Red Hot for the Cause 2009

 

AIDS Alabama's 2009 Red Hot for the Cause Casino Night is already generating exciting silent auction items that are sure to draw a bidding frenzy! Southwest Airlines has graciously donated a pair of round trip companion airline passes to anywhere the airline flies in the U.S. (with no blackout dates). We're also finalizing several fabulous travel packages, including a wee's stay at a private retreat in the Bahamas.

 

This year's event will be held Saturday, August 22, 2009 from 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. at Workplay.  Due to the high level of interest in the casino games, we are almost doubling the number of gaming tables to allow you to spend more of your time playing and less time watching.  Tickets are $50 if purchased by Friday, August 7th, and include beer and wine, hors d'ouevres, and $1,000 play money to use in the casino area. 

 

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS...

 

(select Red Hot 4 the Cause 09 Tickets under Program Designation.)

Coming in 2010 - AIDS Alabama presents Dining Out For Life!

 

No need to check your calendars or datebooks just yet, but we did want to let you all know about our exciting new event called Dining Out For Life which will take place on April 29, 2010! Dining Out For Life® is an annual fundraising event involving the generous participation of local restaurants and patrons. Birmingham restaurants will be asked to donate a percentage of their proceeds from business on April 29th, 2010. In exchange for their financial support, AIDS Alabama will feature participating restaurants in a city wide marketing campaign in an effort to increase customer traffic and raise awareness about HIV/AIDS.

In 1991 Dining Out For Life® was created by an ActionAIDS volunteer in Philadelphia. Dining Out is now produced in over 55 cities throughout the United States and Canada. An average of five to six new cities are added each year, and AIDS Alabama is proud to bring Dining Out For Life to Birmingham in 2010!

More than 3,500 restaurants across the country donate a portion of their proceeds from this one special day of dining to the licensed agency in their city. Nearly $4 million dollars a year is raised to support the missions of agencies throughout North America.

How can you help make this event a success? Plan to Dine Out For Life at a participating restaurant on April 29th, 2010!! It's that easy! Stay tuned for more news in 2010!

National HIV/AIDS Atlas

The National HIV/AIDS Atlas website is scheduled to launch on June 22, 2009, and is designed to help the general public, policy makers, healthcare professionals, and elected officials be able to quickly see the impact of HIV/AIDS in their communities.  The creators of the HIV/AIDS Atlas hope that access to this important data will create a better understanding of how the HIV/AIDS epidemic is impacting the United States at the county level.  The prevalence data can be viewed by many different demographic categorys (age, race, gender, etc.) to help you better understand which demographics are the most "at risk" in your county.  To learn more about the National HIV/AIDS Atlas click HERE.

Girls Night Out 2009

Girls Night Out, a unique partnership with Sisterbration, returned for the fifth year in 2009!  The event took place on Friday, May 15th, from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. at the Birmingham Museum of Art and hosted a sold-out crowd of over 500 young women and their mothers.  Girls Night Out provides pre-teen and teen African-American girls with a creative, playful experience filled with motivational speakers, spoken word, karaoke, and more!  The event emphasizes abstinence and reinforces self-love and empowerment as a way to prevent new sexually-transmitted diseases and HIV infections among young women.  Participants had the opportunity to hear from health experts in the Education Lounge, and learn from each others' personal experiences while indulging in the activities of the Pampering Parlor!

Alabama Community AIDS Fund releases final report summarizing 2008 grant activities

Learn more about how the Alabama Community AIDS Fund impacted underserved populations throughout the state in 2008...

Click here to download the full report.

Click here to learn more about the Alabama Community AIDS Fund.

AIDS Alabama volunteer raising funds to attend United States Conference on AIDS (USCA)

Janet Johnson, an AIDS Alabama peer educator, is currently raising funds in the hopes of attending the 2009 United States Conference on AIDS (USCA), to be held in October in San Francisco, California.  Janet is a long-time peer educator and volunteer for AIDS Alabama, and she is gifted at using her personal experiences of living with HIV as a springboard to provide important HIV prevention education information to the community.  The USCA is the largest AIDS-related gathering in the country, bringing together people from all fronts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic to provide an opportunity to build national support networks, exchange the latest information, and learn cutting-edge tools to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS.

If you are interested in donating to assist with Janet's airfare and

hotel stay during the conference, please contact Mary Anne Colvin

at (205) 324-9822 or maryanne@aidsalabama.org.