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ABOUT
NBLCA
The
National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS
(NBLCA), founded in November 1987, is the oldest and
largest not-for-profit organization of its kind in the United States.
The NBLCA’s mission is to educate, organize, and empower
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 establishing affiliates in cities
throughout the United States where African-American
communities are hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic,
including New York City, Nassau County (LI, NY), Albany,
Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Baltimore, Atlanta,
Detroit, Tampa, Oakland, 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 almost $2 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
Choose Life Awards Benefit Gala.
These funds are allocated across the nation to
support the organization’s volunteer efforts.
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