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Vol. 44 • No. 28 • July 10-16, 2014
Under new management, AIDS Walk SF approaches by Seth Hemmelgarn
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Betty Yee marches in San Francisco’s Pride parade last month.
Yee, Perez await CA controller race recount by Matthew S. Bajko
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he outcome of the state controller’s primary race remains uncertain a month after voters went to the polls in June due to a gay candidate’s request for a recount. Over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, See page 6 >>
Frank Robinson, Harvey Milk speechwriter, dies at 87 by Seth Hemmelgarn
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Frank Robinson sits in his office in this 2010 photo.
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rank Robinson, a gay man who was a wellknown science fiction writer and a major contributor to slain gay icon Harvey Milk’s legacy, died Monday, June 30. He was 87. Mr. Robinson, who wrote speeches for Milk, passed away at his home in San Francisco, concluding a life that included military service, film, and politics. See page 9 >>
Jane Philomen Cleland
AIDS Walk San Francisco saw 25,000 participants 2013.
rganizers are getting ready for the annual walk that raises money for HIV/AIDS programs and services throughout the Bay Area. AIDS Walk San Francisco is set to take place Sunday, July 20 at Sharon Meadow in Golden Gate Park. Sign-in begins at 9 a.m. This year marks the first time Project Inform, which does education and advocacy work around HIV and AIDS, will be the lead beneficiary. The AIDS Walk organization announced in 2012 it was splitting from the previous lead agency, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. The first AIDS Walk San Francisco was in 1987. Twenty-seven years later, about 20,000 people are expected to take part in the 6.2-mile walk this month. “So far fundraising is going quite well,” said Project Inform Executive Director Dana Van Gorder during an interview June 30. “Most of the action occurs between the Fourth of July and the actual event.” Agencies raise money by fielding teams and keeping 100 percent of what they raise. In addition to those funds, many groups also receive grants.
Van Gorder estimated total expenses would be $1,350,000, noting the figure “is pretty comparable to last year.” Organizers hope the event will bring in approximately $2.4 million. Based on that number, about $530,000 will go back to the 39 co-benefiting HIV agencies from grants and revenue raised by their individual teams. Net revenue of about $500,000 would go to Project Inform. MZA Events, which produces the walk, will be paid $162,000 in fees. Remaining costs include promotion and advertising. One of the agencies participating in the AIDS Walk is La Clinica de La Raza, which provides HIV and other medical care in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties. In 2013, the agency had $86,308,558 in operating expenses and saw 91,752 patients. Scott Carroll, 45, of Berkeley, is HIV prevention services supervisor for the agency. For La Clinica, the event is more of a “community building activity within the organization,” said Carroll, who’s gay and HIVnegative. “We’ve never raised more than a few hundred dollars. It really is about pulling people together around the cause and getting out to walk together as a group.”
Project Open Hand expands eligibility for services
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cant increase in the number of critically-ill clients it serves, parSan Francisco-based ticularly home-delivered meals nonprofit agency that for this vulnerable population,” provides meals to people the agency, which has a budget living with AIDS and other disof $10.1 million, said in a news eases is expanding its eligibility release. for services. The nonprofit is also conProject Open Hand, founded ducting a study called Food = almost 30 years ago near the beMedicine in partnership with the ginning of the AIDS epidemic, anUCSF School of Medicine in an nounced this week that it’s allowing effort to show good nutrition’s people with acute symptoms of ability to “markedly improve” diseases that include diabetes and health and well-being for people heart disease to pick up groceries living with critical illness and and meals in addition to receiving lead to reduced medical costs. meals at home. As it updates its eligibility Jane Philomen Cleland Previously, picking up food criteria, Project Open Hand is was only available for people who Project Open Hand Executive Director Kevin Winge contacting current clients “to had HIV or breast cancer. determine how to best handle “In a way, there’s nothing new their needs,” the agency said in significant difference” in wellness. there,” Kevin Winge, the agency’s its news release. “In some cases The new services have been available executive director, told the Bay Area Reporter this may mean that a small number of existthrough the agency’s wellness programs, during an interview Tuesday, July 8. ing clients who are in good health,” including which assist critically ill residents of San FranThe agency has changed eligibility criteria some who’re living with HIV, “will no longer cisco and Alameda counties, since June 1 and before, he noted. want or need nutrition services.” were officially announced Tuesday. “We realized there’s a greater need we The agency will implement the new eligibility Last fiscal year, the nonprofit served about haven’t been able to address,” Winge said. criteria during clients’ next re-certifications. Re8,000 clients. In the current fiscal year, which “We’re especially interested in targeting those certifications are conducted every six months. started Tuesday, July 1, POH expects “a signifidiseases where we know nutrition will make a See page 2 >>
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