Proud recipient of the 2010 Pride South Florida Grant for the fifth year in a row.
2010 Hampton Roads Community Foundation Grant through The Mangum Fund
Past recipients of Sleezy Awards Grant and Grants from Pride of Greater Ft.Lauderdale.
The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, as a powerful, visible symbol of the AIDS epidemic, provides unique opportunities to engage discussions about HIV/AIDS. Through presentation tailored to specific needs, our volunteers open the Quilt as a catalyst for conversation, questions and personal action.
We are a local chapter of The NAMES Project Foundation/AIDS Memorial Quilt,204 14th Street NW Atlanta, GA 30318, Phone: (404) 688-5500 Fax: (404) 688-5552 www.aidsquilt.org.
We are committed to:
Providing a creative means for remembering and healing
Increasing public awareness of the AIDS epidemic
Assisting with HIV/AIDS prevention education
Helping to raise funds for community based AIDS service organizations
AIDS Memorial Quilt Workshops Forming
Remember your friends, family members and loved ones. It's never too late. Create a quilt panel in their memory. New panels received by July 1, 2012 will be eligible to be on display in Washington, D.C. for the International AIDS Conference.
For more information, contact us at 954-661-4269 or panels123@aol.com.
AIDS Memorial Quilt on Display in DC 2000: AIDS at 30
by Karen Ocamb, The Belirico Project, June 9, 2011
My friend Renee Sotile covered the unfolding of the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington DC as part of the March on Washington in 2000. She and her wife Mary Jo Godges of TraipsingThruFilms have edited that footage to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first CDC report on AIDS set to a song they wrote called "Higher Power," performed by Edna Wright.
On Sunday, June 5, over 3,000 participants in AIDS LifeCycle 10 left San Francisco to ride 545 miles over 7 days - no doubt some of that challenging distance in the rain - to raise money and awareness to try to end AIDS. Many of them are riding in the memory of someone they lost to HIV/AIDS. Many of them are Positive Pedalers - living with the disease, not dying from it. About half of the participants are straight. Each person has a story - as does each person whose name is memorialized on the Quilt and those who shed tears for them. 30 years of AIDS is too long.
Upcoming Quilt Displays
June 8-19 Stonewall Street -Stonewall library Display (1 Block)
Oct 1st-Oct 31 -Broward County Government Quilt displays which includes the Government Center (30 blocks)- 5 Broward County Libraries ( 5 blocks) and the Fort Lauderdale Airport. ( 5 Blocks)
Nov 2011 - Smart Ride Key West, (4 blocks)
December 1st -World AIDS Day displays in Miami, Broward and West Palm Beach,
December 1st-Wilton Manors Candle light walk
December 1st-Aetna Insurance-Plantation Home office and Coconut Creek Branch
January 2012- Kick off "Quilt 25" ( 25th Anniversary of the AIDS Memorial Quilt more to follow on this important event)
March 2012- Pride events in Ft.Lauderdale ( 8 blocks) West Palm Beach (4 blocks) and Miami-(2 blocks)
Continued display at the Broward County Health Department.(1 block)
NAMES Project South Florida, PO Box 11294, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33339
AIDS Memorial Quilt Workshops Forming