Conexiones Positvas/Positve Connectoons Fund – United States

Deadline: 12-Nov-23

In partnership with ViiV Healthcare, AIDS United, is pleased to invite your organization to submit a pre-application through the Conexiones Positvas/Positve Connectoons Fund.

The Conexiones Positivas/Positive Connections Fund is a grantmaking initiative investing in leadership and capacity development for Latinx people living with HIV. The grants help organizations address, reduce and eliminate HIV stigma, build HIV prevention and care and enhance support services and advocacy.

Categories

• AIDS United will award CPPCF grants this round in two categories:
  • Project-specific grants to support culturally relevant distinct projects with clear goals, objectives, activities, and measurable outcomes that are applied with a lens of cultural humility. Project-specific grants aligned with CPPCF will support projects such as:
    • HIV prevention services
    • HIV care and treatment services
    • Supportive services for Latinx people living with and affected by HIV from communities of gay, bisexual, and same-gender-loving men and people of transmasculine experience.
    • HIV-focused policy, social action, and advocacy
  • General operating grants will provide financial resources to organizations to support their mission and overall activities, including operating expenses and overhead, rather than providing support for specific projects or programs. General operating requests must be aligned with CPPCF and support activities.

Funding Information

• For the 2023-2024 cycle, $150,000 in funding is available through CPPCF. AIDS United anticipates making approximately 6 (six) grants up to $25,000 each to community-based organizations, racial and social justice organizations, AIDS service organizations, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), and networks of People Living with HIV across the United States, Puerto Rico, and other U.S. Territories. Grants will be eight months in length (February 29, 2024 – October 31, 2024).

Approaches

• Meaningful Involvement of People Living with HIV (MIPA)– MIPA ensures that communities most affected by HIV are involved in decision-making at every level of the response, including in developing, implementing, resolving, and evaluating programs and policies that impact their lives. Competitive organizations will incorporate MIPA into their organizational management, staffing, board of directors, governance, and proposed CPPCF project. Applicants can leverage resources from AIDS United to strengthen best practices for incorporating MIPA and Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV (GIPA) in all areas of programming and operations.
• Intersectionality Racial and Social Justice – Intersectionality is a framework for understanding how interrelated systems of oppression support discrimination among people who share overlapping social identities. For example, a person living with HIV may face racism and homophobia, in addition to HIV stigma, all of which may present barriers to that individual’s access to care and achievement of optimal health. Systemically, all must be addressed to see an end to HIV in the United States and create real change for communities of color living with HIV and the most impacted by HIV. CPPCF grantee partners are expected to address HIV-related disparities through an intersectional framework through their organization’s ongoing work and be mindful of the health inequalities in all programming and operations when implementing your CPPCF project and funding.

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible through CPPCF, the applicant must meet the following criteria:
  • Nonprofit Status – Applicants must be nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations, either, per the guidelines set forth by the Internal Revenue Service, with proper 501(c)(3) status, hold 501(c)(7) status, or via the Certificado de cumplimiento corporativo del Departamento del Estado de PR “good standing” certification. Organizations or coalitions that do not hold a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(7) status or Puerto Rico’s nonprofit certification must have a fiscal sponsor. Note that 501(c)(4) designation is different. While an organization can have both IRS (c)(3) and (c)(4) status, AIDS United will verify that each applicant organization has a (c)(3) designation.
  • Geographic Location – Applicants must be located and provide services within the United States, Puerto Rico, or U.S. Territories.
  • Financial Stability – Applicants should be fiscally stable and viable before submission of the funding application.
  • Operating Budget – Applicants submitting a pre-application should have an annual operating budget that does not exceed $1 million. This parameter applies to the applicant organization, not the organization’s fiscal sponsor; the organization’s fiscal sponsor can have an annual operating budget exceeding $1 million.
  • Equity – CPPCF recognizes that HIV outcomes are significantly impacted by systemic racism, poverty, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, heterosexism, and misogyny. As such, CPPCF will prioritize funding for organizations led by, majority staffed with, and serving Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) gay, bisexual, queer, and same-gender-loving men and people of transmasculine experience, including binary trans men, nonbinary men, demiboys, multigender people, genderfluid people who identify as masculine more often than other genders, and nonbinary people if they identify with masculinity; BIPOC people with disabilities; BIPOC youth and older adults; other communities of color; and gender identities and sexual orientations of people of color that letters and words cannot fully describe.
  • Good Standing – Current or previous grantee partners of any AIDS United funding portfolio must be in good standing concerning reporting and all other grant requirements.
  • Grant Period – Applicants must be able to utilize the funds within eight months, beginning February 29, 2024, and ending October 31, 2024.
  • Protection of Information – All applicants must provide a plan to protect patient information, including following guidelines in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), as applicable.
  • Relationship to AIDS United – Current AIDS United grantee partners, including current and past grantee partners of People Organizing Positively and the Conexiones Positivas/Positive Connections Fund, are eligible to apply. Organizations not previously funded by AIDS United are also eligible to apply.

For more information, visit AIDS United.