Beneficiary
Giving back to the community.
Each year, the members of the San Francisco FrontRunners nominate and select Bay Area charities serving the LGBT and greater community to be the recipient of the net proceeds from the annual Pride Run and Sponsorship dollars.
2010 Pride Run Beneficiary Nominations
The 2010 beneficiaries are:
GSA NETWORK
Gay-Straight Alliance Network is a youth leadership organization that connects school-based Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) to each other and community resources. Through peer support, leadership development, and training, GSA Network supports young people in starting, strengthening, and sustaining GSA's and builds the capacity of GSAs to:
- Create safe environments in schools for students to support each other and learn about homophobia and other oppressions,
- Educate the school community about homophobia, gender identity, and sexual orientation issues
- Fight discrimination, harassment, and violence in schools.
POSITIVE BEING
Positive Being Positive Being is a non-profit service organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for those living with HIV through healing touch.:
The organization seeks to heal and nurture by helping those with HIV reclaim their bodies as a site of well-being, a source of healing strength, and a temple of the divine. The organization fosters the integration of the physical, healing, and spiritual nature of our bodies to effect positive change in the health and well-being of men with HIV.
These aims serve as a complement (rather than an alternative) to drug therapies. Whereas pharmaceuticals function by negating the virus, the programs of Positive Being function by affirming the positive aspects and healing potential within our own bodies. The organization emphasizes the importance of loving touch as a healing tool for a population beleaguered by impersonal clinical therapies and the damaging side effects of toxic drugs.
Positive Being encompasses a "hands-on" approach to battling HIV disease--and the attendant alienation, isolation, and depression that comes with it--by promoting awareness and increasing understanding of how touch can transform lives for the better. For more information: http://www.positivebeing.org/
Past beneficiaries
- 2009 - GSA Network
- 2008 - Lyon Martin Health Services and Black Coalition on AIDS
- 2007 - AIDS Emergency Fund
- 2006 - San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department's Eureka Valley Teen Program & The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
- 2005 - UCSF AIDS Health Project & Family Builders by Adoption
- 2004 - Larkin Street Youth Services & The LGBT Center
- 2003 - LYRIC & IGLHRC
- 2002 - Metropolitan Community Center & Positive Resource Center
- 2001 - New Conservatory Theatre & The LGBT Center
- 2000 - LYRIC & The LGBT Center
- 1999 - LYRIC & PFLAG
- 1998 - The Family Link & Friends of Recreation & Parks (fountain)