This initiative is designed for organizations dedicated to serving communities most affected by HIV, including but not limited to Black, Brown, Indigenous, LGBTQ+, and gender-diverse individuals.
Donor Name: Gilead COMPASS Initiative
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/01/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
Discover the 2024 ACTION Language Justice Program: Empowering HIV Service Organizations with up to $55,000 in grants and specialized training to champion language justice. The mission is to break down linguistic barriers and challenge the dominance of Standard American English, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to communicate and participate fully. With the partnership of Tecolotl, they offer not just funding but also valuable coaching and training sessions.
Types of Track
- Track 1 – Programmatic
- Develop or integrate language justice better practices into trauma-informed care, healing justice-focused mental health, harm reduction, or wellness programs and initiatives lead by people living with and most systematically impacted by HIV
- Example: Developing multilingual workshops/resources to enhance access to destigmatizing and gender affirming services such as mental, primary, HIV, or transition related care.
- Establish a culturally responsive and healing justice focused program lead by people living with and most systematically impacted by HIV
- Example: Wellness and Wellbeing Peer-Led Group with culturally responsive activities such as programs for participants, or clients who use different languages or language variants to connect in ways that transcend language or do not require translation or interpretation
- Develop or integrate language justice better practices into trauma-informed care, healing justice-focused mental health, harm reduction, or wellness programs and initiatives lead by people living with and most systematically impacted by HIV
- Track 2 – Organizational
- Develop an organizational structure to assess and implement language access services, including non-English dominant primary languages, English language variants, plain (non-technical) language, and destigmatizing language
- Example: updating policies, procedures, intake forms, signage, media, website, and identification of multilingual and/or culturally responsive staff
- Meaningfully involve people living with HIV who use a broad range of non- dominant languages to serve as compensated decision makers for programs or initiatives
- Example: Create a language justice committee with people of lived experience to design, implement, and evaluate the organization’s efforts to integrate language justice into all programs, policies and practices.
- Develop an organizational structure to assess and implement language access services, including non-English dominant primary languages, English language variants, plain (non-technical) language, and destigmatizing language
Project Period
April 2024 – December 2024.
Sample Allowable Expenses (including but not limited to)
- Stipends for Meaningful Involvement of People Living with HIV serving in roles such as board members, focus groups, or consultants (minimum of 30%)
- Enhancing your organization’s language justice capacity such as staff participation at a conference with educational, community, and experiential language justice components for 2 individuals (up to 10%)
- Operating Costs/Overhead (up to 10%)
- Renting space for organization activities or events
- Meals, snacks, non-alcoholic drinks for organizational activities or events
- Utilities, Internet, Zoom, etc.
- Print and electronic materials for your language justice project including rebranding your organization (e.g. marketing, intake form, website, logo)
- Technology for your language justice project
- Simultaneous interpretation equipment
- Software for your language justice project.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must:
- be an HIV Service Organization or group led by or serving people living with HIV or most systematically impacted by HIV such as Black, Brown, Indigenous, lesbian/gay/bisexual/queer (LGBQ), same gender loving (SGL), cisgender women and men, transgender, nonbinary, or gender non-conforming (T/GNC) people
- have 501c3 status or have a fiscal sponsor
- meaningfully involve people living with HIV
- recognize that personal experiences of people living with HIV are just as valuable as credentialed experiences
- support people living with HIV to be in leadership and decision making roles
- compensate people living with HIV for their expertise as staff or contractors
- be located and doing work in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Texas
- have a developed project idea including 3 main components. Please note: partners will have support from cohort members, staff, and consultants to adjust project goals as needed.
- Pre-Work: planning what you are going to do and with whom (pre-implementation)
- Doing the Work: what you are doing to achieve your project goals (implementation)
- Sharing Your Work: how you plan to share your project with community (dissemination). Examples may include podcast, blog, social media, print media, vlog, webinar, etc.
For more information, visit Gilead COMPASS Initiative.
