Fiscal Year 2007 (July 2006 to June 2007)

CARING FOR PEOPLE
• Chicken Soup Brigade
• Evergreen Health Insurance Program
• Case Management & Housing

PREVENTING NEW INFECTIONS
• Prevention & Education

ADVOCATING FOR CHANGE
• Public Policy & Advocacy Department

CREATING COMMUNITY
• Outreach Programs
• Special Events
• Volunteer Programs

FINANCIAL & DONOR INFORMATION
• Financials
• Corporate Donors
• Individual Donors

CARING FOR PEOPLE
The core of our mission is serving people. At Lifelong, we believe each person has the right to dignity, respect, and a high quality of life. Our services for those with HIV and AIDS help improve people’s lives.

AIDS Care Access Program
The AIDS Care Access Program (ACAP) specializes in connecting HIV+ people with doctors and dentists that specialize in caring for people living with HIV/AIDS. ACAP made 93 medical referrals and 557 dental referrals.*

* Due to ACAP’s funding, their year is based from March 1, 2007 – February 29, 2008.

Case Management
Between July 2006 and June 2007, the Case Management Department helped 1,183 HIV positive individuals connect, engage in and maintain medical care. In addition, referrals were made to supportive services including oral health care, health insurance programs for prescription assistance, financial resources, housing, mental health and chemical dependency treatment.

Chicken Soup Brigade
Chicken Soup Brigade (CSB) prepared 133,957 meals tailored to medical and cultural needs of clients and assembled and distributed 31,323 bags of nutritious groceries. CSB also expanded the hours of its pickup center to improve accessibility of services.

With a $500,000 grant from MAC AIDS Fund, CSB launched a new outreach effort to serve more people from communities of color and immigrant populations. Expanded outreach efforts helped CSB build bridges into diverse communities, resulting in improved services for Latino clients and clients from East Africa. Now, CSB offers more selection of culturally-appropriate food items including tortillas, injera (East African flat bread), poblano chilies, collard greens, tomatillos, and yams.

With lessons learned by serving clients with HIV/AIDS, CSB has continued to expand services to more of our neighbors in need. Now, over 20% of clients served by CSB are living with chronic illnesses or disabilities other than HIV/AIDS. Over the course of the year, CSB improved the nutritional health of 1,493 low-income people living with chronic illnesses or disabilities in King County.

Evergreen Health Insurance Program
Lifelong’s statewide program, Evergreen Health Insurance Program (EHIP), assisted 1,437 clients and spent $5,710,086.77 on premiums per Lifelong’s audit. Over the course of the fiscal year, 17,821 premium-months were paid.

Housing
Lifelong’s Housing Department connects people with emergency, temporary, and permanent housing. In this past fiscal year, the department served 485 clients, provided $408,925 in subsidies and awarded 65 vouchers to clients. There are 136 housing units throughout Seattle set aside for Lifelong’s clients.

Seattle Treatment Education Program
Adhering to complicated drug regimens, which often include dozens of pills each day, can be difficult, but is vital for maintaining health. Lifelong’s STEP program helped and counseled 106 clients to help them adhere to their medication schedule.

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PREVENTING NEW INFECTIONS
Our best defense against the AIDS epidemic is preventing the further spread of HIV. Our Prevention & Education Department goes into the community to reach high-risk individuals with risk reduction information, to counsel gay men one-on-one about sexual choices, and to work with queer youth to help them build healthy lives.

Prevention & Education
Volunteers and staff gave away 248,470 condoms packets with HIV prevention messaging, distributed 98,182 pieces of print materials and made 9,350 outreach contacts to high-risk populations. The staff conducted 1,811 one-on-one counseling or mentoring sessions and held 18 small workshops with 108 participants.

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ADVOCATING FOR CHANGE
Lifelong’s Public Policy & Advocacy Department serves AIDS service organizations throughout Washington State and the HIV/AIDS community at large, working to increase access to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services, and fighting stigma still surrounding HIV/AIDS.

Public Policy & Advocacy
Lifelong AIDS Alliance brought hundreds of voices of people living with HIV to federal, state & local elected officials to ensure continued access to vital care & prevention services:
• 250 HIV/AIDS advocates from 42 legislative districts conducted over 100 legislative visits, including a meeting with the Governor, for the largest & most successful ever AIDS Awareness & Action Day in Olympia, WA;
• Communities in Action Network (C.A.N.) members sent 2,648 emails to 149 elected officials;
• Over 150 Seattleites showed up for Vote to STOP AIDS / Human Services Candidates Forum attended by all contestants running for local offices.

Our effective advocacy was possible thanks to much needed statewide outreach & education funded by our supporters!
• Over 200 client advocates attended trainings organized by Lifelong throughout the state, building advocacy skills among HIV/AIDS community members in Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma, Walla Walla, Bellingham, Bremerton, Olympia & Yakima.;
• Advocacy trainings & other community outreach efforts expanded C.A.N. membership by 341 new HIV/AIDS advocates.

Lifelong’s advocacy work resulted in the following victories for the HIV/AIDS community in Washington State:
• Elimination of health insurance wait lists for people living with AIDS;
• Passage of the Healthy Youth Act mandating medically accurate, comprehensive sex education in our schools;
• Domestic Partnership Registry, which ensures gay & lesbian couples, including many people living with HIV, can make health care decisions for their loved ones, & secures hospital visitation rights;
• $1.6 million for expansion of services for people living with HIV/AIDS throughout the state;
• In Seattle, C.A.N. members played a critical role in the passage of a $400,000 food initiative, aimed to help programs like Chicken Soup Brigade, Lifelong AIDS Alliance’s food program, reach more needy low-income, homebound people living with HIV/AIDS & other chronic illnesses.
• In King County HIV/AIDS advocates helped establish a new revenue stream of $55mln annually dedicated to mental health & chemical dependency treatment services. These services will greatly enhance HIV prevention & care efforts in the county.

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CREATING COMMUNITY
Many people living with HIV and AIDS lack the personal networks of support that are crucial to maintaining health. Lifelong brings people together to build community, whether it is on the streets of Capitol Hill during the Seattle AIDS Walk, outreach to homeless youth in Downtown Seattle, or sitting around the lunch table at Mama’s Dish. People caring for one another makes all the difference.

Outreach Programs
Care To Shop collected 27,821-pounds of food through the local drives at participating grocery stores.

Mama’s Dish invites clients monthly to join Lifelong staff over lunch and is followed by an education lecture on how to live a healthy lifestyle whether its how to grocery shop on a tight budget or how to make a favorite meal.

Prevention and Education produced six large events with 1,032 participants.

Special Events
On September 9, 2006, Lifelong AIDS Alliance produced the 20th Annual AIDS Walk and raised over $763,000 thanks to the 300 participating teams, numerous individual walkers and 206 volunteers.

For the first six months of 2007, Gay Bingo had 4,000 patrons attend its 14th season and raised $177,400 at the South Lake Union Naval Reserve Building with 150 volunteers helping monthly.

Dining Out For Life raised $219,000 on April 26, 2007, thanks to 137 participating restaurants, hundreds of patrons and 125 volunteers.

The 3rd Annual Black Tie Bingo was held at the W Hotel in Downtown Seattle on May 5, 2007 and thanks to the 275 attendees, raised $109,000.

Volunteer Program
Each week over 100 volunteers donated their time to Lifelong to help prepare meals, deliver groceries, work in the thrift store and assist in administrative positions.

There were 16,375 hours were donated to Lifelong by over 1,000 volunteers in FY07. According to the 2005 Washington State hourly rate for volunteers, $17.92, posted by the Independent Sector, these hours translate to $293,440.

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FINANCIAL & DONOR INFORMATION

Financials Of Lifelong AIDS Alliance
Operating Revenue:
• Contributions & Private Grants (15%) $1,924,167
• Special Events (10%) $1324,792
• Government Fees & Grants (67%) $8,825,158
• Thrift Store & Other Sales (3%) $342,221
• Other Revenue (5%) $693,848
TOTAL OPERATING REVENUE $13,110,186

Operating Expenses & Changes in Net Assets
Program Services
• Case Management (6%) $633,224
• Insurance Continuation (55%) $6,251,739
• Housing (6%) $702,264
• Food & Nutrition (18%) $1,922,264
• Client Services/Treatment Adherence/
Access to Care/Transportation (3%) $321,576
• Grants (3%) $373,487
• Education (6%) $628,880
• Government Affairs (2%) $240,044
• Community Awareness (1%) $162,550
TOTAL PROGRAM SERVICES (84%) $11,236,471
• Fundraising (10%) $1,300,869
• Management & General (4%) $606,902
• Thrift Store (2%) $276,237
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES $13,420,479

• Operating Revenue over Operating
Expenses ($310,293)
• Non-Operating Activity ($252,576)

(Decrease)/Increase in Net Assets ($562,870)
Net Assets, beginning in Fiscal Year $1,764,176
Net Assets, end of Fiscal Year $1,201,306

The full financial statement, audited by Peterson Sullivan P.L.L.C., is available upon request by calling 206.957.1621 or emailing financeinfo@lifelongaidsalliance.org.

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Mission Statement:
Lifelong AIDS Alliance is committed to preventing the spread of HIV, and to providing practical support services and advocating for those whose lives are affected by HIV and AIDS.