Three Dallas-based nonprofits were awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant funding to expand HIV prevention and treatment, in a city with one of the highest HIV rates in Texas.
The nonprofits received up to $400,000 each to expand prevention models led by community health workers. The two-year grants are part of a larger initiative that includes more than 30 organizations across the country.
“It’s not something that can be solved by one organization,” said Sonya Radtke, the Chief Development Officer at Resource Center, an HIV and AIDS service organization in North Texas. “We can’t do this alone, so we just want to be that hub of resources to be able to connect people to affirming events and opportunities in their backyard.”…