testing and education. In addition they offer job skills training, educational opportunities, counseling, support groups and legal advocacy. All services are designed to help youth get and stay off the streets and to stay HIV negative.

Counseling Service - from general counseling through to coping with clinical trials and special programs

HIV Law Project - provides legal services such as wills and durable powers-of-attorney to people with HIV and conducts numerous off-site clinics to support the clients/patients of other AIDS service organizations throughout Los Angeles County.

Lifeguard 2000 - an acclaimed HIV prevention/education program to address new attitudes and perceptions regarding safer sex and HIV infection among those most at risk.


San Francisco AIDS Foundation Logo
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
www.sfaf.org


IRS Form 990 for Yr 2000 (Large! PDF file - 908K)
IRS Summary
Total Budget: $18,510,571
Programs: $13,574,878 (73.3%)
Fundraising: $4,246,203 (22.9%)
Administration: $689,490 (3.7%) 

The Hotline & Volunteer Service Department - a Northern California HIV/AIDS Hotline (in English, Spanish and Filipino) that provides support to nearly 100,000 callers each year. The Hotline provides up-to-the-minute HIV and AIDS-related information, crisis counseling and referrals.

Client Services - offering an array of counseling programs and housing solutions for those in unstable housing environments or who are homeless including a support services specifically designed for women and their children and for monolingual Spanish-speaking clients.

Education - cutting edge, media-based campaigns and innovative one-on-one interventions that play a critical role in reducing the numbers of new infections.

Compass Project - a counseling program for men who struggle with long-term maintenance of safe sex practices and for men who are facing an HIV test for the first time.

Treatment Education & Advocacy - publishes the world-renowned Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS (BETA) and the locally distributed, plain-speaking Positive News, which is a lower-literacy treatment update. Both are printed in English and Spanish, and BETA is also supported by interactive teleconferencing and on-line services.


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