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The National Black Leadership Commission
on AIDS (NBLCA) was founded in November 1987. The NBLCA’s mission is to inform,
coordinate and organize the volunteer efforts of the
indigenous Black leadership, including clergy, elected
officials, medical practitioners, business
professionals, social policy experts, and the media to
meet the challenge of fighting HIV/AIDS in their local
communities. The NBLCA conducts policy, research and
advocacy on HIV and AIDS to ensure effective
participation of our leadership in all policy and
resource allocation decisions at the national, state and
local levels of communities of African descent
nationwide. The NBLCA is the oldest and largest
not-for-profit organization of its kind in the United
States.
The NBLCA is establishing affiliates in
17 cities throughout the United States where
African-American communities are hardest hit by the
HIV/AIDS epidemic, including Hempstead, Albany,
Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Newark, Philadelphia,
Boston, Baltimore, Atlanta, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago,
Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC.
Since its inception, the NBLCA has served
thousands of organizations and institutions through
community development, technical assistance, and
formulation of public policy; helped to raise over $1
billion in new federal funding for HIV/AIDS and public
health-related direct service organizations serving
communities of African descent; created the first
programs for the Black clergy to develop strategies to
address the complexity of problems caused by HIV and
AIDS.
The NBLCA serves as chief consultant on
HIV/AIDS and public health-related issues to numerous
national organizations. Among them are its partnerships
with the Congressional Black Caucus and its official
partnerships with the National Association of Black
Social Workers, the National Caucus of Black State
Legislators, representing over 500 Black state elected
officials, and the National Baptist Ministers’
Convention with a membership of 8.2 million. The NBLCA
has served as an advisor on HIV/AIDS-related issues to
the United Nations and to the nations of Gabon, Central
African Republic, Uganda, and the Bahamas, among others.
The work of the NBLCA is financially
supported by contributions and grants from a range of
sources – philanthropic foundations, corporations,
government, individual donors, and proceeds from special
fund-raising events such as the annual Choose Life
Awards Benefit Gala. These funds are allocated across the
nation to support the organization’s volunteer
leadership efforts.
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