One Walk: Dozens of Benefiting Organizations
Since its inception in 1985, AIDS Walk Los Angeles has benefited AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), an AIDS service organization dedicated to: improving the lives of people affected by HIV disease; reducing the incidence of HIV infection; and advocating for fair and effective HIV–related public policy. AIDS Walk Los Angeles makes it possible for APLA to provide urgently needed food, dental care, safe housing, and much more to people with HIV/AIDS who also face poverty, hunger, and homelessness. APLA also runs the county’s largest network of HIV prevention programs to end the epidemic in Los Angeles.
Visit the AIDS Project Los Angeles website for information about their leadership in prevention, advocacy, and service while fighting HIV and AIDS in Los Angeles County.
Click here for a list of programs and services at APLA
Click here for a list of prevention activities at APLA
For information on policy and activism at APLA, click here.
Additional Benefiting Organizations: Community Coalition Teams
AIDS Project Los Angeles has long recognized that no single organization can meet all the critical needs that arise from HIV/AIDS. That’s why, each year, AIDS Walk Los Angeles and APLA invite other vitally important AIDS organizations to be co–beneficiaries of the event. These organizations provide medical care, home–delivered meals, women‘s and children‘s services, and much more throughout Los Angeles. They participate as fundraising teams in AIDS Walk Los Angeles at no cost to themselves, and they keep 100% of the funds they raise.
Learn more about these organizations below and visit their fundraising Web pages, too!
Coalition leaders share how they benefit from participating in AIDS Walk Los Angeles:
“The month before AIDS Walk Los Angeles 2009, we lost funding for our one-on-one peer support program, treatment advocacy, and support groups. But we're able to keep it all going because of the money we raised as a member of the Community Coalition Initiative.”
— Hillel Wasserman, Co–Captain of Team Being Alive, and Board Member, Being Alive 
“The Community Coalition Initiative Program allows Valley Community Clinic to raise funds to directly support its HIV testing and services programs–funds that have been slashed drastically by the State, and funds that we no longer receive from the County Office of AIDS due to major budget cuts.” — Kevin Weiler, Director of Prevention, Valley Community Clinic
“In this economy, many of our clients with HIV are finding the expense of medication alone to be overwhelming. With programs like the Community Coalition, we are able to keep the clinic running.”
— Kathy Lynch, Director, Wellness Works 
“Team GLAD is a proud participant of this year’s Community Coalition Initiative Program for AIDS Walk Los Angeles. Funds raised will assist the GLAD Health Program in continuing to provide HIV/AIDS-related services to deaf and hard of hearing women in Los Angeles.”
— Eli Pineda, Team Leader and Community Health Educator, Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness (GLAD)
“Participation in AIDS Walk Los Angeles helped us maintain the integrity of our meal delivery program as we built out and equipped our new kitchen. And our continued involvement will help support such critical program growth in the future."
— Cathryn Friedman, Director, Project Chicken Soup
“In the face of significant funding cuts to our organization this year, now more than ever, the funds generated by AIDS Walk Los Angeles are necessary for HALSA.“
— Peg Brewer, Executive Director, HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA)
AIDS/HIV Health Alternatives
818.508.2405
ahha-AIDS.org
Team #4064: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Provides outpatient substance abuse counseling, low or no cost alternative health, mental health and housing services to post–incarcerated persons living with HIV/AIDS.
Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team
213.553.1830
http://www.apaitonline.org/
Team #2200: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Positively affects the quality of life for Asian and Pacific Islanders living with or at-risk for HIV/AIDS by providing a continuum of prevention, health and social services, community leadership and advocacy to the Southern California region.
Being Alive, People Living with HIV/AIDS Action Coalition
310.289.2551
beingalivela.org
Team #6718: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Provides a comprehensive set of peer-based social services, delivered by and for people living with HIV infection. Services include emotional support; wellness center; social events; education; advocacy; prevention for positives; and a speakers bureau.
Camp Kindle
877.800.CAMP
campkindle.org
Team #6241: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Provides HIV infected/affected children and youth a safe and accepting refuge from the challenges of living with HIV. Offers interactive participation in educational and recreational programming, supportive environments, and an Enrichment Program designed to offer support and education both during camp and throughout the year.
Camp Laurel
626.683.0800
camplaurel.org
Team #4651: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Provides educational and support programs to children, youth and families affected by or living with HIV/AIDS.
Catholic HIV/AIDS Ministry/L.A. Archdiocese
la-archdiocese.org/ministry/hiv
Team #0519: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Provides Catholic AIDS education in English or Spanish for parish leaders, parents or teachers to include in teaching plans. Also offers liturgical, educational and networking resources, referrals, pastoral care, visits, speakers, resource manuals, and training.
Center for Health Justice
323.822.3830
healthjustice.net
Team #4068: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Center for Health Justice empowers people affected by HIV and incarceration to make healthier choices and advocates for the elimination of disparities between prisoner health and public health.
Common Ground
310.314.5480
commongroundwestside.org
Team #1494: Visit their team fundraising web page!
The only comprehensive HIV agency serving the west side of Los Angeles, providing services and programs to youth and adults living with and at-risk for HIV, including free HIV testing, needle exchange, and other services.
East Los Angeles Women's Center
323.526.5819
elawc.org
Team #0415: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Provide culturally competent services to women and children, focusing on sexual, domestic, and family violence and HIV/AIDS.
Foothill AIDS Project
800.448.0858
fapinfo.org
Team #4676: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Improving the lives of those affected by or at risk for HIV/AIDS through comprehensive support services and helping to prevent HIV infections through education and outreach.
Friends of the Wall - Las Memorias
323.257.1056
thewalllasmemorias.org
Team #0457: Visit their team fundraising web page!
The Wall Las Memorias Project was founded on World AIDS day, December 1, 1993. Over the past seventeen years, The Wall Las Memorias has created innovative educational and prevention programs. It has created several large awareness events. The agency provides a wide range of support services and community involvement opportunities for families, churches, and individuals at high risk for HIV.
Friends Without Barriers/Amigos Sin Barreras
310.540.1344
http://amigosonline.org/
Team #4019: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Offers aggressive HIV/AIDS prevention and education programs and addresses the needs of those people living with HIV/AIDS.
Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness (GLAD)
323.478.8000
gladinc.org
Team #4084: Visit their team fundraising web page!
The mission of the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, Inc. (GLAD) is to ensure equal access of the deaf and hard of hearing community to the same opportunities afforded their hearing counterparts. GLAD Health Program provides HIV/AIDS-related services to deaf and hard of hearing women in Los Angeles.
HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance, Inc. (HALSA)
213.637.1690
halsaservices.org
Team #3282: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Provide critically needed HIV & AIDS legal services and education, both of which are of high quality, culturally sensitive and multi-faceted to those living with HIV and AIDS throughout Los Angeles County and related HIV/AIDS legal education to individuals, professionals and employers.
Minority AIDS Project
323.936.4949
map-usa.org
Team #3044: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Minority AIDS ProjectÕs mission is to reduce suffering and deaths due to HIV infection and AIDS in African American and Latino communities by making HIV/AIDS education and related health services available and accessible. Services include HIV testing & counseling, health education & prevention, emergency food, and many other services.
PAWS/LA
213.741.1950
pawsla.org
Team #9667: Visit their team fundraising web page!
PAWS/LA is dedicated to preserving the loving bond between people and their companion animals. To that end, they help low-income seniors and people disabled by a life-threatening illness like HIV/AIDS keep and care for their pets.
Project Chicken Soup
310.836.5402
projectchickensoup.org
Team #1312: Visit their Team Fundraising Web page!
Project Chicken Soup is a non-profit organization that prepares and delivers free, nutritious, kosher meals to people in the greater Los Angeles area living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses. These services are provided with love and compassion to all persons regardless of faith or religious belief.
Project New Hope
323.665.2816
projectnewhope.org
Team #4081: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Serves low-income and homeless individuals living with HIV/AIDS in LA County, by providing support, affordable permanent housing and vocational services.
South Bay Family Health Care
310.802.6177
sbfhc.org
Team #4074: Visit their team fundraising web page!
One of Los Angeles County's leading community clinics and largest safety net providers, offering high-quality low- and no-cost health care to underserved populations in the South Bay and South Los Angeles County. Founded in 1969 as the South Bay Free Clinic, SBFHC has expanded over the last 40 years to accommodate a growing patient base. It now includes four conveniently located health centers — Redondo Beach, Gardena and two in Inglewood — as well as a school-based clinic at Carson High School and a mobile health van, the Healthy Kids Express.
The Life Group L.A.
888.208.8081
thelifegroupla.org
Team #5470: Visit their team fundraising web page!
A coalition of people dedicated to the education, empowerment, and emotional support of persons both infected and affected by HIV/AIDS so that they may make informed choices and decisions regarding their healthcare and personal well-being.
Valley Community Clinic
818.763.8836
valleycommunityclinic.org
Team #0130: Visit their team fundraising web page
Provides a comprehensive array of services that includes primary and some specialty care, dental, optometry, pediatrics, women's health, counseling and health education with an emphasis on prevention.
Wellness Works Community Health Center
818.247.2062
wellnessworksglendale.org
Team #4897: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Provides acupuncture, massage, yoga classes, chiropractic services and other alternative therapies to individuals living with HIV/AIDS, cancer or other serious illness.
Westside Family Health Center
310.450.2191
http://www.wfhcenter.org/
Team #6265: Visit their team fundraising web page!
Westside Family Health Center provides comprehensive, high quality, cost effective health care in an educational and supportive environment that empowers patients to take an assertive role in caring for their well-being through all stages of life.
