AIDS Emergency Fund

Provides financial assistance to persons with AIDS or disabling HIV for housing, phone, utilities and certain medical expenses.

AIDS Emergency Fund / Breast Cancer Emergency Fund
12 Grace Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94103
tel: 415-558-6999
fax: 415-558-6990
http://www.aef-sf.org/

AIDS Housing Alliance - San Francisco

The mission of the AIDS Housing Alliance.SF is to assure that people living with HIV/AIDS have access to safe and decent housing that is affordable to them. AIDS Housing Alliance.SF is a housing referral service created by and for people with HIV/AIDS in the Bay Area, and is born from our first-hand experience dealing with the housing difficulties faced by our members

AIDS Housing Alliance - San Francisco
350 Golden Gate, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94102
tel: 415-552-3242
fax: 415-703-8639
http://aidshousingalliancesf.org/

AIDS Legal Referral Panel

Since 1983, the AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP) has been helping people living with HIV/AIDS maintain or improve their health by resolving their legal issues. We accomplish this by providing free or low cost legal services to people living with HIV/AIDS throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. ALRP's panel of over 600 volunteer attorneys have handled more than 45,000 legal matters for people who may have otherwise had nowhere to turn. The free legal help clients receive meets basic human needs for healthcare, shelter, income, autonomy, and life lived free from discrimination.

AIDS Legal Referral Panel
1663 Mission Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94103
tel: 415-701-1200
fax: 415-701-1400
www.alrp.org

AIDS/HIV Nightline

A toll-free telephone service staffed by volunteers. Provides emotional support, crisis intervention, information, and referrals in English and Spanish to anyone with HIV/AIDS concerns during the night-time hours, 5 p.m. to 5 a.m., 7 nights a week.

AIDS/HIV Nightline
PO Box 191350
San Francisco, CA 94119-1350
tel: 415-984-1900, x103
fax: 415-227-0247
www.sfsuicide.org

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center provides health prevention education, early intervention, case management, client advocacy, and referrals to Asian and Pacific Islanders (A&PIs) - particularly A&PIs living with or at-risk for HIV/AIDS.
The mission of Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center is to educate, support, empower and advocate for Asian and Pacific Islander communities - particularly A&PIs living with or at-risk for HIV/AIDS.
Our vision is to build a community that strengthens our capacity as Asians and Pacific Islanders to address the impact of HIV in our lives.

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center
730 Polk Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94109
tel: 415-292-3400
fax: 415-292-3404
www.apiwellness.org

Dolores Street Community Services: The Cohen House

Dolores Street Community Services provides an array of services for people living with HIV/AIDS. The Cohen House is a 10-bed licensed 24 hour care assisted living residence for formerly homeless men and women living with AIDS. The program provides a coordinated and integrated system of affordable housing which enables residents to live with dignity in a healing and caring community. The Dolores Housing Program also provides HIV peer outreach in San Francisco's only shelters focused on Latino day laborers.

Dolores Street Community Services/Richard M. Cohen House
938 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
tel: 415-282-6209
fax: 415-282-2826
www.dscs.org

Face to Face

The mission of Face to Face/Sonoma County AIDS Network is to provide compassionate care to people with HIV and their loved ones while promoting preventive education and responsive leadership to all the people of Sonoma County. Our goal is to promote well being, healing, and independence for all the persons we serve. All of our services are provided at no charge.

Face to Face
873 Second St.
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
tel: 707-544-1581
fax: 707-544-1586
www.f2f.org

Food for Thought--Sonoma County AIDS Food Bank

Provides food, vitamins and nutritional supplements, prepared meals, and nutritional counseling for people with disabling HIV and AIDS in Sonoma County.

Food for Thought-Sonoma County AIDS Food Bank
PO Box 1608
Forestville, CA 95436
tel: 707-887-1647
fax: 707-887-1440
http://www.fftfoodbank.org/

Healing Waters

We are a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower, inspire and enrich the lives of people challenging AIDS through wilderness adventures. We offer rafting, sea kayaking, backpacking and cross-country skiing trips to people with HIV/AIDS.

Healing Waters
167 Fell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
tel: 415-621-7529
fax: 415-552-1186
www.hwaters.org

Immune Enhancement Project

Provides professional and affordable complementary alternative medicine for the community, including acupuncture, therapeutic massage, herbal therapy, and nutritional counseling, treating HIV/AIDS, cancer, hepatitis, substance abuse, and other disorders such as depression, stress, and insomnia.

Immune Enhancement Project
3450 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
tel: 415-252-8711
fax: 415-252-8710
www.iepclinic.com

Living/Dying Project

The Living/Dying Project, a pioneer of the conscious dying movement, offers compassionate support to people with life-threatening illness. Education and training for caregivers and professionals are offered throughout the country.

Living/Dying Project
PO Box 357
Fairfax, CA 94978
tel: 415-456-3915
fax: 415-456-3915
www.livingdying.org

Maitri

No one should have to suffer or die alone. Maitri is a 15-bed home where dedicated professionals and volunteers provide personal care as well as emotional and spiritual support for low-income men and women living with AIDS who require hospice or 24-hour skilled nursing care. This program aims to cultivate the deepest respect and love for life among its residents and caregivers.

Maitri
401 Duboce Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94117-3551
tel: 415-558-3000
fax: 415-558-3010
www.maitrisf.org

Mission Neighborhood Health Center

The bilingual, bicultural Clinica Esperanza staff work as multidisciplinary team, providing health care for HIV infected individuals.

Mission Neighborhood Health Center
240 Shotwell Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
tel: 415-552-3870
fax: 415-863-6384
www.mnhc.org

National AIDS Memorial Grove

The National AIDS Memorial Grove, located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, is a dedicated space in the national landscape where millions of Americans touched directly or indirectly by AIDS can gather to heal, hope, and remember. For all the promising prospects on the horizon, AIDS continues to invade our lives, violate our past, and rob us of our comfortable assumptions about the future. The Grove serves as a living tribute honoring all who have confronted this tragic pandemic - both those who have died and those who have shared their struggle, kept the vigils, and supported each other during the final hours. The National AIDS Memorial Grove signifies that the global tragedy of AIDS will never be forgotten. Our mission is to provide a healing sanctuary, to increase awareness of this national treasure, and to promote learning and understanding of the human tragedy of the AIDS pandemic.
 
National AIDS Memorial Grove
870 Market Street, Suite 965
San Francisco, CA 94102
tel: 415-765-0497
www.aidsmemorial.org

New Conservatory Theatre Center

The New Conservatory Theatre Center's YouthAware Educational Theatre division is a leader in HIV education for young people and a model for similar programs across the country. Each year, the division takes live, HIV prevention plays on tour to Northern California public and private schools including Get Real Too! for grades K-3, Get Real! for grades 4-6 and The Inner Circle for grade 7-12. To book these plays at your school, please visit our website for more information.

New Conservatory Theatre
25 Van Ness, Lower Lobby
San Francisco, CA 94102
tel: 415-861-4914
fax: 415-861-6988
www.nctcsf.org

PALS: Pets are Loving Support

 

Improves quality of life of PWAs in Sonoma County by preserving and promoting the human-animal bond through care of animal companions.

Pets are Loving Support
PO Box 1539
Guerneville, CA 95446
tel: 707-887-2729
fax: 707-824-7480
www.sonic.net/~pals

PAWS: Pets Are Wonderful Support

PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping people with HIV/AIDS and other disabling illnesses together with their companion animals, educating the community on the benefits and risks of animal companionship, and advocating on behalf of the human-animal bond. For over 17 years, PAWS has provided comprehensive services - a pet food bank, dog walking, cat care, supplemental vet services, transportation to vet appointments, and pet foster care - all designed so our clients can maintain the love and companionship of their companion animals. PAWS serves over 400 low-income human clients and their 500+ companion animals in San Francisco. For more information, please visit us online at www.pawssf.org.

Pets Are Wonderful Support
1121 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
tel: 415-241-1460
fax: 415-503-0436
www.pawssf.org

Positive Resource Center

Positive Resource Center, a community-based nonprofit, assists people affected by or at risk for HIV/AIDS through culturally appropriate counseling, education and advocacy in making informed choices that maximize available benefits and employment opportunities.

Positive Resource Center
785 Market Street, 10th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
tel: 415-777-0333
fax: 415-777-1770
www.positiveresource.org

Project Inform

Project Inform was founded in 1985 to promote the ideas that people with HIV/AIDS should be thoroughly empowered and educated in order to make sound decisions about their health care, and be actively consulted in the process of developing therapies for HIV infection. We have been staffed by independent advocates whose expertise, high quality work and integrity have earned the respect of government, industry and academic leaders. We have built principled and cooperative relationships with these institutions to address the greatest scientific and public policy challenges in the epidemic.

Project Inform pursues a highly strategic set of programs crucial to improving the health of people with HIV and ending the epidemic. We deliberately focus our efforts on issues that few other agencies address. Our staff is widely respected for having helped speed dozens of safe and effective HIV medications to market, educated hundreds of thousands of HIV-positive individuals about HIV care and treatment, and ensured adequate government funding for health care programs that serve the sickest and poorest people with HIV.

Project Inform
1375 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 
tel: 415-558-8669
fax: 415-558-0684
www.projectinform.org

Project Open Hand

Project Open Hand has provided more than 5 Million meals and more than 475,000 bags of groceries to men, women, and children living with symptomatic HIV and AIDS since 1985. Every day of the year, Project Open Hand provides nutritious meals, groceries and nutrition counseling to more than 1,600 people living with AIDS in San Francisco and Alameda counties. In 1998, Project Open Hand furthered its reach and began providing daily lunch to seniors at congregate sites in San Francisco. In 2000, Project Open Hand has expanded its reach even further to provide meals to people who are homebound and critically ill. A dedicated corps of volunteers help prepare, package and deliver meals, as well as shop for clients in the grocery centers.

Project Open Hand
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
tel: 415-447-2300
fax: 415-447-2490
www.openhand.org

Shanti

Shanti is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life, improving the well-being, and promoting the independence of people living with HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses, and their caregivers. Shanti provides education, practical assistance, and emotional support to people in need and shares its 30 years of experience with organizations nationwide through its training and consultation programs.

Shanti
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
tel: 415-674-4700
fax: 415-674-0373
www.shanti.org

STOP AIDS Project

A community based program for gay and bisexual men in San Francisco working to reduce HIV transmission and the effects of the AIDS epidemic on the community.

STOP AIDS Project
2128 15th Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
tel: 415-575-0150
fax: 415-575-0166
www.stopaids.org

Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center

We are a San Francisco based non-profit that aims to lessen the incidence of HIV infection, disease progression and homelessness among the residents of the Tenderloin neighborhood using harm reduction philosophy and practice.

Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
187 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
tel: 415-431-7476
fax: 415-929-7941

Visual Aid

Produces, presents and preserves the work of professional visual artists living with AIDS or other life threatening illnesses. Services include exhibitions, workshops, an image archive, career services, vouchers for art supplies and an ArtBank which distributes donated art materials.

Visual Aid
57 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
tel: 415-777-8242
fax: 415-777-8240
www.visualaid.org