United States: Positive Action Community Grants

Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity

ViiV Healthcare’s Positive Action Community Grants (PACG) initiative is currently requesting proposals to support the health and well-being of people living with HIV through innovative, community-led solutions that address disparities in the epidemic and link people to care.

ViiV Healthcare’s Positive Action Community Grants supports community led efforts to disrupt disparities in prevention and care. Grant funding supports community based organizations working to increase engagement in prevention and care, address stigma, build trust, and elevate the voices of those communities most disproportionately impacted by HIV and AIDS.

They are committed to supporting community organizations in the U.S. that work to address disparities and close gaps in care for those most affected by HIV and AIDS. Together, they aim to provide organizations with grants to reach those not currently benefitting from existing HIV support services or programs.

Categories

• Organizations applying to Positive Action Community Grants may request funding in the following three categories:
  • General operating support for core support and mission-driven community-based work.
  • Special events sponsorships for conferences and events that foster networks, create awareness, and amplify the voices of people living with HIV and AIDS.

Focus Areas

• Project support for organizations implementing innovative projects within ViiV Healthcare’s three focus areas:
  • Linkage and Engagement: Services are those that provide people living with and vulnerable to HIV with referrals and resources, health literacy and self-advocacy skills, and direct support for their access and sustained engagement in HIV prevention, care, treatment and supportive services.
  • ViiV Healthcare is particularly interested in efforts that:
    • Invest in navigation efforts that support clients through their lived experiences by sharing resources, navigation insights learned from personal experience and/or training, and emotional support that promotes hope and trust.
    • Create strong prevention infrastructure for communities of color, fueling new ways to reach and engage people in HIV prevention.
  • Networks for PLWHA or Vulnerable to HIV and for Organizations:
    • Networks for PLWHA or Vulnerable to HIV are formal or informal groups that meet regularly (more than once a year), in-person, virtually, or both. The goals are to: create or strengthen relationships; increase self-advocacy; share information; develop skills; increase reach and use of resources to support engagement in prevention, treatment and care.
    • Networks for Organizations are formal or informal groups that include representatives of organizations. Groups meet regularly (more than once a year), inperson, virtually, or both, to improve service delivery systems, resources or approaches that support access and sustained engagement in prevention, care, treatment and supportive services for people living with or vulnerable to HIV.
• Advocacy: Activities are campaigns, leadership strengthening, insights gathering and dissemination, narrative change and culture project efforts that effect policy change, reduce stigma, and improve access and strengthen systems of prevention and care for people living with and vulnerable to HIV.
  • ViiV Healthcare is particularly interested in efforts that:
    • Expand harm reduction services and advocacy to successfully engage people who use drugs in care, and support their families and communities.
    • Support the decriminalization of HIV at the local and national level.
    • Increase access to quality and culturally responsive sexual health education.
    • Activate arts and culture as a tool for community engagement, connection, and reducing stigma.
    • § Increase access to and awareness of the mental health needs of people living with or vulnerable to HIV.

Budget

• Organizations applying for project support can request multi-year grants, up to three years. Project specific requests should include project budgets and implementation plans.
• Please note: Organizations, including fiscal sponsors, cannot receive more than 25% of your total 2022 operating budget (total annual revenue) from ViiV Healthcare

Eligibility Criteria

• At minimum, eligible nonprofit organizations must meet all of the following criteria, and/or engage a Fiscal Sponsor that meets all of the following criteria:
  • Be a 501(c)(3) Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-designated non-profit organization;
  • Be located in the U.S. or Puerto Rico;
  • Provide programs and support primarily to those persons or communities impacted by or affected by HIV in the U.S.;
  • Organizations, including fiscal sponsors, cannot receive more than 25% of your total 2022 operating budget (total annual revenue) from ViiV Healthcare;
  • Organizations applying for the grant must be the same organization receiving the funds and must be responsible for the implementation and management of the project.

For more information, visit Positive Action Community Grants.