Benef iciaries

Youth First Texas
Youth Center: 3918 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75219
www.youthfirsttexas.org

Youth First Texas (YFT) is the only non-profit organization in North Texas providing social services, leadership development, educational programming, and recreational activities to North Texas' Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth and their Allies (LGBTQA) through age 22. YFT envisions a community in which all LGBTQA youth are valued and respected with opportunities & encouragement available to elevate them into healthy, empowered, productive members of society.

For more information on supporting YFT and its mission and services, please contact info@youthfirsttexas.org or by visiting our website:  http://youthfirsttexas.org/contribute/

AIDS Interfaith Network
501 N Stemmons Fwy, Ste 200, Dallas, TX 75207
www.aidsinterfaithnetwork.org

AIDS Interfaith Network (AIN) is a multicultural, faith-based, non-profit HIV/AIDS service organization that provides direct care services to meet practical, emotional, and spiritual needs of persons with HIV/AIDS and HIV prevention programs for individuals, groups, and communities.

AIN serves more than 2,000 men, women, children, and youth who are living with HIV/AIDS, and makes over 20,000 contacts with at-risk individuals through outreach and HIV prevention. AIN serves clients of all ethnicities of their clients, over 27% are women and more than 6% are children and youth.

Twenty-Four Years of Help ... Lifetimes of Hope

Greg Dollgener Memorial AIDS Fund (GDMAF)
P.O. Box 29091 Dallas, TX 75229
www.GDMAF.org

The mission of the Greg Dollgener Memorial AIDS Fund is to enhance the lives of those living with HIV/AIDS in the North Texas area by providing assistance for critical needs when resources are exhausted by other organizations.

The Greg Dollgener Memorial AIDS Fund was named in honor of our friend who died of AIDS in 1994. Despite his personal devastation by HIV, Greg taught us all strength and courage through volunteering at various AIDS organizations and helping those less fortunate than him. Today, our all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) organization carries on those efforts through fund-raising and assistance in his memory and honor. We work through various AIDS Services Organizations to provide financial assistance of last resort to those with HIV/AIDS in ways that agencies are unable.

Since 1996, we have assisted over 1,500 clients and disbursed more than $300,000 to meet needs such as rent, medication co-pays, rent and utility deposits, and emergency payments to avoid loss of utilities. Most of our clients are on Social Security programs and living on low, fixed incomes.  For them, life’s unexpected emergencies can be catastrophic and lead to homelessness.

GDMAF works solely through AIDS service programs such as AIDS Arms, NSNT (Health Services of North Texas), the Resource Center of Dallas and Welcome House. Case managers screen clients and submit applications for assistance on their behalf.  Each application is reviewed on a case by case basis with assistance going to those with the greatest immediate need, funding permitting.