Save the Date for the 25TH
Anniversary Party For Life!
Date: 2/6/17, 6:30PM-10:00PM
Tickets: $125
We're just weeks away from Gift for Life's 25th Anniversary Party for Life fundraiser – taking place on Monday, February 6, from 6:30-10pm at The Boathouse in Central Park in NYC, during the NY NOW tradeshow.
As part of the evening's festivities, Jan van der Lande of Kikkerland Design Inc. will be awarded Gift for Life’s Chuck Yancy Lifetime Achievement Award. There will also be great food, an open bar, dancing, and a silent auction of fabulous prizes. Attendees can bid on dozens of unique items including jewelry, gifts, business services, marketing opportunities and even a private wine tasting in Napa, CA. Click Here to preview silent auction items and to pre-register to bid.
Party for Life tickets are $125 each; sponsorships begin at $500. Proceeds support the work of DIFFA and its continued efforts to fight HIV/AIDS. For more information and/or tickets, click here.
| | | | Party on Peachtree Held in Atlanta
A high-capacity crowd packed into the prestigious Capital City Club in Atlanta for the third-annual "Party on Peachtree" event, held on January 12 during The Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishing Market. Hosted by AmericasMart•Atlanta and produced by Appelman & Schauben in association with Gift for Life and Young Gift Executives (YGE), the night featured fabulous food, an open bar, dancing and more. The event's proceeds this year directly supported both Caminar Latino and Atlanta's Street Smart Youth Project "Become A Responsible Teen" (BART) HIV risk-reduction program for adolescents. | | | | | Sign Up for AIDS Walk New York
Gift for Life and the The National Stationery Show are once again joining forces to sponsor a team to walk in AIDS Walk New York on Sunday, May 21. AIDS Walk New York raises funds to benefit the GMHC to help fight AIDS and find a cure.
Now is the time to sign up for the GFL/NSS team: TEAM 3894. Go to ny.aidswalk.net/GFLNSS2017 and create your page and set your personal fundraising goal. Then, reach out to friends, family, co-workers and colleagues and ask them to donate.
The GFL/NSS team raised more than $36,000 at last year's event, making it an elite GOLD Team once again. The team's goal this year is an ambitious $40,000! For more information, please contact GFL/NSS team co-chairs Su Hilty or Caroline Kennedy | | | | | "Under 40" GFL Cause-Marketing Program Launched
Three gift companies – all with owners under the age of 40 – have partnered on a cause-related marketing initiative to benefit Gift for Life.
The items in this cause-marketing program are: four birthday cards from Ann Page LLC; Handsome Man Grooming Can from Duke Cannon Supply Company; and the Poppy "Flower of Life" Organic Flower Grow Kit from The Urban Agriculture Company.
Companies interested in participating in a cause-related marketing program to benefit Gift for Life should contact GFL Board Member Matt Katzenson. | | | | | Chavez for Charity's Red Bracelets to Benefit GFL
Chavez for Charity – whose cause-related marketing program with Gift for Life has raised approximately $74,000 to date – will now be donating a portion of proceeds from the sale of its red-beaded bracelets, instead of its black-colored ones, to GFL.
According to Chavez for Charity's Co-Founders Joe Cerbo and Julie Chavez, "We decided to make the move from black to red for GFL because we felt that red is a more appropriate color, primarily because the red ribbon symbolizes the struggle, solidarity and commitment in the fight against HIV/AIDS." | | | | | Spotlight on DIFFA Grantee: Washington Heights CORNER Project
Among DIFFA's grantees is the Washington Heights CORNER Project (WHCP), which provides services that include overdose prevention and free healthcare. The organization was founded in 2005 by a local activist to reduce the spread of blood-borne diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, among drug users in the Washington Heights homeless community.
One of WHCP’s most successful programs is its Peer Delivered Syringe Exchange (PDSE) program, for which peer educators provide much needed on-the-ground outreach and educational resources after office hours to areas with an increase in drug use and isolated individuals outside of office hours. As the CORNER project is the only harm-reduction program in Northern Manhattan, the PDSE outreach program provides critical support to a community of individuals at risk for HIV/AIDS. DIFFA’s support of the program and staff allowed WHCP’s Peer Educators to distribute 19,499 syringes in 2015, provide 71 referrals and enroll 50 new participants in the program.
“We are extremely grateful for DIFFA's support of our innovative peer education program that has allowed us to reach 1,842 injection drug users in Northern Manhattan at high risk of HIV. Outreach staff is trained and adept at connecting to marginalized community members, ‘meeting people where they are’ and offering non-judgmental support and life-saving services. They are the first responders for the organization, providing escort services and empowering participants to navigate a complex health system to access treatment,” said Estee Lavitt, WHCP communications and evaluation associate. | | |  | | |  | | | | | |
