Deadline: 24 July 2015
ViiV Healthcare is currently accepting proposals for the Positive Action MSM Youth Engagement Initiative, a new project to address critical gaps in culturally appropriate and innovative communication methods that engage and empower hard-to-reach young Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) in the United States. Through the initiative, ViiV Healthcare will fund creative social and digital strategies developed by young MSM (ages 18-29) in collaboration with nonprofit sexual health or AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) to increase sexual health knowledge within their own communities.
ViiV Healthcare is a global specialist HIV company dedicated to delivering advances in treatment and care for people living with HIV. The initiative will prioritize projects that are designed and led primarily by MSM youth in partnership with non-profit sexual health organizations or ASOs in the U.S.
Grants of up to $50,000 per year, for two years, will be provided to selected partnerships between young MSM and existing nonprofit sexual health organizations and ASOs.
Thematic Areas
Positive Action works with those communities most vulnerable to HIV disease, including youth, girls and women, sex workers, gay men, men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender people, injecting drug users (IDU), the homeless and the incarcerated. Our projects range across education, prevention, care and treatment-related activity such as treatment literacy and community/clinical engagement.
Grant Size & Duration
The average grant will range from $25,000 to $40,000 with a maximum request of up to $50,000 per year for up to two years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be young MSM (ages 18-29) who must work in collaboration with nonprofit sexual health or AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs)
- To be eligible to apply for grant funding through the Positive Action MSM Youth Engagement Initiative, projects must:
- Increase the sexual health knowledge of young MSM
- Extend the reach and capacity of community-based organizations to engage young MSM in program design and delivery
- Encourage young MSM to proactively engage with service providers that can help improve their health and well-being
- The initiative will prioritize projects that are designed and led primarily by MSM youth in partnership with nonprofit sexual health organizations or ASOs in the U.S.
How to Apply
Applicants can download the application form available on the website and send it back (dully filled) together with the supporting documents via email.. The grant decisions will be announced on October 2015.
For more information, please visit ViiV Call for Proposals.
